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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T123000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Toward a Computational Understanding of Socio-Cultural Dynamics
DESCRIPTION:This symposium brings social scientists and computational scientists together for an afternoon to promote interdisciplinary work on sociocultural dynamics. \n\nThe event features a keynote lecture by Rachael Jack of Vanderbilt University\, along with a series of flash talks by U-M experts to introduce non-computational scientists to methods relevant to the study of complex social and cultural processes. The lineup includes David Jurgens\, Mark Newman\, and Alexander Rodríguez. A closing reception offers space for informal conversation and building new collaborations. \n\nDoors/refreshments at 12:30\, with the program starting at 1.\n\nShinobu Kitayama and Amie Gordon\, Director and Associate Director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) are the organizers of this symposium. This event will launch a new initiative of RCGD to explore how computational methods can advance our understanding of culture\, cognition\, and social behavior. RCGD will present a winter seminar series on this topic\, beginning in January.\n\nFor questions related to the event\, or to request accommodations\, please contact Matthew Redding\, mredding@umich.edu.\n\nOct. 30\, 1-4:30\nDoors/refreshments at 12:30\n\nRSVP: https://forms.gle/QvzNcPwjuazwtMaQ8\n\nSpeakers and Talks:\nDavid Jurgens\, U-M Professor\, School of Information and the Department of Computer Science & Engineering\nMark Newman\, U-M Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of Physics\nAlexander Rodriguez\, Assistant Professor\, Computer Science and Engineering\nRachael Jack\, Professor\, Area Lead of Computational Social Science\, Vanderbilt University
UID:152402-21913685@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152402
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Computational Social Science,Machine Learning,Lecture,Isr,Institute For Social Research,In Person,Data Analysis,Culture,Computer Science,Natural Language Processing,Communication Studies,Communication And Media,Center For Political Studies,Artificial Intelligence,Anthropology,Ai Literacy,Ai,Psychology,Social Science,Social Science Research,Social Sciences,Sociology
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20260825T082004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Emily M. Briceño)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded.
UID:149693-21906959@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149693
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Science,Research,Health & Wellness,Emotions,Ecology
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20260819T175253
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261109T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Sawsan Abdulrahim)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded.
UID:149695-21906961@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149695
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Science,Research,Health,Global Engagement,Culture
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20261028T143821
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Strength-focused suicide prevention: Building evidence for innovation in partnership with Indigenous communities
DESCRIPTION:Suicide is an extreme act\, not a mental health disorder\, which disproportionately impacts marginalized groups. In the U.S.\, most prevention focuses mainly on psychological distress\, ignoring the patterns that emerge when considering the larger context of that tragic action. For Alaskan Native (AN) communities\, youth suicide is a striking health inequity that arose within the past century\, as colonization interrupted protective cultural resources and practices that shaped young people’s lives. Informed by decades of work with AN people\, the presentation features studies from the Research to Practice Lab at ISR’s Research Center for Group Dynamics that illustrate a broader scope of suicide prevention interventions. These projects focus on family and community strengths\, build onto local resources\, and share evidence-based research and practices that participants can use on their own terms to reduce suicide risk and promote wellbeing. Highlighting innovation in both focus and outcome measurement\, the interactive talk aims to generate questions\, dialogue and ideas for addressing the complex issue of suicide.
UID:148107-21902963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260830T213016
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261116T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Susan Najita)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nSusan Najita\, University of Michigan\n\nThis paper explores the establishment of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in the post-annexation period\, two prominent newspaper serial publications of the saga of Pele\, the goddess of the volcano\, and her sister\, Hi‘iaka\, which reinvigorated connection to the place that would be brought under federal control.  What can the tale--a repository for the sacred tradition of hula pele and its healing traditions-- tell us today\, in this moment of eco-urgency\, about relationships between bodies\, mele (songs)\, and places?\n\nSusan Najita is an associate professor of English and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor.  Her first book\, Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific\, explored the ways that indigenous Pacific writers engage the traumatic history of colonization and empire.  Her current project is entitled Genealogies of Place: Colonialism\, Embodiment\, and the Making of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. \n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded
UID:149696-21906962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149696
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Global Engagement,Health & Wellness,Research,Social Science Research
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20260819T175408
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261123T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261123T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Alice Jean Wuermli)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded
UID:149697-21906963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149697
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Culture,Global Engagement,Research,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20260819T175448
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261130T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261130T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Beverly Strassmann)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 1430\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded\, but as permissions allow\, interviews with speakers are later posted to our YouTube playlist.
UID:149699-21906965@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149699
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Global Engagement,Health & Wellness,Research
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260825T082159
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261207T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Germine H. Awad)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded
UID:149700-21906966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149700
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Science,Culture,Health & Wellness,Research
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
CONTACT:
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