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February 19th, 2016

Museum Studies Program brown bag

“But Is That Even a ‘Real’ Museum”? Exhibits and Their Objects at the Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum

The presenter will discuss her experiences at Toronto’s Hockey Hall of Fame. The museum operates as a tourist attraction, historical...

Phondi

Nick Henriksen: Consonant Gemination in Andalusian Spanish

Spanish is often described as a language that lacks word-internal geminate consonants. This study explores an ongoing sound change in...

SoConDi

Ariana Bancu: Word Order Variation in Two- and Three-Verb Complexes in Transylvanian Saxon

This study analyzes word order variation in Transylvanian Saxon (TS) verbal complexes, in a multilingual community from Viscri, Romania. Due...

Linguistics Colloquium

Andries Coetzee: Sound Systems in Flux: How Speakers and Listeners Cope with Old and New Forms

Abstract: This presentation reviews current research in our Phonetics Lab, conducted in collaboration between Professors Pam Beddor and...

February 20th, 2016

Saturday Morning Physics

The Hunt for Gravitational Waves - Was Einstein Right? / Keith Riles, Professor of Physics (U - M)

Einstein thought gravitational waves were too weak ever to be detected. But now, on the centennial of his prediction of them, scientists...

Charity Fest

Presented by the Michigan A Cappella Council

Come see all 16 of U of M's a cappella groups perform in one night of charitable aca-fun! Proceeds will be going to a local charity.

February 21st, 2016

Edwards Reading Series

Clarisse Baleja Saidi, YoungEun Yook, Austin Blaze, Courtney Faye Taylor

The J. Edgar Edwards Reading Series showcases the work of poets and fiction writers who are in their first year of the Helen Zell...

February 22nd, 2016