BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T094020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Roundtable | Gender and Sexual Rights as Human Rights in Contemporary Turkey: Diverse Feminist Perspectives DESCRIPTION:Seda Saluk\, PhD Assistant Professor\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, University of Michigan\; Özlem Göner\, PhD Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, College of Staten Island\, and Middle Eastern Studies\, Graduate Center of the City University of New York\; Aslı Zengin\, PhD Assistant Professor\, Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Rutgers University\; Özge Savaş\, PhD. Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\n \nAttend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/EreDx\n\nThis interdisciplinary roundtable will discuss ongoing efforts to defend gender and sexual rights as human rights in Turkey. Speakers will address how scholars and activists document structural and everyday forms of violence directed towards historically marginalized groups\, as well as the emergent justice-seeking struggles to challenge and dismantle this violence.\n \n CHAIR:\n\n Seda Saluk\, PhD\n Assistant Professor\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, University of Michigan\n \n Seda Saluk is a feminist anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology\, science and technology studies\, and Middle East studies. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of medical technologies through the lenses of gender\, race\, and ethnicity. Her current book project\, Monitoring Reproduction: Surveillance\, Labor\, and Care in Turkey\, investigates the complexities of reproductive surveillance against the backdrop of demographic changes.\n \n PANELISTS:\n \n Özlem Göner\, PhD\n Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, College of Staten Island\, and Middle\n Eastern Studies\, Graduate Center of the City University of New York\n \nÖzlem Göner is a sociologist specializing in social movements\, with attention to inter-sectional movements of the oppressed\, feminist theory and movements\, racial and ethnic relations\, and global capitalism. Her book\, Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim\, was published in 2017 by Routledge. She has written academic and popular journal articles on the themes of state violence\, social movements\, gender and intersectionality\, and anti-colonial self-determination.\n \n Aslı Zengin\, PhD\n Assistant Professor\, Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Rutgers University\n \n Aslı Zengin is an anthropologist whose research lies at the intersection of ethnography of trans\, queer\, sex worker and sex/gender transgressive lives\; scientific and legal regimes of sex\, gender and sexuality\; critical studies of violence and sovereignty\; and death\, funerals\, cemeteries and afterlives. Her most recent book\, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the (Un)Making of an Urban World\, was published in 2023 by Duke University Press. The book traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.\n \n DISCUSSANT:\n Özge Savaş\, PhD.\n Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\n \n Özge Savaş is a critical and applied social psychologist. She works with historically and systemically disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities\, combining decolonial and intersectional feminist theories in explaining how systems of oppression are maintained. She examines the role of stigma\, stereotypes\, and prejudice in intergroup conflict.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at wesleywr@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:128469-21860940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128469 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Gender,Turkey LOCATION:Lane Hall - Room 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250221T102533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The intersection of the social\, natural\, and built environments DESCRIPTION:Environmental influences on many facets of our lives are profound. Recent research on this topic has shed light on the unique impact of diverse environmental types (e.g.\, social\, natural\, and built environments) that we encounter on a daily basis. Less understood are the implications of multiple intersecting environments as well as the potential of these occurrences to address pressing societal challenges. This presentation will review my recent work funded by NIH\, NSF\, and the Erb Family Foundation focused on the intersection of multiple environmental contexts. This includes research on social networks in lower income senior housing communities and projects examining links between social engagement and green infrastructure (e.g.\, rain gardens) designed to address urban flooding. UID:123555-21851073@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Sciences LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250206T131049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Deciphering Host-Pathogen Interactions Governing Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) Lifecycle and Disease Pathogenesis DESCRIPTION:Dissertation Defense\n\nWe are pleased to announce that Karen Wang\, Ph.D. Candidate (Chelsey Spriggs Ph.D.\, Mentor) will present her Dissertation Defense titled \"Deciphering Host-Pathogen Interactions Governing Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) Lifecycle and Disease Pathogenesis\,\" on Thursday\, March 13\, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.\, at Kahn Auditorium and via live stream: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96452358298?pwd=ZWPn2TIDJG1yhhk4GIDw3gmCbHDAL7.1 PC CDB.\n\nDissertation Committee members:\n\n- Chelsey Spriggs\, Ph.D.\, Mentor \n- Kristen Verhey\, Ph.D.\, Chair \n- Andrew Tai\, M.D. Ph.D.\, Committee Member \n- Benjamin Allen Ph.D\, Committee Member UID:132446-21870967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T133229 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Keeping Seniors on the Road DESCRIPTION:TBD UID:131937-21869554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T112845 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manufactured Rage Against DEI as an Affront to Academic Freedom DESCRIPTION:Isaac Kamola\, associate professor of political science at Trinity College\, will give a short lecture on the genesis of current attacks on DEI and their implications on academic freedom\, followed by a panel where panelists will consider why attacks on DEI are an affront to academic freedom\, how such attacks impact critical areas of research\, and the impact on higher education and society at large. Lastly\, the panel will imagine possibilities for collaborative strategies within and outside of the academy to counteract these attacks.\n\nModerator:\n\n Elizabeth R. Cole\, NCID Director and University Diversity Social Transformation Professor of Psychology and Women and Gender Studies\n\nSpeaker:\n\n Isaac Kamola\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Trinity College\n\nPanel:\n\n Germine Awad\, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor Professor of Psychology\n Additional panelist information coming soon UID:133407-21872872@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Diversity Equity and Inclusion LOCATION:Student Activities Building - Maize and Blue Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T114255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change Lecture DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book\, *Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change* (Vanderbilt Press\, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of environmental harms\, to more “subjunctive” modes that imagine the world as it could be or should be. UID:133446-21873109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book discussion,Books,climate,Culture,department of romance languages,Discussion,Diversity,Environment,environmental,humanities,In Person,institute for the humanities,Interdisciplinary,Language,Latin America,literary,literature,Media,Research,Talk,Writing LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T135536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"ESO’ Extremely Large Telescope\"\n\nDuring this talk\, the European Southern Observatory Extremely Large Telescope Programme will be described\, from the scientific motivations for this 38-m telescope to the status of the construction in Chile. Special attention will be given to the scientific instrumentation planned to meet the science goals of astronomers when the telescope comes in to operation before the end of the decade. Three instruments and a facility adaptive optics system are in construction with the early design phases of the next generation well underway. UID:133456-21873119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T112915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - The genomic basis of environmental adaptation in house mice DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our ongoing Thursday Seminar Series.\n\nConnecting genotype with phenotype for complex\, adaptive traits is a central goal of evolutionary biology. House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have recently been introduced into new environments where they have adapted through changes in morphology\, physiology\, and behavior. We collected wild house mice across North and South America\, from 55° S latitude to 54° N latitude\, and sequenced their genomes. We also established inbred strains of mice from diverse environments\, allowing us to study traits in a controlled laboratory environment and to conduct crosses between strains differing in traits of interest. House mice in the Americas conform to Bergmann’s rule (larger body size farther from the equator) and Allen’s rule (shorter extremities farther from the equator). These differences are genetically based\, although differences in the length of extremities also show considerable phenotypic plasticity when mice are reared at different temperatures. Through a combination of genome scans for selection\, studies of gene expression in the wild and in the lab\, association studies in natural populations\, and genetic crosses in the lab\, we have begun to identify genes and genomic patterns associated with adaptation to new environments. UID:131675-21868984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250217T181921 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities DESCRIPTION:Reception following\nProfessor Evie Shockley is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (U Iowa P\, 2011) and six collections of poetry\, most recently suddenly we (Wesleyan UP\, 2023). Among her earlier books\, the new black (Wesleyan UP\, 2011) received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\; semiautomatic (Wesleyan UP\, 2017) received the same award in 2018\, and was also a finalist that year for the LA Times Book Review Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.\n\nShockley's intellectual and creative work takes a variety of forms. Her current research on \"Black Graphics\" concerns the strategies Black poets and other artists (literary and visual) have employed during the recent period characterized by the dominance of \"colorblindness\" ideology. Articles related to this project have appeared in New Literary History\, The Black Scholar\, and Contemporary Literature. Other scholarly and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century African American and African Diaspora literatures\, Black feminist thought\, and contemporary poetry and poetics in the US and beyond. She has placed numerous essays on these subjects in academic journals\, edited volumes\, and broader audience publications\, such as How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft\, Practice\, and Skill\; Furious Flower: Seeding the Future\; The New Emily Dickinson Studies\; Harriet\; The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time\; LARB\; Literary Hub\; The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry\; Jacket2\; and Boston Review\, among others. Since 2021\, she has served as Editor for Poetry (scholarship) at Contemporary Literature. Her poetry has appeared nationally -- in publications like Kenyon Review\, Obsidian\, Poem-a-Day\, The 1619 Project\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, Adi\, Lana Turner\, Ploughshares\, The Best American Poetry\, The Paris Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, and Poetry Daily -- and internationally\, with pieces translated into French\, Spanish\, Polish\, and Slovenian. Honors for the body of her poetry include the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award\, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry\, the Stephen Henderson Award\, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize.\n\nFrom her teaching philosophy:\n\n\"In my classroom\, I make every effort to show students clearly how passionate I am about the texts and ideas I'm teaching—how much a poem\, a novel\, or a literary movement can mean to me and many others. They appreciate this\, I think\, in part because it gives them permission to feel passionate about their own relationships to texts\, in turn. When that sense of the power of literature is circulating in the room\, it makes it much easier for me to make palpable for them the historical and cultural significance of the works\, on one hand\, or to convince them of the importance of a line break or an element of plot\, on the other. What I appreciate most is that this becomes a feedback loop\, wherein my own experience of texts that have become too familiar from frequent teaching is reenergized by the enthusiasms (or engaged resistance) my students express.\" UID:132848-21871956@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,Afroamerican,Black America,Blackness,Feminism,Literature,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T123949 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century DESCRIPTION:Norman Holmes Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliance among US artists\, scholars\, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor\, he helped create the field of American Studies and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism—significantly\, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time\, as a high-ranking spy\, recruiter\, and cultural diplomat\, he connected the academy\, the State Department\, and even the CIA. For Pearson\, this seemingly unlikely combination of the avant-garde and the patriotic was entirely in keeping with his “Vital Center” understanding of American civilization. In this talk\, Greg Barnhisel will give an overview of Pearson’s unique career as scholar\, literary fixer\, secret agent\, and cultural diplomat\, focusing on Pearson’s hidden role in shaping a new understanding of America in the 1950s.\nPlease RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyxyKFZL1GKSq7htrxhPjzfeu4h7ZbARC_T3FvLxqSOsolrw/viewform UID:131923-21869545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131923 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Rackham LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 - Robert Hayden Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Gary Tyler DESCRIPTION:For over four decades\, Gary Tyler has worked at the intersection of art and social justice. After enduring nearly 42 years wrongfully imprisoned at Angola State Penitentiary\, Tyler uses his textile-based practice to highlight issues of mass incarceration\, instilling messages of hope and resilience.\n\nTyler first learned to quilt to support the Angola Prison Hospice program\, where he was a volunteer. Notably\, Tyler was the President of the Angola Prison drama program for almost three decades\, using the position to promote a culture of community\, civic responsibility and introspection.\nMaterial\, symbolism\, and quilting traditions are central to Tyler’s work. Since his release in 2016\, Tyler’s applique quilts feature motifs of transformation\, self-portraits and intricate allegorical landscapes\, depicting memories of his time incarcerated\, including the legendary Angola Rodeo and his time as president of the drama program. Through his work\, Tyler honors the lives of those depicted and creates a dialogue around the lasting impact of mass incarceration and its roots in slavery\, with the hope of inspiring meaningful change.\n\nGary Tyler is a 2019 and 2020 Art Matters Awardee\, and in 2024 he received an honorary Doctorate Degree in Art and Design from the Massachusetts College of Art &\; Design. Tyler was awarded the 2024 Right of Return Fellowship by the Center for Art and Advocacy\, as well as the Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize\, which recognizes an artist who has made a significant impact on society with their work. His work can be seen at the Historical New Orleans Collective Museum in New Orleans\, and is in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington\, D.C. as well as the City of Santa Monica’s Art Bank.\nPresented in partnership with the Library Street Collective\, with support from the Prison Creative Arts Project. The Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons is the largest curated exhibition of art by incarcerated artists in the world and features art from every prison in the state of Michigan. The 29th Annual Exhibition will run from March 18 through April 1 in the Duderstadt Gallery on the University of Michigan campus. All of the art is for sale and the proceeds of the sales go to the artists themselves.\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:130006-21865048@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T160224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:An Evening With Hillary Seitz DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 13th at 8 PM in the Rackham Amphitheater on the 4th Floor of the Rackham Graduate School\, attend a talk led by esteemed screenwriter\, Hillary Seitz! UID:133556-21873246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,film,Talk,Television LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250228T093004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD defense: Geyu Liang DESCRIPTION:Join Geyu Liang on March 14 for their dissertation defense titled \"Efficient Sparse Representation Learning with Applications in Personalized and Explainable AI.\" \n\nLearn more about Geyu: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/liang-geyu/\n\nChair: Salar Fattahi UID:133288-21872695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133288 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Room G610/G618 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T090623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SMART Manufacturing Seminar Series - Should-Cost: Industry Approach on Design for X DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nShifting mindset from academic exercises of design to industrial application of design strategy is a challenge every engineer faces. The concepts and focus of industrial applications evolve with each Management team\, customer request\, or evolution in the technical strategy so how should we approach thinking about concepts\nof design?\n\nUtilizing experience from someone in industry\, we are going to explore the mindset and concepts taught in a Fortune 500 Automotive supplier for approaching Should-Cost engineering. The goal is to provide insight on how the real-world application of product design can move beyond theoretical concept.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nUtilizing 10+ years of experience within Dana Inc.\, Amanda oversees the strategic product portfolio for activities driving value through VA/VE\, Complexity Reduction\, and Should-Cost methodology. With education focused in Accounting and Computer Information Systems\, practical experience has been spread across progressive Financial roles and 7 years with strategic responsibility within the engineering community. UID:133752-21873511@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 151 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T140042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Units and scales in the bioarchaeology of the Middle Period San Pedro oases\, northern Chile DESCRIPTION:The San Pedro oases\, one of the few habitable locales in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert\, have been a focus of human occupation for some 4000 years. During the Middle Period (AD 500–1000)\, populations in the oases grew\, perhaps as a result of the incorporation of local communities in the Tiwanaku sphere of influence. Intensive bioarchaeological\, radiometric\, and isotopic analysis of hundreds of well-preserved skeletons from the oases’ numerous cemeteries has revealed a marked diversity of lifeways\, some that conform to expectations and others that defy homogenizing narratives. This work also raises questions about the scales and units of bioarchaeological analysis\, encouraging certain reconsideration but also opening new possibilities for future research. UID:133654-21873349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology LOCATION:West Hall - 111 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T184711 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Wave Turbulence of Multi-mode Dispersive Systems DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The evolution of infragravity edgewaves in the nearshore provides an interesting wave turbulence problem with multimode dispersion. We develop several facts about the dynamics and kinetics of this system based on the structure of the resonance manifold. We find the Komogorov-Zakharov spectrum for the example of a simple cross shore depth profile. Time permitting\, we will explore recent work on the nonlinear resonance and the dynamical turbulence of edge waves and related problems with multimode dispersion. \n\nContact: Peter Miller UID:130190-21865577@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T112612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Rape Culture or The Problem of Lived Experience that Recurs” DESCRIPTION:A turn to the discourse of sexual violence in post-apartheid South Africa turns out to be a (re)turn to classical anthropology and leads to a consideration of the structural contradictions that organize nationalist discourse in the “postcolony” that remains a settler colony. This paper takes as its point of departure a conceptual dependency on a universal category of “woman” that cannot not account for the un-rapeability of Black women. Thus\, brought into focus is a methodological problematic of attending to sexual violence against Black women under colonial capitalist modernity in terms other than its erasure. The pursuit of this methodological problem leads to a pursuit of the ethnographic implications therein.\n\nThe ethnographic gesture\, a Kantian inheritance\, which shuttles between the particular – so-called “lived experience” – and a generalizable\, transcendental principle – is in pursuit of a mediating third term: culture. And it is in pursuit of a mediating third term that I interrogate the concept of “rape culture” as a figuration of the limit of the anthropological axiom that culture is premised on the legitimation of some forms of violent access to women and the foreclosure of others via the incest taboo – that unlocatable process and fantasized moment of rupture from nature that culture was “born.” While rape confuses this boundary\, I argue that opposing rape through recourse to the rights of women is coextensive with the system that permits both the legalization and the confusion of the law of violence against Black women – in capitalist colonial modernity.\n\nIn the idiom of the ethnographic\, the paper weaves together intimate and public discourses around sexual violence in contemporary South Africa\, scenes of coming-of-age under apartheid\, and Fanon’s elaboration of the psychosexual arrangement of colonial society. In turn\, it scrutinizes the fantasies of racial hatred and racial reconciliation that the concept of “rape culture” engenders in order to bring into focus the endurance of the axiom that organizes the false universalism of woman: “Whoever says rape says Black man.” Moving between the paradigm of “rape culture” and its impossible application for Black women\, the paper traces connections between the (im)possibility of attending to the lived experience of anti-Blackness and the psychical structuring of the social field\, enabled by and echoed in anthropological discourse. In the final instance\, the Black woman about whom Fanon knows “nothing” marks the point of departure for an (im)possible ethnography in the zone of non-being.\n\nChloé Samala Faux is the Provost’s Postdoctoral Equity Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Wesleyan University. She creates social theory by bringing anthropological inquiry into conversation with interventions from Black critical theory\, Marxism and psychoanalysis\, and feminist theory\, to investigate the conditions of Black life and death under capitalist modernity. By way of the conjoined and redoubling discourses of psychoanalysis and anthropology\, her current book project interrogates the psychosexual and sociopolitical (re)-structuring of the family\, to understand both the failures of “transition” in South Africa and the insufficiencies of the culturalism that animates much Black radical criticism. UID:132952-21872116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132952 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,colloquium LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T103936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Patricia Persaud\, University of Arizona DESCRIPTION:Globally\, many densely populated urban areas with high seismic risk are located on top of sedimentary basins that can amplify earthquake ground motions. Sedimentary basins also offer important energy\, water\, and mineral resources\, and underground storage capacity for fuels including hydrogen. However\, in urban settings\, the complex structures of sedimentary basins combined with the limitations of the built environment present some of the biggest challenges for recording high quality seismic data\, imaging the basin structure\, and monitoring subsurface changes. We have demonstrated that installing dense seismic nodal arrays can address such critical observational gaps and at the same time\, broaden geoscience inclusivity\, and engage local communities. I will discuss the scientific findings from nodal arrays installed in Yangon\, Myanmar and in the San Fernando Valley\, California. I will also discuss resilience and recovery considerations that motivated hazard-related monitoring in these regions. UID:123505-21851009@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123505 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250218T155847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Afghan Women’s Human Rights in the Age of the Taliban DESCRIPTION:In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th\, the Center for South Asian Studies is pleased to present a conversation focused on Afghanistan.\n \n How might the lessons of decades of Afghan feminist advocacy help us imagine a just and equitable future for the country? What can we learn from considering the Taliban in the wider context of a worldwide battle against extremism? What does the situation of women in Afghanistan tell us about women’s rights globally and about feminist solidarity?\n \n Speakers:\n \n Zahra Nader is a 2025 Knight Wallace Fellow and the founding editor-in-chief of Zan Times\, an award-winning newsroom in exile that covers human rights violations in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Zahra has worked with local and international media\, including the New York Times in Kabul. She has been bylined in publications ranging from Time and Foreign Policy to the Guardian\, Globe and Mail\, and DW. She has a master's in Communication and Culture and is a Ph.D. student in Gender\, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University in Canada.\n \n Professor Karima Bennoune is the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She served as the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015 to 2021. Bennoune was also appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi\, concerning the intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites by extremists in Mali. A former legal advisor for Amnesty International\, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world. She has been on three missions to Afghanistan\, visiting different regions of the country: in 1995\, 2005\, and 2011\, and has worked closely with Afghan women human rights defenders for many years\, including during the 2021 evacuations.\n \n Karima is the author of “The International Obligation to Counter Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan\,” which appeared in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review in December 2022 and has been translated into Farsi by the Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies. In September 2023\, she spoke at the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Subsequently\, she traveled to South Africa with Malala Yousafzai to participate in a panel on gender apartheid with the Nobel laureate after her December 2023 Nelson Mandela lecture.\n \n Her book\, “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here” recounts the stories of people of Muslim heritage around the world who have battled extremism\, and won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law gave her its “Prominent Woman in International Law” Award in 2024.\n \n Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. UID:132879-21872007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Human Right,Women's Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T115709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:At the University of Michigan\, Andries Coetzee is a Professor of Linguistics\, Senior Advisor (African Engagement)\, and Director of International Partnerships for the College of Literature\, Sciences\, and the Arts. Dr. Coetzee had perviously served as Director of the African Studies Center (2018-2022) at Michigan\, as well as editor of Language\, flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America (2017-2022). He is also an honorary professor at the North-West University\, his South African alma mater.\n\nThis event is HYBRID on Zoom and in East Hall 4448.\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98160522966\n\nTITLE: \nLanguage\, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans\n\nABSTRACT: \nLanguage happens in time and place. This historical and geographical situatedness of language impacts in substantive ways the grammatical features that a language has\, and also how users of the language define their identities relative to their language (or languages). Although this is true in all contexts where language is used\, post-colonial societies provide particularly rich and complex case studies of how language\, history\, place and identity are intricately related. In this presentation\, I will give an overview of colonial context in which Afrikaans originated\, and then investigate how Afrikaans grammar and the Afrikaans speech community continue to be shaped by the complexities of modern\, post-colonial South African society. I will investigate three case studies\, each demonstrating a different aspect of the complex linguistic landscape in which Afrikaans and its speakers exist: (i) Nasal coarticulation in different socio-ethnic varieties of Afrikaans\; (ii) the phonetic properties of filled pauses in Patagonian Afrikaans\; and (iii) regional and socio-ethnic variation in the front vowel space of Afrikaans. UID:130332-21865764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Talk LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T144848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250315T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250315T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics | Good Vibrations: The Science of Vibrations\, Sound and Hearing DESCRIPTION:This special and unique family-friendly SMP event introduces the U-M STEMobile: a vehicle that will bring STEM outreach education by student groups to communities\, schools\, libraries\, and events in Southeast Michigan and beyond. Student-led groups from Astronomy\, Physics\, and the College of Engineering will Engage\, Entertain\, Educate\, and Excite you with demos and hands-on activities suitable for all ages.\n\nJoin us in person or via live stream: https://myumi.ch/qVJmx\n\nMore information about the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series is available on our website: https://myumi.ch/9gmgn UID:131616-21868838@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131616 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Physics,Science,Smoke-free,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 Hallway Area CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250220T124951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250316T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pleasure Activism Book Club Series DESCRIPTION:A month-long exploration of Pleasure Activism\, where we'll dive into adrienne maree brown's revolutionary work on making social justice the most pleasurable human experience.\n\nThis book club is an invitation to awaken within ourselves the desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling\, liberated life. Together\, we'll discuss how pleasure-whether through sex\, desire\, connection\, or other enriching practices- is a measure of freedom and a vital component of our movements for justice.\n\nMarch 16th: 1-2 pm St. Patrick's Theme\nMarch 23rd: 1-2 pm Spring Showers\nMarch 30th: 1-2 pm Women's History Month\n\nPick Up Book from SAPAC Office: March 09 UID:132966-21872142@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132966 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book event,sapac LOCATION:Michigan Union - SAPAC Shared Space (Room 4100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T131544 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T125000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cutting through the complexity: Why not just use a lottery for college admissions? DESCRIPTION:Many prominent social scientists have advocated for random-draw lotteries as a solution to the “problem” of college admissions. They argue that lotteries will be fair and equitable\, eliminate corruption\, reduce student anxiety\, restore democratic ideals\, and end debates over race-conscious admissions. In response\, we simulate potential lottery effects on student enrollment by race\, gender\, and income\, using robust simulation methods. If we went to a lottery system\, what would happen to student diversity? And how would this change the built relationship between students and selective colleges? UID:133174-21872497@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133174 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Education,Education Policy,gerald r. ford school of public policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 1230 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T103136 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cecilia Howard Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Microbial ecosystems have shaped and been shaped by Earth’s environments since the origin of life\, and microbial sediments and rocks (“microbialites”) can both inform our understanding of the past and complicate our records of it. The sediment record of microbial ecosystems has the potential to preserve information about past climate\, biology\, mechanics\, and more. However\, separating individual processes from the complex amalgamation of information that typifies microbial sediments is a continuing challenge for microbial systems from the Archean to the modern. This dissertation investigates the impacts of environmental variations on microbial records at a range of spatial and temporal scales.\nIn Chapters 2 and 3\, I focus on early records of life in the Archean and Paleoproterozoic\, prior to the evolution of multicellularity. In Chapter 2\, I use a literature review to determine how microbialite depositional environments change across nearly two billion years of the Archean and Paleoproterozoic. This chapter presents the first broad dataset to consider marine and tidal microbialites separately and also reveals the consistent presence of terrestrial microbialites from the earliest records of life. I find that the majority of microbialites formed in tidal environments and the proportion of terrestrially influenced microbialites increased during periods of craton development\, suggesting that terrestrially derived nutrients were essential to early life. In Chapter 3\, I use microCT scanning to measure and reconstruct 3.48 Ga microbialites\, among the earliest accepted evidence of life. These measurements\, along with a compilation of carbon and sulfur isotope data\, suggest that the microbialites were formed by metabolically diverse communities in a high flow tidal environment\, consistent with modeling of Archean tides.\nIn Chapter 4\, I investigate microbialites from a lake in the hothouse climate of the Early Eocene (~50 Ma) using a mixture of morphological and geochemical analyses. This chapter considers how spatial and temporal differences influence microbialites\, looking at single beds over 10–20 km distances and samples spanning 3 Ma. I find that microbialite morphology and chemistry records a mixture of large-scale information such as temperatures consistent with a hothouse environment and local conditions such as spring or stream influence and sediment sources\, which manifests as lateral variability within beds. Additionally\, comparison of atmospheric carbon dioxide reconstructions based on preserved carbon in the microbialites to past estimates supports low to moderate microbial growth rates throughout this time period.\nIn Chapter 5\, I consider how sediments in a modern microbial ecosystem are influenced by climate change using a ten-year timeseries of sediment carbon and nitrogen data from an anoxic sinkhole in Lake Huron\, which hosts a diverse microbial mat ecosystem. I integrate this sediment data with climate and lake chemistry parameters\, finding that changes in ice cover lead to differences in sediment carbon in the following year. These results suggest that decreasing ice cover in the Great Lakes could lead to rapid but potentially ephemeral effects on sediment carbon.\nThe results in this dissertation exhibit the array of spatial and temporal scales at which microbial-environmental interactions occur\, from local effects such as groundwater altering microbialite chemistry or carbon preservation to global climate and tectonics driving microbialite distribution. These findings can provide a framework for understanding the interactions between microbial ecosystems and their environment and emphasize the importance of environmental context for understanding microbialite records. UID:133445-21873105@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133445 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T122526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Panel Discussion | Being Korean\, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood\, Citizenship\, And Resistance In Japan DESCRIPTION:This hybrid panel discussion is a celebration of Hwaji Shin’s new book\, *Being Korean\, Becoming Japanese?: Nationhood\, Citizenship\, and Resistance in Japan.* This book is available in print and through open access.\n \n If you would like to attend virtually\, please register for the Zoom at https://myumi.ch/dgNX8\n \n The panel will be followed by a reception in the Lane Hall lobby.\n \n Participants:\n Hwaji Shin\, Professor of Sociology\, University of San Francisco and former Toyota Visiting Professor\, University of Michigan\n David Jacobson\, Professor of Sociology\, University of South Florida\n Macario Garcia\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, Kennesaw State University\n \n In Japan\, the number of “Special Permanent Residents”—most of whom are of Korean descent\, the so-called “Zainichi”—is declining\, according to government statistics. Does this mean Koreans living in Japan are becoming Japanese? Hwaji Shin’s new book presents a compelling sociological analysis of Korean colonial migrants’ and their descendants’ politics of self-identification and their ongoing struggle for social justice. Centering on the social and political exclusion of Koreans\, the book asks two fundamental questions: What has triggered the historical transformations of nationhood\, citizenship\, and migration policies in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Japan? How are these transformations related?\n \n Hwaji Shin challenges the persistent belief that Japan’s ethno-racial homogeneity is responsible for its restrictive citizenship and immigration laws. She argues that the relationships between nationhood\, citizenship\, and migration in Japan have always been fluid and historically contingent rather than causal or static. Her work examines the nexus of these three concepts from a subaltern perspective and illuminates the ways in which non-state\, marginalized actors directly influenced the state’s development of citizenship and immigration policies. It explores the failures and triumphs of Koreans resisting Japanese ethno-racial oppression through stories of ordinary lives that have been disrupted by wars\, elites’ interests\, and geopolitics. *Being Korean\, Becoming Japanese?* draws on rich historical data to provide a powerful narrative about how Koreans in Japan have defiantly survived and thrived to impact the country’s ideas and policies of nationhood\, citizenship\, and migration for more than a century.\n \n This event is sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:133762-21873534@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,japan,Korea LOCATION:Lane Hall - Room 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250220T162549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STeMS Speaker Series | Ecology Against Empire: Spiders\, Sex\, and Feminist Field Science DESCRIPTION:Ashton's talk is based on her current book project\, Anti-colonial Arachnology--an examination of the gendered and racialized dynamics of how knowledge is produced about animal mating behavior. She situates an ethnographic study of evolutionary biologists in a “spider lab” within a spatial and political analysis of their fields on Tohono O’odham ancestral territory at the US-México border. Wesner’s broader collaborative research program is guided by the questions: How do practicing biologists uphold and upend heteropatriarchal understandings of sex\, gender\, and violence in their quotidian study of non-human animals? How might life sciences offer openings for feminist analytics of migration and right-relations with occupied lands? \nAshton Wesner is assistant professor of Science\, Technology\, and Society at Colby College\, where she also co-facilitates the Environmental Humanities Faculty Seminar and the Critical Indigenous Studies Initiative. Her research and teaching in STS combines critical history of the natural sciences\, queer and feminist studies\, and Native American and Indigenous studies. She brings these fields together to sharpen our conceptions of US imperialist environmental violence and expand feminist practices in evolutionary and field biology. Ashton received her PhD from the University of California Berkeley in Society & Environment. Her most recent publications can be found in The American Naturalist\, on the history of coloniality\, data\, and power in the natural sciences\, and Women’s Studies\, on the gendered slippages in studies on jumping spider mating behavior and the possibilities for queer modes of attention to disrupt heteropatriarchy in the scientific study of animals. She has additional work in Catalyst: Feminist\, Theory\, Technoscience\; Animal Behavior\; and forthcoming in Oisirs. She is also an Editor for 4SBackchannels\, the digital publication forum for the Society for Social Studies of Science. UID:132980-21872153@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T120307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Student Model Theory Seminar DESCRIPTION:In the Winter 2025 term\, the student logic seminar will be a Model Theory reading seminar. Details can be found here: https://shorturl.at/sldTZ UID:133083-21872366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133083 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T152913 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Intelligent Hand\, from Hellenistic Epigram to the Hoby Cups DESCRIPTION:This lecture takes its lead from the artist who signed his name on the silver cups from Hoby (now in the National Museum of Denmark) as ‘Cheirisophos’\, meaning ‘Wise Hand’. Rather than just taking the name as a playful pseudonym\, it explores how the artist’s self-identification can be read alongside the scenes of diplomacy\, supplication\, and healing on the cups themselves\, which are also examples of intelligent acts of touch. In their allusions to Greek epic and drama\, these scenes also draw on a long tradition in Greco-Roman culture exploring the entangled relationship between hand and mind. As a form of enactive or extended cognition\, the ‘wisdom of hands’ is also key to Hellenistic Greek epigrams on works of art\, especially those on bronze statues by the third century BCE poet Posidippus. The notion of the ‘intelligent hand’\, emerging from the craft of metalwork\, challenges the instrumentalist assumptions of Aristotle’s claim that the hand is simply the ‘tool of tools’\, asserting a form of haptic wisdom that is vital to the transmission of Greek culture\, even beyond the edges of the Roman Empire.\n\nVerity Platt works at the intersection between Greco-Roman art\, literature\, and philosophy. She is cross-appointed in the departments of Classics and History of Art at Cornell University\, where she also co-curates the university’s cast collection and is currently director of the Humanities Scholars Program. This lecture draws from her forthcoming book\, Epistemic Objects: Making and Mediating Classical Art and Text (Oxford University Press). UID:133150-21872444@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133150 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art History,Classical Studies,history of art LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T082853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250317T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Jews\, the Academy\, and Antisemitism: How and What Should We Study? DESCRIPTION:Antisemitism on American campuses\, both before and following the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7\, 2023 is one of nation’s key polarizing issues\, acting as a magnet for virtually every political conflict. The current claims and counter-claims about campus antisemitism require far more careful analysis than is afforded by many of the current debates.\n\nI am interested in opening a conversation about these issues that will examine a broader understanding of the social field in which these debates are currently situated. Some of the components of the social field will include the complex history of Jews in American higher education\, the transformations in scholarship created by the political movements of the 1970s that have been both critical to creating the field of Jewish studies and contemporary theorizing of Israel and Palestine\, and the related political fight to define antisemitism\, including the partisans driving this fight outside of academia.\n\nFinally\, I will turn to recent survey research on Jewish and non-Jewish students’ attitudes and experiences on American campuses that reveals far more complex findings than anticipated by the sociologists who conducted the research. There is an urgent need for scholars to engage research about campus antisemitism with far greater nuance and assertiveness than currently exists.\n\nRiv-Ellen Prell\, an anthropologist\, is Emerita Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Fighting to Become Americans: Jews\, Gender and the Anxiety of Assimilation and Prayer and Community: the Havurah in American Judaism. Among other works\, she has edited Women Remaking American Judaism.\n\nHer scholarly essays\, articles and reviews\, at the intersection of anthropology and history\, engage questions of how American Jewish cultures have been shaped by work\, family\, gender\, antisemitism\, and religious and cultural innovation. In 2017 she curated both a physical and digital exhibition “A Campus Divided: Progressives\, Anticommunists\, Racism and Antisemitism at the University of Minnesota: 1920-1934.” The exhibition was the most widely attended in the University’s history\, which resulted in a student protest movement that called for major transformations in memorialization and priorities at the University of Minnesota. She continues work on digital and public history. UID:132953-21872117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,History,Humanities,Jewish Studies,Social Sciences LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T162820 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture. Claims\, Complaints and Democratization of the Local State in India DESCRIPTION:Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/4jqew\n\nThe talk will be based on my book project which examines the effects of rights-based welfare expansion in India on local governance and civic action through a comparison between two accountability systems in the state of Bihar\; Social Audits and the Right to Public Grievance Redress Act. Based on extensive field research conducted across six districts\, the book argues that the ritualization of interactions with citizens who have been historically marginalized\, in rule-based settings\, builds a new legal consciousness within the bureaucracy. The book shows how these new openings in the local state\, which combine organic forms of mobilization with induced forms of participation and recognition of individual and collective claims\, builds political capacities through its use\, incentivizes collective action\, and enlivens local democracy. In large part\, these changes can be attributed to the role of state-sponsored but autonomous facilitation and transforming the conditions under which the state listens.\n\nAnindita Adhikari is a political sociologist whose research interests include social movements\, bureaucracies\, the politics of welfare provisioning and democratic deepening. She has been co-teaching a course on accountability and governance for the MPP programme at NLS since 2021. Her research and teaching is motivated and informed by 15 years of public action work embedded in diverse policy settings. She has been associated with the Right to Work\, Right to Information\, and Right to Food campaigns. She has previously worked with the Government of Bihar and the Ministry of Rural Development on employment\, social security\, and land issues. She co-founded the organization ‘Social Accountability Forum for Action and Research’ (SAFAR) in 2022 that works on strengthening transparency and accountability in public service delivery in collaboration with state and national governments and civil society. \n\nYamini Aiyar was the president and chief executive of the Centre for Policy Research\, New Delhi\, a public policy research think tank. She was appointed President of CPR in 2017. She was previously a senior research fellow and founder\, in 2008\, of the Accountability Initiative at the centre. UID:131172-21867903@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131172 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:democracy,India LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250224T141417 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series. The Tang-Song Traduction: The Imperialist Agenda behind Naitō Konan’s (1866-1934) Periodization of Chinese History DESCRIPTION:During the 1910s and 1920s\, the Japanese historian Naitō Konan (1866-1934) published a number of books and articles in which he argued that the “modern age” in East Asia began in the Song dynasty (960-1279 CE). The resulting notion of a structural divide between the “medieval” Tang dynasty (618-907 CE) and the “modern” Song dynasty—the so-called “Tang-Song transition”—became foundational to the historiography of the Tang and Song dynasties in Europe and the United States after the Second World War\, even though few agreed that “modern” was an apt designation for the Song period. As the outline of Naitō’s ideas gained acceptance\, however\, the political context of their origin was forgotten. A re-examination of Naitō’s scholarly and journalistic writings shows that his core concepts and arguments derived less from the primary sources than from debates about the legacy of the Meiji Restoration during the 1910s and debates about the future of Japanese imperialism during the 1920s.\n \n Christian de Pee is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. His books and articles analyze the relationship between text and space\, whether in wedding ritual\, tombs\, cities\, literary genres\, or historiography. His latest book\, \"Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China\, 800-1100\" (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press\, 2022) and his latest article\, “Marco Polo’s Baggage: Manuscripts\, Doubts\, and a Mongol Lady’s Headdress” (Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 53 [2024]) are both freely available through Open Access. UID:133103-21872390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133103 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Discussion,International,Lecture LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T113405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Power and Housing Justice: A Presentation and Discussion with Jamila Michener DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as we host Jamila Michener for a presentation and discussion. \n\n“Where Liberation is Actually Going to Happen: Legal Justice\, Tenant Organizing\, and Transformative Politics”\nTuesday\, March 18\n12-1:30 p.m.\n\nAs part of this semester’s Stone Working Group on Inequality & Political Economy (SWIPE) theme\, “Power and Housing Justice\,” this event will include a presentation by Professor Jamila Michener\, discussion with Rob Mickey\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, and Q&A moderated by Mo Torres\, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Sociology.\n\nLearn more and RSVP at https://inequality.umich.edu/jamila-michener/. UID:133630-21873325@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Inequality,Political Economy,Political Science,Sociology LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 2030 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T150119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:March IBL Lunch DESCRIPTION:Come talk about teaching with IBL\, interactive\, and other active teaching methods over lunch. Bring teaching anecdotes\, thoughts\, and your appetite. Lunch will be provided. UID:129029-21862057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129029 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250811T124955 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Professionalization in (and Beyond!) the Environmental Humanities DESCRIPTION:Life after a graduate degree in the humanities can be daunting no matter what you specialize in. Please join us for a frank yet hopeful discussion of professional life after graduate training in the Environmental Humanities. A range of speakers who share backgrounds in the Environmental Humanities and have gone on to do either public-facing\, creative\, and/or academic work will present on each of their professional experiences. Attendees will also have time to ask questions of the panelists during a Q&A. UID:131050-21867651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131050 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Environmental Humanities,Panel LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T102251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:KIS Lecture: Gabbrielle Johnson DESCRIPTION:Location: 2271 Angell Hall\nTitle: Precarious Accurate Predictions in Automated Decision-Making\n\nAbstract: \nWith the rising temptation to rely on automated decision-making\, mere predictive accuracy increasingly becomes the standard. In this talk\, I argue that the allure of so-called “precarious accurate predictions”— those where predictive accuracy masks the problematic nature of the underlying reasoning patterns—poses significant ethical and procedural risks. Drawing on insights from philosophy of mind and psychology\, I highlight two ways in which these predictions falter under scrutiny: through their reliance on stealth proxies and their susceptibility to illusions of depth. These in turn establish two unmet desiderata for the effective integration of predictive analytics in automated decision-making: that predictive models address proxy discrimination beyond statistical correlations and distinguish between superficial and deep causal-explanatory connections among features. The talk ends by underscoring the urgent need for a critical reevaluation of the prospective use of automated predictions in legal processes\, cautioning against their expansion into domains like criminal justice\, where they threaten to erode established rights and safeguards. UID:130477-21866092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130477 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Philosophy LOCATION:Mason Hall - 2306 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T173909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Using Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) to Assess Oyster Reefs to Inform Management and Restoration DESCRIPTION:In the southeastern U.S.\, intertidal oyster (Crassostrea virginica) reefs are primarily managed by state agencies in support of recreational and commercial fisheries\, as well as for their ecosystem services. Oyster resource managers and NERR staff often rely on conventional on-the-ground monitoring approaches to inform management and restoration decisions\, but these approaches have limitations in that they are time consuming and are of limited spatial scale. In response to users' needs for rapid\, standardized and quantitative measures to assess reef condition – which directs management and restoration actions – this project evaluated uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) as a tool for measuring reef changes within five National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRs) from North Carolina to Florida. The imagery analysis workflows developed in partnership with oyster resource managers provide quantitative measures of reef structural and demographic metrics and\, importantly\, changes to those metrics in response to natural and anthropogenic factors. Join this webinar to learn more about this enhanced technical capacity for conducting UAS-based oyster reef assessments. UID:133519-21873196@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133519 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250224T132006 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 Sylvia Thrupp Lecture (Presented by Comparative Studies in Society and History) DESCRIPTION:Lauren Benton’s 2005 CSSH article mapped piracy’s imperial role and challenged the romanticized view of pirates as legal outcasts in the early modern world. Two decades later\, controversies about whether pirates were agents of empires or enemies of all persist. Benton moves beyond these debates here to gauge maritime raiding’s wider political valence. A single “piratical” cruise reveals the nineteenth-century Atlantic’s vast political spectrum\, encompassing city-states\, federations\, and empires. In cases sparked by the voyage\, the U.S. Supreme Court sought to narrow the definition of states and war. The voyage meanwhile connected to open-ended constitutional projects in Latin America featuring nation-states as one of many political possibilities. A micro-history of one voyage brings into focus the process by which the international order emerged through political fragmentation. The lessons remain relevant to understandings of global order and non-state violence in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\n\nLauren Benton is Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law at Yale University. Benton’s most recent book\, “They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence\,” was published in 2024 and shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize. Previous books include “Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law\, 1800-1850” (coauthored with Lisa Ford)\; “A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires\, 1400-1900”\; and “Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History\, 1400-1900\,” which received the Jerry Bentley Book Prize and the James Willard Hurst Book Prize. In 2019\, Benton was awarded the Toynbee Prize for significant contributions to global history.\n\nRespondents:\nJatin Dua\, University of Michigan\nNathan Perl-Rosenthal\, University of Southern California\nJudith Scheele\, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) UID:133101-21872389@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133101 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,History,Law LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T092918 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Africa Workshop: Ben Machava (Yale) DESCRIPTION:Benedito Machava is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Raised and educated in Mozambique\, he received his PhD at Michigan University in 2018. His research focuses on liberation struggles\, decolonization\, nation building\, socialism and socialist experiments in Africa. His current book manuscript\, The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique\, 1974-1990\, examines the politics of public morality\, carcerality/punishment and citizenship in post-independence Mozambique. His research has been supported by fellowships from the Social Science Research Council\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, among others. Before coming to Yale\, Machava was a Cotsen-Link Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University (2018-2020) and a History Lecturer at University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo\, Mozambique.\n \nSelected Publications:\n“Reeducation Camps\, Austerity\, and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique (1974-79)\, Journal of African History\, 60\, 3 (2019): 429-455\n“The Dead Archive: Notes on Institutional Memories and the State in Mozambique” (with Euclides Gonçalves)\, Africa (under review)\n“Reeducation Camps and the Messianic Ethos of Mozambique’s Socialism\, 1974-1988”\, in Françoise Blum\, ed. African Socialisms and Socialisms in Africa. Paris: Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (forthcoming)\n “Galo Amanheceu em Lourenço Marques: O 7 de Setembro e o Verso da Descolonização em Moçambique”\, Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais\, 106 (2015): 53-84\n“Comparative Politics of Angola\, Mozambique\, and Guinea-Bissau” (with M. Anne Pitcher)\, Oxford Bibliographies Online\, 2013\n “State Discourse on Internal Security and the Politics of Punishment in Post-Independence Mozambique (1975-1983)”\, Journal of Southern African Studies\, 37\,3 (2011): 593-609\n“An Archaeological Analysis of Pottery from Massingir District\, Southern Mozambique”\, (with Solange Macamo) The South African Archaeological Bulletin\, 66\, 149 (2011): 113-120. UID:133682-21873401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133682 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,African American,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,african diaspora,African Studies,African Studies Center,Political Economy,Political Science,Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T105652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: How Infants Learn To Eat Plants (And Why They May Not Want To) DESCRIPTION:Life is mostly plants. Plants constitute an estimated 80% of the biomass on Earth and are concentrated in terrestrial environments. Millions of animal species rely on plants to survive and the organismic design of plants and animals have been tightly interwoven in intricate ways over evolutionary time. Humans are no exception. Plants have been a foundational component of human diets across evolutionary time\, yet many plants can be toxic or even fatal if ingested. In this talk\, I will present research exploring the cognitive systems human infants use to negotiate this paradox and learn which plants they can safely eat. UID:133754-21873512@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133754 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Biology,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T125621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MEMS Special Lecture: Colonial Contact Zones and Constructions of Race in Greenland and Sapmi\, 900-150 DESCRIPTION:The question when racism originated has been a matter of fierce debate among medievalists in recent years. And even though racism and colonialism are closely linked in the modern era\, the beginnings of colonialism have so far been neglected in this context. This talk will therefore examine Greenland and Fennoscandia before 1500 when\, on the margins of Europe\, the Inuit and Sámi became targets of aggressive colonization and assimilation policies during medieval times. These case studies explore colonialism as a failed project (Greenland) as well as colonialism without a moment zero (Sápmi). \"Colonial Contact Zones and Constructions of Race\" thus challenges current narratives in regards to the development of race and racism in the European Middle Ages. UID:132567-21871263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132567 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,History LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250221T085404 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What Is Genocide and Should We Name It? DESCRIPTION:This expert panel delves into the concept of genocide\, exploring its historical origins\, legal implications\, and the profound impact of its terminology. Panelists will examine the value of the term for recognizing and addressing atrocities\, the potential damage caused by its misuse or overuse\, and the term’s conversation-halting nature.\n\nThis panel will include experts from across the University of Michigan community and beyond\, including:\n\n- Steven Ratner: Director\, Donia Human Rights Center\; Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law\n\n- Linda Kinstler: Journalist and Junior Fellow\, at the Harvard Society of Fellows\; \n\n- Yurii Kaparulin: Research Fellow\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute\; Associate Professor in the Department of National\, International Law\, and Law Enforcement\; Director of the Raphael Lemkin Center for Genocide Studies at Kherson State University. \n\n-Jeffrey Veidlinger\, Moderator: Director\, Raoul Wallenberg Institute\, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies UID:130913-21867333@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130913 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,History,Humanities LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250318T181525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mothers of Gynecology - An Evening with Artist Michelle Browder and Friends DESCRIPTION:This event is organized around the upcoming loan of a Robert Thom painting from Michigan Medicine’s collection to artist Michelle Browder. The painting depicts surgeon J. Marion Sims (generally lionized as the \"father of modern gynecology\") and three of the enslaved Black women on whom he experimented in his effort to treat vesicovaginal fistula. \n \nBrowder founded a museum honoring the women depicted in the painting. Her art reimagined the painting by centering the women who made modern gynecology possible — the \"mothers of gynecology\" — and has spurred needed conversations about the history of gynecology and medical racism. In addition to Ms. Browder\, Drs. Aletha Maybank and Veronica Pimentel will speak\, as will descendants of one of the women depicted in the painting.\n \nThe event will mark the occasion of this painting getting a fitting home\, consider Michigan Medicine's dilemmas over whether/how to display it\, and examine the history of gynecology and medicine more broadly. \n \nRegistration required\, seating is limited. A livestream link will also be available after registration. \n \nQuestions? Please contact Heidi Mueller at (734) 647-6914 or muellerh@umich.edu \n UID:133470-21873140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250205T161617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Surviving War\, Oceans Apart DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book discussion and sale with Yanek Mieczkowski\, author of Surviving War\, Oceans Apart.\n\nThis work takes readers to two countries ravaged by World War II\, Poland and Japan\, recounting the wartime experiences of teenagers Bogdan and Seiko.\nOnce the war ended\, both Bogdan and Seiko immigrated to the U.S. to pursue educational opportunities. In bustling postwar New York City\, they met\, fell in love\, and then started a family. Bogdan and Seiko’s story is one of hope\, symbolizing recovery from war’s devastation and immigrants’ dreams of new lives in America.\nA book sale and signing will follow the public event. UID:132389-21870858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132389 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book discussion,booksigning,Free,History,World War Ii LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T181904 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250318T213000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:John Solari\, piano DESCRIPTION:DMA candidate in piano performance John Solari presents a dissertation lecture recital. UID:133271-21872675@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133271 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T184024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Search for dark photons with synchronized quantum sensor network DESCRIPTION:**Please note special day and time**\n\nUltralight dark photons constitute a well-motivated candidate for dark matter. A coherent electromagnetic wave is expected to be induced by dark photons when coupled with Standard-Model photons through kinetic mixing mechanism\, and should be spatially correlated within the de Broglie wavelength of dark photons. I will report the first search for correlated dark-photon signals using a long-baseline network of 15 atomic magnetometers\, which are situated in two separated meter-scale shield rooms with a distance of about 1700 km. Both the network's multiple sensors and the shields large size significantly enhance the expected dark-photon electromagnetic signals\, and long-baseline measurements confidently reduce many local noise sources. Using this network\, we constrain the kinetic mixing coefficient of dark photon dark matter over the mass range 4.1 feV-2.1 peV\, which represents the most stringent constraints derived from any terrestrial experiments operating over the aforementioned mass range. UID:130753-21866813@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130753 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T094613 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Love in the Time of War: Resettlement and Sponsorship DESCRIPTION:The 1970s and 1980s ushered an overwhelming influx of Southeast Asian refugees to the United States because of the Secret War in Laos\, the genocide and civil war in Cambodia\, and the American War in Vietnam. This was also a time of protest for peace\, Jimmy Carter was president\, and there were supportive programs and faith-based communities who wanted to welcome and resettle refugees. \n\nPhung Huynh\, Los Angeles-based artist will be joined by her godmother\, Karen Jorgenson who sponsored Huynh’s family to come to the United States in 1978. In an intimate conversation\, Phung Huynh and Karen Jorgenson will share their stories and tender moments during the Huynh family’s early years in the United States. This reunion of sponsor and sponsee centers on compassion\, healing\, humanity\, and most importantly\, building new families in the time of war. \n\nFor information on Phung Huynh's exhibition Angkorian Homecoming at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery\, visit https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/phung-huynh.html. UID:130122-21865492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Humanities,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250309T120255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Promoting Civic Discourse - Democratic and Republican politicians on bridging the political divide DESCRIPTION:Former Michigan State Senators Tonya Schuitmaker and Rebekah Warren are the leads at Michiganders for Civic Resilience (MCR)\, which is dedicated to fostering a vibrant democracy founded on trust\, dialogue\, and accountability. Its mission is \"to bridge the divides of political polarization\, restore civil discourse\, and uphold the integrity of U.S. elections.\"\n\nThe politicians from across the aisle will discuss cross-partisan collaboration and how it can play a vital role in promoting unity\, understanding\, and constructive dialogue\, ultimately benefiting the public by facilitating more inclusive and effective governance. The discussion also will include former chairs of the state Republican and Democratic parties\, Rusty Hills and Mark Brewer\, respectively. UID:133603-21873292@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Law,Politics,Pre-Law,Public Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250121T120240 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Understanding how our brain is made: a tale of embryos and organoids DESCRIPTION:Burton L. Baker Memorial Lecture Series\n\nWe are pleased to announce that Paola Arlotta\, Ph.D.- Principal Faculty Member\, Harvard Stem Cell Institute\, Harvard University\; Institute Member\, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard\; and the Golub Family Professor of Stem Cell and\nRegenerative Biology\, Harvard University\, will present her talk titled \"Understanding how our brain is made: a tale of embryos and organoids\,\" on Wednesday\, March 19\, 2025\, at 4:00 p.m. This will be live in BSRB - Kahn Auditorium. UID:131500-21868647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241113T112859 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Water@Michigan March Coffee Talk DESCRIPTION:Talk Description: \n In the era of AI\, self-driving cars\, digital assistants\, and other “smart” things\, can the same level of autonomy and intelligence be embedded in water systems? During this coffee talk\, we will discuss what role -- if any -- these technologies should play in solving some of our greatest water challenges\, such as floods and droughts. We’ll show how to build a self-driving water system from scratch\, and we will discuss promising case studies across our region\, and beyond. Finally\, we’ll address risks\, challenges\, and nuances of bringing new tech to water management.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nBranko Kerkez\, Arthur F. Thurnau Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair for Research\n\nBranko Kerkez is an Arthur F. Thurnau associate professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at U-M. His research interests include water\, data\, and sensors. Branko is driven by the desire to both rationalize water management decisions\, and put tools into the hands of community members to allow them to contribute to those decisions. The National Academy of Engineering recognized his work in smart water systems in 2018 as a Gilbreth Lecturer. Branko’s Digital Water Lab is untangling the role of tech in water…one sensor at a time! He earned his PhD in 2012 from the University of California\, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering.\n\nAbout Water@Michigan Coffee Talks: \nCoffee Talks provide a monthly opportunity during the academic year to network\, learn about pressing and emerging water-related issues\, hear about ongoing water-related research\, and meet new partners. In 2024/25\, Water@Michigan Coffee Talks will explore the water-climate nexus.\n\nYou can register for this talk here: https://graham.umich.edu/wateratmichigan/coffee-talks UID:129086-21862147@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129086 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence,climate change,Complex Systems,Michigan Engineering,Sustainability,Water LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T144621 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Indigenous Futurism DESCRIPTION:Ryan Signer will share his humble beginnings and journey into the art world. His presentation will include how he started creating art\, his influences\, education\, and the start of his career by stepping\, almost by accident\, into the realm of Indigenous Futurisms. His artwork from the past 10-15 years to current works will be showcased.\n\nRyan Singer is a Diné (Navajo) artist-painter based in Albuquerque\, NM. His artwork draws from his Navajo heritage and incorporates pop culture elements\, including science fiction imagery. Ryan weaves stories from his childhood memories with nostalgic iconography. Although he is associated with the \"Indigenous Futurism\" movement\, he has been drawing Star Wars characters since 1977. He enjoys creating portrait realism of Native subjects with a contemporary appeal\, and his artwork is included in several museum and private collections worldwide. Ryan has received numerous awards from the renowned SWAIA's Santa Fe Indian Market. He earned his BFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico\, where he participated in a collaborative lithography class with the Tamarind Institute. He is working on his MFA in Painting & Drawing at the University of New Mexico.\n\nBorn in Cedar City\, Utah\, but originally from Tuba City\, Arizona\, Ryan is of the Tódich’iinii (Bitter Water) clan and born for the Kinya’aani (Towering House) clan. Growing up in various parts of the Navajo Reservation\, Ryan often reflects on his childhood through his depictions of science fiction and pop culture icons. Other notable works include the popular \"Mutton Stew\" painting\, modeled after Andy Warhol's \"Campbell's Tomato Soup Can\" series with a Navajo twist\, and the iconic \"Wagon Burner\,\" which has become his trademark symbol. He has participated in exhibitions featuring this new genre of art and co-curated an exhibition about the \"Long Walk\" with Tony Abeyta at the Navajo Nation Museum. UID:133646-21873331@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133646 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history of art,Native American LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240611T181704 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Symphony Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Symphony Band performance. UID:122670-21849516@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T121645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250319T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SMTD Alumni Award Reception & Lecture with Briana Ashley Stuart (BFA ’13\, dance\; BA ’13\, sociology) DESCRIPTION:Join Briana Ashley Stuart\, a Detroit native\, University of Michigan alum\, and internationally recognized dancer based in Brussels\, for an engaging symposium exploring the intersection of arts and entrepreneurship. Hosted at Stamps Auditorium on North Campus\, this special event will feature a talk on navigating the global arts industry\, a Q&A session\, and a Zoom conversation with international artists and creative entrepreneurs. This program also celebrates Stuart's recent Alumni Award from the SMTD Alumni Board.\n\nDon’t miss this inspiring exchange of ideas on sustaining a career in the arts!\n\nReception 6:30-7:30pm (Stamps Lobby)\nPresentation 7:30-9:00pm (Stamps Auditorium)\n\nThis event is part of a two-week residency with Briana Ashley Stuart supported by a Visiting Artist Grant from the U-M Arts Initiative. \n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nAn international performing artist\, choreographer\, public speaker\, teaching artist\, and dance entrepreneur\, BRIANA ASHLEY STUART is a thriving artist based in Brussels\, Belgium and originally from Detroit\, Michigan. Briana has a passion for inspiring and empowering other passionate artists\, audiences\, and dance students to maximize their creative dreams and potential. Through performances\, workshops\, and public speaking\, she generously shares her insight and expertise\, in movement and dance\, choreography\, and dance entrepreneurship. As an international artist\, Briana values cultural exchange\, collaboration\, and mentorship. She understands the aspirations and challenges of being a dancer and seeks to inspire dancers to discover their truth and power in the arts. UID:133423-21873089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Dance,Discussion,Free,Lecture,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T105450 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Adaptive Methods for High-Order Aerodynamic Shape Optimization DESCRIPTION:Aerodynamic shape optimization has the potential to fully automate the aerodynamic design process. The optimizer relies heavily on a robust\, accurate\, and efficient computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solver. High-order CFD methods have the potential to provide high-accurate solutions but rely on adaptation for robustness and efficiency to strategically distribute degrees of freedom to minimize error for a given cost.\n\nThis dissertation closes many gaps preventing the widespread adoption of high-order methods in shape optimization. A novel curved mesh adaptation method is developed that performs metric-based adaptation on curved meshes improving robustness. An algorithm is developed to adapt the mesh during optimization that balances optimization cost and adaptation cost while ensuring accuracy at the optimum. These methods enable cost effective and accurate optimization.\n\nDate/Location:\nMarch 20th\, 2025 | 10:00 am EDT | FXB 1044\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/95480752465 | passcode: adapt UID:133820-21873595@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133820 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:aerospace engineering LOCATION:Off Campus Location - FXB 1044 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250217T114634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T103000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Green Team Coffee Chat: Kenzie Winslow of Michigan Dining DESCRIPTION:This month's spotlight is Kenzie Winslow\, Sustainability Assistant Program Manager with Michigan Dining. Her role focuses on empowering students interested in sustainability in Michigan Dining and the broader campus food system. Come get your sustainable food questions answered at this informal Zoom Coffee Chat with Kenzie and other workplace champions on Thursday\, March 20\, from 10-10:30am. Join our building community of practice to share best practices\, barriers\, and experiences in creating more sustainable workplaces at U-M. UID:132823-21871924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241018T150706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Critical Conversations DESCRIPTION:Critical Conversations is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme. UID:128052-21860104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128052 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Free LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T100812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: David Lodge DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Researchers often assume that the value of research in solving problems is self-evident. Yet most research does not lead to solutions\, even when the proposals that launched the research promised solutions. University and government researchers could address this longtime peril by including clear theories of change in project development\, and co-creating and co-executing projects across disciplines and sectors. This would require alignment of funding and infrastructure to support such mission-driven research. In a rapidly changing government landscape\, I will examine past examples of the role of research and technology development in driving change in policies\, practices\, and products. While I do not promise to resolve all the promises and perils\, I will suggest some possible ways forward for solutions-oriented sustainability research in government and universities.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. David M. Lodge is the Francis J. DiSalvo director of Cornell University’s Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. He is an internationally recognized environmental scientist\, with expertise in environmental risk assessment\, freshwater and marine coastal ecology\, ecosystem services\, bioeconomics\, and invasive species. His research has improved ecological forecasting to better inform environmental risk assessment\, natural resource management\, and policy development. Lodge is a leader in the development and application of environmental DNA (eDNA)\, a transformative technological tool for discovering unrecognized biodiversity\, censusing aquatic biodiversity\, and improving the management of imperiled\, invasive\, or harvested species. He is past president of the Ecological Society of America\, and former senior science advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of Polar Affairs. On numerous occasions he has testified before the U.S. Congress\, and served as an expert witness in federal court. He is faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. UID:132833-21871936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132833 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environmental Policy,Free,Great Lakes,Lecture,Public Policy,Research,seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T100812 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Great Lakes Seminar Series: David Lodge DESCRIPTION:About the presentation: Researchers often assume that the value of research in solving problems is self-evident. Yet most research does not lead to solutions\, even when the proposals that launched the research promised solutions. University and government researchers could address this longtime peril by including clear theories of change in project development\, and co-creating and co-executing projects across disciplines and sectors. This would require alignment of funding and infrastructure to support such mission-driven research. In a rapidly changing government landscape\, I will examine past examples of the role of research and technology development in driving change in policies\, practices\, and products. While I do not promise to resolve all the promises and perils\, I will suggest some possible ways forward for solutions-oriented sustainability research in government and universities.\n\nAbout the speaker: Dr. David M. Lodge is the Francis J. DiSalvo director of Cornell University’s Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. He is an internationally recognized environmental scientist\, with expertise in environmental risk assessment\, freshwater and marine coastal ecology\, ecosystem services\, bioeconomics\, and invasive species. His research has improved ecological forecasting to better inform environmental risk assessment\, natural resource management\, and policy development. Lodge is a leader in the development and application of environmental DNA (eDNA)\, a transformative technological tool for discovering unrecognized biodiversity\, censusing aquatic biodiversity\, and improving the management of imperiled\, invasive\, or harvested species. He is past president of the Ecological Society of America\, and former senior science advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of Polar Affairs. On numerous occasions he has testified before the U.S. Congress\, and served as an expert witness in federal court. He is faculty member in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. UID:132833-21871937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132833 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environmental Policy,Free,Great Lakes,Lecture,Public Policy,Research,seminar LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241104T123457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Refining Hematopoietic Stem Cell Functional Heterogeneity to Improve Bone Marrow Transplantation DESCRIPTION:Refining Hematopoietic Stem Cell Functional Heterogeneity to Improve Bone Marrow Transplantation\nAntonio Morales-Hernandez\, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor of Dentistry\nDepartment of Periodontics and Oral Medicine\nUniversity of Michigan School of Dentistry\n\nThursday\, March 20\, 2025\n12:00 – 1:00pm\nDENT G550\nHost: Dr. Vesa Kaartinen\nSponsored by Oral Health Sciences\nCE credit will be given to the School of Dentistry Faculty. If you would like CE credit\, please sign in at the seminar UID:128679-21861484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:academic medicine,Biosciences,Dentistry,Health Science,Health Sciences,Lecture,seminar LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - G550 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T103532 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 HFES Biomechanics Dinner Registration DESCRIPTION:Dinner will be provided!\n\nAbout Dr. Pual Pridham:\n\nDr. Paul Pridham is a Lecturer and Research Area Specialist Senior in the Center for Ergonomics and Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Paul completed a Ph.D. from Columbia University\, focused on rehabilitation robotics and how design impacts the performance of these systems. Paul went on to do postdocs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, studying human exoskeleton fluency\; and at Northern Arizona University\, studying ankle exoskeletons with applications to clinical populations. Paul's work explores the impact of design on the performance of wearable systems\, particularly exoskeletons. This talk will examine how wearable systems can be used to better understand ourselves\, and in return how that understanding can allow us to better design wearable systems. Paul will also discuss future directions to take this work and encourage students to explore these topics. UID:133815-21873591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133815 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dinner,Ergonomics,Human Factors And Ergonomics Society,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,North Campus LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Boulevard Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T165923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ben Collins\, Journalist and CEO of The Onion DESCRIPTION:The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is excited to welcome Ben Collins\, CEO of The Onion\, as the speaker for the fourth annual Mitchell Lecture. He previously worked as a senior reporter at NBC News\, where he won an Emmy and Walter Cronkite Award. He was also a senior editor at The Daily Beast. \n\nThe Mitchell Lecture Series — a component of the Mitchell Program — features ethically minded lecturers from the creative industries to bolster the development of ethical\, diverse business leaders. The Patricia W. Mitchell Trusts provided an endowment to Michigan Ross in 2019 to establish the Mitchell Program for Business Ethics and Communications and honor the legacy of John H. Mitchell\, LSA ‘39\, founder of Columbia Pictures Television\, and his wife Patricia Mitchell. UID:133512-21873189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:business,Communication,Culture,Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,seminar,Social Impact,Talk,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T151530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"How Long do Quasars Shine?\"\n\nLuminous quasars are believed to be the progenitors of the supermassive black holes observed ubiquitously at the centers of all massive galaxies\, but we are still in the dark about how these black holes formed. Our ignorance largely results from the fact that the expected timescale for supermassive black hole growth of 50 million years is far longer than the mere fifty years that humans have been observing quasars. A holy grail would thus be a direct measurement of quasar lifetimes\, shedding light on the physical mechanisms responsible for fueling black hole growth\, and how the back-reaction of this growth might influence how galaxies form. I will discuss two very different experiments that allow us to construct cosmic clocks that can accurately time the duration of luminous quasar activity on timescales of kiloyears to gigayears. One exploits the clustering pattern of quasars on the sky\, which has recently been measured by JWST. The other uses observations of diffuse intergalactic gas in quasar environs. I will also touch upon how the latter can be used to constrain the reionization history of the Universe. UID:133711-21873465@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250317T123350 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - New Views on Fern Phylogenetics: Updates from the GoFlag Targeted Enrichment Probe Set DESCRIPTION:Ferns are the second largest group of vascular land plants\, with ca. 10\,000\, species\, and they are critical components of Earth’s biodiversity – ferns can be found in nearly every type of ecosystem and habitat\, from desert to rainforest. Ferns also occupy a pivotal evolutionary position as sister to the megadiverse seed plants\, and they are thus the critical outgroup needed to understand the evolution of key seed plant features. This talk presents the results of a phylogenomic approach to reconstructing fern evolution\, using the most highly resolved nuclear dataset to date (targeting 408 loci)\, and with highly targeted taxonomic sampling (including nearly all fern families and genera). This dataset allows us to explore a range of outstanding questions in fern phylogenetics\, including resolving recalcitrant nodes\, and comparing results between our nuclear based trees and other recent large-scale fern phylogenies based on chloroplast loci. UID:131672-21868981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131672 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,ecosystem,Science,seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250109T140033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Broken Bonds: Fugitive Bannermen\, Civic virtue\, and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China DESCRIPTION:In 1670\, the Kangxi Emperor promulgated the Sacred Edict\, a hortatory edict consisting of sixteen apothegms that enjoined his Chinese subjects to observe a variety of Confucian virtues. The Edict was the subject of a vast commentarial literature and was revered as a sacred text right through the end of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. This talk takes a closer look at the long-neglected thirteenth apothegm of the Edict\, which admonished against “shielding fugitive bannermen\,” and inquires what it can tell us about political loyalty\, displaced imperial subjects\, and inter-ethnic relations in late imperial China.\n\nPär Cassel is an associate professor of modern Chinese history at the University of Michigan\, where he has taught since 2006. He is strongly committed to multi-lingual and multi-archival research and is especially interested in historical problems where international relations\, jurisprudence\, institutional history\, and linguistics intersect. He has published on East Asian treaty ports\, extraterritoriality and international law in China and Japan\, Sino-Japanese relations\, Manjuristics\, and the history of Sinology. His most recent academic publication explores Confucian responses to Western imperialism and Japan’s policy of “National Seclusion” in the 1830s.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:122464-21849232@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T094420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals: Balancing Security\, Sustainability\, and Growth DESCRIPTION:About the Event:\n\nAs the global demand for critical minerals surges\, competition over these essential resources has intensified\, reshaping international relations and economic strategies. The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals: Balancing Security\, Sustainability\, and Shared Growth will explore the complex dynamics of resource control\, environmental and social responsibility\, and geopolitical power struggles. With countries like Ukraine\, Chile\, and the Democratic Republic of Congo\, among others\, at the center of these tensions\, nations must navigate the challenges of securing supply chains while ensuring responsible mineral management which supports the economic development of host countries.\n\nModerated by Ambassador Susan D. Page\, a distinguished expert in international diplomacy\, this discussion will examine how global powers and local governments balance economic ambitions\, security imperatives\, and sustainability goals. Join us for an insightful conversation on the future of critical minerals and the evolving strategies shaping their extraction\, trade\, and governance.\n\nFrom the Speaker's bio:\n\nSpeaker: Boubacar Bocoum\, Lead Mining Specialist\, World Bank\nBocoum holds a Master’s degree in Mining Engineering and Economics\, and an MBA. With over thirty years of experience in both public and private mining sectors\, he leads World Bank operations focused on promoting investments\, governance\, institutional strengthening\, and facilitating dialogue between governments\, the private sector\, and civil society. He has overseen analytical work in areas such as mining community development\, infrastructure\, mining tax administration\, mine closure\, and skills development. Prior to joining the World Bank\, Boubacar worked in the private sector\, managing all cycles of mining operations and mining project finance.\n\nModerator: Ambassador Susan D. Page\, Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy\, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\nAmbassador Page joined the Ford School faculty and the Weiser Diplomacy Center in 2020. She has served in senior roles for the U.S. Department of State\, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)\, the United Nations\, and non-governmental organizations across East\, Central\, and Southern Africa\, as well as Haiti and Nepal. Page was the first U.S. ambassador to South Sudan and served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. She also held positions as legal adviser for the IGAD-led peace process in Sudan\, Special Representative for Haiti\, and political officer in Rwanda\, among many other roles. UID:133623-21873316@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133623 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,African Studies,African Studies Center,Diplomacy,International Policy,Mineral Conflict,Mining Expert,Weiser Diplomacy Center,World Bank LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (Room 1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T084622 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The politics of disaster prevention | The 2025 Miller Converse Lecture DESCRIPTION:Despite the importance of effective disaster policy\, governments typically fail to produce it. The main explanation offered by political scientists is that voters strongly support post-disaster relief but not policies that seek to prevent or prepare for disaster. This study challenges that view. We develop novel measures of preferences for disaster prevention and post-disaster relief. We find strong support for prevention policies and candidates who pursue them\, even among the subgroups that are the most opposed. Support for prevention has the hallmarks of “real” attitudes: consistency across wordings and response formats\, including open ended probes\; steadfastness in the face of arguments\; and willingness to make trade-offs against disaster relief\, increased taxes\, and reduced spending on other programs. Neither cognitive biases for the here and now nor partisan polarization prevent robust majority support for disaster prevention. We validate these survey findings with election results\, which suggest voters act on these preferences. UID:132996-21872169@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241215T100732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Annual Copernicus Lecture. The Post-Populist Predicament: On Redemocratization and Rule-of-Law Restoration in Poland since 2023 DESCRIPTION:On October 15\, 2023\, Polish voters elected\, by a wide margin\, a coalition of democratic parties and thus ended an 8-year episode of authoritarian-populist rule. But in contrast to other known cases of populist incumbents’ electoral defeat (Bolsonaro in Brazil\, Janša in Slovenia\, or Trump in the U.S. in 2020)\, the incumbents left a deeply dismantled institutional field\, or rather a minefield of various legal and institutional ambushes meant to render re-democratization extremely difficult\, if not impossible. In such circumstances\, a post-populist government faces a fundamental tension between the aim of depolarization and that of democratic consolidation. The rule-of-law conundrum best illustrates the tension: to respect the rule of law as traditionally\, conventionally understood—as dictating observance of all legal rules in force\, whatever their intent or content—leads to paralysis in a new government’s re-democratization efforts.\n\n Sadurski will offer an account of the post-populist predicament in Poland (not avoiding the question of whether it is truly post-populist) and sketch some proposed solutions to the conundrum. He will show how the post-populist transition is different\, and in many ways more difficult\, than the post-communist transition in the early 1990s\, and how it necessitates some innovative constitutional remedies. He will then explore lessons that can be drawn from the Polish case for future redemocratization of other populist-authoritarian regimes\, such as those in Turkey\, India\, or Hungary today.\n \nWojciech Sadurski is Challis Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Sydney and Professor at the University of Warsaw’s Center for Europe\, as well as a lawyer\, political philosopher\, and commentator on public affairs. He previously held the chair in philosophy of law at the European University Institute in Florence and has taught regularly at Yale\, NYU\, and Princeton\, as well as at universities in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the Global Rule of Law Commission. Sadurski’s most recent books include *Poland’s Constitutional Breakdown* (2019)\, *A Pandemic of Populists* (2022)\, and *Constitutional Public Reason* (2023). He is a co-recipient of the 2023 Karol Pilarczyk Foundation Award for the “promotion of democracy and the rule of law” by the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences in America (PIASA).\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130011-21865053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130011 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Europe,Law,poland LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T181512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Phung Huynh DESCRIPTION:Phung Huynh is a Los Angeles-based artist and educator with a practice in drawing\, painting\, public art\, and community engagement. Her work explores cultural perception and representation\, such as her drawings and prints on pink donut boxes\, which explore the complexities of assimilation and cultural negotiation among Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees who have resettled in the United States. Huynh also challenges beauty standards by constructing images of the Asian female body vis-à-vis plastic surgery to unpack how contemporary cosmetic surgery can whitewash cultural and racial identity. \nIn tandem with her Penny Stamps Series appearance\, The Institute for the Humanities is hosting Huynh’s installation\, Angkorian Homecoming\, on display from March 20 - May 2\, 2025 at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery. The new series brings together an installation of ornately framed graphite drawings and photographic banners that seek to ritually unite fragments of sacred Khmer Buddha statue heads that were looted from Cambodia. The artist examines Cambodian sculptures that memorialize the Golden Age of Khmer culture from the 9th to the 15th centuries\, particularly the Buddha heads that are currently housed in American art museums and the remnants of the statues' bodies remaining in the temples of Cambodia. Huynh initiates critical dialogues in the pressing matters of repatriation and provenance within the collections of American institutions.\nPhung Huynh has had solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills and the Sweeney Art Gallery at the University of California\, Riverside. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited nationally and internationally\, including spaces such as the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh\, Cambodia. She has also completed public art commissions for the Metro Orange Line\, Metro Silver Line\, the Los Angeles Zoo\, and the Los Angeles General Medical Center through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture. \nPhung Huynh has served as Chair of the Public Art Commission for the city of South Pasadena and Chair of the Prison Arts Collective Advisory Council\, which supports arts programming in California state prisons. She served on the Board of Directors for LA Más\, a non-profit organization that serves BIPOC working class immigrant communities in Northeast Los Angeles. She is a recipient of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship\, the California Arts Council Individual Established Artist Fellowship\, the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship\, and the Marciano Art Foundation Artadia Award. \nPresented in Partnership with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:130007-21865049@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130007 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240815T125004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Monica Youn DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nMonica Youn is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently *FROM FROM*\, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. It was also named a *New York Times Book Review Notable Book* and Best Poetry Book of 2023 and was a *Time*\, *NPR*\, *Publishers Weekly*\, *Library Journal*\, and *Electric Literature* Best Book of 2023. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. A former constitutional lawyer\, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is a professor of English at UC Irvine. \n\nTess Taylor\, on *NPR’s All Things Considered*\, declared that “Monica Youn is one of the most consistently innovative poets working today.” As John Yau has put it\, “In every generation there is a handful of poets who challenge the way we think about language and how it is used. . . . It is to this distinguished company that Youn now belongs.” Claudia Rankine has called Youn’s work “disconcerting in its spectatorship and breathtaking in its beauty\,\" and Linda Gregerson says\, “Monica Youn\, quite simply\, is one of the two or three most brilliant poets working in America today.” \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:122638-21849471@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122638 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,arts at michigan,Author,Book,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Literary Arts,Literati,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,World Literature,Writing,zell visiting writers series LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T181528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250320T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with Monica Youn DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming author and poet Monica Youn for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series\, presented by the Helen Zell Writer's Program in partnership with UMMA\, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature. \n \nYoun is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently FROM FROM\, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. It was also named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and Best Poetry Book of 2023 and was a Time\, NPR\, Publishers Weekly\, Library Journal\, and Electric Literature Best Book of 2023. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. A former constitutional lawyer\, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is a professor of English at UC Irvine.\n \nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n \nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. \n \n \n UID:131302-21868157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131302 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240815T125026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CRAFT LECTURE: Proleptic Form: Toward a Poetics of Self Defense DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nSeats are limited and are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public\, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room\, Angell Hall #3222). Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.\n\nOf her lecture\, \"Proleptic Form: Toward a Poetics of Self Defense\,\" Monica says\, \"In rhetoric\, prolepsis is the anticipation of possible counterarguments or objections in order to answer them in advance. It’s a defensive posture\, one that assumes in advance that the speaker will be criticized or attacked. So it seems appropriate that proleptic form – a poetics of self defense – would be particularly the province of those groups who are accustomed to being attacked\, to constantly rebutting spoken and unspoken accusations of being overemotional\, hypersensitive\, irrational\, lazy\, unnuanced\, non-objective\, trivial\, overly political\, of always playing the race card\, the gender card\, the sexuality card\, the class card\, pick a card. Proleptic form assumes an audience not of the speaker’s tribe\, potentially a hostile audience\, an audience assumed to be in a dominant position in society\, often a White audience\, a cishet audience etc. I’ll look at some well-known examples\, Phillis Wheatley\, Bhanu Kapil\, Robin Coste Lewis\, Claudia Rankine\, Layli Long Soldier\, and Paul Tran and try to identify certain characteristics of proleptic form.\"\n \nMonica Youn is the author of four poetry collections\, most recently *FROM FROM*\, which won the Anisfield-Wolf Award and was a finalist for the 2023 National Book Award. It was also named a *New York Times Book Review Notable Book* and Best Poetry Book of 2023 and was a *Time*\, *NPR*\, *Publishers Weekly*\, *Library Journal*\, and *Electric Literature* Best Book of 2023. She has been awarded the Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation\, the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a Witter Bytter Fellowship from the Library of Congress\, and a Stegner Fellowship. Her previous books have been shortlisted for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kingsley Tufts Award. A former constitutional lawyer\, she is a member of the curatorial collective the Racial Imaginary Institute and is a professor of English at UC Irvine. \n\nTess Taylor\, on *NPR’s All Things Considered*\, declared that “Monica Youn is one of the most consistently innovative poets working today.” As John Yau has put it\, “In every generation there is a handful of poets who challenge the way we think about language and how it is used. . . . It is to this distinguished company that Youn now belongs.” Claudia Rankine has called Youn’s work “disconcerting in its spectatorship and breathtaking in its beauty\,\" and Linda Gregerson says\, “Monica Youn\, quite simply\, is one of the two or three most brilliant poets working in America today.” \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:122639-21849472@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,arts at michigan,Author,Book,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Creative Writing,English Language & Literature,Interdisciplinary,literary,Literary Arts,Literati,Literature,Monica Youn,Poetry,poetry reading,Talk,Workshop,World Literature,Writing,zell visiting writers series LOCATION:Angell Hall - The Robert Hayden Conference Room, #3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T203734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Friday Lecture Series. Gambling Coastal Lives: Surprises and Precarity in the Coastal Philippines DESCRIPTION:Surprises in the form of risks and uncertainties reinforce and sometimes complicate the vulnerability and precarity of human and nonhuman lives. We see such complex relations unfold in the coastal Philippines\, where struggling smallholder fishers bear a significant share of the impacts of climate change\, marine ecosystem collapse\, and market failures. Montefrio explores how human and nonhuman coastal lives and their socio-material relations negotiate\, co-constitute\, and embody surprises in predictable and confounding ways. In his ethnographic work in Capiz\, he examines the interactions among the smallholder fishers and the fishing infrastructures they build\, the inshore fish they catch\, the erratic weather that surprises them\, the neoliberal regime that governs them\, the debt they accumulate\, and the precarious lives they live. Surprises brought about by extreme weather and other stressors impel smallholder fishers to engage in greater risk-taking behaviors akin to gambling. Left to their own devices\, smallholder fishers negotiate surprises with a modest sense of control\, shaping their material world as best as they can to improve their lives. Often\, they are resigned to just the luck of the draw.\n\nZoom link: https://myumi.ch/qVN9Q\n \n Marvin Montefrio is an associate professor of social science (environmental studies) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and an affiliate faculty of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a faculty fellow of the Food Politics and Society Cluster of the Asia Research Institute at NUS. Marvin specializes in food\, agrarian\, and environmental studies\, with a specific interest in food and sustainability in Southeast Asia.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130530-21866208@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130530 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Asian Languages And Cultures,Climate Change,Environment,Philippines LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T105121 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD defense: Jiahao Shi DESCRIPTION:Join us for Jiahao Shi's PhD defense titled \"Effective and Efficient Methods for Constrained Stochastic and Derivative-free Optimization.\"\n\nLearn more about Jiahao: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/shi-jiahao/\n\nFaculty chair: Albert Berahas UID:133210-21872597@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133210 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room G690 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T144114 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Computational Geometry for Design Optimization DESCRIPTION:Numerical analysis and optimization are valuable tools for aircraft design\, especially for new configurations with little historical data or designer intuition. However\, complex designs can be excluded from high-fidelity design optimization due to limitations in how geometry is handled.\nNew geometric parameterizations and constraints have not been studied in depth and few methods allow for the optimization of designs with intersections. This research opens optimization to a larger range of aircraft designs by addressing gaps in understanding of the performance of different geometric parameterizations and the effects of spatial integration constraints as well as developing two methods for optimizing designs with intersections.\n\nIn-Person 1044 FXB (McDivitt Conference Room) or Virtual: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91726076075 (passcode: geo) UID:133773-21873544@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#michiganengineering LOCATION:Off Campus Location - In-Person: 1044 FXB (McDivitt Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T094341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Spectral diffusion in wave turbulence DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Classical concept in turbulence is an energy cascade from large to small scales leading to the famous Kolmogorov spectrum. In Wave Turbulence (WT)\, where the fundamental motions are random interacting waves rather than hydrodynamic vortices\, an analogue to the Kolmogorov spectrum is a Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectrum describing stationary states with a constant energy flux from long to short wave modes. The Kolmogorov scenario relies on a locality property which assumes that the dominant nonlinear interaction occurs among scales (e.g. wave lengths) of similar sizes. This property is violated in some important WT systems\, and one has to construct alternative theories describing interactions of widely separated scales. An important example here is the spectral diffusion describing evolution of WT when the dominant interactions are with an infrared end of the spectrum. In my talk\, I will introduce the main ideas\, mathematical descriptions and results for the WT systems arising in several well-known applications: water surface gravity waves\, internal waves\, planetary Rossby waves and MMT models.\n\nContact: Zaher Hani UID:130191-21865578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130191 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250301T164708 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | The Full Spectrum of Thermal Dark Matter DESCRIPTION:This seminar presents a comprehensive analysis of thermal relic freezeout mechanisms\, deriving simple-to-use analytical relationships between dark matter mass and coupling strengths that explain the observed cosmic abundance. This unified framework reveals a generalized perturbative unitarity bound on dark matter mass applicable across the full spectrum of thermal freezeout processes.\nNotably\, I will demonstrate how thermal dark matter masses can exceed the conventional 100 TeV unitarity limit—potentially reaching the Planck scale—through mechanisms involving nearly degenerate states and metastable dark matter configurations. Specifically\, I will introduce new concepts like zombie and drunk dark matter to enable the realization of superheavy thermal dark matter. Finally\, I will show that weak-scale thermal dark matter can naturally arise even in scenarios with extremely small coupling strengths. UID:130755-21866815@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T134511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Kristin Bergmann\, MIT DESCRIPTION:With this talk\, I explore pre-Cenozoic glaciations to answer the following questions: \"What is the record of ice volume and extent through time\, and can this be reconciled with the oxygen isotope record?\". Utilizing carbonate-clumped isotope thermometry and integrating observations from the geologic record\, I will first examine the end-Ordovician glaciation—a test case that exhibits both similarities to and differences from Cenozoic glaciation. Prior to glaciation\, a long-term gradual cooling trend is mirrored by Ordovician radiation in biological diversity\, consistent with temperature-dependent oxygen solubility and metabolism as primary controls. Evidence for significant ice growth is constrained to less than 2 Myr of the Hirnantian Stage\, underscoring the high sensitivity of ice growth to pCO₂ and temperature. Our independent estimates for ice volume\, area\, and sea-level change during the Hirnantian glacial maximum are internally consistent and comparable to those of the Last Glacial Maximum. In addition to our work documenting cooling in the lead-up to the end-Ordovician Hirnantian glaciation\, our targeted geographic studies have also allowed us to reconstruct progressive and protracted cooling before the Sturtian Snowball Earth glaciation and the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. These three case studies suggest that a cool\, low pCO₂ climate is a prerequisite for glaciation\, even Snowball Earth\, and highlight the importance of identifying and constraining meteoric alteration associated with large amplitude sea level change before interpreting isotope records. The implications of these results extend to refining current paleoclimate models\, especially in understanding transitions from greenhouse to icehouse conditions. UID:123479-21850981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250321T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Mark Webster Reading Series: Malia Maxwell and Rebecca Hawkes DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Helen Zell Writers' Program and presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art\, the Mark Webster Reading Series showcases the work of second-year MFA students in fiction and poetry.\n \nFriends\, family\, and members of the Ann Arbor community are welcome to attend the readings both in-person (in Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art) or synchronously on Zoom. \n \nMalia Maxwell (Kanaka Maoli) is a writer from Seattle\, WA. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review\, Poetry Northwest\, No Tokens\, Frozen Sea\, and elsewhere. Visit her at www.maliamaxwell.com. \n \nRebecca Hawkes is a painter-poet from rural Aotearoa / New Zealand. Her book Meat Lovers was awarded Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate’s 2022 Laurel Prize\, and shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. She is an editor of Sweet Mammalian and the Pacific climate crisis poetics anthology No Other Place To Stand. Her work can be found in the likes of  Salt Hill\, Hobart\, and Cordite\, or via her vanity www.rebeccahawkesart.com.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      This series is free and open to the public. For questions\, accommodation needs\, or the password\, please contact co-hosts\, Rebecca Hawkes (hawkes@umich.edu) and Malia Maxwell (maliacm@umich.edu)  \n UID:132244-21870658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132244 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T170249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250323T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250323T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Painting the Scene Inside: Artist Talk DESCRIPTION:The 29th Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons showcases the life-affirming creative work of artists from 26 Michigan prisons.\n Hundreds of original\, handmade works by incarcerated artists in Michigan will be displayed in the Duderstadt Center Gallery from March 18th through April 1st\, 2025. A variety of visual arts media will be featured\, including paintings\, portraits\, tattoo imagery\, landscapes\, sculpture\, fiber arts\, and more. \n\nAs part of this year's exhibition\, enjoy a panel discussion led by Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions as they share their stories and answer questions about their artistic practice and experience. \n\nThis discussion is FREE and Open to the Public. \n*Free accessible shuttle service available the day of the event from 10:30 AM-5:00 PM\, running every half-hour\nLoops to the event from the Plymouth Rd. Park & Ride (3700 Plymouth Rd.\, right off of US-23)* UID:132260-21870673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132260 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,arts,Community,Community Engagement,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Incarceration,social justice,Storytelling,visual arts LOCATION:Chrysler Center - Chesebrough Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240611T181706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250323T181500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250323T184500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Symphony Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 6:15 pm before the 7:00 pm USO performance. UID:122673-21849519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122673 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T105850 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD defense: Kevin Smith DESCRIPTION:Join us for Kevin Smith's PhD defense titled \"Data-driven and Machine Learning Approaches for Medical and Public Health Decision-Making.\"\n\nLearn more about Kevin: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/smith-kevin/\n\nFaculty chairs: Brian Denton and Siqian Shen UID:133211-21872598@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133211 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Room 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T090127 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“What Is Poetry?” DESCRIPTION:Lecture and Conversation\n\n3222 Angell Hall\n\nRSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/login?r=/track/event/session/88784\n\nWhat is poetry? You probably have some idea\, or at least you know it when you see it. You probably also know that this is a trick question. In practice\, it’s not hard to know a poem when you see one: it appears in lines or it rhymes or it’s called poetry even if it looks like prose. In theory\, everyone knows you are not supposed to answer the question. This talk will address the relation between determinate practice and indeterminate theory in modern (post-eighteenth-century) Anglo-American poetics. UID:133796-21873573@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature,Free,Poetry LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222, Robert Hayden Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T160048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MEMS Lecture Series | Sacred and Profane: Andean Guacas and Colonial Extractions\, 1569-1636 DESCRIPTION:In 1569\, Mari Flores\, Hernán García\, Blas García\, and Juan Vallejo filed and received permission to start a mining company outside of Potosí\, Bolivia\, the world's silver capital. Unlike other articles of incorporation submitted by sixteenth-century Spanish subjects\, their company was time-bound\, authorized for six years\, focused on extracting the sacred guaca (living site of offerings) of Manducalla. Each investor was identified in a different way\, as an index of their race\, gender\, and artisan status: Hernán Garcia\, of African descent (\"mulato\")\; Mari Flores\, \"his wife\" (\"su muger\")\; Blas García\, of Indigenous ancestry (\"mestizo\")\; and Juan Vallejo\, chairmaker (\"sillero\"). In this talk\, I compare the terms of the 1569 contract with a similar proposal awarded in 1636 by Spanish colonial officials\, treasurers Pedro de Sanabria and Juan de los Reyes\, \"discoverers and knowers\" of a guaca whose rights of extraction they seek to award to Father Pedro Garrido. Unlike the earlier example\, this case dragged on for nearly 20 years. By looking at the legal language of possession\, discovery\, and extraction in the two cases\, this talk examines how race and gender intersected with state-sanctioned sacred and technical knowledge from the late sixteenth-century into the mid-seventeenth century. UID:129225-21862349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Medieval LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250324T113103 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Student Model Theory Seminar DESCRIPTION:In the Winter 2025 term\, the student logic seminar will be a Model Theory reading seminar. Details can be found here: https://shorturl.at/sldTZ UID:133084-21872368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T193653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Worlds Within: Exploring the Intersection of Humanities\, Medicine\, and the Arts DESCRIPTION:Are you a pre-med or med student with a passion for the humanities? Or a humanities student curious about the field of medicine? This is an event you won't want to miss!\n\nJoin us for a thought-provoking lecture and discussion on the deep\, fascinating connections between medicine and the humanities—how they shape\, influence\, and enrich each other. Featuring an autobiographical talk by Dustin Cummings\, a surgeon and writer\, followed by a conversation with Joel Howell\, a Michigan professor emeritus of medical history\, internal medicine\, and history.\n\nCome expand your perspective\, engage with brilliant minds\, and discover how these two fields enrich each other and the world. Reception to follow.\n\nDustin Cummings is the author of the sci-fi series Exiles of a Gilded Moon\, a poet\, and a general and bariatric surgeon in New York City. He received a BA in French and biology in 2006 and an MPH and MD in 2012\, all from the University of Michigan. Originally from Mid-Michigan\, he is an avid fan of science fiction and fantasy. In his spare time\, he enjoys reading\, playing the piano\, listening to classical music\, and long walks.\n\nJoel Howell is the Elizabeth Farrand Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine\, Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and History\, and the former director of the Medical Arts Program\, which explores how the arts can lead to better caregiving. He has written about the use of medical technology\, the history of medical education in Ethiopia\, and human experimentation\, among many other subjects. In addition to his medical publications\, Howell is the author of *Washtenaw County Bike Rides* (University of Michigan Press).\n\nAdmission is free but seating is limited. Save your spot and register to attend https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/p/track/13817.\n\nMany thanks to Duke HuMed for their consultation and support for this event. Learn more at https://dukehumed.wixsite.com/my-site. UID:130464-21866052@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Humanities,Medicine,Writing LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T121843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250324T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCEE Distinguished lecture. Russia Beyond Putin DESCRIPTION:Doors open to the public at 4:30 p.m. Seating will be limited and on a first-come\, first served basis.\n\nKremlin propaganda wants the world to believe that all Russians support Vladimir Putin and his war of aggression in Ukraine. But the reality is very different: beyond the Putin regime\, and despite its breathtaking repression\, many Russians believe in a very different—hopeful\, peaceful\, democratic—future for their country. In this lecture\, Vladimir Kara-Murza\, a Russian opposition politician\, author\, historian\, and former political prisoner who was freed as part of a large-scale East-West prisoner exchange in August 2024\, will speak about the opposition\, the state of human rights\, and the struggle for democracy in Putin’s Russia.\n\n Vladimir Kara-Murza is a Russian politician\, author\, historian\, and former political prisoner. A close colleague of the slain opposition leader Boris Nemtsov\, he has served as deputy leader of the People’s Freedom Party and was a candidate for the Russian Parliament. Leading diplomatic efforts on behalf of the opposition\, Kara-Murza played a key role in the adoption of Magnitsky sanctions against top Russian officials by the United States\, United Kingdom\, European Union\, Canada\, and Australia. For this work he was twice poisoned and left in a coma\; a joint media investigation by *Bellingcat*\, *The Insider*\, and *Der Spiegel* has identified FSB officers behind the attacks. In April 2022\, Kara-Murza was arrested in Moscow for publicly denouncing the invasion of Ukraine and the war crimes committed by Russian forces. Following a closed-door trial at the Moscow City Court\, he was sentenced to 25 years for “high treason” and kept in solitary confinement at a maximum-security prison in Siberia. He was released in August 2024 as part of the largest East-West prisoner exchange since the Cold War negotiated by the U.S. and German governments.\n\nKara-Murza is a contributing writer at *The Washington Post*\, winning the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for his columns written from prison\, and has previously worked for Echo of Moscow\, BBC\, RTVi\, *Kommersant*\, *World Affairs*\, and other media organizations. He currently serves as vice-president at the Free Russia Foundation\, as senior advisor at Human Rights First\, and as senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He was the founding chairman of the Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom and has led successful international efforts to commemorate Nemtsov\, including with street designations in Washington D.C. and London. Kara-Murza is a recipient of several awards\, including the Council of Europe’s Václav Havel Human Rights Prize\, and is an honorary fellow at Trinity Hall\, Cambridge.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130012-21865054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130012 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:democracy,Eastern Europe,europe,human rights,russia LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T181658 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SMTD Alumni Award Lecture & Reception with Alexandra Beller (BFA ’94\, dance) DESCRIPTION:Join us as the Department of Dance honors special guest artist and dance alum Alexandra Beller as she is presented with the 2024 Professional Achievement in Dance Award from the SMTD Alumni Board.\n\n10–11am - Presentation / Lecture -\nDance Performance Studio Theatre (Studio 1\, Room 1040)\n\n11am–12pm - Lunch Reception with Informal Talk - \nPerry K. Granoff Studio (Studio 4\, Room 1060)\n\n\nABOUT THE GUEST ARTIST\n\nALEXANDRA BELLER (BFA ’94\, dance) has been the artistic director of Alexandra Beller/Dances since 2002. She was a Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company member (1995–2001). Beller has created over 50 original dance theatre works and has presented at theatres and universities throughout the United States and with companies in Korea\, Hong Kong\, Oslo\, and Cyprus.\n\nBeller currently choreographs predominantly for theatre. Her Off-Broadway credits include *Sense and Sensibility* (Sheen Center\, the Gym at Judson\; received the Helen Hayes Award\, Lucille Lortel Award nomination\, and IRNE Best Choreography award)\, *The Mad Ones* (59E59 Theaters)\, Bedlam’s *Peter Pan* (the Duke on 42nd Street)\, and *How to Transcend a Happy Marriage* (Lincoln Center Theater). Her regional credits include *Two Gentlemen of Verona* (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival)\, *As You Like It* (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Folger Shakespeare Library)\, Taylor Mac’s *The Young Ladies of…*\, and *Chang(e)* (HERE Arts Center). Beller’s current projects include choreographing *Antonio’s Song* (Contemporary American Theater Festival and Milwaukee Rep) and *Fandango for Butterflies (and Coyotes)* (La MaMa and touring) and directing/choreographing *Macbeth* (Theatre Row). She wrote and directed an adaptation of *A Midsummer Night’s Dream* for 92NY.\n\nBeller was on faculty at Princeton University\, 2015–22\, and she teaches at the Laban Institute of Movement Studies\, HB Studio\, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison graduate program. In addition to a BFA in dance\, she has an MFA in choreography and is a CMA (Certified Movement Analyst). UID:134099-21873859@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134099 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Dance,Free,Lecture,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Dance Building - Dance Performance Studio Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T160646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ukrainian Literature and Culture Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting international collaboration between the University of Michigan's Slavic Department and the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv!\n\nThis seminar series brings together both UofM and UCU students\, creating a unique platform for international interaction and academic exchange. Featuring three speakers—Ostap Slyvynsky (UCU)\, Oleksandr Pronkevych (UCU)\, and Alex Averbuch (UofM)—the series will explore literature in times of war\, multiculturalism and multilingualism\, and gender and sexuality in Ukrainian culture.\n\nA one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to engage in critical discussions\, broaden perspectives\, and connect across borders.\n\nFebruary 18\, 11 AM\nMarch 25\, 11 AM\nApril 8\, 11 AM\n\nRegistration required: alexaver@umich.edu UID:132640-21871488@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:international relations,Literature,Multicultural,Multilingual,Slavic,Slavic Featured,Slavic Studies,Ukraine,Ukrainian LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T134409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE Faculty-Student Lunch: Prof. Julie Ivy DESCRIPTION:Please fill out the form to the right if you would like to attend the faculty-student lunch with Prof. Julie Ivy on Tuesday\, March 25th from 12:00 - 1:00pm! Space is limited\, so please only sign up for this event if you are sure you will be able to attend. Spots for this lunch will be filled on a first come\, first served basis\, and a waitlist will be formed after all spots have been filled. UID:133842-21873611@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Luncheon,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2869 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T153839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mediating Feuds and Making Minorities on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands of Late Republican and Early Maoist China DESCRIPTION:*This event is in-person only*\n\nThis talk examines efforts by the late-Republican and early-PRC states to mediate grassland disputes among Tibetan chiefdoms as key components in state-making processes designed to territorially and epistemologically discipline the Sino-Tibetan frontier according to the demands of progressively more powerful and interventionist state formations. It also suggests that the state’s inability to eliminate these types of disputes is an avenue through which to measure the incomplete nature of these transformations.\n \n Benno Weiner is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. He is author of the *Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier* and co-editor of *Contested Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold*. He is currently working on a manuscript with the working title: *“Imperial Borderland to Socialist State: Disintegration\, Territorialization\, and Minoritization on the Ethnic Margins of Modern China\,”* and a public facing book tentatively titled\, *“Making Minorities in Modern China.”*\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at chinese.studies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130929-21867408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130929 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,chinese history,Chinese Studies,Tibet LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241119T151406 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Archives of Embarrassment: Playing Asian on Cold War U.S. Television DESCRIPTION:With the “Hear\, Here” series\, we aim to facilitate conversations around new research in the humanities. Faculty fellows at the Institute for the Humanities will discuss a part of their current project in a short talk followed by a Q & A session.\n\nAbout this talk:\nThis talk reclaims Asian racial stereotypes in twentieth-century American media in order to offer a labor history of the performers behind them. Little is known about these performers and their work because these “archives of embarrassment” have been obscured by liberal identitarian desires for the “authentic” or “real” Asian American subject. I argue that these performers’ supporting roles\, background parts\, walk-ons\, and other sundry acting or acting-adjacent jobs produce what I call “Asian American non-stardom\,” and that this racialized labor has been foundational to the American entertainment industry.\n\nMelissa Phruksachart is a 2024-25 John Rich Faculty Fellow at the Institute for the Humanitied and Assistant Professor of Film\, Television\, & Media. UID:129313-21862438@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129313 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,Communications,History,Humanities LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T111511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: From Reaction Norms to Adaptation: What Variation in (Physiological) Plasticity Tells Us and How to Measure It DESCRIPTION:Global climate change and human-driven actions are altering climatic conditions and habitat characteristics worldwide. As a result\, animals experience various environmental changes that occur simultaneously\, requiring them to cope daily with multidimensional environmental variation. A key approach to addressing the fundamental question of whether and how populations can successfully adapt to environmental variability is to study how organisms respond to environmental changes by modifying their physiology and the consequences of these responses. Traits such as hormones and metabolic rates are not only highly sensitive to environmental fluctuations but also inherently flexible\, allowing for rapid responses that vary across different levels—from species to populations\, to individuals\, and even within individuals. In this talk\, I first describe how the responsiveness of physiological traits to environmental changes\, known as phenotypic plasticity\, can be measured by quantifying the degree of change via the slope of their reaction norm. Second\, I use data from a captive songbird population that I repeatedly exposed to a simulated cold spell\, to demonstrate that important information can be gained by quantifying variation in plasticity both among and within individuals in key physiological traits\, such as plasma concentrations of corticosterone and rates of organismal metabolism. Third\, I highlight the evolutionary implications of such variation in reaction norm slopes by reviewing available evidence that plasticity plays a crucial role in enabling evolutionary adaptation\, including insights from my own work. Finally\, I conclude by describing promising areas for future research and argue that studying variation in physiological plasticity is crucial for assessing the viability of species and populations in our ever-changing world. UID:133755-21873513@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241111T090523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Language Education in America 30 Years: Retrospect and Prospect DESCRIPTION:While there is ‘some’ debate over who started teaching Korean first in American higher education institutions\, Korean language education in this country has a long history. With the establishment of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (aka AATK) in 1994\, Korean language education was at a dramatic turning point in terms of practical classroom teaching as well as Korean as a second or foreign language (KSL/KFL) research. AATK will celebrate its 30-year anniversary in 2025 and it is a perfect time to reassess what has been done during the past three decades and what needs to be done moving forward. In this era of globalization and the spread of Hallyu worldwide\, learning Korean language and culture has become a worthy endeavor for many students\, heritage learners and non-heritage learners alike. In this talk\, I will be reflecting on 30 years of Korean language education in U.S. higher education from both practical and academic perspectives.\n \nHye-Sook Wang is an associate professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Generation Gap and Other Essays and Frog's Tears and Other Stories (both by Cheng & Tsui)\, editor of Rise of Korean Language Programs in U.S. Institutes of Higher Education (2015\, Korea University Press) and Sociolinguistics and Korean Language Education (forthcoming in 2024\, Institute of East Asian Studies\, UC-Berkeley)\, and co-author of Integrated Korean: High Advanced I & II 1st & 2nd Ed. (University of Hawaii Press\, 2005\, 2025) in addition to many journal articles. She has also served as the editor-in-chief of The Korean Language in America: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Korean for eight years after serving as the president of AATK from 2003 to 2006.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at ncks.info@umich.edu. UID:128938-21861924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128938 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Korea,Korean Studies,Language,Languages LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T114325 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Queer Belongings and the Jewish “Homeland”: Israeli and Jewish American Lives Between Home and Away DESCRIPTION:Through a blend of fiction and academic inquiry\, Amit examines the ways queer Jewish lives challenge and reimagine narratives of homeland\, belonging\, and migration.\n\nIn her academic book “A Queer Way Out: The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel (SUNY\, 2018)\, Amit explores the story of queer Israeli emigrants. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Berlin\, London\, and New York\, she examined motivations for departure and feelings of unbelonging to the Israeli national collective. Amit showed that sexual orientation and left-wing political affiliation play significant roles in decisions to leave. Amit investigated how queer Israeli emigrants question national and heterosexual norms such as army service\, monogamy\, and reproduction\, in their decision to leave Israel. In her new research project\, Amit is conducting interviews with queer Jewish Americans grappling with notions of Homeland and Belonging\, particularly in the wake of the October 7th events and their profound global reverberations.\n\nMeanwhile\, her two fiction books center on queer experiences in Israel/Palestine\, offering intimate\, layered portrayals of life at the margin of society. Her new fiction work deals with a possible loss of the Hebrew language and a possible obsolescence of the state of Israel. \n\nThe conversation with Amit will delve into how these themes converge in Amit’s creative and scholarly practices. It will explore the tensions between rootedness and mobility\, the impact of historical trauma on personal and collective identity\, and the possibilities for imagining alternative futures through queer lenses. Amit will also reflect on the role of storytelling—fictional and academic—as a tool for navigating the complexities of identity\, belonging\, and resistance in times of upheaval. UID:130241-21865629@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130241 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Humanities,Jewish Studies,LGBT,Social Sciences,Sociology,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T141931 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Women in Automotive DESCRIPTION:Did you know women drive the Motor City? Join us for an inspiring evening as Myrtle Brooks\, Janice Ford\, Cheryl Thompson\, and Ghana Goodwin-Dye share their powerful stories and experiences in the auto industry! Hear firsthand how these four trailblazing women have navigated challenges\, career pivots\, and achieved success in their field and beyond. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate their journeys\, gain valuable insights\, and foster a more inclusive future. UID:134148-21873937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134148 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Community,Discussion,panel discussion,Storytelling,Women In Engineering,Women's History Month LOCATION:Off Campus Location - University of Michigan Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T181756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250325T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:[Cancelled] Pre-Concert Lecture: Arts Chorale DESCRIPTION:This pre-concert lecture has been cancelled\; we apologize for any inconvenience. Please join us for the Arts Chorale performance at 8:00 pm! UID:122675-21849521@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20251024T084145 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T103000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ultrastructural plasticity of neurons DESCRIPTION:2025 CDB Seminar Series\n\nWe are pleased to announce that Shigeki Watanabe\, Ph.D.\, Associate Professor\, Department of Cell Biology\, Johns Hopkins University and Associate Professor\, Department of Neuroscience\, Johns Hopkins University\, will present his talk titled \"Ultrastructural plasticity of neurons\,\" Wednesday\, March 26th\, 2025\, at 9:30 a.m. This will be live in BSRB ABC Seminars Rooms and via Zoom Meeting link: https://umich.zoom.us/s/99078107446.\n\nHosted by: Swathi Yadlapalli\, Ph.D. UID:131504-21868648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131504 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T135823 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brown Bag Seminar | Comments on closed universes DESCRIPTION:We study closed universes in simple models of two dimensional gravity\, such as Jackiw-Teiteilboim (JT) gravity coupled to matter\, and a toy topological model that captures the key features of the former. We find there is a stark contrast between the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of the theory. Semi-classically there is rich physics. However\, when non-perturbative effects are included we see the puzzling feature that there is a unique closed universe state in each theory. UID:130853-21867140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130853 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250203T155055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T132000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky and Its Afterlives DESCRIPTION:In 1938\, the Russian director Sergei Eisenstein finished his first sound film\, Alexander Nevsky\, a historical epic that casts a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Now a classic of Soviet cinema\, the film also boasts what has become one of the best-known musical scores in cinematic history. Composed by Sergei Prokofiev\, the score has appeared in a striking number of formats beyond the film\, from simple piano arrangements to a full-length cantata for orchestra and chorus. These versions have taken the music far beyond the film’s international circulation\, sparking critical debates that are a significant but largely unknown aspect of the film’s legacy.\n\n This presentation follows Prokofiev’s music for Alexander Nevsky from its inception through the present day\, considering both the music’s genesis as well as the surprisingly varied ways it has engaged listeners over the past nine decades\, from its beginnings as state propaganda in the 1930s to showpiece for high-fidelity recording in the 1950s to open-air concert favorite in the post-Soviet 1990s.\n \n Kevin Bartig is Professor of Musicology at Michigan State University. His research focuses on music in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, and his published work has contributed to music\, film\, Slavic\, and theater studies. His first book\, Composing for the Red Screen: Prokofiev and Soviet Film (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\, draws on research in Russian archives to examine Sergei Prokofiev’s collaborations with leading figures in the early history of cinema. He further explores these creative figures’ encounters with Soviet censorship and the reception of their work during the Cold War and beyond in his second book\, Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky (Oxford University Press\, 2017). Bartig’s most recent book is the edited volume Three Loves for Three Oranges: Gozzi\, Meyerhold\, Prokofiev (Indiana University Press\, 2021)\, which examines key modernist developments in twentieth-century Russian theatre and opera. The volume received the 2022 American Society for Theatre Research Translation Prize.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132257-21870669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132257 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:eastern europe,europe,music,russia,soviet union LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250318T104317 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CLaSP/MIPSE seminar | Plasma XXI DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nI believe that the whole field of plasma science and its applications has entered a new era. What we are seeing is not only progress in individual separate areas of plasma physics and technology\, whether it is fusion\, astro/space\, materials or even biomedical applications\; but also growing interconnectivity among these areas.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Roald Sagdeev is a distinguished plasma physicist whose pioneering work in controlled fusion\, and space research has left a lasting impact on the field. Born in the Soviet Union\, he became one of the youngest full academicians of the USSR Academy of Sciences at the age of 35. From 1973 to 1988\, Dr. Sagdeev was director of the Soviet Space Research Institute\, where he played a crucial role in groundbreaking space missions\, including the Venera probes to Venus\, Vega mission to Halley’s Comet\, Phobos missions to Mars’ moons\, and the Soyuz-Apollo Test Project\, the first U.S.-Soviet space collaboration. His leadership helped advance international space cooperation during the Cold War. Dr. Sagdeev has been an influential voice in space policy and arms control. In 1990\, he moved to the United States and became a professor at the University of Maryland\, where he continued his research in plasma physics\, magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)\, and international scientific collaboration. Dr. Sagdeev’s groundbreaking work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of plasma dynamics and space exploration\, cementing his legacy as one of the most influential figures in modern space science. UID:133999-21873773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133999 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,In Person,Lecture,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,Space,Talk LOCATION:Climate and Space Research Building - 1236 (Leinweber Innovation Laboratory) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250228T093521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DCMB Weekly Seminar Series featuring Cui Tao\, PhD (of Mayo Clinic) DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Informatics constitute a highly interdisciplinary field where data serves as the cornerstone for driving innovation and generating insights. The complexity of this ecosystem is heightened by its reliance on multimodal data from diverse sources\, demanding robust methods for data integration\, processing\, and analysis. This framework underscores two pivotal components: Biomedical Semantics and Data Intelligence. In my research\, I have actively engaged in these two critical steps\, striving to develop solutions that bridge the gap between data science and tangible clinical and biomedical impacts. Overcoming these challenges necessitates the development of advanced informatics techniques\, including strategies for data standardization and integration\, as well as methods for knowledge representation and subsequent inference and analysis. UID:133289-21872696@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133289 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Artificial Intelligence,Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Cardiovascular,Chemistry,Discussion,Free,Human Genetics,In Person,Information and Technology,Integrative Systems,Interdisciplinary,Learning Health Systems,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Precision Health,Public Health,Research,Science,seminar,Structural Biology,Talk,Virtual LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T120446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lamstein Lecture in Children's Literature with Erin Stead DESCRIPTION:Erin Stead is an American illustrator. She has made many bestselling books including the Caldecott Medal award winning A Sick Day for Amos McGee\, which was also a New York Times Best Illustrated Book\, a NYPL 100 Great Children's Books selection\, and a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book. Many books later\, she is still making her pictures by hand in the studio she shares with her husband\, author/illustrator Philip Stead. They live in Michigan.\n\nErica Jolokai is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/92738719171\n\nMeeting ID: 927 3871 9171 UID:131603-21868806@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131603 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Discussion,English Department,English Language & Literature,Free,Literature LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240611T181709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250326T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: University Philharmonia Orchestra DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm UPO performance. UID:122677-21849523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122677 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241213T144401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the \n\nZoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/qV4ZD.\n \n Japan is a critical case in a comparative array of welfare states. Contemporary welfare states achieve higher equality by raising revenue from a regressive consumption tax than from a progressive income tax to be redistributed through public expenditures. As Professor Kato will discuss\, the politics of taxation matters for this unexpected consequence among long democracies.\n \n Junko Kato (PhD\, Yale University) is a professor of political science at the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on comparative politics on taxation and the welfare state\, party coalitions and government formation\, and neuro-cognitive analyses of social decisions and behavior. She has authored articles in *American Political Science Review\, British Journal of Political Science\, Electoral Studies\, Governance\,* in addition to two books\, *The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality* (Princeton University Press\, 1994) and *Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State* (Cambridge University Press\, 2003)\, and numerous book chapters. Professor Kato served as co-editor-in-chief of *Japanese Journal of Political Science* (2019~2023) and has been on the editorial boards of several journals\, including *British Journal of Political Science* (1996~2016)\, *Perspectives on Public Management and Governance* (2016~)\, and *Journal of East Asian Studies* (2021~). She has launched neuro-cognitive approaches to social sciences and published articles on fMRI experiments of human decision and behavior in *Frontiers in Neuroscience\, Scientific Reports\, and Cerebral Cortex.*\n \n *This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:129980-21864968@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129980 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Japanese Studies,Politics LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T114917 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Insights into Facial Development and Evolution from Single-Cell and Spatial Lineage Barcoding Approaches DESCRIPTION:Oral Health Science Seminar Series\n\nInsights into Facial Development and Evolution from Single-Cell and Spatial Lineage Barcoding Approaches\n\nGage Crump\, Ph.D. \nVice-Chair and Professor\nDepartment of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine\nKeck School of Medicine\nUniversity of Southern California\n\nThursday\, March 27\, 2025\n12:00 – 1:00pm\nDENT G550\nHost: Shawn Hallett\nSponsored by Oral Health Sciences\nCE credit will be given to School of Dentistry Faculty. If you would like CE credit\, please sign in at the seminar UID:133496-21873166@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Dentistry,health,Health Science,Health Sciences,Medicine,Research LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - DENT G550 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250326T160954 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Diasporic Dialogues with Robin Bernstein (Harvard) in conversation with Diana Louis (U-M) DESCRIPTION:CANCELLED !\n\nAn award-winning historian tells a gripping\, morally complicated story of murder\, greed\, race\, and the true origins of prison for profit.\n\nIn the early nineteenth century\, as slavery gradually ended in the North\, a village in New York State invented a new form of unfreedom: the profit-driven prison. Uniting incarceration and capitalism\, the village of Auburn built a prison that enclosed industrial factories. There\, “slaves of the state” were leased to private companies. The prisoners earned no wages\, yet they manufactured furniture\, animal harnesses\, carpets\, and combs\, which consumers bought throughout the North. Then one young man challenged the system.\n\nIn Freeman’s Challenge\, Robin Bernstein tells the story of an Afro-Native teenager named William Freeman who was convicted of a horse theft he insisted he did not commit and sentenced to five years of hard labor in Auburn’s prison. Incensed at being forced to work without pay\, Freeman demanded wages. His challenge triggered violence: first against him\, then by him. Freeman committed a murder that terrified and bewildered white America. And white America struck back—with aftereffects that reverberate into our lives today in the persistent myth of inherent Black criminality. William Freeman’s unforgettable story reveals how the North invented prison for profit half a century before the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed slavery “except as a punishment for crime”—and how Frederick Douglass\, Harriet Tubman\, and other African Americans invented strategies of resilience and resistance in a city dominated by a citadel of unfreedom.\n\nThrough one Black man\, his family\, and his city\, Bernstein tells an explosive\, moving story about the entangled origins of prison for profit and anti-Black racism. (University of Chicago Press) UID:134073-21873834@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,Afro-native Americans,Black America,black history,book event,Carceral State,Racism LOCATION:Haven Hall - 4701 (DAAS Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T140907 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Imagining Viewer Profiles: Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Digital Media Research DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades\, big data has been offered as a means for more exacting\nviewer profiles in the streaming content landscape. Media measurement suppliers\, from\ncustom research houses to Nielsen\, have scrambled to align different\, sometimes\nincompatible\, data streams and to develop new media metrics to account for all the\nprospects in digital viewership. These moves privileging quantitative data to explain the\nbehavior and choices of the viewer appear to leave a reduced role for qualitative\nresearch methods. Even burgeoning methods looking at individual viewers\, such as\nbiometrics and neuroimaging\, rely on gathering quantitative data as a means of\nexplanation. In the pre-digital landscape\, qualitative methods\, from focus groups to\nethnographies and in-depth interviews\, played a larger part in the audience research\nmarketplace. While the delivery method and formats have shifted\, entertainment still\nrelies on character\, storytelling and connecting emotionally with a media text. All these\nissues can be gauged in a more meaningful way through qualitative research. This\npresentation addresses the role of qualitative research in a digital media environment\nincreasingly defined by media metrics. Without diminishing the value of the developing\nquantitative audience metrics and methods\, the goal is to understand what can be\ngained by returning to specific qualitative research approaches to understand the new\nworld of multiple screens\, multitasking\, social media marketing\, and fragmented\nviewership.\nBio:\nJustin Wyatt is Chair of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island. He\nworked professionally for 15 years on both the client and supplier sides of the media\nmarket research industry. His book\, Creating the Viewer: Market Research &\; the\nEvolving Media Ecosystem (2024)\, considers market research methods and protocols in\nthe digital television marketplace. He has published on media marketing\, history and\nindustrial practice over the past three decades. He holds a PhD in Film and Television\nStudies from UCLA and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of\nBritish Columbia. UID:133505-21873182@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133505 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Communication Studies,Media LOCATION:North Quad - 5th Floor, Room 5450 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T140644 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ME Engineering Your Career: Claire Davies DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Claire Davies\, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Queens University\, to learn about her career journey\, research\, and hear her advice for current mechanical engineering students and postdocs.\n\nSince 1992\, Claire Davies has been collaborating with persons with disabilities\; as a therapeutic recreationist\, a Special Olympics coach\, a rehabilitation engineer\, and a researcher. All her projects are interdisciplinary\, participatory\, and include clinician input resulting in the development of therapies and devices that are usable and effective\, ensuring equity and inclusion in design.\n\nHer BDAT (Building and Designing Assistive Technologies) Lab conducts research into assistive technologies to increase independence of persons with disabilities and seeks to ensure that community members who need devices can obtain them. Dr. Davies’s academic outputs demonstrate significant interdisciplinary research. While her home department is Mechanical and Materials Engineering\, she holds cross-appointments in Cultural Studies\, Rehabilitation Sciences\, and the Centre for Neuroscience at Queen’s University. She is the Queen’s University representative on the Canadian Accessibility Network.\n\nRefreshments will be provided to registered attendees and is capped due to room capacity limits\, but last-minute drop-ins are welcome as space allows. UID:133531-21873204@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133531 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Talk,Undergraduate LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - Blue Lounge (1280 GGB) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T135455 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"Milky Way Black Holes and the Tech to Find Them\"\n\nThe landscape for studies of stellar-mass black hole origins\, evolution\, and demographics has expanded dramatically not only with the detection of gravitational waves\; but also the explosion of EM photometric and astrometric time domain surveys. Time domain microlensing surveys are particularly valuable for finding isolated black holes in our Milky Way. Microlensing probes black holes across the mass spectrum in a relatively unbiased manner. I will present observational results\, including the first detection of a free-floating black hole\, and population simulations that show how sensitive microlensing surveys are to the black hole mass function\, binary fraction\, and velocity distribution. I will also discuss the photometric and astrometric technologies needed to expand the sample of stellar mass black holes know in the Milky Way\, including next-generation adaptive optics systems for precise astrometry\, small space satellites for precise photometry over wide fields\, and large space observatories\, such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope\, that simultaneously deliver photometry and astrometry for microlensing events. These technologies and observatories will likely expand the sample of known Milky Way black holes by 100x in the coming decade. UID:134088-21873846@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134088 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T152345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Rebuilding Syria after 14 Years of Civil War: Challenges and Opportunities DESCRIPTION:This event is organized by the Weiser Diplomacy Center and co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (CMENAS). The speakers include Qutaiba Idlbi\, who is a Resident Senior Fellow at the Syria Rafik Hariri Center & Middle East Program at the Atlantic Council\, and Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji\, MD\, MBA\, who serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at the Institute of International Medicine at Michigan State University and is a Surgeon at the Katranji Hand Center.\n\nAbout the Event:\n\nThe event\, \"Rebuilding Syria after 14 Years of Civil War: Challenges and Opportunities\,\" will provide a comprehensive overview of Syria’s devastating civil war\, which began in 2011 and has left deep scars on the nation’s infrastructure\, economy\, and population. The discussion will cover the historical context of the conflict\, the rise of various internal and external actors\, and the humanitarian crisis that ensued.\n\nSpeakers will explore the current state of Syria\, examining the challenges of political stabilization\, economic reconstruction\, and rebuilding social cohesion. The event will also address the opportunities for international collaboration\, focusing on how global powers and organizations can assist in Syria's recovery. By connecting past struggles with recent developments\, the session will provide insight into the ongoing efforts to reconstruct the country amidst geopolitical complexities and the lingering impact of the civil war. UID:134152-21873940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134152 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Atlantic Council,center for middle eastern and north african studies,Diplomacy,International,Middle East Studies,Weiser Diplomacy Center LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom (Room 1110) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250327T181646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nancy Rao\, \"Sound\, Erasure and Archive of the Invisible: Chinese Theater in 19th Century California\" DESCRIPTION:The Department of Music Theory hosts a lecture by distinguished guest scholar and SMTD alum Nancy Rao (MM ’89\, voice and music theory\; PhD ’94\, music theory). This event honors Rao's 2024 Professional Achievement in Music Award from the SMTD Alumni Board. All are welcome for the lecture (4:30-6:00 pm) and a reception to follow (6:00-7:00 pm).\n\nCantonese opera was woven into the Chinese community's cultural\, financial\, social\, and family life in 19th-century California. Yet excavating its music and performing history is nearly impossible\, not only because of archival hierarchy but also due to various forms of erasure. This lecture addresses the challenge\, particularly the need to 'listen for the unsaid\, translate misconstrued words\, and refashion disfigured lives.' It begins by discussing how a laborer's diary entries give color to the faded image of 19th-century Chinese theater in San Francisco and pull us into its everydayness. It then considers the theater institutionally as an expression of the transpacific community. At conclusion it considers the music and significance of a 1903 recording of Cantonese opera.\n\nABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKER\n\nNANCY YUNHWA RAO is Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University. Rao received PhD in Music Theory from the University of Michigan in 1994. Her earlier work includes the history of American music theory of the 1930s and Ruth Crawford Seeger\, the latter of which received the Lowens article award from the Society for American Music. Her current work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Honorary Member of the American Musicological Society\, she is the author of *Chinatown Opera Theater in North America*\, which won three book prizes. She also contributed a chapter on East Asia for *The Cambridge Companion to Serialism*. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition appeared in *Music Theory Spectrum*. Rao serves as the Editor-in-chief of *American Music*. Her forthcoming book\, *Inside Chinese Theater: Community and Artistry in 19th Century California and Beyond*\, will be published in March 2025. UID:132857-21871964@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132857 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Culture,Free,Lecture,Music,North Campus,Research,Scholarship,Talk,Theater LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T132120 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE senior design info session DESCRIPTION:Please join us to hear from Senior Design Professors and learn about the IOE Senior Design sections: IOE 424\, IOE 481\, and IOE 499. EGL or prospective EGL students will also have the opportunity to learn about ENGR 480. There will also be open Q/A with professors and students. Food will be provided.\n\nPlease RSVP by noon on 3-20-25 so we can order enough food! Thank you! UID:133840-21873607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133840 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,North Campus,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241214T001544 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Trinh T. Minh-ha DESCRIPTION:Born in Vietnam\, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker\, writer\, and music composer. She spent her early years in Vietnam during a time of war\, and in 1970\, she relocated to pursue studies in the United States and France. Her diverse education encompassed musical composition\, ethnomusicology\, and francophone literature\, deeply influenced by her personal encounters with colonialism\, conflict\, and displacement\, which continue to inform her creative and intellectual work.\nMinh-ha’s work includes nine feature-length films\, including What About China?\, 2021\; Forgetting Vietnam\, 2016\; Night Passage\, 2004\; The Fourth Dimension\, 2001\; A Tale of Love\, 1996\; Shoot for the Contents\, 1991\; Surname Viet Given Name Nam\, 1989\; Naked Spaces\, 1985\; and Reassemblage\, 1982. Her work has been honored in some sixty-nine retrospectives around the world\; several large-scale multimedia installations\, including In Transit (Manifesta 13\, Marseille\, 2020)\, L’Autre marche (Musée du Quai Branly\, Paris 2006-2009)\, Old Land New Waters (3rd Guangzhou Triennial\, China 2008\, Okinawa Museum of Fine Arts 2007)\, The Desert is Watching (Kyoto Biennial\, 2003)\; and numerous books\, such as Lovecidal. Walking with The Disappeared (2016)\, D-Passage. The Digital Way (2013)\, Elsewhere\, Within Here (2011)\, Cinema Interval (1999)\, and Woman\, Native\, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism (1989).\nMinh-ha’s latest film\, What About China? has received the 2022 New:Vision Award at CPH:DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen\, the 2022 Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival\, the Prix Bartók at the 2022 Jean Rouch Film festival\, the Inspiration Award at Viet Film Fest\, a Special Commendation at the BFI London Film Festival\, and the Presidential Award at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Film Festival. Her many awards include the 2014 Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Film Festival in Zagreb\; the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women's Caucus for Art\; the 2012 Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association\; the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc in Cannes\, France\; and the 1991 AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award.\nTrinh Minh-ha taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar\, Senegal (1977-80)\; at universities such as Cornell\, San Francisco State\, Smith\, Harvard\, Ochanomizu (Tokyo)\, Ritsumeikan (Kyoto)\, and Dongguk (Seoul)\; and is Distinguished Professor of The Graduate School at the University of California\, Berkeley.\nPresented in partnership with Ann Arbor Film Festival and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:130008-21865050@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T094216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:March Book Club | The Last Song of Penelope by Claire North DESCRIPTION:Attend the March session of our monthly Kelsey Book Club! This event is open to all adults who have an interest in fiction\, mythology\, and the ancient world. Learn more about this program at https://myumi.ch/Drn1Q. \n\nThis month\, we are reading *The Last Song of Penelope*—the final installment in Claire North’s Songs of Penelope series: “Many years ago\, Odysseus sailed to war and never returned. For twenty years his wife Penelope and the women of Ithaca have guarded the isle against suitors and rival kings. But peace cannot be kept forever\, and the balance of power is about to break…”\n\nJoin us in Room 125 of Newberry Hall for an evening of community and conversation led by Madeleine Harris\, PhD candidate in the University of Michigan’s Department of Classical Studies. Light refreshments will be served.\n\nIf you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n\n*Note: Registration for this session is now closed. Visit our book club web page to learn about future meetings: https://myumi.ch/Drn1Q.* UID:132998-21872170@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132998 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ancient Greece,Books,Discussion,Graduate Students,Literature,Mythology,Talk LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - Newberry Hall, Room 125 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T151514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Factory Farming and Climate Change\; The Secrets Behind an Environmental Justice Crisis DESCRIPTION:Come learn about how we can fight climate change and environmental injustice with every bite! This talk will explore the ethical\, environmental\, and community implications of factory farming\, and provide attendees with feasible steps to decrease their reliance on unsustainable farming practices. Presented by Citizens' Climate Lobby at U of M in collaboration with New Roots Institute\, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advocating for the end of factory farming practices. There will be free food and raffle prizes! Please RSVP at the link provided. UID:133973-21873735@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133973 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Energy,Environment,Food,Free,Natural Sciences,Politics,Public Policy,Science,Social Impact,Social Justice LOCATION:Central Campus Classroom Building - 0420 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T135656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What To Do The First 30-60-90 Days On The Job DESCRIPTION:If you're starting a job or internship\, this session is a must-attend! We will cover the important things you must do in the first 30\, 60 and 90 days on the job! Light snacks provided. UID:134087-21873845@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134087 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Internship,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T142011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250327T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:History\, Power\, and the Stories We Tell: Making Race\, Space\, and Memory at Michigan DESCRIPTION:Michigan Medicine is one of the University of Michigan’s oldest schools\, educating future physicians since 1851. But institutional narratives have often erased the experiences of Black medical students—particularly those from its early years. CREATE Center postdoctoral research fellow Tonya Kneff-Chang will reveal how power has influenced the making and remaking of these historical accounts over time and explore through a series of walking tours she’s developed how those hidden stories are embedded in everyday spaces and how past struggles over race\, class\, and gender continue to influence U-M’s campus.\n\nDr. Tonya Kneff-Chang is an interdisciplinary historian whose work explores how race and racism have shaped our educational and medical institutions. At the U-M Medical School\, she co-developed and co-teaches the History of Race and Racism in Medicine course for students\, faculty\, and staff\, helping future healthcare providers understand the historical roots of contemporary health disparities. Dr. Kneff-Chang holds a BA in Peace & Conflict Studies from the University of California\, Berkeley\; an MA in Educational Leadership & Policy from the University of Michigan\; and a PhD in Educational Foundations from the University of Michigan. UID:133845-21873614@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133845 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:bentley historical library,bentley library,Education,educational,free,history,lecture,Making Michigan,Museum,museums,U-m History,umich200,university history,university of michigan history LOCATION:Detroit Observatory CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T113609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T103000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Conversations in Equity and Inclusion” Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"Broadening Participation in Astronomical Instrumentation\" UID:134129-21873895@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134129 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250129T135616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. A Biography of Decolonization in Cold War Southeast Asia DESCRIPTION:This paper revisits mid-20th century Asia\, Southeast Asia especially when the promise of decolonization met the perils of the Cold War. Theoretically\, it argues for an eventful geography of decolonization based on the actions\, perspectives\, and biographies of historical actors. Empirically\, it discusses the life and work of Oey Hong Lee (1924-1992)\, a visionary intellectual\, activist\, and journalist from Indonesia. His Indonesian-language book “Asia Won in Dien Bien Phu” (1961) narrates the diplomatic and military struggles between France and Vietnam that ended the First Indochina War (1946-54). In dialog with anti-colonial theorists Aime Cesaire\, Frantz Fanon\, and others\, Oey advanced a regional understanding that balanced contextual nuance with geopolitical imperative. In contrast to his better-known contemporaries\, Oey focused on the regional tensions between decolonization and geopolitical struggle\, analyzing less the universalizing binary between colonizer and colonized and more the specific histories of place\, in this case\, Vietnam and Indonesia. In so doing\, he rejected the regional construct of Southeast Asia as a creature of American-led Cold War machinations in favor of an emancipatory idea of Asia positioned at the vanguard of decolonizing world order. All the while\, Oey navigated a political landscape in Indonesia that\, between 1955-65\, was roiling with Cold War intrigue\, nativist Islam\, and anti-Chinese sentiment that ultimately forced him into exile.\n\n If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact cseas@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132047-21869861@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132047 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,Asian Languages And Cultures,Discussion,Lecture,Southeast Asia LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T114035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Psychology Department Colloquium | Chris Peterson Memorial Lecture | Dr. Steven F. Maier DESCRIPTION:It has been known since 1967 that exposure to stressors over which the organism has no behavioral control produce a constellation of behavioral and neurochemical sequelae that do not occur if an element of behavioral control over the stressor is possible. “Learned Helplessness” points of view developed by me and Seligman explained this difference by arguing that when confronted with an uncontrollable stressor the organism learns that it is uncontrollable\, and that this learning sets off a cascade of events that produce the behavioral and neurochemical outcomes. Here\, controllable aversive events fail to produce the outcomes because they lack the critical element of uncontrollability\, not because they lead to an active process. Recent neurocircuitry work will be described which indicates that this original view had it exactly backwards. Instead\, a) specific circuits (prelimbic cortex to dorsomedial striatum and mediodorsal thalamus to prelimbic cortex) detect/process the presence of control\, and b) when control is detected separate projections from the prelimbic cortex actively inhibit stress-responsive limbic and brainstem structures that are activated by both uncontrollable and controllable aversive events and that are the proximate mediators of the behavioral changes. In addition\, there are strong sex differences in these processes which will be described. Finally\, implications of this neurocircuitry work\, especially for controllable stressor-induced changes in behavior outside the realm of aversively motivated behavior\, such as generalized persistence/perseverance\, will be discussed.\n\nAbout the speaker: Steven Maier has been University of Colorado Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Neuroscience\, and is currently Research Professor. He has received numerous awards including the Grawemeyer Award\, the Norman Cousins and Neal Miller Distinguished Lectureships\, The D. O. Hebb Distinguished Research Award and the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions from the APA\, and is a Fellow of the APA\, APS\, and AAAS. He has held both career and MERIT awards from the NIH\, has been continuously funded by the NIH for 35 years\, has served on numerous NIH study sections\, and has edited and been on the editorial boards of numerous journals. He has authored or co-authored over 500 scientific papers in refereed journals\, and numerous book chapters. His h-index is 159\, his i10 index is 484\, and his citations are in excess of 90\,000. He has been rated as among the 200 most influential psychologists since World War II by Diener\, et al. (2014).\n\nDr. Maier’s research falls into two broad areas. One centers on an exploration of the variables that modulate the impact of stressors on brain chemistry\, and the neurochemical mechanisms by which stressors alter behavior and mood. Recent work focuses on the role of the medial prefrontal cortex in producing resilience. The other centers on interactions between the brain and the immune system\, with study of both how the brain regulates immune processes and how products of immune cells signal the brain. Current emphasis is on understanding mechanisms of immune-to-brain signaling at pathway\, cellular and molecular levels\, and the implications of these pathways for understanding stress\, mood disturbances\, and cognitive impairment\, and long-Covid. UID:133000-21872172@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133000 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250324T130837 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Current and Historical Challenges to Birthright Citizenship DESCRIPTION:The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect\, even as the initial executive order is blocked nationwide by three federal appeals courts.\n\nJoin faculty experts to learn about Birthright Citizenship in the United States: the historical context (including the origins of the 14th Amendment)\, the Trump Administration's executive order seeking to restrict it\, the litigation that has so far blocked that effort\, and how all this fits into the current constitutional and political moment. UID:134289-21874082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134289 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Civil Rights,Discussion,law,Political Science,politics LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Betty Ford Classroom 1110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T125101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Spectral computations for quasicrystals DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Models of aperiodic order and quasicrystals tend to exhibit very delicate spectral properties\, such as Cantor spectrum and fractal spectral dimension. We discuss algorithms for computing spectral quantities associated with models of aperiodic order. The algorithms are optimal with respect the solvability computability index (SCI)\, which can be shown by synthesizing tools from SCI and the general theory of ergodic Schrödinger operators.\n\nContact: Giorgio Young UID:130192-21865579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130192 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T140839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Quantum mechanics and observers for gravity in a closed universe DESCRIPTION:Recently there have been several arguments given for the seemingly absurd statement that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity in a closed universe is one-dimensional. How can this be consistent with the richness of our daily experience? In this talk I will review the arguments for a one-dimensional Hilbert space\, and then present a possible resolution based on the idea that to do quantum mechanics in a closed system it is necessary to explicitly include a classical observer in the system. UID:130842-21867130@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,lecture,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T124657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Khamseen Pedagogy Workshop DESCRIPTION:The History of Art Department is excited to invite you to Khamseen’s pedagogy workshop on teaching Islamic art\, architecture\, and visual culture.\nMembers of Team Khamseen will present flash talks on Khamseen’s free and open-access digital platform.\nThe event is hybrid\, and registration for remote participation can be accessed at the following link: https://myumi.ch/ZD9MN.\n\nBihter Esener & Mira Xenia Schwerda: Welcome Remarks\n\nChristiane Gruber\, Khamseen: Past\, Present\, & Future\n\nMira Xenia Schwerda: Envisioning\, Building\, Maintaining Khamseen\n\nScreening: Khamseen User’s Guide\n\nMira Xenia Schwerda & Aseman Talebi: Theoretical Concepts\n\nBihter Esener: Building a Digital Pedagogy Platform for Islamic Art\n\nAmanda Hannoosh Steinberg: Images\, Credits\, and Copyright\n\nMichelle Al-Ferzly & Nehal al-Shamy: Building a Glossary for Islamic Art\n\nSarah Abou-Zied: Multilingual Pedagogy: Translating Khamseen\n\nSascha Crasnow: Public Pedagogies: Resources and Strategies\n\nLeena Ghannam: Between Audio and Audience: Captioning Khamseen\n\nDeniz Vural: Teaching Out: Islamic Art on Social Media\n\nQuestions & Answers\, moderated by Bihter Esener UID:134076-21873840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134076 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,history of art LOCATION:Tappan Hall - Room 180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T161348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MMP Lecture: Antonia Peacocke (Stanford) DESCRIPTION:Location: 2306 Mason Hall\nBrought to you by: Mind and Moral Psychology Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop group. \n\nTitle: \"Belief in Action\"\n\nAbstract: \nBelief aims at the truth: it is guided by truth\, and correct if true. Most think that this fact about belief's aim limits the agency we exercise as believers\, especially since Williams's famous argument that you cannot believe 'at will.' But the structure of intentional action in particular seems to offer hope for a substantive explanation of this fact about belief's aim: when you act intentionally you apply a standard of success to what you do\, and you guide it according to that standard. This talk reconciles these claims about belief with one another. It's true that you can't come to believe that p intentionally 'just like that\,' as Williams pointed out. But it's also true that you can perform all sorts of epistemic accomplishments intentionally: you can figure out whether p\, or determine which thing is F\, come to know why p\, etc. I show how you can perform these epistemic accomplishments intentionally with a model of non-basic action I set forth in detail in my new book Mental Means. The possibility of intentionally performing these epistemic accomplishments can help ground epistemic responsibility\, and thereby also help ground the application of substantive epistemic norms to our thoughts.\" UID:130080-21865281@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130080 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:philosophy,Rackham LOCATION:Mason Hall - 3206 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T120259 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Donkey Seh Dis Yah Worl Nuh Level: Black Madness and Exile Across the Atlantic” DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I reflect on the experiences of Tigo\, a Black Jamaican man living with psychosis in London\, England. He is one of many Black Caribbeans who have been disproportionately diagnosed with psychotic disorders since the 1950s. Tigo believes this is due to the clash between Black Caribbean cultural values and British assimilation practices\, which reinforce anti-Black stereotypes and involve the surveillance and hyper-policing of Black Caribbean communities. According to Tigo\, it is as if Black Caribbean living conditions in London\, shaped by poverty\, police brutality\, and cultural assimilation\, are schizophrenogenic. At the same time\, economic precarity in the Caribbean drives many to migrate. Consequently\, Black Caribbean migrants are more likely to become psychotic. Tigo’s journey illustrates how psychotic Black Caribbeans feel exiled and are faced with the specter of death\, which Frantz Fanon asserts is a structuring fact of Black existence. However\, Tigo emphasizes three pivotal moments of heightened insight that inspired him to develop innovative ideas\, which made his Black existence more “livable.” I refer to these moments as “the fertile moments” of Tigo’s psychosis. \n\nJaleel Mashaul Plummer is a PhD Candidate in the Joint PhD Program in Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. He conducts ethnographic research with Black Jamaicans in England and Jamaica. His research centers around questions of madness\, Blackness\, Jamaican aesthetics\, and Black Jamaican spiritual traditions that concern “postcolonial occupation”. Titled “The Noose of Existence: Blackness and Madness in England and Jamaica”\, his dissertation combines comparative ethnography and critical theory to investigate how Black Jamaican experiences with madness and anti-blackness are marked by social alienation and result in self-fragmentation. The dissertation conveys how this alienation and self-fragmentation are many effects of a persistent British colonial occupation of Jamaican social and psychic life in England and Jamaica. However\, these two phenomena that deeply affect Black Jamaicans with psychosis are present in the artistic work of Brother Everald Brown\, Errol McKenzie\, and other artists known as the “Intuitives”. Through their aesthetic creations\, the Intuitives propagate the political and religious saliences of maddening landscapes wrought with anti-black violence that become breeding grounds of alienation and self-fragmentation. Therefore\, the dissertation demonstrates how Black madness and Intuitive aesthetic creations serve as “mediums” through which we can understand how the lived experience of Black Jamaicans is a struggle with and from the (after)shocks of British colonialism. UID:132954-21872118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132954 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,colloquium LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T114523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Agrochemical Gothic: Pesticide Writing in South America DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Nicolas Campisi (Georgetown University) will discuss the emergence of a new literary genre that he calls the agrochemical gothic. He will talk about two novels: *Fruta podrida* (2006) by the Chilean writer Lina Meruane and *Distancia de rescate* (2014) by the Argentine writer Samanta Schweblin. Nicolas will show that just as agribusiness has obscured the borders between humans and nonhumans through the creation of genetically modified seeds (GMOs)\, these works blur the limits between prose\, poetry\, and theater to depict the invisible and omnipresent violence of pesticide contamination. UID:133442-21873104@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133442 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,book discussion,Books,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Environment,free,history,humanities,immigration,In Person,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,International,Language,Latin America,lecture,multicultural,Politics,Rackham,Research,Romance Languages And Literatures,seminar,Social Impact,Workshop,Writing LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250217T083531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Barbara Spiecker\, University of New Hampshire DESCRIPTION:The ebb and flow of tides shape coastlines\, nourish ecosystems\, and connect distant shores—offering profound lessons on resilience and adaptation. In this talk\, I will explore the intersections of marine ecology\, conservation policy\, and community engagement.\n\nThrough the lens of marine ecology\, we will examine my research on (1) the underlying mechanisms driving complex\, multi-scale responses in benthic communities along the rocky shores of Oregon and New Zealand\, and (2) the decadal review of California’s MPA network\, using long-term monitoring data to uncover biological patterns in kelp forests and inform strategies for improved monitoring and adaptive management. Building on these scientific foundations\, we will discuss how ecological research informs conservation policy and\, in turn\, necessitates active engagement—particularly from fishing and tribal communities.\n\nWe will also explore the deeper parallels between conflicts in science-public discourse and my work with marginalized communities. As a co-founder of a STEM nonprofit dedicated to fostering an inclusive world where both deaf and hearing individuals are empowered through accessible STEM education and communication\, I have seen that many conflicts arise from a lack of human connection and the misconception that diversity is simply beneficial rather than essential for survival.\n\nJust as marine ecosystems thrive through diversity\, mutualism\, and adaptation\, so too must our approaches to conservation and science communication. By integrating research\, policy\, and inclusive engagement\, we can build resilient networks—both ecological and human—that can withstand environmental change and drive lasting transformation. UID:123507-21851011@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123507 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250218T160222 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250328T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Everyday Futurism: Being towards Belonging in Sufi Tomb Shrines DESCRIPTION:Attend via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/PkMMz\n\nIn the middle of Bangalore\, a relatively small *dargah* (Sufi tomb shrine) is a space of possibility for multiple marginalized groups\, facilitating imagined futures that include Muslims\, subaltern Hindus\, Dalits\, and *hijras* as full citizens of the Indian polity. At a time when powerful political actors seek to limit national belonging to a particular segment of Hindu Indians\, such spaces and the people who intersect through them are not simply places of resistance but places where possible futures are grounded in the ethics of the past. Exploring the histories\, objects\, and rituals that intersect through an intentionally multireligious place illuminates the spectacular and mundane ways in which minoritized communities make space for themselves in an India where majoritarian religious nationalism is ascendant but hitherto incomplete.\n\nAnna Bigelow is an Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Religious Studies\, as well as Faculty Director of the Center for South Asia\, at Stanford University. Bigelow's current book project is a comparative study of shared sacred sites in India and Turkey\, exploring how everyday devotional life in shared spaces illuminates the shifting terrain of these ambivalently secular states. Another project traces the lives of devotional objects circulated by Muslims\, Hindus\, and others around a Sufi tomb shrine in India. She is the editor and contributor to a volume on material objects in Islamic cultures\, *Islam through Objects* (Bloomsbury\, 2021). Bigelow's earlier work *Sharing the Sacred: Practicing Pluralism in Muslim North India *(Oxford University Press\, 2010) is a study of a Muslim majority community in Indian Punjab and the shared sacred and civic spaces in that community.\n \n*Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.* UID:130329-21865761@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Islam LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T142946 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250329T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250329T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:a George Floyd Moment Discussion II of III DESCRIPTION:Join us for an insightful and engaging discussion at the Women’s Perspectives Panel\, a key part of our series exploring the lasting impact of the George Floyd moment. This panel will highlight the voices of women at the forefront of justice\, leadership\, and activism.\n\nModerated by Former Michigan Poet Laureate\, Nandi Comer\n\nThis event will bring together community leaders\, activists\, and changemakers to share perspectives on the challenges and triumphs of social justice work. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage\, learn\, and be part of the movement.\n\nBe inspired. Be heard. Be the change. UID:134149-21873938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,African American,Civil Rights,Community,detroit,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,social justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location - University of Michigan Detroit Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250327T210906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250329T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250329T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics | ZEUS: The Highest Power Laser in the U.S. DESCRIPTION:ZEUS is a new high-power laser facility at the University of Michigan funded by the National Science Foundation. It is capable of producing light pulses with an instantaneous power of 3 quadrillion Watts (3 followed by 15 zeros). Professor Krushelnick will discuss the technology of ultra-high power lasers as well as the exciting science and potential applications resulting from research on this facility.\n\nJoin us in person or via live stream: https://myumi.ch/XG93b\n\nMore information about the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series is available on our website: https://myumi.ch/9gmgn UID:131619-21868842@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Free,Physics,Smoke-free,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 Auditoriums CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250511T155122 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2025 César Chávez Day of Service and Learning DESCRIPTION:The theme for this year’s celebration of César Chávez Day of Service and Learning at the University of Michigan will be: “‘Sí Se Pudo\, Sí Se Puede y Sí Se Podrá!’: An Intergenerational Plática with Dolores Huerta.”\nSeizing on this national cultural refrain\, “Si\, Se Puede!” or “Yes\, We Can!”\, which seems more resonant now than ever\, civil rights icon and labor activist Dolores Huerta\, who co-founded the United Farm Workers alongside César Chávez\, will engage in an intergenerational discussion about the importance of social justice activism and engagement in the democratic process.\nDate: Monday\, March 31\nTime: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm\nLocation: Rackham Auditorium\nAudience: Free and open to the University of Michigan community. Tickets are required.\nPlease be on the lookout for a confirmation email from the Michigan Union Ticket Office with your ticket. This email will arrive one to two business days from the time of your Sessions registration.\nYou will be asked to present your ticket for the entry to the event.\nIn addition\, as part of the 2025 César Chávez Day of Service and Learning\, we are seeking donations of art supplies\, books\, and small toys.\nWHAT TO DONATE: Clean\, soft plush toys without detachable parts\; simple puzzles with large pieces\; easy-to-understand\, non-electronic games\; children’s books\; washable art supplies (i.e. crayons\, markers\, colored pencils)\; and\, pre-assembled activity kits (i.e. sticker pages). Please avoid items with small parts that could pose choking hazards.\nWHERE TO DONATE: Donation boxes are at the following locations until March 28\, 2025:\n\nCEW+ (330 East Liberty)\nFloor 2 LSA Opportunity Hub (LSA Building 500 S. State Street)\nStudent Activities Building (515 Jefferson Street)\nSchool of Public Health (1415 Washington Heights)\nRackham Graduate School (915 E Washington St.)\n\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/9p547.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:133355-21872804@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133355 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Rgs-events LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T150531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Psychology Diversity Week: Gender/Sex/ual Diversity in Bioscience and Beyond DESCRIPTION:How can we define\, measure\, and make sense of gender/sex and sexuality in ways that take lived experience and bioscience seriously? In this talk\, Dr. van Anders discusses methods\, theories\, and results from her interdisciplinary\, feminist and queer science research program\, focusing on gender/sex and sexual diversity\, as well as hormones and bioscience. Dr. van Anders highlights how these approaches can contribute to research in bioscience and beyond for understandings of gender/sex and sexual diversity that are dynamic and multifaceted\, as well as more accurate\, empirical\, and just.\n\nAbout the speaker: After a decade at the University of Michigan in Psychology and Women’s Studies\, Dr. Sari van Anders joined Queen’s University as the Canada 150 Research Chair in Social Neuroendocrinology\, Sexuality\, and Gender/Sex\, and Professor of Psychology\, Gender Studies\, and Neuroscience. Her work and lab has been recognized with over 80 awards\, including the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation & Gender Diversity\, the APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions\, as well as election to the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. van Anders is committed to progressive transformation efforts for academic spaces and beyond.\n\n* Note that due to unforeseen circumstances\, Dr. van Anders will no longer be presenting in person. The lecture will be held as a Zoom watch party in 4448 East Hall\, followed by an in-person presentation of awards. The event will not be recorded. To build community and support our Diversity Awards recipients\, in-person attendance is strongly preferred. But if you truly cannot make it to East Hall\, please reach out to psych.admin@umich.edu for the Zoom link. Light refreshments will be provided for those in attendance. UID:133204-21872588@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133204 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Diversity,Diversity Equity And Inclusion,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T093029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Empowering Bureaucrats to do Better\" DESCRIPTION:Mission Driven Bureaucrats argues that the key to better government lies not in stricter controls and more rigorous oversight but in empowerment and trust. Mission Driven Bureaucrats offers a roadmap for how governments can break from the status quo and cultivate a workforce of dedicated\, empowered public servants. When bureaucrats are empowered to act on their mission-driven impulses\, the results can be extraordinary. Managing more for empowerment - allowing autonomy\, cultivating competence\, and creating connection to peers and purpose - is often the path to better public performance and citizens’ welfare.\n\nAuthor Dan Honig will be in conversation with the Ford School's Don Moynihan. UID:134306-21874151@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134306 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Discussion,ford school,ford school of public policy,gerald r. ford school of public policy,government LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium (1120) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250327T144221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DISCO Network Presents: TikTok\, DeepSeek and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times DESCRIPTION:For the first time\, two of the most popular apps in the world – TikTok and the A.I. chatbot DeepSeek – are Chinese. American legislative efforts to restrict or outright ban Chinese apps and other technologies on the grounds of national security have dominated recent headlines. During a time of political turmoil\, increasing hostility towards trade with other nations\, and the rush to maintain U.S. dominance over the tech industry\, anti-Chinese sentiment has (re)surfaced in ways that echo earlier American anxieties about Asian labor competition and racial difference. This panel will bring together Asian American media scholars and culture creators to analyze what this climate means for our shifting technological landscape\, Asian American communities\, and race relations in the U.S.\n\nFree boba will be provided to the first 100 in-person attendees. All are welcome and we strongly encourage undergraduate and graduate students to attend.\n\nAdvance registration is recommended.\n\nRegister to attend in person: https://myumi.ch/AZjJG\nRegister to attend on Zoom: https://myumi.ch/RmG6y\n\nMeet the Panelists\n\nTara Fickle is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her first book\, The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities\, (NYU Press\, 2019\, winner of Before Columbus Foundation’s American Book Award)\, explores how games have been used to establish and combat Asian and Asian American racial stereotypes. Fickle’s current research projects include the racialized dimensions of esports\, virtual currency harvesting in video games\, and a digital archive of the canonical Asian American anthology\, Aiiieeeee! She teaches courses on Asian American culture\, gaming\, comics\, and the digital humanities. \n\nIan Shin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan. He is a historian of the 19th- and 20th-century United States and is interested in how “culture\,” broadly defined\, reflects but also shapes the politics of its time. His research and teaching concentrate on U.S.-China relations\, U.S. empire\, immigration\, and the Asian American experience. His book manuscript—entitled Imperial Stewards: Chinese Art and the Cultural Origins of America's Pacific Century—examines Chinese art collecting in the U.S. in the early 20th century as a contested process of knowledge production that bolstered ideas of American exceptionalism\, even while it relied on transpacific circuits of labor and expertise.\n\nJeff Yang has been observing\, exploring\, and writing about the Asian American community for over thirty years. He launched one of the first Asian American national magazines\, A. Magazine\, in the late nineties and early 2000s\, and now writes frequently for CNN\, New York Times\, and elsewhere. He has authored three books—Jackie Chan’s New York Times bestselling memoir I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action\; Once Upon a Time in China\, a history of the cinemas of Hong Kong\, Taiwan\, and the Mainland\; and Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture\, and most recently coauthored the New York Times bestselling RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now. \n\nMeet The Moderator\n\nLisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Culture\, and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. Since 1994\, Nakamura has written books and articles on digital bodies\, race\, and gender in online environments\, on toxicity in video game culture\, and the many reasons that Internet research needs ethnic and gender studies. These books include\, Race After the Internet (co-edited with Peter Chow-White\, Routledge\, 2011)\; Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Minnesota\, 2007)\; Cybertypes: Race\, Ethnicity\, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge\, 2002)\; and Race in Cyberspace (co-edited with Beth Kolko and Gil Rodman\, Routledge\, 2000). In November 2019\, Nakamura gave a TED NYC talk about her research called “The Internet is a Trash Fire. Here’s How to Fix It.\"\n\nWe would like to thank the following co-sponsors:\n\nU-M Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program\nU-M Center for Ethics\, Society\, and Computing\nU-M Department of American Culture\nU-M Department of Comparative Literature\nU-M Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\nU-M Department of History\nU-M Department of Political Science\nU-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\nU-M Program in International and Comparative Studies\nU-M School of Information\nU-M Science\, Technology\, and Public Policy Program\nU-M Science\, Technology\, and Society Program\nBGSU Global Social Media Influencer Research Lab\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form\, please email Giselle Mills at gimills@umich.edu. UID:132520-21871075@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Asian American Studies,big data,Big Tech,Chinese Studies,computing,cyber security,Digital Culture,Digital Media,digital technology,Food,Free Food,Humanities,Media,Ai In Science And Engineering,american culture,Artificial Intelligence LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250115T164616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Lecture hosted by Marcello Hernandez Castillo DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Keene Theater for a reading and lecture by visiting poet and writer Marcello Hernandez Castillo. Free and open to the public. UID:131225-21867997@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T120750 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Student Model Theory Seminar (Invited Address): Categoricity Survey DESCRIPTION:I plan to discuss (without proofs) several topics in model theory more or less related to categoricity\, i.e.\, uniqueness (up to isomorphism) of certain models. These topics will include Ryll-Nardzewski’s theorem characterizing countable categoricity\, Morley’s theorem about uncountable categoricity\, and the Baldwin-Lachlan theorem bridging those two topics. Along the way\, I’ll present some related topics\, like types\, stability\, and (if time permits) indiscernibility. UID:134177-21873975@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134177 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T090650 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Undocumented Futures DESCRIPTION:Q&A to follow.\n\nMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is the author of \"Children of the Land: a Memoir\" (Harper Collins)\; \"Cenzontle\" (BOA Editions)\, winner of the A. Poulin\, Jr. prize\; \"Dulce\" (Northwestern University Press)\, winner of the Drinking Gourd Prize\; and\, most recently\, he is the co-editor of the anthology \"Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora\" (Harper Perennial). He is the 2025 guest editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review and has also curated the Academy of American Poet’s Poem-A-Day Series. His work has been long listed for the California Book Award\, the Foreword Indies Prize\, and the Lambda Literary Award\, among other recognitions. \n\nHe was the first undocumented student to graduate from the Helen Zell Writers Program at the University of Michigan and co-founded the Undocupoets\, which eliminated citizenship requirements from all major poetry book prizes in the U.S.\, and for which he was recognized with the Barnes and Noble \"Writers for Writers\" award. He served as distinguished fellow for the Marshall Project’s Art For Justice initiative from the University of Arizona which advocates for prison reform and is an inaugural recipient of the Writing Freedom Fellowship from Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation. He currently serves as faculty in the MFA program at St. Mary’s College of California and at Ashland University’s Low-Res MFA program. UID:133344-21872776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Culture,Discussion,immigration LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T121725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Interview with NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron DESCRIPTION:The Department of Jazz & Contemporary Improvisation hosts special guest artist and jazz pianist Kenny Barron on campus for a week-long residency. All are welcome as Mr. Barron is interviewed by Mark Stryker\, columnist and author of the recent book *Jazz from Detroit*. \n\nHonored by the National Endowment for the Arts as a 2010 Jazz Master\, Kenny Barron has an unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing\, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms. The *Los Angeles Times* named him “one of the top jazz pianists in the world” and *Jazz Weekly* calls him “the most lyrical piano player of our time.” UID:134139-21873928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134139 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Kevreson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250324T152112 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Seeing The World With Fresh Eyes: My Journey From Russian Class To Witnessing The Fall of an Empire DESCRIPTION:From a spur-of-the-moment decision to learn Russian while a sophomore at the University of Toronto\, to the streets of Moscow during the collapse of the Soviet Union\, Gransden will explore his previous adventures across the world\, having lived and worked in Istanbul\, Moscow\, Vienna\, and Mexico City\, doing everything from international journalism to filmmaking. His reporting assignments have included war\, dictatorship\, political upheaval\, popular culture\, nationalism\, civil strife\, and economic collapse. How exactly does one break into the job market for foreign correspondent work? What steps and strategies might a young professional adapt to seamlessly transition between careers? Gransden’s Stowe Lecture will unpack these questions while also touching on the work of other celebrated journalists such as Ryszard Kapuscinski and Alastair Cooke. \n\nGreg Gransden is a Montreal-based writer\, director\, and journalist who was educated at the University of Toronto\, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism\, and the American Film Institute. After his long stint as a foreign correspondent in various countries\, he moved back to Canada and settled in Montreal. His work has appeared on the Discovery Channel\, National Geographic International\, History Television\, and others. UID:133551-21873234@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#Honors Program,Film,Free,honors,Honors Program,International,Journalism,Stowe Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240611T181713 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250331T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Campus Orchestras DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Campus Orchestras performance. UID:122681-21849527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122681 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T115231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Safer Prescribing Series: MOUD and Acute Pain Management DESCRIPTION:Join us for our fourth Safer Prescribing Series webinar discussing medications for opioid user disorder (MOUD) and acute pain management. We'll explore the different options for MOUD in the emergency department and outpatient clinics. In addition\, we will discuss barriers due to stigma and the important role of harm reduction. UID:133826-21873601@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133826 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Injury Prevention,Opioid,Opioid Overdose,Professional Development,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location - https://injurycenter.umich.edu/sps/ CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T085411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Network Position and Performance: Merit or Privilege?“ DESCRIPTION:Join the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics as Chris Rider\, Thomas C. Kinnear Professor and Associate Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business\, presents\, “Network Position and Performance: Merit or Privilege?” UID:134488-21874408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134488 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Interdisciplinary,Lecture LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 2030 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250121T110907 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Center for Emerging Democracies Book Talk. The Social Roots of Authoritarianism DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/qV3kX\n\nNatalia Forrat is a social scientist studying democracy\, authoritarianism\, state power\, and civil society. She obtained her PhD from Northwestern University and held academic appointments at Stanford University\, the University of Notre Dame\, and the University of Michigan. Currently\, she is a lecturer at the Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan.\n \n Why are some authoritarian regimes highly competitive and others highly unified? Do they function differently? And what does it mean for our understanding of democracy and democratization? The Social Roots of Authoritarianism unpacks the grassroots mechanisms maintaining unity-based and division-based authoritarianisms. It argues that they develop in societies with opposite visions: the state as team leader or the state as outsider. Depending on which vision of the state is dominant in society\, autocrats must use different tools to consolidate their regimes or risk pushback. The book demonstrates the grassroots mechanisms of authoritarian power comparing four Russian regions with opposite patterns of electoral performance—the Rostov region\, the Kemerovo region\, the Republic of Tatarstan\, and the Republic of Altai. In two of them\, public organizations formed centralized political machines and blended civic and political functions amplified by the teamwork logic. In the other two\, clientelistic political machines ruled by the utility maximization logic dominated. The theory of unity- and division-based authoritarianisms developed in the book implies that these types of authoritarian regimes miss the opposite elements of democracy\, and that democratization depends on cultivating these missing institutions over time.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:131476-21868584@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131476 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:authoritarian,democracy LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T155213 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Divine Intimacy\, Frustration and the Madness of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pk1yg\n\nTies to spirits in Suzhou are not just metaphors or projections of human kinship\, but literal parts of a kinship system that invokes responsibilities of care and filial piety. Such intimacies are not always pleasant\, and the first part of this presentation shows their emotional weight. The second part turns to how the rapid urbanization of the area over the past two decades has interrupted the responsibilities of care\, creating an affect of frustration. In a concluding example\, the frustration spiraled into madness for one woman\, whose alternate chanting and screaming marked how kinship ties of both blood and affect had been severed by the forces of urbanization.\n \n Robert P. Weller is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. His most recent books are *How Things Count as the Same: Memory\, Mimesis\, and Metaphor* (with Adam Seligman)\, and *Religion and Charity: The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies* (with C. Julia Huang and Keping Wu). He has over forty years of research experience in China and Taiwan on topics that run from ghosts to politics\, and from rebellions to landscape paintings. He is currently involved in two book projects: one on silence and haunting\, and the other on the effects of rapid urbanization on village religion in China.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you at\, please contact us at chinese.studies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130931-21867409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130931 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,Chinese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250326T080645 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MEMS Publishing Roundtable DESCRIPTION:Details TBA UID:134356-21874252@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T135729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SRC Seminar Series Presents: The Unsettled Science of Early Childhood Education DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nHigh-quality preschool programs are widely believed to be an effective policy tool to promote the development and life-long wellbeing of children from low-income families. Yet evaluations of recent preschool programs produce puzzling findings\, including negative impacts\, and divergent\, weaker results than were shown in demonstration programs implemented in the 1960s and 70s. In this talk\, I will present our team’s review of more recent\, rigorous studies that supports more cautious conclusions regarding the long-term effectiveness of today’s preschool programs. I will then provide potential explanations for why modern evaluations of preschool programs have produced less positive and more mixed results\, focusing on changes in a broad range of counterfactual conditions and preschool instructional practices. I will also address popular explanations such as subsequent low-quality schooling experiences that\, we argue\, do not appear to account for weakening program effectiveness. The field must take seriously the smaller positive\, null\, and negative impacts from modern programs and strive to understand why effects vary and how to boost program effectiveness through rigorous\, longitudinal research.\n\nBiography:\nJade Marcus Jenkins is an Associate Professor at the University of California Irvine School of Education studying early childhood policy. Her work is multidisciplinary\, focusing on issues that are amenable to educational and social policy intervention\, using diverse research methods to evaluate programs and understand the mechanisms that promote child and family wellbeing. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Florida in Family\, Youth and Community Sciences\, and Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After the M.S. program\, Jade worked at a quasi-governmental nonprofit in Florida’s early childhood care and education system. This firsthand experience in policy implementation was her primary motivation to pursue a Ph.D. in public policy and specialize in early childhood development to learn how to evaluate and develop policies that provide support for families with young children and reduce poverty in the long-term. UID:134086-21873847@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134086 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Children,Education LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430BD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T102337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DSI Lecture Series | Data Heresy: A Queer Incomputable Tale DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Elisa Giardina Papa will outline the theoretical and archival research which informs two of her experimental video installations\, Cleaning Emotional Data and “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale. Presenting images she collected while working as a “data cleaner” for various AI systems\, she will address the ways in which machines are disciplined and trained to see. Tracing\, bounding-boxing\, and labeling are key operations used to teach machines to separate Data from data\, signal from noise\, and orderly things from disorderly ones. They are also\, Giardina Papa argues\, the onto-epistemological operations of modern imperial and colonial conquest. To address AI’s normative impulse to divide and classify\, create hierarchies and produce difference\, we need to understand machine vision not only as a “new” tool of extractive capitalism but also\, more importantly\, as one of the many tools of a recursive hegemonic ordering of the world. Ultimately\, this talk will be an invitation to reflect on modes of seeing otherwise which remain radically unruly\, irreducible\, and incomputable.\n\nElisa Giardina Papa is an artist and scholar\, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. Her research-based art practice seeks forms of knowledge and desire that have been lost or forgotten\, disqualified\, and rendered nonsensical by hegemonic demands for order and legibility. Working across Artificial intelligence-based projects\, large-scale video installations\, experimental films\, and writing\, she draws attention to those aspects of our lives that remain radically incomputable.\n\nHer work has been exhibited at the 59th Biennale di Venezia (The Milk of Dreams)\, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA’s Modern Mondays)\, the Whitney Museum (Sunrise/Sunset Commission)\, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin\, ICA and Frieze London\, BFI London Film Festival\, Vienna Secession\, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt\, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (HKW) Berlin\, 6th Buenos Aires Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento\, Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018\, the Center for Contemporary Art Tashkent\, Uzbekistan\, M+ Hong Kong\, among others. Her latest art book\, Leaking Subjects and Bounding Boxes: On Training AI (Sorry Press\, 2022)\, documents the methods currently used to teach Artificial intelligence to capture\, classify\, and order the world and presents a collection of images that exceed computation. Forthcoming essays include the foreword for Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2024).\n\nElisa Giardina Papa co-founded the artist collective Radha May. Alongside Indian artist Nupur Mathur and Ugandan artist Bathsheba Okwenje\, they collaborate on performances and art installations that uncover hidden histories and marginalized sites\, examining their intersections with gender\, sexuality\, and colonialism. She holds a Ph.D. in Film and Media from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and has previously held positions at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and the Rhode Island School of Design.\n\nWe want to make our events accessible to all participants. This event will be a hybrid event with both a physical meeting space and an online meeting space. \n\nPlease register in advance for the online Zoom Webinar here: https://bit.ly/3ArOQz8\n\nPlease register for the physical meeting space at the University of Michigan’s Central Campus: https://myumi.ch/pkrey \n\nCART will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate\, please email Eric Mancini at dsi-administration@umich.edu. Please note that some accommodations must be arranged in advance and we encourage you to contact us as soon as possible. UID:124548-21853176@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124548 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Artificial Intelligence,artists,artists and curators,Data Curation,Data Science,data visualization,digital,Digital Culture,Digital Cultures,digital humanities,Digital Media,Digital Scholarship,Digital Studies,Digital Studies Institute,digital technology,digitalization,digitization LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T174201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Community Building through Collaborative Science: Evolution of the Mangrove Coast Collaborative DESCRIPTION:The Mangrove Coast Collaborative (MCC) project (2020 – 2024) began in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (September 2017). Jobos Bay and Rookery Bay NERRs jointly recognized the need to understand and enhance the resilience of their mangrove ecosystems and the surrounding communities in southeastern Puerto Rico and southwest Florida\, respectively. Through a multi-disciplinary approach spanning four research themes – time-series mapping\, ecosystem assessment\, ecosystem services modeling\, and management options – the MCC investigated the loss and recovery of mangroves\, the relationships between drivers of hurricane impact and recovery\, the effects to ecosystem services\, and the ways that managers have made information-based decisions. Using co-production methods\, the project team developed and shared products at a recent regional Mangrove and Management Forum that brought together a newly coalescing community of mangrove scientists and managers in the southeastern US and Caribbean.\nIn this webinar\, the project team will describe how the mangrove science-to-management community developed as an integral part of the MCC and will share an overview of how the ongoing results of the MCC have responded to the needs of this growing community. UID:133520-21873197@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133520 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T094539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DAAS Africa Workshop DESCRIPTION:Bio: Sean Jacobs is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs at The New School in New York. He was assistant professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Communication Studies at the University of Michigan between 2005 and 2009. He founded Africa Is a Country. Jacobs was born and grew up in Cape Town\, South Africa.\n\nDue to inclement weather\, this event will be virtual via zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97080365762 UID:134478-21874398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134478 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,african diaspora,African Studies Center,Political Science,Politics,Post-apartheid South Africa,South Africa LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T112014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: Why Do People Cooperate? Psychological Mechanisms Underlying Cooperative Motives\, Behaviors and Emotions DESCRIPTION:People who successfully navigate life’s many challenges often do so through cooperative efforts. However\, successful cooperation also relies on people’s ability to discern when\, how\, and with whom to invest their limited time and resources. Despite the centrality of cooperation to human flourishing\, the ecological\, cultural\, and psychological mechanisms that facilitate cooperation require further investigation. Using a variety of methods — including surveys\, experiments\, longitudinal studies and field research — with diverse groups (e.g.\, American ranchers\, Nicaraguan horticulturalists\, nationally representative samples\, multinational participants)\, I will present findings addressing three central questions: (1) Why do people cooperate? (2) What are the psychological mechanisms underlying cooperation? and (3) What are the consequences of cooperation for relationships\, collective-risk management and well-being? Across several studies\, I'll show how positive interdependence guides people’s cooperative motives\, behaviors and other-oriented emotions (e.g.\, empathic concern). I will conclude by advancing and suggesting future directions based on a theoretical framework in which interdependence and cooperation act as mediating factors linking socio-ecological circumstances to social integration and well-being. UID:133757-21873515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133757 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T094816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250401T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Paranoid Patriotism Redux: The Radical Right and the Nation DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2025 Annual Betty Ch'Maj Lecture: “Paranoid Patriotism Redux: The Radical Right and the Nation\,” delivered by Robin D.G. Kelley\nTuesday\, April 1\, 2025\, \nStarting at 4:00 PM \nIn the Great Lakes Room @Palmer Commons (100 Washtenaw Ave\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109)\n\nRobin D. G. Kelley\, Distinguished Professor\, and Gary B. Nash\, Endowed Chair in U.S. History and professor of African American studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, will deliver this year’s Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture.\n\nHis many notable publications include Africa Speaks\, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012)\; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (2009)\; Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002)\; Race Rebels: Culture\, Politics\, and the Black Working Class (1994)\; and Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (1990).\n\nThe Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series\, established to honor Betty Ch'maj's legacy\, was made possible with generous support from the Ch’maj family. In 1961\, Ch’maj received the very first Ph.D. in American Culture at Michigan. She continued her career researching American literature and music\, founding the Radical Caucus of the American Studies Association in the 1970s and working to challenge systemic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.\n\nKelley’s lecture will draw historical lessons and parallels between our current moment and 1962\, the year of Dr. Betty Ch’maj’s landmark essay\, “Paranoid Patriotism: The Radical Right and the South.” From the resurgence of the Klan to the rise of the alt-right\, Kelley will explore how the extreme Right is no longer just extreme but mainstream and why our current era may be more dangerous and reactionary than any other in modern U.S. history. \n\nFree and Open to the Public\n\nReception to Follow.Registration is not mandatory but is encouraged. UID:133205-21872589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133205 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,american culture,community activism,Culture,Diversity,Food,Free,gerald r. ford school of public policy,History,Humanities,In Person,Lecture,literary,Literary Arts,Music,politics,public policy,Social Justice,Women's Studies LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Great Lakes Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T083855 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brown Bag Seminar | Geometric Entropies and their Hamiltonian Flow DESCRIPTION:THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED \n\nThe geometric entropy is a localized contribution to the entropy obtained using Euclidean gravity methods. In this talk\, I will discuss the Hamiltonian flow generated by the geometric entropy operator in general theories of gravity using Lorentzian methods of the Peierls/Poisson brackets. I will discuss examples with higher derivative corrections to illustrate the general features of the geometric flow. In the context of AdS/CFT\, I will discuss the connection to modular flow. UID:130854-21867142@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250317T084535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Psychology Diversity Week Discussion Panel DESCRIPTION:Panelists:\nDr. Germine Awad\, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, Professor of Psychology\n\nDr. Matthew Countryman\, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies\, Past Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies\, Faculty Director of the OVPR Arts of Citizenship Program\n\nDr. Carla O’Connor\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Education\, Director of Wolverine Pathways\n\nDr. Alford Young\, Jr.\, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies\, and Public Policy\n\nModerator:\nDr. Kevin Cokley\, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor\, Professor of Psychology\, Associate Chair for Diversity Initiatives\n\nThe assault on diversity\, equity\, and inclusion (DEI) is one of several threats to higher education. These threats are part of what former U-M president Lee Bollinger has characterized as “an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government”. For years the University of Michigan has been a higher education leader in DEI initiatives\, operating one of the most comprehensive DEI operations in the country. This has made U-M a target\, resulting in a New York Times article critically evaluating DEI at U-M and concluding that students and faculty are more frustrated than ever. Instead of defending diversity as prior U-M leadership has done\, current leadership has engaged in “anticipatory compliance” by banning diversity statements and threatening to cut funding from a “DEI bureaucracy”. Diversity officers from across the country are closely watching what happens at U-M\, because successfully dismantling DEI at U-M would send shock waves throughout higher education and likely represent DEI’s last stand.\n \nIn this panel\, participants from different disciplinary backgrounds who are part of a DEI workgroup will discuss their efforts to defend DEI at U-M. They will discuss the strategies they have used and describe the successes as well as ongoing challenges of their efforts. UID:133888-21873672@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250113T135423 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Conflict of Emotions: Thomas and Margaret Gage and the American Revolution DESCRIPTION:The Clements Library houses the military papers of General Thomas Gage\, British commander-in-chief in the decade leading up to the American Revolution. His descendant Deborah Gage reveals a private Thomas Gage through the lens of his marriage to wealthy American Margaret Kemble. Clements staff join her to discuss how the Library acquired the papers\, their digitization\, and the map of Manhattan that remained with the family. Join us for light refreshments from 4:00pm-5:00pm followed by the lecture at 5:00pm. UID:130903-21867673@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Americana,Discussion,history,Library LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250228T094314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DCMB Weekly Seminar featuring Vicky Yao\, PhD (of Rice University) DESCRIPTION:Abstract: To effectively model the molecular underpinnings of complex traits and diseases\, computational methods must integrate diverse data types\, handle partial or limited observations\, and remain robust to variations in dataset size. In this talk\, I will present several recent methods developed to address these challenges across diverse studies\, assay types\, and organisms\, leveraging novel statistical and machine learning approaches. First\, I will introduce ALPINE\, an NMF-based framework that disentangles the influence of technical and non-relevant phenotypic factors in single-cell transcriptomic data\, enabling the integration of multiple studies. Integrating across data types\, I will discuss our method\, seismic\, which combines genome-wide association studies with single-cell RNA sequencing to prioritize disease-relevant cell types\, linking genetic variation to cellular function. Finally\, I will discuss ETNA\, a machine translation-inspired approach that embeds protein-protein interaction networks from different organisms into a shared space\, facilitating cross-species functional comparisons. Together\, these methods highlight how diverse data sources can be integrated across molecular\, cellular\, and organism levels to better model complex disease biology. UID:133290-21872697@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Artificial Intelligence,Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Cardiovascular,Chemistry,Discussion,Drug Discovery,Free,Graduate Students,Human Genetics,In Person,Learning Health Systems,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Precision Health,Research,Science,Talk,Virtual LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T120810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:National Security in the 2020s: Looking Back and Ahead DESCRIPTION:This event will explore national security and foreign policy in the 2020s\, focusing on the key issues and challenges faced during both the Biden and Trump administrations. Moderated by Javed Ali\, Associate Professor of Practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, the fireside chat will provide valuable insights into the evolving landscape of global security. The discussion will offer a comprehensive look at how these administrations have shaped U.S. foreign policy. It’s a great opportunity to engage with critical topics that are impacting national security today.\n\nFrom the Speaker's Bio:\n\nJohn Hudson is a reporter at The Washington Post covering the State Department and national security. He was part of the team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for coverage of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He has reported from dozens of countries\, including Ukraine\, China\, Afghanistan\, India\, Georgia\, Belarus\, Pakistan\, Malaysia\, Ethiopia\, Vietnam\, Colombia\, Costa Rica\, France\, Kenya\, Nigeria and many more. In 2022 and 2023\, he covered the war in Ukraine. In 2008\, he covered the war in Georgia. He appears frequently on MSNBC and CNN. Hudson holds a B.A. in International Relations from Michigan State University.\n\nJaved Ali is an associate professor of practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy\, he joined the Weiser Diplomacy Center in 2021. Ali brings more than 20 years of professional experience in national security and intelligence issues in Washington\, DC. He held positions in the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security before joining the Federal Bureau of Investigation. While at the FBI\, he also held senior roles on joint duty assignments at the National Intelligence Council\, the National Counterterrorism Center\, and the National Security Council under the Trump Administration. Ali holds a BA in political science from the University of Michigan\, a JD from the University of Detroit School of Law\, and an MA in international relations from American University. UID:133827-21873602@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diplomacy,International Journalism,International Security,Javed Ali,John Hudson,The Washington Post,The Washington Post Journalist,Weiser Diplomacy Center LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T084325 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T164500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NCKS Sang-Yong Nam Memorial Lecture | Evolution and Future of Hallyu DESCRIPTION:Luke Kang is the President of The Walt Disney Company in Asia Pacific. He joined Disney in 2011 as Managing Director of Korea\, and in 2021\,his role expanded to oversee the entire Asia Pacific region. Under his leadership\, Disney+ successfully launched and expanded across the region. Luke holds an M.S. in Management from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at leesuyun@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:133794-21873571@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133794 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Asia,Korea LOCATION:Alumni Center - Founders Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250328T152603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Education in India: A Conversation with Ashok Lahiri and Sonam Wangchuk DESCRIPTION:As India undergoes rapid transformation\, its education sector is evolving to meet new challenges and opportunities. From pioneering research to educational reforms\, Indian universities have played a significant role on the global stage. \n\nJoin us for an engaging discussion on the intersection of education\, democracy\, and international collaboration. We will explore the role of universities in shaping democratic values\, the evolving relationship between Indian universities and the state\, and the ways in which government support can enhance higher education for the public good.\n\nFinally\, we will examine how U.S. research institutions can contribute to India’s educational landscape through partnerships\, student and faculty exchanges\, and shared initiatives. As the global education system adapts to a changing world\, what is the future of international academic collaboration?\n\nFeatured Speakers:\nAshok Lahiri\nDr. Ashok Lahiri is a distinguished economist\, policy advisor\, and former Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India. With an extensive career spanning academia\, governance\, and international finance\, he has played a key role in shaping India’s economic and educational policies. Dr. Lahiri has been associated with institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. His expertise in public policy and economic development offers valuable insights into the role of education in India’s broader socio-economic framework.\n\nSonam Wangchuk\nSonam Wangchuk is a renowned education reformer\, engineer\, and innovator best known for his work in sustainable education and environmental conservation. He is the founder of both the Himalayan School of Alternatives in Ladakhthe\, as well as the Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh (SECMOL)\, which has revolutionized education for students in remote Himalayan regions. Wangchuk is also an advocate for hands-on\, experiential learning and has pioneered initiatives such as the Ice Stupa project for water conservation. His visionary approach to education emphasizes sustainability\, practical knowledge\, and community-driven solutions. UID:134122-21873886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Education,India LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T112616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MEEBS: Professor Lecture Marjorie Weber DESCRIPTION:Professor Marjorie Weber is coming in to talk about her research linking ecological interactions with the evolution of biodiversity. She answers large scale macroevolutionary questions by using plant-animal interactions as a model system. She is an excellent integrative biologist who effectively links disparate fields and techniques to answer big questions. As always\, these talks are a fantastic way to hear about professors' career trajectories\, and connect with new people to get involved with research! UID:134311-21874174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134311 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biodiversity,Biology,Biosciences,Career,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Education,Environment,Food,Free,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Open To All Majors,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250224T112444 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250402T213000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Come to Ann Arbor and Taste the World! DESCRIPTION:Join the Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program for a conversation with world-renowned food writers and U-M alumni Joan Nathan\, Ruth Reichl\, and Ari Weinzweig. The three will be in conversation on Wednesday\, April 2\, discussing the rich cultural encounters they experienced as students in Ann Arbor and sharing how their time at U-M shaped their career trajectories. Reichl and Nathan were on campus in the 1960s and Weinzweig in the 1970s\, critical and prolific decades when experimentation and innovation were being fostered from multiple vantage points through multiple senses\, including taste! The conversation will explore how food and identity are tied together and how those ties have been experienced and explored by our special guests as students and in their careers.\n\nFollowing the panel discussion\, a reception will be held in the Apse with catering by Zingerman’s. This event is free and open to the public.\n\nThis event is presented by the U-M Inclusive History Project and the Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the U-M School of Social Work and is co-sponsored by the U-M Department for Student Life\; the U-M Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion\; the U-M Frankel Center for Judaic Studies\; the U-M Department of History\; and the U-M Department of American Culture. UID:132768-21871791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132768 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Food LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T104926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LSI SciComm Speaker Series: Creating a more impactful role for scientists in advocacy and civic engagement DESCRIPTION:Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley will discuss challenges and opportunities for research advocates in the context of a new federal administration and congress\, including both funding and policy considerations. She will discuss the new Vision for American Science and Technology (VAST) initiative and will share newly released national public opinion poll data that captures Americans’ sentiment on research\, researchers and research institutions\, our status as a global leader in science\, trust in scientists and related issues. Woolley also will discuss the importance of scientists engaging with the public and offer actionable ways to make this possible. There will be ample time for Q&A.\n\nThe LSI's SciComm Speaker Series highlights the importance of disseminating scientific findings beyond the walls of the academy and effectively communicating the impact of publicly-funded research. This annual event provides world-leading science writers and communicators with an opportunity to share their experiences with faculty\, staff and students\, while also tapping into U-M's vast scientific research community.\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the U-M Year of Democracy\, Civic Empowerment\, & Global Engagement. UID:132274-21870691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132274 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,biomedical research,Biosciences,Communication,health policy,Life Science,life sciences institute,Public Health,Public Policy LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241216T125304 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Techno-Menses: Period Products and FemTech in Japan DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010 Weiser Hall and virtually via Zoom. This webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, the joining information will be sent to your email. \n\nRegister for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/xq4wb.\n \n Menstrual product dispensers activated by scanning a QR code\, pads manufactured with deodorizing silver ions\, apps meant to predict the timing of menstrual bleeding and mood swings—more and more\, biological processes like the menstrual cycle are becoming enmeshed in high-tech interventions\, even outside of biomedical settings. Using examples from Japan\, this talk examines how and why menstrual management practices are technologized\, as well as the potential impacts of this for everyday consumers.\n \n Maura Stephens-Chu received her PhD and MA in anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She specializes in medical and cultural anthropology\, with an emphasis on embodied experiences of menstruation in contemporary Japan. Maura’s multidisciplinary and intersectional research includes theoretical and methodological approaches from anthropology\, Japanese studies\, gender studies\, history\, and science and technology studies. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Tokyo\, Japan\, on young women’s perceptions\, education\, and personal experiences of menstruation and commercial menstrual products. Her historical analysis of Japanese menstrual taboos\, “From Sacred to Secret: Tracing Changes in Views of Menstruation in Japan\,” can be found in the open-access journal *Silva Iaponicarum.* Currently\, Maura is researching the formation of layperson and medical understandings of conditions that fall under the umbrella of menstrual “irregularity\,” including endometriosis\, amenorrhea\, and severe dysmenorrhea. She is also interested in media representations of premenstrual syndrome\, as well as the impact on personal health and privacy from the proliferation of smartphone apps for tracking menstrual cycles.\n \n *This lecture is made possible with the generous support of the U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.*\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at cjsevents@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130038-21865168@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130038 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Information and Technology,Japanese Studies,Public Health LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T135439 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Cargo adaptors use a handhold mechanism to engage with myosin V or organelle transport DESCRIPTION:Dissertation Defense\n\nWe are pleased to announce that Lily Hahn\, Ph.D. Candidate will present her Dissertation Defense titled \"Cargo adaptors use a handhold mechanism to engage with myosin V or organelle transport\,\" on Thursday\, April 3\, from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.\, at Med Sci 2 36999 Lecture Hall and via live stream: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94062574905 PC CDB\n\nDissertation Committee members:\n- Lois Weisman\, Ph.D. (Mentor)\n- Michael Cianfrocco\, Ph.D. (Mentor)\n- Kristen Verhey Ph.D. (Chair)\n- Ming Li\n- Ryan Baldridge\n- Shyamal Mosalaganti UID:133844-21873613@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133844 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Science LOCATION:Medical Science Research Building 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T085755 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"Spatial Variations in Atmospheric Chemistry of the Coldest Brown Dwarf\"\n\nFor two decades astronomers have been measuring weather on other worlds with the goal of understanding what atmospheric phenomena drive time-dependent brightness variations in brown dwarfs and gas giant exoplanets. Previous weather studies have been limited to broadband photometry or low resolution (R ∼100) spectroscopy. In the era of JWST\, precise time-resolved medium-resolution spectroscopy of the coldest brown dwarfs is finally possible\, allowing the effects of chemistry\, temperature\, and condensates to be disentangled. WISE 0855 (280K) is the coldest known brown dwarf and the best analog for studying processes that also occur on gas giant planets within our Solar System. We present high SNR (80 – 100)\, medium resolution (R ∼1000)\, time-series JWST/NIRSpec spectra of WISE 0855. Our observations span 11 hours with 15-minute pointings covering 2.87–5.27 microns. The dominant time-variable feature is carbon monoxide\, with smaller amplitude changes from carbon dioxide and phosphine. Wavelengths impacted by methane\, water vapor\, and ammonia show relatively less variability. Outside of major molecular features\, there are variations that may be interpreted as changes in deeper atmospheric heat. Using atmospheric and structural models\, we investigate the potential impact of water clouds and convection on our observations. Lastly\, I will discuss how these observations tie into the overall picture of this cold world and necessary steps for interpreting other time-series data sets. UID:134490-21874409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134490 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250106T123728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: Foreigners in Their Own Land: Chernobyl under the Russian Occupation (2022) DESCRIPTION:On February 24\, 2022\, the first day of Russia’s all-out attack on Ukraine\, armored vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Russian occupation of the plant\, which would last thirty-five days\, had begun. Only the dedication and resolve of Ukrainian personnel\, who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days\, spared the world a new Chernobyl accident. Meanwhile\, a much more dangerous situation developed at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine\, the largest such facility in Europe. Following an attack there in March 2022\, the Russian military remains in control. In this lecture Serhii Plokhii discusses the challenges that the Russian takeover of the nuclear sites presents to the world. We must face up to a new reality: there has already been warfare at two nuclear sites\, and others are vulnerable. The lecture is based on Plokhii’s most recent book\, \"Chernobyl Roulette\" (2024).\n\nSerhii Plokhii (Plokhy) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and the director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. A leading authority on Ukraine\, Russia\, and Eastern Europe\, he has published extensively on the international history of World War II and the Cold War. His books won numerous awards\, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English-language book on international relations and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (UK). His latest book\, \"Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone\" was released by W.W. Norton in US and Penguin in UK in September May 2024.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:122465-21849233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122465 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T112037 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Public Lecture| Why we explore DESCRIPTION:Humanity faces real and present problems. Our resources to address these problems are limited. It’s easy to think\, then\, that we should devote ourselves to our most promising solutions.\nIt’s easy\, but it’s wrong.\nThe great paradox of scientific research is that pure exploration – research into deep questions motivated by pure curiosity\, without concern for applications – is ultimately what transforms our lives in tangible\, practical ways.\nIn this talk\, I will speak not just as a physicist interested in puzzles of quantum entanglement and five-dimensional black holes\, but also as someone who has spent the past 25 years helping to establish and grow an institute dedicated to fundamental research. I will make the case for blue-sky research and share my optimism about our collective future.\n\nBio\nRobert Myers (PhD\, Princeton University\, 1986) is the BMO Financial Group Isaac\nNewton Chair at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo\, Ontario\,\nCanada. He joined Perimeter as a founding faculty in 2001\, was the Interim Director\nfrom 2007 to 2008\, served as Faculty Chair from 2011 to 2018\, and as the Director in\n2019 to 2024. Prior to coming to Perimeter\, he was a Professor of Physics at McGill\nUniversity.\nMyers has broad interests in theoretical physics\, with contributions ranging from\nquantum field theory to black holes and cosmology. Several of his discoveries\, such as\nthe “Myers effect” and “linear dilaton cosmology” have been influential in seeding new\nlines of research. His current research focuses on the interplay of quantum\nentanglement and spacetime geometry\, and on applying new perspectives and tools\nfrom quantum information science to the study of quantum gravity.\nAmong his many honours\, Myers has been awarded the Herzberg Medal by the\nCanadian Association of Physicists (1999)\, the CAP-CRM Prize in Theoretical and\nMathematical Physics by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) and the Centre\nde Recherches Mathématiques (2005)\, the Vogt Medal by the CAP and TRIUMF\n(2012)\, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Waterloo (2018)\, and the\nCAP Medal for Lifetime Achievements in Physics (2024). In 2006\, he was elected a\nFellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and he was named a Fellow of the Canadian\nAssociation of Physicists in 2024.\n\nHe has served on numerous advisory boards\, including the Banff International\nResearch Station (2001-05)\, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (2012-16)\, the\nWilliam I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute (2015-20)\, and the Max Planck Institute for\nGravitational Physics (2018-present). He has also served on the editorial boards of\nAnnals of Physics (2002-12) and the Journal of High Energy Physics (2007-present). UID:132655-21871515@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132655 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lctp Public Lecture,lecture,Physics,Science,Talk LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T110151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:35th David W. Belin Lecture DESCRIPTION:5:15 PM - Pre-Lecture Reception\, 6:00 PM - Lecture\, 7:30 PM - Book Signing\n\nJoan Nathan is the author of twelve cookbooks including her latest work\, My Life in Recipes: Food\, Family\, and Memories. Her 2018 book\, King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary \nExploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World\, won the IACP International Cookbook of the Year. That same year\, the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America\, which in 1994 won both the James Beard Award and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award\, was named an IACP classic. In 2022\, Nathan was included in the Forward 125: The American Jews who shaped our world. Nathan is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and Tablet Magazine. UID:130242-21865630@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130242 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Food,Graduate School,Jewish Communal Leadership Program,Jewish Studies,Middle East Studies,Rackham,Social Sciences,Women's Studies LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - John Cameron Mitchell DESCRIPTION:John Cameron Mitchell is an acclaimed actor\, writer\, and director known for his boundary-pushing work across theater\, film\, and television. He first captivated audiences with Hedwig and the Angry Inch\, a rock musical he co-wrote and starred in\, exploring identity\, love\, and self-acceptance. Mitchell later adapted and directed Hedwig for the screen\, earning two Tony Awards\, the Sundance Film Festival’s Best Director award\, and a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor.\nMitchell’s directorial work includes Shortbus (2006)\, an audacious exploration of intimacy\; Rabbit Hole (2010)\, starring Nicole Kidman\, which received an Oscar nomination for Kidman's performance\; and How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017)\, featuring Kidman and Elle Fanning. His television credits span roles in Girls\, Shrill\, The Good Fight\, Yellowjackets\, The Sandman\, City on Fire\, and Joe vs. Carole.\nIn audio storytelling\, Mitchell created the podcast series Anthem: Homunculus\, featuring a star-studded cast that includes Glenn Close\, Patti LuPone\, Cynthia Erivo\, and Laurie Anderson. He is also set to release Cancellation Island\, a new podcast starring Holly Hunter. With his fearless approach to storytelling\, Mitchell remains a powerful voice in contemporary culture\, celebrated for his commitment to authenticity and representation.\nPresented in partnership with the School of Music\, Theatre &\; Dance. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:130009-21865051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240815T125101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading and Q&A with Weike Wang DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nWeike Wang is the author of *CHEMISTRY* (Knopf 2017)\, *JOAN IS OKAY* (Random House 2022) and the forthcoming *RENTAL HOUSE* (Riverhead 2024). She is the recipient of a Pen Hemingway\, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in *Ploughshares*\, *The New Yorker*\, *Best American Short Stories* and has won an O. Henry Prize. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania\, Columbia University and Barnard College.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:122479-21849249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122479 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,arts at michigan,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,English Language And Literature,Graduate,Lecture,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Talk,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,UMMA,World Literature,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Robert Hayden Conference Room, #3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250403T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Reading and Q&A with ​Weike Wang DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming author Weike Wang for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series\, presented by the Helen Zell Writer's Program in partnership with UMMA\, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.\n \nWang is the author of CHEMISTRY (Knopf 2017)\, JOAN IS OKAY (Random House 2022) and the forthcoming RENTAL HOUSE (Riverhead 2024). She is the recipient of a Pen Hemingway\, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. \n \nZell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA's Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n \nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.\n UID:131304-21868159@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131304 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250331T141747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Ace Histories to Ace Futures with Angela Chen DESCRIPTION:Aceness is not a modern invention—what parallels do we see in history\, and what have the past twenty years of the ace movement taught us about imagining ace futures? Angela Chen traces the lineage of ace life and possible visions of what lies ahead.\n\nThere will be a book signing after the talk. Books will be available on site and while supplies last. Feel free to bring your own book if you already have one.\n\nThis event is open to all University of Michigan students\, faculty\, and staff.\n\nMORE PRIDE MONTH & SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nExplore Pride Month events at https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/pride-month and even more Spectrum Center events at https://spectrumcenter.umich.edu/events. UID:133009-21872278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133009 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:asexual,LGBT,LGBTQ Graduate Student LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T093056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250403T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What’s My Role? Social Change in Crisis and Beyond with Deepa Iyer DESCRIPTION:RSVP here: https://www.cew.umich.edu/events/whats-my-role-social-change-in-crisis-and-beyond-with-deepa-iyer\n\nDeepa Iyer\, author of Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection\, will provide a roadmap for how we can engage in effective and sustainable social change efforts as individuals and organizations during times of crisis and beyond.\n\n\nDeepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer\, strategist\, and lawyer. Her work is rooted in Asian American\, South Asian\, Muslim\, and Arab communities where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash. Currently\, Deepa leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project\, where she conducts workshops and trainings\, uplifts narratives through the Solidarity Is This podcast\, and facilitates solidarity strategy for cohorts and networks.\n\nDeepa’s first book\, We Too Sing America: South Asian\, Arab\, Muslim\, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press\, 2015)\, chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Deepa’s most recent book (2022)\, a guide based on the social change ecosystem map that she created\, is called Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection. Her debut children’s picture book\, We Are The Builders\, will be released in the fall of 2024.\n\nDeepa serves on the advisory council of the Emergent Fund\, and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland in the Asian American Studies and Public Policy programs. An immigrant who moved to Kentucky from Kerala (India)\, Deepa graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School and Vanderbilt University. UID:132658-21871519@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132658 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Human Rights,humanities,Lecture,Social Impact,social justice,Social Rights,Social Unrest,Staff,women leaders LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Educational Conference Center (ECC, Room 1840) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240815T125115 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: The burden and responsibility of representation in literary craft DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nSeats are limited and are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public\, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room\, Angell Hall #3222). Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.\n\nWeike Wang is the author of *CHEMISTRY* (Knopf 2017)\, *JOAN IS OKAY* (Random House 2022) and the forthcoming *RENTAL HOUSE* (Riverhead 2024). She is the recipient of a Pen Hemingway\, a Whiting award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in *Ploughshares*\, *The New Yorker*\, *Best American Short Stories* and has won an O. Henry Prize. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania\, Columbia University and Barnard College.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209)\, reflection room (Haven Hall #1506)\, and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:122493-21849263@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,Author,Book,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,English Language & Literataure,Storytelling,UMMA,Weike Wang,writing,zell visiting writers series LOCATION:Angell Hall - The Robert Hayden Conference Room, #3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250317T124457 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Banned\, Bold\, and Brave in Detroit DESCRIPTION:Leah Johnson\, author of YA novels and owner of Loudmouth Books bookstore\, will speak to young adult readers about the freedom that the act of reading brings. Attendess will have the chance to stroll through the beautiful grounds of the parkway and dive into the important and timely topic of access to books through a banned book pop-up installation. Johnson will share her insights and experiences\, sparking meaningful conversations about the reasons behind the banning of these books and their relevance in today's world.\n\nEach attendee will receive a free book and a beautifully customized bookmark. This isn't just any bookmark—it's a keepsake that reflects the themes and messages of the day\, perfect for holding your place in a new favorite read.\n\nRegister and let us know you're coming! https://www.eventcreate.com/e/you-should-see-me-in-a-crown UID:130232-21865621@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130232 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Books,Detroit,Humanities,Writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T111646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Architecture of Illness: The Hospital Experience\, Vienna 1880-1920 DESCRIPTION:In the short span of forty years\, hospitals became ubiquitous in Western society. Today\, the hospital seems nearly invisible\, even though it bookends the beginning and end of most people’s lives. But initially this institution was met with opposition from a host of critics and commentators.\n\nThis talk focuses on Vienna in the twentieth century as the privileged site for this exemplary tale about the hospital’s rise\, the suspicions it generated\, and the experiences it occasioned. The Architecture of Illness investigates various hospital building styles\, as these come to influence people’s experiences of health care. Using examples from literary works by Arthur Schnitzler and Rainer Maria Rilke as well as architectural treatises\, this talk charts the waiting games\, the diffuse spaces\, and the contagious rumors that plague hospitals from the moment of their establishment.\n\n \nFatima Naqvi is Leavenworth Professor of German and Film at Yale University. She is currently the chair of the Film & Media Studies Program as well as of the European Studies Council. Her scholarship has focused on the intersection of architecture and Bildung in the literature of Thomas Bernhard\; landscape and its function in post-war West German culture\; the rhetoric of victimhood in Western European Culture from the late 1960s to the present\; and the films of director Michael Haneke. Drawn to the curmudgeons\, querulous types\, and naysayers of literature and film\, she has recently written on Elfriede Jelinek\, Ruth Beckermann\, Friederike Mayröcker\, and Peter Handke. UID:133346-21872778@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250203T211245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Efficient Low-Dimensional Compression for Deep Overparameterized Learning and Fine-Tuning DESCRIPTION:Abstract: While overparameterization in machine learning models offers great benefits in terms of optimization and generalization\, it also leads to increased computational requirements as model sizes grow. In this work\, we demonstrate that we can reap the benefits of overparameterization without the computational burden. First\, we develop theory showing that when training the parameters of a deep linear network to fit a low-rank or wide matrix\, the gradient dynamics of each weight matrix are confined to an invariant low-dimensional subspace. This is done by carefully studying the gradient update step\, which is the product of several matrix variables\, and noticing the way low-rank structure passes from the low-rank target through the variables sequentially. Given this invariant subspace\, we can construct and train compact\, highly compressed factorizations possessing the same benefits as their overparameterized counterparts. For language model fine-tuning\, we introduce a method called \"Deep LoRA\"\, which improves the existing low-rank adaptation (LoRA) technique. While this technique does not arise directly from our theory\, it involves only a minor modification that is surprisingly effective and of great interest for future theoretical study.\n\nContact: Peter Miller UID:130193-21865580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130193 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250323T143157 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Lifting Swing Surfaces to AdS DESCRIPTION:The entanglement entropy for regions in a BMS field theory living at null infinity has been proposed to be holographically dual to certain ‘swing surfaces’ in flat space. We lift this construction to AdS/CFT and revisit both bulk and boundary aspects of this proposal. UID:130843-21867131@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:High Energy Theory Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250330T172602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Brian Atkinson\, University of Kansas DESCRIPTION:The Cretaceous (145-66 Ma) origin and diversification of flowering plants (angiosperms) heralded the assembly of modern terrestrial ecosystems. During the Late Cretaceous (100-66 Ma)\, over half of modern angiosperm families rapidly evolved. This led to the shift from gymnosperm (e.g.\, conifers\, cycads) dominated forests to angiosperm dominated forests in which landscapes began to appear more similar to the modern. In this talk\, I will discuss how my research group investigates this critical transition by analyzing three-dimensionally preserved plant fossil from the Late Cretaceous on western North America and Antarctica. The exceptional preservation of these fossils allows us to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships and the paleobiology of these fossils in outstanding detail\, which enables new perspectives on the Late Cretaceous diversification of angiosperms and the concomitant development of modern terrestrial ecosystems. UID:123508-21851012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123508 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250403T143431 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Amalia Arvaniti is the Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Radboud University. She had previously held professorial appointments at the University of Kent\, UK and the University of California\, San Diego. Arvaniti’s research covers prosody\, and focuses particularly on the production and perception of intonation and speech rhythm. Her research takes a cross-linguistic perspective\, covering several languages that include English\, Greek\, Korean\, Polish\, and Romani.\n\nDr. Arvaniti will be joining us via Zoom.\n\nTitle:\nHow to tame your intonation: from concepts to methods and back\n\nAbstract:\nIn this talk I will provide a brief overview of the major findings and conclusions of SPRINT\, a five-year project funded by the European Research Council to study intonation in English and Greek. The main objective of SPRINT has been to develop a new approach to intonation based primarily on the investigation of intonation variability and pragmatics. SPRINT started from the position that intonation is not a “half-tamed savage”\, as the frequently used (and highly questionable) metaphor of Bolinger’s has it\, but part of a language’s phonological component whose phonetic features are as tame as any other aspect of speech production\, provided a) we treat them as such and b) we employ suitable methodologies to study them. Starting from this position\, in the talk\, I cover three topics: a) the main sources of variability in intonation and the methodologies employed in SPRINT to address them\, so we can distinguish systematic\, linguistically determined variation\, from gradience\, and noise\; b) the role that meaning can play in this process\; c) the lessons we learned from researching these topics and the ways they have shaped the main SPRINT objective\, determining what we retain from AM\, the most widely adopted model of intonation\, and what we need to revise. Overall\, the findings support SPRINT’s starting point and provide encouraging results on which to build this new foundation. UID:130333-21865766@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130333 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Talk LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250402T093216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Plundered: How Racist Policies Undermine Black Homeownership in America DESCRIPTION:When Professor Bernadette Atuahene\, of USC Gould School of Law\, moved to Detroit\, she planned to study the city’s squatting phenomenon. What she accidentally found was too urgent to ignore. Her neighbors\, many of whom had owned their homes for decades\, were losing them to property tax foreclosure\, leaving once bustling Black neighborhoods blighted with vacant homes.\n\nThrough years of dogged investigation and research\, Atuahene uncovered a system of predatory governance\, where public officials raise public dollars through laws and processes that produce or sustain racial inequity — a nationwide practice in no way limited to Detroit.\n\nIn this powerful work of scholarship and storytelling\, Atuahene shows how predatory governance invites complicity from well-meaning people\, eviscerates communities\, and widens the racial wealth gap. By following the lives of two Detroit grandfathers\, one Black and the other white\, and their grandchildren\, Atuahene tells a riveting tale about racist policies\, how they take root\, why they flourish\, and who profits. Plundered's release date is Jan. 28\, 2025.\n\nLocal book talks include: \nANN ARBOR on Friday\, April 4\n6:30-8 p.m. at Literati Bookstore\, 124 E. Washington St.\, Ann Arbor\nWith special guest Patrick Cooney\, vice president at Michigan Future Inc.\nRSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/literati-presents-bernadette-atuahene-tickets-1105727283069?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl\n\nDETROIT on Friday\, Jan. 31\n5-6:30 p.m. at Detroit Mercy Law School\, 651 E. Jefferson Ave.\, Detroit\nWith special guest Orlando Bailey\, Emmy award-winning journalist and executive director of Outlier Media\nRSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-bernadette-atuahene-tickets-1101099792119?aff=oddtdtcreator UID:130918-21867344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130918 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit,Poverty LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T181752 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250404T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Chamber Choir DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Chamber Choir performance. UID:133475-21873145@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250404T154244 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250405T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250405T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Saturday Morning Physics | Organic Optical Materials: From Solar Cells to Light-Emitting Diodes DESCRIPTION:Versatile organic optical materials are widely used\, for example\, in OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs. These materials\, which convert electricity to light and vice-versa\, continue to improve\, but questions remain concerning electron and energy transport processes. Understanding ultra-fast (femtosecond) and small-scale (nanometer) processes in these systems is crucial for improving performance in optical and electronic applications. In this presentation\, Professor Goodson will describe the results of studies of light-matter interactions in organic materials using absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy to investigate energy transport and its importance to electronic devices we rely on daily.\n\nJoin us in person or via live stream: https://myumi.ch/ErXD3\n\nMore information about the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series is available on our website: https://myumi.ch/9gmgn UID:131617-21868839@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Free,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics,Smoke-free,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 Auditoriums CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250401T131820 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T124500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Opportunity to Hear from and Ask Questions of an Immigration Attorney DESCRIPTION:Who: Rebecca Olszewski\, Managing Attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC)\nWhen: Monday April 7\, 11:45am – 12:45pm\nWhere: This event is hybrid\n\nIn person: The Annenberg Auditorium\, the Ford School of Public Policy\, \n735 S State St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98575561235\n\nOn Monday\, April 7\, 11:45am – 12:45pm\, the Managing Attorney for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC)— Rebecca Olszewski—will offer a presentation on the general state of immigration affairs. The presentation will be both in-person and on zoom and is open to any member of the University of Michigan community: faculty\, staff\, or students.\n\nMs. Olzewski will give a streamlined version of MIRC’s Know Your Rights Presentation for encounters with immigration enforcement officers\, will address the concerns that people on work visas or student visas might face about travel and deportation\, and will address the First Amendment Freedom of Speech concerns that we might have regarding immigration and attempts to deport people for political speech. She’ll answer any general questions that audience members might have\, though cannot address individual concerns.\n\nMIRC is a legal resource center for Michigan’s immigrant communities. MIRC works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities experience equity and belonging.\n\nRebecca Olszewski joined the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center as a Supervising Attorney in 2024. She has been working in non-profit immigration legal services since beginning with Farmworker Legal Services after law school. Working at Catholic Charities of Louisville\, Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan\, and as a pro-bono attorney for MIRC’s VAWA program\, Rebecca has a broad range of skills focused on legal service administration and direct representation for clients in the family-based and humanitarian immigration processes. As a Michigander\, Rebecca graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and Western Michigan University. She is fluent in Spanish. UID:134564-21874529@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134564 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Immigration,Public Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241220T094319 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Banned\, Bold\, and Brave: 2025 Jill S. Harris Memorial Lecture DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with author and Loudmouth Books bookstore owner Leah Johnson. Johnson will sit down with U-M's Ebony Elizabeth Thomas\, author and Associate Professor of Education. They'll talk about censorship\, public education\, entrepreneurship\, and Black Girl Magic. Expect questions like: \n \n-Why was Johnson's debut novel banned? \n-What was the inspiration behind the name Loudmouth Books? \n-What's next on the horizon for Johnson's readers?\n\nBook sale and signing immediately following the Q&A courtesy of Black Stone Bookstore.\n\nLeah Johnson is an eternal midwesterner and author of award-winning books for children and young adults. Her bestselling debut YA novel\, *You Should See Me in a Crown*\, was a Stonewall Honor Book\, and the inaugural Reese's Book Club YA pick. In 2021\, *TIME *named it one of the 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Her debut middle grade book\, *Ellie Engle Saves Herself* was published by Disney-Hyperion in May 2023. When she’s not writing\, you can find her at Loudmouth Books\, her Indianapolis independent bookstore that specializes in highlighting the work of marginalized authors and uplifting banned or challenged books.\n\nEbony Elizabeth Thomas\, PhD is Chair of the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan’s Marsal Family School of Education\, as well as Associate Professor of Education. She is the author of *The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games* (NYU Press\, 2019)\, which won the World Fantasy Award\, the British Fantasy Award\, and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award\, among other accolades. Her most recent books are *Harry Potter and the Other: Race\, Justice\, and Difference in the Wizarding World *(University Press of Mississippi\, 2022) co-edited with Sarah Park Dahlen\, and* Restorying Young Adult Literature: Expanding Students’ Perspectives with Digital Texts* (NCTE\, 2023) co-authored with James Joshua Coleman and Autumn A. Griffin.\n\nThe Jill S. Harris Memorial Endowment was established in 1985 by Roger and Meredith Harris\, Jill’s parents\, her grandparents Allan and Norma Harris\, and friends. The fund was established in memory of Jill\, a resident of Chicago and undergraduate student at U-M who passed away due to injuries from an auto accident. The fund brings a distinguished visitor to campus each year who will appeal to undergraduates interested in the humanities and the arts. The visitor may either be a fellow of the institute for an extended period of time or invited for a few days to present the annual lecture. The visiting fellow will usually interact with undergraduates\, informally and through visits to classes or by other means by which exchanges with undergraduates may be promoted. UID:130225-21865618@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Books,Humanities,Writing LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Lobby and Osterman Common Room, first floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250320T101041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:STeMS Speaker Series | Is the Pixel Political? What Chinese Computing Teaches Us About the Digital Age DESCRIPTION:The pixel is the quintessential building block of the digital age—a visual manifestation of the binary logic of zeros and ones. In its seeming universalism\, it spans text and image\, and operates seamlessly across languages\, scripts\, and cultures. Or does it?\nDrawing upon the first-ever history of Chinese-language computing—a now trillion-dollar industry that\, just fifty years ago\, was widely considered unimaginable—this lecture interrogates the politics of the seemingly universal pixel.\nHow did engineers\, linguists\, and technologists overcome the complexities of digitizing the world’s largest non-alphabetic script\, with its 100\,000+ characters? And what does this history reveal about the deeper\, often invisible\, structures of power and exclusion embedded within digital infrastructures?
\nProfessor Thomas S. Mullaney of Stanford University—recipient of Stanford’s highest award in teaching and Kluge Chair of Technology and Society—explores these questions through insights from his award-winning two-book series\, The Chinese Typewriter and The Chinese Computer (MIT Press). Based on research spanning over 80 archives across 15 countries\, this lecture offers a global history of the information age—one that challenges the Euro-American assumptions that have long shaped both corporate technology and academic scholarship.\n\nThomas S. Mullaney is Professor of Chinese History at Stanford University\, a Guggenheim Fellow\, and the recipient of Stanford’s highest award for excellence in teaching\, the Gores Award. He is the author of The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (MIT)\, co-author of Where Research Begins (University of Chicago Press\, with Christopher Rea)\, The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT\, winner of the Fairbank Prize)\, and Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China (UC Press)\, among other works. His writings have appeared in Fast Company\, MIT Technology Review\, Quartz\, the South China Morning Post\, TechCrunch\, the Journal of Asian\nStudies\, Technology & Culture\, Foreign Affairs\, and Foreign Policy. His work has been featured in RadioLab\, The Atlantic\, the BBC\, and in invited lectures at Google\, Microsoft\, Adobe\, and more. He earned his BA and MA from the Johns Hopkins University\, and his PhD from Columbia University. UID:134123-21873890@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250321T120307 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Student Model Theory Seminar DESCRIPTION:In the Winter 2025 term\, the student logic seminar will be a Model Theory reading seminar. Details can be found here: https://shorturl.at/sldTZ UID:133083-21872367@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133083 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Mathematics,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4088 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250319T121234 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Anywhere but Here: Art History and the Presumption of Escape DESCRIPTION:Darby English\, Carl Darling Buck Professor\, Dept. of Art History\, University of Chicago\n\nMany of the mechanisms that make art history work involve incorporating external material into the body of an analysis\, theory\, or argument—a terrific way to circumvent problems of difference and otherness our rapidly diversifying discipline remains ill-equipped to address satisfactorily. Could this incapacity\, which heralds a terminal failure to ‘meet the moment\,' be intentional\, a matter of disciplinary design?\n\nDarby English teaches modern and contemporary art and cultural studies at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is Charles Ray: Adam and Eve (New York: Gregory Miller\, 2024). UID:134072-21873837@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,history of art LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241215T110641 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250407T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCEE Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Civil Society in an Era of Global Change DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Matviichuk will delve into the evolving role of civil society\, particularly in times of conflict and crisis. She will highlight the critical work of Ukraine's civil society\, which has expanded its traditional advocacy and watchdog functions to actively participate in national resistance and defense. Ordinary people are doing extraordinary things to foster citizen-state unity\, improve local political engagement\, and maintain social resilience despite the war's challenges.\n\n Oleksandra Matviichuk leads the human rights NGO Center for Civil Liberties\, which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. The organization promotes human rights and democracy in Ukraine and the OSCE region. It works on legislative reforms\, conducts public oversight of law enforcement agencies and the judiciary\, organizes educational initiatives\, and implements international solidarity programs.\n \n Matviichuk also coordinates the activities of the initiative group Euromaidan SOS\, which was established in response to the violent suppression of a peaceful student protest in Kyiv on November 30\, 2013. Throughout the three-month mass protests known as the Revolution of Dignity\, thousands of volunteers provided round-the-clock legal and humanitarian assistance to persecuted individuals nationwide.\n\n Since the onset of Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014\, the initiative has monitored political persecution in occupied Crimea\, documented war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Donbas region\, and spearheaded international campaigns like *#LetMyPeopleGo* and *#SaveOlegSentsov* to secure the release of political prisoners held by Russian authorities.\n\n In response to the full-scale war beginning in February 2022\, Matviichuk and other partners launched the Tribunal for Putin initiative to document international crimes under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in all regions of Ukraine targeted by Russian attacks.\n\n Matviichuk has authored numerous reports submitted to various UN bodies\, the Council of Europe\, the European Union\, the OSCE\, and the International Criminal Court.\n\n Awards:\n ● Democracy Defender Award for \"Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Democracy and Human Rights\" from OSCE missions (2016)\n ● Right Livelihood Award (2022)\n ● Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament (2022)\n ● Named one of the 25 most influential women in the world by Financial Times (2022)\n ● Global Civic Leadership Award (2024)\n ● Pahl Peace Prize (2024)\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130013-21865055@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:europe,ukraine LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T160646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ukrainian Literature and Culture Lecture Series DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting international collaboration between the University of Michigan's Slavic Department and the Ukrainian Catholic University of Lviv!\n\nThis seminar series brings together both UofM and UCU students\, creating a unique platform for international interaction and academic exchange. Featuring three speakers—Ostap Slyvynsky (UCU)\, Oleksandr Pronkevych (UCU)\, and Alex Averbuch (UofM)—the series will explore literature in times of war\, multiculturalism and multilingualism\, and gender and sexuality in Ukrainian culture.\n\nA one-of-a-kind opportunity for students to engage in critical discussions\, broaden perspectives\, and connect across borders.\n\nFebruary 18\, 11 AM\nMarch 25\, 11 AM\nApril 8\, 11 AM\n\nRegistration required: alexaver@umich.edu UID:132640-21871489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:international relations,Literature,Multicultural,Multilingual,Slavic,Slavic Featured,Slavic Studies,Ukraine,Ukrainian LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T090903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Elliot S. Valenstein Distinguished Lecture | Synapse Specific Structural Plasticity: A Cellular Mechanism of Spaced Learning DESCRIPTION:Synapses form trillions of connections in the brain. Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a cellular mechanism vital for learning that modifies the strength and structure of synapses. Three-dimensional electron microscopy reveals distinct pre- to post-synaptic arrangements: strong active zones (AZs) with tightly docked vesicles\, weak AZs with loose or non-docked vesicles\, and nascent zones (NZs) with a postsynaptic density but no presynaptic vesicles. LTP can be temporarily saturated preventing further increases in synaptic strength. I will discuss how NZ plasticity provides a time dependent and synapse-specific AZ expansion during LTP that ultimately encourages highly effective dendritic spine clusters regulated by the spine apparatus. I will also tell you why we have developed a new synaptopodin knockout rat system to investigate mechanisms of this process. We propose that the saturation of LTP protects recently formed memories and that the regrowth of nascent zones may account for the advantage of spaced over massed learning.\n\nAbout the speaker: Kristen Harris’s professional career started at Harvard Medical school where she rose to the rank of associate professor. She was the recruited as a full Professor to Boston Univ. where she helped establish their graduate program in experimental and computational neuroscience. She was recruited as a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent scholar to the Medical College of Georgia\, and in 2006 joined the Center for Learning and Memory at the University of Texas at Austin. She is renowned for her work on synapse structure and function pioneering three-dimensional reconstruction from serial section electron microscopy. Her lab had developed novel tools sharing them and data (synapseweb.clm.utexas.edu) that are widely used resources. She is the recipient of Sloan Research Fellowship\, Javits Merit Award\, Brain Research Foundation Fellowship\, and continuous funding for her lab\, including her current lead as PI on the NSF NeuroNex grant to investigate synaptic weight with 26 international and national coPIs. She is known for innovative teaching and presentations at conferences worldwide. She was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nThe talk will be followed by a reception with light refreshments. UID:133612-21873303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Neuroscience,Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T161011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China DESCRIPTION:Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/Q61JX\n\nHow do states build essential market institutions when political or technical barriers hinder the establishment of the rule of law? In From Click to Boom\, Lizhi Liu suggests a digital solution: governments strategically outsourcing tasks of institutional development and enforcement to digital platforms—a process she calls “institutional outsourcing.” Through extensive interviews\, original surveys\, 28 million proprietary data points\, and a field experiment across three Chinese provinces\, Liu illustrates how China’s 800-million-user e-commerce market emerged from scratch and has profoundly transformed the nation’s economy and society.\n \n Lizhi Liu is an Assistant Professor in the McDonough School of Business and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Her research specializes in political economy and emerging markets. Her work has been published by American Economic Review: Insights\, Studies in Comparative International Development\, Minnesota Law Review\, Oxford University Press\, and Princeton University Press. In particular\, her research on the political economy of China's e-commerce market has garnered multiple research awards and grants. In 2021\, she was honored as one of Poets&Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professors.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at chinese.studies@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:130933-21867411@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130933 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,China,Chinese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250401T134504 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sydney Gable Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Probabilistic seismic hazard assessment (PSHA) is a widely used statistical approach to estimating where and when earthquakes are likely to occur based on the statistics of past seismicity patterns. Key parameters like the magnitude-frequency distribution (MFD) and the b-value are integral to hazard forecasting as they express the proportion of small to large earthquakes in a catalog. However\, these statistical parameters are heavily influenced by the accuracy of earthquake magnitude estimates. This research addresses the critical need for high-quality magnitude measurements for small earthquakes by using relative amplitude methods. I then use these improved magnitude estimates to examine spatiotemporal variations in b-value for multiple earthquake sequences to improve our understanding of short-term seismic hazard forecasting. I first introduce a generalized methodology to determine relative magnitudes for earthquake sequences which is only dependent on relative amplitude differences between interlinked pairs of waveforms\, as well as methods for determining the b-value from the distribution of magnitude differences between successive events. In chapter 3\, I investigate the uncertainty of magnitude results produced from the relative magnitude method by conducting a parameter study on critical variables including thresholds for signal-to-noise ratio and cross-correlation\, frequency content filtering\, and seismic station selection. I show that signal-to-noise and cross-correlation thresholds limit the number of magnitudes that can be recalculated while bandpass filtering has the largest effect on the variability of magnitude results. In chapter 4\, I develop a set of coda-envelope moment magnitudes (MW) as a benchmark data set for the relative magnitude method\, allowing us to align our relative magnitude measurements to an absolute moment magnitude scale for small earthquakes. I produce moment magnitudes for approximately 80% of the events in the Delaware Basin and demonstrate the capabilities of this method to provide moment magnitude for small earthquakes in regional earthquake catalogs. In chapter 5\, I use an uncalibrated relative magnitude method to reevaluate magnitude estimates for the 2011 Prague\, Oklahoma earthquake sequence and calculate the temporal and spatial variations of b-value. I show that b-values during the aftershock sequence are consistently low which demonstrate that the aftershock distribution is skewed towards producing earthquakes of higher magnitude for at least 5 months following the mainshock. Additionally\, we show a trend of decreasing b-value along the Meeker-Prague fault as distance from the mainshock increases suggesting that tectonic stress may still exist in areas of low b-value. Finally in chapter 6\, I apply the relative magnitude method to 6 foreshock sequences in southern California and focus on an in-depth exploration of the spatial and temporal variations in b-value and their sensitivity to parameters such as spatial binning and window length. I show that approximately half of the sequences exhibit a drop in b-value in the months or days prior to a mainshock. I also show that mainshocks frequently occur in areas of low foreshock b-value for single-fault or dense seismicity. This research demonstrates the importance of reliable and transportable magnitude estimation for small earthquakes. With these improved magnitude estimates\, we also gain valuable insights into the behavior of seismic sequences through analysis of the spatiotemporal variability of the MFD and b-value. UID:134562-21874527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 2540 NUB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250318T160945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Chat with a Sex Therapist DESCRIPTION:Join SAPAC's BICE (Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement) Program for a Chat with a Sex Therapist! \n\n \n\nWhen: Tuesday\, April 8th 2-4pm\n\nWhere: Michigan League\, Koessler Room (3rd Floor)\n\n \n\nLearn about sexual heath and empower yourself by speaking with sex therapists:\n\nAmy Raad\nManeesha Finkle\nSara Zocher\n \n\n Light refreshments\, tote bags\, condoms\, dental dams\, and more will be provided. There will also be a sex toy raffle! \n\n \n\nSubmit Anonymous Questions Here: shorturl.at/p9HEC UID:134039-21873805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134039 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,free,Health & Wellness,sapac,Sexual Assault Awareness Month,Well-being LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250130T163328 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Wrinkle in Time: A 4-Dimensional View of Lung Development and Injury DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Sucre\, M.D.\nDirector\, Biodevelopmental Origins of Lung Disease (BOLD) Center\nAssociate Professor\, Pediatrics and Cell & Developmental Biology\nVanderbilt University UID:130337-21865769@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130337 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Biosciences,Ecology,Education,Engineering,Free,Graduate School,Graduate Students,human genetics,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Lecture,Life Science,Medicine,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Science,seminar,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Buhl Res Cen for Human Genetics - 5915 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T112541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EHAP Lecture Series: Alpha Male Replacements in White-Faced Capuchins DESCRIPTION:In primates\, male reproductive success is often facilitated by dominance rank. While we have a good understanding of the ultimate benefits that dominance rank provides males\, we know less about how male physiology and phenotypes change as males undergo changes in dominance rank. In this seminar\, I will discuss our ongoing research on the hormonal\, morphological\, olfactory\, and behavioral correlates of male rank acquisition in white faced-capuchins. Changes in male dominance rank are also associated with high rates of infanticide\, which produces extreme sexual conflict. Females have evolved strategies to reduce the occurrence and/or costs of infanticide to female reproductive success. I will discuss our exploration of one potential female strategy\, the Bruce effect - the termination of pregnancy in response to exposure to non-sire males. UID:133758-21873518@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133758 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Psychology,Psychology Departmental LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250115T104251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | Korean Waves before the Wave DESCRIPTION:During the second half of the 20th Century\, large portions of the world encountered three significant waves of South Korean cultural export. Prior to the massively successful Korean popular media\, consumer products\, and technology that are globally recognized today\, Tae Kwon Do masters\, Protestant missionaries\, and classical musicians began representing South Korea to other countries. These specifically post-war domains of Korean culture manifest as highly specialized forms of learned expertise and authority\, which passed through explicitly defined and sustained social relations. Unlike the mediatized movement of cultural commodities or the rapid rise and fall of mass consumer trends\, the valorized cultural forms of these earlier waves traveled through face-to-face communication and embodied interaction in relatively intimate settings. This presentation draws out some sociopolitical connections among these three earlier waves of Korean cultural export in order to situate the broader phenomenon within a history of migration\, transnational education\, and the Cold War.\n \n Nicholas Harkness is the Modern Korean Economy and Society Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Korea Institute at Harvard University. His long-term ethnographic research in South Korea has focused on language\, music\, and religion within the context of Korea’s massive engagement with Protestant Christianity in the 20th and 21st Centuries. He is the author of Songs of Seoul: An Ethnography of Voice and Voicing in Christian South Korea (University of California Press\, 2014) and Glossolalia and the Problem of Language (University of Chicago Press\, 2021)\, as well as numerous papers in Korean Studies\, linguistic anthropology\, and semiotics. Harkness is the recipient of the Edward Sapir Book Prize\, the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Teaching\, and many fellowships and grants\, including from the Social Science Research Council\, the National Humanities Center\, the Academy of Korean Studies\, and the Korea Foundation. At Harvard\, Harkness also organizes the Roman Jakobson Symposium and the Harvard-Yenching Institute Field Development Program in Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology.\n\nAttend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_B48hxMTBQKe6AS0BHNVEhw\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:131200-21867948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131200 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Korea LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250401T114502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Why Gender History Needs Women’s History (and vice-versa) DESCRIPTION:Margaret Chowning is the Muriel McKevitt Sonne Chair Professor of Latin American History (emerita) at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is the author of Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico from the Late Colony to the Revolution (Stanford\, 1999)\, Rebellious Nuns: The Troubled History of a Mexican Convent (Oxford\, 2006)\, and Catholic Women and Mexican Politics\, 1750-1940 (Princeton\, 2023). She is working on a book of urban history in Mexico\, with special attention to the impact that liberal policies and liberal “values” exerted on gender relations and urban life in the nineteenth century.\n\nHer presentation\, “Why Gender History Needs Women’s History (and vice-versa)\,” is drawn from her experience conceptualizing\, researching\, and organizing her recent book\, Catholic Women and Mexican Politics. UID:134551-21874506@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Latin America,Women's Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T181759 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250408T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:[Cancelled] Pre-Concert Lecture: University Choir DESCRIPTION:This Pre-Concert Lecture is cancelled\; we apologize for any inconvenience. Please join us for the University Choir concert beginning at 8:00pm. UID:122689-21849535@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122689 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250327T102342 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250409T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250409T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brown Bag Seminar | Effective $AdS_3/CFT_2$\; Life is simpler without black holes DESCRIPTION:The holographic dual to string theory in $AdS_3 x N$ has always been a fundamental question in high-energy theoretical physics. To this day\, we don't know the answer to this question in full generality. In this talk\, I'll propose an effective holographic dual to type IIB string theory in $AdS_3 x N$ in the presence of pure NS-NS flux. The dual boundary CFT takes the form of a p-fold symmetric product of $(R_\phi \times N)$ deformed by a $\phi$-dependent $Z_2$-twisted marginal operator. I'll explain how an exact worldsheet computation allows us to identify this marginal operator. \n\nWhen the radius of $AdS_3$\, $R_{ads}$\, is sub-stringy\, the CFT spectrum doesn't contain neither a normalizable vacuum nor the BTZ black hole states. The proposed holographic duality in this case is an exact one. On the other hand\, when $R_{ads}/l_s >1$\, the full boundary CFT does have a normalizable vacuum and the BTZ black hole states at high energies. The proposed duality in this case is an effective one and holds only for the perturbative string states in the spectrum. Finally\, I'll quote some of the checks that have been performed to test this duality. UID:130855-21867143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130855 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag,Brown Bag Seminar,Physics LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250108T095323 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250409T151000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250409T161000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MIPSE Seminar | RF Plasma Cathodes and Other Research Activities in the Plasma Propulsion Group at NRL DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis talk discusses recent work on RF plasma cathodes\, propellant agnostic electron sources for electric propulsion systems that enable new deep space exploration mission architectures such as in-situ resource utilization. We develop the fundamental theory for these devices and demonstrate its effectiveness at determining I-V characteristics and performance. From our measurements and model\, we project thruster performance and discuss the consequences for space exploration. Then we dive into non-ideal behavior that can be exhibited in these cathodes including sheath expansion and mode transitions. The remainder of the discussion will overview other plasma-related research activities in the NRL propulsion group.\n\nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Marcel Georgin is an Aerospace Engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington\, D.C. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from McGill University in Montreal\, Canada\, and his Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Michigan where he studied plasma instabilities in electron sources for electric propulsion systems. His research interests are at the intersection of plasma physics and engineering\, with a strong focus on space propulsion. He is currently working on a variety of plasma-related topics\, including propellant agnostic electron sources\, hypersonics environmental simulation\, advanced thermionic cathodes\, and more.\n\nThe seminar will be conducted in person and simulcast via Zoom: https://mipse.umich.edu/seminars_2425.php#winter2025 UID:130711-21866562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130711 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:In Person,Michigan Engineering,Physics,Plasma,Propulsion,seminar,Talk LOCATION:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 1003 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR