March 29th, 2019

LACS Event. Hostile Terrain: Exploring Border Security and Migration in 2019

Pop-UP Exhibition (3/27-28); Film-screening (3/28); and Roundtable (3/29) about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border, organized by Jason De Leon, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Hostile Terrain is a Pop-UP Exhibition about America's Humanitarian Crisis at the Southern Border. This participatory political art...

Why Asian Studies?

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures Information Session

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and...

Sustainable Systems Forum

Influence of Geographic Factors on the Life Cycle Climate Change Impacts of Sustainable Energy Systems

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to measure the cradle-to-grave climate change impacts of sustainable energy systems that are...

On Migritude: A Roundtable

Shailja Patel | Supriya Nair | Aliyah Khan | Bassam Sidiki | Gaurav Desai (chair)

Kenyan poet, playwright, and activist Shailja Patel will be in conversation with U-M faculty Gaurav Desai, Aliyah Khan, and Supriya Nair and...

Roulette

Written by Kyle Prue/Directed by Kathleen Taylor

Preston returns home one night to Emma. The conversation they have opens up the floodgates of every problem between them; all of the secrets...

Roulette

Written by Kyle Prue/Directed by Kathleen Taylor

Preston returns home one night to Emma. The conversation they have opens up the floodgates of every problem between them; all of the secrets...

March 30th, 2019

Roulette

Written by Kyle Prue/Directed by Kathleen Taylor

Preston returns home one night to Emma. The conversation they have opens up the floodgates of every problem between them; all of the secrets...

March 31st, 2019

April 1st, 2019

The Fifth Risk

Discussion of Administration's Lack of Experience

“What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?” This is a key question posed by...

Whitman

Read & Discuss Whitman's Poetry

An expeditious survey of Whitman’s career as a poet. We’ll observe the daring effervescence of Song of Myself, the stateliness of...

April 2nd, 2019

Directional Entropic Forces from Lattice Dimers

Andrei A. Klishin, Department of Physics and Center for Studies of Complex Systems, University of Michigan; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Recent investigations show that minimal interactions of particles can give rise to complex emergent structures. In particular, complex...

April 3rd, 2019

Michelle's Meme Machine

A student-lead interactive discussion

How do we define memes? How have they come to define us? How can we critically analyze these ubiquitous pools of relief from near-constant...

April 4th, 2019

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland

Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Health, and Society; Director, Center for Medicine, Health, and Society; Professor of Psychiatry; Vanderbilt University

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great...

Rubin Speaker Series

Nelly Lahoud (New America Foundation); "The Evolution of the Islamic State Seen through the Abbottabad Documents"

The 2011 U.S. Special Forces’ raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s (UBL) compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, recovered nearly 470,000 items. These...

Prioritize Wellness

First Year Experience Student Coordinators

Throughout the semester, it is important to recharge and take breaks to be prepared. Join us for a mindful break and a chance to reflect on...