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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Topics in Modern Machine Learning: Sequential Decision Making\, High-Dimensional Statistics and Differential Privacy
DESCRIPTION:Modern machine learning is increasingly applied to make reliable decisions from limited\, noisy\, high-dimensional\, or privacy-constrained data. This dissertation studies several mathematical problems that arise from this demand\, with an emphasis on sequential decision making\, sparse high-dimensional inference\, differential privacy\, and global testing. \n\nThe first part of the dissertation concerns stochastic convex hull membership\, a pure-exploration problem in which one sequentially samples from a finite collection of distributions in order to decide whether a target point belongs to the convex hull of their unknown means. We first give a complete solution in one dimension\, deriving the information-theoretic characteristic time and developing Thompson-CHM\, an asymptotically optimal sampling algorithm whose allocation matches the lower bound. We then further extend the whole theory to the higher-dimensional Gaussian setting\, where Euclidean geometry makes the least favorable alternatives explicit. \n\nThe second part develops differentially private procedures for the Dantzig selector in high-dimensional linear regression. We start by proposing a private sparse-regression method based on a noisy iterative hard-thresholding oracle tailored to the Dantzig selector's score geometry. The algorithm preserves sparsity by construction and satisfies privacy\, parameter-error\, and population excess-risk guarantees\, with the main error rate matching the known differentially private minimax benchmark up to logarithmic factors.  We then introduce a complementary active-set method that privatizes the Dantzig score more directly: it privately identifies violated score coordinates\, refits on a restricted support\, and prunes to exact sparsity.  This second approach is closer to the defining feasibility constraint of the Dantzig selector and provides an alternative route to private sparse estimation under stronger sparse-design conditions.\n\nThe final part studies sparse-signal detection in high-dimensional regression by combining two classical ideas: knockoffs and higher criticism. Knockoffs provide dependence-adaptive negative controls\, while higher criticism is designed to detect rare and weak alternatives near the sharp sparse-mixture boundary. We introduce a multi-knockoff higher-criticism statistic based on Lasso entry times in an augmented design containing multiple knockoff copies per feature. In the orthogonal-design regime\, the proposed statistic attains the classical higher-criticism detection boundary for sparse alternatives against the global null. This result suggests a new way to use knockoff constructions beyond false discovery rate control: as a mechanism for calibrating global tests in high-dimensional models with structured dependence.
UID:148514-21904393@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148514
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260519T101611
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Design-Based Causal Inference for Clustered Randomized Experiments and Observational Studies
DESCRIPTION:Modern empirical research increasingly relies on comparative studies with complex designs\, including stratified and clustered treatment assignment\, multiple treatment arms\, and observational samples. These features arise naturally in education\, public health\, policy evaluation\, and many other fields\, but they also complicate causal estimation and inference by undermining the validity for familiar estimators and standard errors.\n\nThe first part of the dissertation studies clustered randomized trials with heterogeneous cluster sizes. We show that the commonly used estimators that average stratum-specific treatment-control contrasts can be inconsistent for the average treatment effect in such settings\, a problem that has received limited attention. We establish consistency of a simple alternative\, the Hájek estimator\, under standard asymptotic regimes\, develop an asymptotically conservative variance estimator valid under arbitrary stratum sizes\, and propose a score-type test with improved small- to moderate-sample performance.\n\nThe second part of the dissertation extends this framework to multi-arm stratified clustered experiments\, where inference must account for not only treatment-versus-control comparisons\, but also comparisons among active treatments. We show that regression adjustment admits a unified two-stage representation\, allowing adjustment models to be fit on the full sample\, a subset of units\, or external data. We establish multivariate asymptotic theory for vectors of covariate-adjusted Hájek estimators and develop a covariance matrix estimator that is asymptotically conservative in the positive semidefinite order.\n\nThe third part of the dissertation connects design-based inference for randomized experiments with matched and stratified observational studies. We compare the observational assignment mechanism to an emulated stratified clustered randomized trial with the same realized blocking structure. Assuming sufficient within-block homogeneity in treatment propensities\, we show that a sandwich-type variance estimator for the covariate-adjusted Hájek estimator is asymptotically conservative.\n\nTogether\, these results provide a unified design-based framework for estimation and inference in randomized and observational comparative studies. The dissertation contributes both diagnostic insight\, showing when common estimators fail\, and constructive methodology for valid causal inference in complex empirical designs.
UID:148339-21903956@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148339
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dissertation
LOCATION:West Hall - 438
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T110745
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260603T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“The Tale of a Weevil”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Bénédicte Boisseron will give a free\, public talk titled\, “The Tale of a Weevil.”\n\nBoisseron is professor and chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and an affiliate faculty in Romances Languages and Literature\, and Comparative Literature.\n\nHer interdisciplinary scholarship bridges Global Black Studies and the Environmental Humanities through literary\, historical\, and artistic perspectives.\n\nThis talk will use a magnifying glass to examine an environmental crisis of epic proportions in the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique.\n\nFrom 1972 to 1993\, a highly toxic pesticide was sprayed on weevil-infested banana plantations in the islands\, despite known health risks\, largely due to pressure from powerful white planter elites and the economic importance of the banana industry.\n\nThe resulting health impact on the population has come to symbolize how the colonial is often inextricable from the ecological. But what about the weevil?\n\nThis talk responds to environmental scholar Malcolm Ferdinand’s call to also look at the weevil in this dramatic story.\n\nBoisseron is the author of “Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora” (2014) and “Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question” (2018).\n\nHer current book project focuses on food repurposing and was supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship\, alongside additional funding for her broader work on repurposing practices.\n\nHer recent publications examine pesticide contamination on banana plantations in the French Antilles.\n\nIn Winter 2024\, Boisseron taught Food Literacy for All as a faculty instructor and is a Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Affiliate.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147276-21900623@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147276
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,Environmental Humanities,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
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DTSTAMP:20260512T160513
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260610T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“U-M’s Biodiversity Museums: Preserved for Good”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Alison Davis Rabosky will give a free\, public talk titled\, “U-M’s Biodiversity Museums: Preserved for Good.”\n\nRabosky is the director of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology and an associate professor in the U-M Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Her research explores how biodiversity evolves across space and time\, with a particular focus on snakes\, color evolution\, and the power of natural history collections to answer questions about our changing world.\n\nShe is especially interested in how museums can serve society through research\, education\, conservation\, and public engagement — viewing biodiversity collections not as static archives\, but as living scientific resources for the future.\n\nNatural history collections of preserved specimens are among humanity’s greatest long-term scientific projects: vast collaborative efforts to document life on Earth across centuries\, continents\, and generations.\n\nIn this talk\, Rabosky will explore how U-M’s biodiversity collections allow scientists to ask questions that cannot be answered any other way\, from tracking environmental change and emerging disease to reconstructing the evolution of life itself.\n\nDrawing from work at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology\, the talk will highlight how museums are evolving through new technologies\, global collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research to serve the people of Michigan and beyond.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:148241-21903433@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148241
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,Museum - Zoology,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
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DTSTAMP:20260430T165058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260612T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260612T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A2Inkubate: Finding Your Comics Voice – A2CAF pre-conference event
DESCRIPTION:Plan on an afternoon of exploration and enlightenment as we uncover the power of personal narrative in graphic novels. Join us for this special Ann Arbor Comic Arts Festival (A2CAF) pre-conference for librarians\, educators\, and cartoonists! Get ready for the fun events at A2CAF by leveling up your comics knowledge and skills with the people who care about the medium as much as you do!\n\nHow do comics creators discover what kind of comics they want to make? Who their audience is? Which stories inspire them? Join A2CAF guests Kazu Kibuishi (Amulet)\, Victoria Jamieson (When Stars Are Scattered)\, and John Patrick Green (Investigators) for a rich discussion about the decisions they make when creating graphic novels. Moderated by Meggie Ramm.\n\nDon’t miss this great opportunity to learn from some of the most talented graphic novelists working today. Whether you’re an aspiring artist or simply curious about the creative process\, this event is sure to inspire and inform.
UID:148027-21902859@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148027
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library
LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Gallery (3rd floor)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260223T143824
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260616T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Rare Failures\, Public Perception\, and Automated Driving: Why Exceptional Events Shape Trust in Emerging Safety Technologies
DESCRIPTION:This lecture explores the “vaccine paradox” of automated driving: why rare\, highly publicized failures of self-driving vehicles provoke intense emotional and political reactions while the far more common harms of human driving remain normalized. Drawing on risk psychology\, public-health history\, and human-factors research\, Prof. McGehee examines how visibility imbalance\, trust\, and perceptions of control shape public acceptance of emerging vehicle automation. Using real-world examples from automated-vehicle deployments alongside lessons from vaccine adoption and safety communication\, the talk argues that societal expectations for perfection in automation may obscure meaningful population-level safety gains. The presentation concludes by discussing how transparency\, responsible system design\, and careful language around driver-assistance technologies can help align public perception with evidence as automated driving evolves toward broader deployment.\n---\nAbout the speaker: Daniel V. McGehee\, is Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Iowa and Director of the Driving Safety Research Institute (DSRI) and the National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS)\, one of the world’s largest and most advanced ground-vehicle simulation facilities. For more than three decades\, his work has focused on human factors\, driver behavior\, and the safe integration of advanced vehicle technologies\, including automated driving and driver-assistance systems. Dr. McGehee’s research spans engineering\, medicine\, public health\, and transportation policy\, with projects funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation\, National Institutes of Health\, and the automotive industry. He has led over $40 million in sponsored research and authored more than 160 scientific publications addressing driver attention\, crash avoidance\, vulnerable road users\, and the design of vehicle interfaces. His work combines naturalistic driving studies\, simulation\, and field research to better understand how humans interact with emerging mobility systems. At the University of Iowa\, he holds joint appointments in emergency medicine and public health\, reflecting his longstanding interest in traffic safety as a population-level health issue.
UID:145812-21897843@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145812
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Civil and Environmental Engineering,conference,Discussion,Education,Engineering,Engineering Academic Calendar,Faculty,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Information and Technology,Leadership,Lecture,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Professional Development,Research,seminar,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual,Webcast
LOCATION:Transportation Research Institute - Room 139
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DTSTAMP:20260331T112317
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260617T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260617T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Hann Lecture in Ornithology: “Trait-based Insights into the Dynamics of Biodiversity”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Marta Jarzyna will give the Hann Lecture in Ornithology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Trait-based Insights into the Dynamics of Biodiversity.”\n\nJarzyna is an associate professor in the Department of Evolution\, Ecology and Organismal Biology at Ohio State University.\n\nTrait-based ecology has long been heralded as a framework capable of providing mechanistic insight into biodiversity dynamics and thereby enabling predictions of future biodiversity states.\n\nYet despite decades of development\, the promise of trait-based ecology remains largely unrealized.\n\nIn this talk\, the macroecologist and biodiversity scientist will draw on examples from her own research to critically examine where this promise has and has not been fulfilled.\n\nUsing avian systems as a case study\, Jarzyna demonstrates how incorporating functional traits into biodiversity metrics can reveal patterns that traditional species richness measures obscure.\n\nIn particular\, she shows that trait-based approaches uncover seasonal dynamics in bird communities — shifts in functional composition across the year that species counts alone would miss entirely.\n\nThese findings illustrate both the potential of trait-based ecology and the persistent gap between its theoretical ambitions and empirical application.\nJarzyna’s research focuses on understanding the processes that drive biodiversity dynamics across spatial\, temporal\, and taxonomic scales.\n\nShe holds an M.S. in environmental science from Warsaw University of Life Sciences and a dual Ph.D. in fisheries and wildlife and ecology\, evolutionary biology\, and behavior from Michigan State University\, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147277-21900625@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147277
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,biodiversity,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
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DTSTAMP:20260331T114121
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260624T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260624T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Making Steel Knives from Sands Found on Douglas Lake”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. John Verhoeven is a metallurgical engineer\, U-M alumnus and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at Iowa State University who lives along Douglas Lake\, near the University of Michigan Biological Station.\n\nAs part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Verhoeven will give a free\, public talk titled\, “Making Steel Knives from Sands Found on Douglas Lake.”\n\nSince retiring\, he has continued to do research with colleagues in northern Michigan. They recently found magnetic black sand on Douglas Lake\, reduced it to iron and made kitchen knives.\n\nTheir experiments measuring the composition of the sand in an electron microscope show that it comes from what geologists call OUI deposits of the Mid-Continental Rift. Verhoeven said the source rock from which the sand eroded — Fe-Ti oxide ultramafic intrusions (OUI) — was brought to the surface from magma in Earth’s core 1.1 billion years ago when tectonic plates separated. \n\nHere is a more detailed description of the lecture from Verhoeven: “Bladesmith Tim Zowada\, who lives near Petoskey\, smelts the magnetic black sand he collects on Lake Superior near White Fish Point into iron and makes knives. Working with Tim\, we discovered that the source rock from which the sand eroded contains Ti. This was a new discovery because geologists had assumed the source rock was the same as the iron ore used to make the Taconite which is shipped through the Soo Locks to supply US steel mills. It does not contain Ti. With the help of geologist Marcia Bjornerud\, we have shown that the source rock is what geologists call: Fe-Ti oxide ultramafic intrusions (OUIs). These rocks where brought to the surface from the magma in Earth’s core 1.1 billion years ago when tectonic plates separated and the mid-continental rift (MCR) formed. The rift runs through the Lake Superior region\, and our experiments show the Ti minerals of Tim’s sand matches the composition from OUI drillings collected near Lake Superior. With the help of my neighbor\, Mike Johnson\, we have recently found magnetic black sand on Douglas Lake and Tim has reduced it to iron and made a few small kitchen knives which will be passed around. Our experiments measuring the composition of the sand in an electron microscope in my shop show that it also comes from OUI deposits of the MCR. Douglas Lake also lies on the MCR. The implications of these results will be discussed.”\n\nVerhoeven grew up in Monroe\, Michigan\, and attended the University of Michigan\, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering as well as his master’s and Ph.D. in metallurgical engineering.\n\nHe spent his professional career at Iowa State University\, doing research in the DOE lab and teaching in the Materials Science Department. \n\nVerhoeven has published two books on metallurgy\, 220 peer-reviewed journal papers and obtained 18 patents.\n\nHe built home and shop on Douglas Lake in 1991 and has continued doing research there since retirement in 2000.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147279-21900626@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147279
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
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DTSTAMP:20260518T121510
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Artist & Curator Conversation - Absence as Presence: Memory\, Material\, and Time in the Work of Marianetta Porter
DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us for an intimate conversation between prolific artist\, designer\, and educator Marianetta Porter and guest curator Juana Williams. Together\, they will discuss how Porter transforms the overlooked\, discarded\, and/or ephemeral into vessels of memory\, meaning\, and connection. Drawing from African American histories and experiences\, Porter’s work invites us to reconsider absence—not as a void\, but as an active force that shapes how we inhabit the present. Through everyday objects such as tea towels\, ironing boards\, church fans\, paper fragments\, and found materials\, she illuminates how memory resides in the body and in ordinary things\, making visible the traces of lives and experiences that might otherwise be erased. A brief audience Q&A will close this presentation. \n\nLimited space available\, reservations are requested. Register here.\n
UID:148323-21903925@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148323
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260604T155555
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260625T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Original Debates over Constitutional Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Today\, debate rages over how to interpret the United States Constitution\, especially what role history should play in that practice. \n\nWhen the generation that adopted the Constitution in the late eighteenth century first interpreted the document\, what defined their debates? How do those debates compare to the ones structuring American constitutional law today? \n\nJoin us for a lecture exploring how to read the Constitution through lenses past and present and reflecting on what the creators can teach us about the Constitution today.\n\nBook sales\, signing and reception to follow.
UID:148196-21903220@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148196
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,Americas Constitution,Author Talk
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - auditorium
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DTSTAMP:20260514T164151
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Journey of Service\, Gratitude\, and the American Ideal
DESCRIPTION:Rear Admiral (Ret.) Huan Nguyen\, USN shares a powerful reflection on the American story through the intertwined experiences of his family’s escape from Vietnam\, President Gerald Ford’s courageous leadership during the 1975 refugee crisis\, and his own three decades of military service. He honors the compassion of ordinary Americans—such as Ed and Dorothy Veiluva of Oklahoma—whose kindness helped his family rebuild their lives\, and he recounts how that generosity inspired his commitment to serve the nation that welcomed them. The remarks offer a thoughtful reflection on what it means to belong\, to serve\, and to carry the American story forward.
UID:148285-21903809@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148285
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:American History,American Story,President Gerald Ford,Vietnam War
LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T115652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260701T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology: “Continent-Scale Aerial Dispersal of Fungi”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Bala Chaudhary will give the Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Continent-Scale Aerial Dispersal of Fungi.”\n\nChaudhary is an associate professor of environmental studies at Dartmouth College who studies mycorrhizas (plant-fungal symbioses)\, macroecology (continent-scale ecology)\, and movement (microbial dispersal).\n\nDispersal is a fundamental ecological process driving the abundance and distribution of species from local to global scales.\n\nSignificant knowledge gaps exist regarding the mechanisms of fungal dispersal\, especially for species that live entirely belowground.\n\nChaudhary describes the results of multiple complimentary studies that combine macrosystems biology\, trait-based ecology\, eDNA metabarcoding\, and data synthesis approaches to address fundamental questions in fungal dispersal ecology.\n\nShe also shares new methods her lab is developing to apply AI and data synthesis to make inferences about the ecology and evolution of fungi.\n\nChaudhary earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Northern Arizona University\, previously holding faculty appointments at DePaul University and Loyola University Chicago.\n\nIn her lab\, she uses trait-based approaches to develop predictive frameworks for microbial dispersal\, community assembly and biogeography\, and employs complementary approaches of macroecological field work\, controlled lab experiments and data synthesis to study multi-scale questions in ecology.\n\nChaudhary is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER award and advises on continent-scale biology for the National Academy of Science\, Engineering\, and Medicine.\n\nPrior to academia\, Chaudhary worked as an environmental consultant in Los Angeles restoring drastically disturbed urban areas to create habitat for endangered species.\n\nShe is an award-winning advocate for antiracist strategies in STEM and the founder of WOCinEEB\, an international organization for racial and gender minorities in ecology and evolutionary biology.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147281-21900628@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147281
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
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DTSTAMP:20260331T121445
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260708T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260708T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Making a Migratory Monarch”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. André Green will give a free\, public talk titled\, “Making a Migratory Monarch.”\n\nGreen is an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan who studies the unique features of monarch butterfly migration.\n\nHe also teaches a course at UMBS titled “Eco-Evo-Devo: How Genome and Environment Affect Organismal Development\,” that has undergraduate students use cutting-edge molecular genetics techniques (including CRISPR) to illustrate fundamental concepts in eco-evo-devo while leveraging the remarkable biodiversity at UMBS.\n\nMonarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are renowned for their annual transcontinental migration where they fly thousands of miles each fall to overwinter at specific sites in central Mexico.\n\nHow did this phenotype evolve?\n\nThe mechanisms (behavioral\, genetic\, and molecular) required for migrants to perform this trip\, particularly to naïvely identify their overwintering sites with remarkably high fidelity\, are unknown.\n\nIn his talk at UMBS\, Green will discuss his lab’s efforts that aim to extend our understanding of how this occurs.\n\nHis team integrates development\, genomics\, behavior\, and physiology in both laboratory and natural settings.\n\nGreen earned a Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University and a bachelor of science degree in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147283-21900631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147283
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T122918
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260715T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology: “Unravelling the Relationships of the Natural World with Biodiversity Genomics”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Jay Goldberg will give the Bennett Lecture in Mycology and Plant Biology. The free\, public talk is titled\, “Unravelling the Relationships of the Natural World with Biodiversity Genomics.”\n\nGoldberg is an Indigenous (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians) evolutionary biologist who uses cutting-edge genetic tools to study interactions between chemically defended plants and their specialist herbivores in the Sonoran Desert.\n\nHe is now starting an independent lab as a presidential scholar at Arizona State University to uncover the (co)evolutionary processes that shape plant-insect interactions in the Sonoran Desert\, focusing primarily on the sacred Datura plant (Datura wrightii) and its community of highly specialized insect herbivores that can tolerate the myriad chemical defenses produced by this iconic native plant.\n\nCoevolution\, when interacting species exert selection upon one another\, has fascinated biologists for decades.  Research on coevolution is historically limited to theoretical studies or controlled experimentation with tractable model systems\; now\, however\, modern genomics techniques have ushered in a new era of research that explores coevolutionary processes in naturally interacting populations of organisms.  \n\nGoldberg’s fascination with plant-insect interactions began during a post-baccalaureate internship at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology.\n\nHe went on to complete his Ph.D. at Indiana University before doing two postdocs: one in Judie Bronstein’s lab at the University of Arizona and another in Saskia Hogenhout’s lab at the John Innes Centre.\n\nWhen he’s not working\, Goldberg enjoys playing drums\, cooking fancy food for his friends\, and hiking with his dog.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147288-21900635@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147288
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T124430
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260722T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260722T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:“Linking Pathogen Inactivation and Byproduct Formation: Nucleic Acid Fate During Drinking Water Disinfection”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Aleksandra Szczuka will give a free\, public talk about safe and sustainable drinking water and human health\, titled “Linking Pathogen Inactivation and Byproduct Formation: Nucleic Acid Fate During Drinking Water Disinfection.”\n\nSzczuka is an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan whose research is motivated by broad access to affordable water.\n\nDrinking water treatment plants — originally designed to treat relatively clean surface waters — are now faced with increasing levels of biological and chemical contaminants. \n\nChlorination is a key process for controlling acute health risks. However\, disinfection byproducts (DBPs)\, which pose chronic health risks such as bladder cancer\, form as an unintended consequence of chlorination.\n\nSzczuka will examine nucleic acids as a missing link between pathogen control and byproduct formation. She also will discuss the roles of previously overlooked chlorine species in nucleic acid reactivity and viral inactivation\, and the potential for nucleic acid chlorination to form an emerging class of DBPs.\n\nCollaborating with practitioners\, Szczuka will talk about how utilities in Michigan are working to meet both biological and chemical contaminant treatment objectives in a changing climate.\n\nHer research uses fundamental chemistry and microbiology to inform treatment of non-traditional water sources to safeguard public health. Szczuka is especially interested in understanding the drivers of acute and chronic health risks in water and in advancing emerging treatment technologies.\n\nShe collaborates with researchers\, engineers\, and utility practitioners.\n\nSzczuka received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University\, and a B.S.E. degree in chemical and biological engineering from Princeton University.\n\nPrior to starting her lab\, Alex was a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan. \n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147295-21900642@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147295
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260331T130019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260729T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260729T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pettingill Lecture in Natural History: “Beavers: Architects of Climate Resilience”
DESCRIPTION:As part of the 2026 Summer Lecture Series at the University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS)\, Dr. Emily Fairfax will give the Pettingill Lecture in Natural History. The free\, public talk is titled “Beavers: Architects of Climate Resilience.”\n\nFairfax is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota and an affiliate faculty member at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory.\n\nShe uses a combination of remote sensing\, modeling\, and field work to understand how beaver ecosystem engineering can create drought and fire-resistant patches in the landscape under a changing climate. \n\nBeaver dams and beaver mimicry (e.g. Beaver Dam Analogs) are gaining popularity as a low‐cost\, nature-based strategy to build climate resiliency at the landscape scale.\n\nHere in the Great Lakes Region\, we are experiencing wetter winters\, hotter and drier summers\, flashier storms\, and a longer frost-free season.\n\nBeaver ecosystem engineering can help mitigate some of these impacts on local to watershed scales.\n\nBeavers slow and store water in their ponds\, canals\, and the surrounding soil during flood periods which can then be accessed by riparian vegetation during droughts.\n\nAs a result\, the well-watered vegetation in beaver-dammed riparian corridors is less flammable. \n\nFairfax’s research has shown that these beaver-influenced patches of the landscape stay green and can serve as climate refugia\, preserving intact\, mature riparian habitat\, even during extreme drought and fire.\n\nShe suggests that perhaps instead of relying solely on human engineering and management to create and maintain healthy waterways and riparian zones\, humans could benefit from partnering with beaver’s ecosystem engineering to achieve the same goals at a lower cost. \n\nFairfax double majored in chemistry and physics as an undergraduate at Carleton College\, then went on to earn a Ph.D. in geological sciences with an emphasis in hydrologic sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder.\n\nHer research has been featured internationally in National Geographic\, the New York Times\, the LA Times\, PBS\, NPR\, BBC\, and others. When Fairfax says she can talk about beavers all day\, she’s not kidding.\n\nThe University of Michigan Biological Station serves as a gathering place to learn from the natural world\, advance research and education\, and inspire action. We leverage over a century of research and transformative experiences to drive discoveries and solutions to benefit Michigan and beyond.\n\nFounded in 1909\, UMBS supports long-term research and education through immersive\, field-based courses and features state-of-the-art equipment and facilities for data collection and analysis to help any field researcher be productive. It is where students and scientists from across the globe live and work as a community to learn from the place.\n\nThe Summer Lecture Series is a tradition at UMBS\, where we explore scientific topics with distinguished guest speakers from across the country so the community can learn about our natural world.\n\nThe free\, public talks are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in the spring and summer in Gates Lecture Hall at the University of Michigan Biological Station\, located at 9133 Biological Rd. in Pellston\, Michigan — about 20 miles south of the Mackinac Bridge.
UID:147296-21900643@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147296
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Biological Station,Bsbsigns,U-m Biological Station
LOCATION:Gates Lecture Hall\, UM Biological Station
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260310T061642
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260908T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:146386-21898980@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146386
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260914T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 14\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nYang Shi\, PhD\nProfessor of Epigenetics\nLudwig Institute for Cancer Research\nOxford University\, Oxford\, England\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Shigeki Iwase\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nBefore joining Ludwig Oxford in 2020\, I was Professor of Cell Biology and C. H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. I received my PhD from New York University and postdoctoral training at Princeton University. I joined Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor in 1991 and was appointed a Professor of Pathology in 2004. In 2009 I joined the Newborn Medicine Division of Boston Children’s Hospital.\n\nI am interested in identifying key epigenetic regulators in cancer\, elucidating their mechanism of action and providing the conceptual basis for translating our basic findings to the clinic via the development of new therapeutic strategies. With the discovery of the first histone methyl eraser\, LSD1\, in 2004\, our group demonstrated that histone methylation is dynamically regulated\, which overturned the long-held dogma that such modifications were static and irreversible. We have also discovered many additional histone demethylases with different specificities\, and novel readers\, including those that specifically recognize unmodified lysine and arginine and suggest that the unmodified states are not simply a ground neutral state of epigenetic information but rather likely code for epigenetic information as modified states. Importantly\, many of these chromatin enzymes and readers have since been implicated in various types of human cancers\, indicating an important role of chromatin regulation in tumorigenesis.\n\nMore recently\, we have also been studying RNA modifications and how they impact gene expression regulation. In many ways this exciting field parallels the early days of chromatin biochemistry and biology\, i.e.\, the nature and the biological and pathological functions of RNA modifications\, as well as the enzymes responsible for writing\, erasing and reading them\, are just beginning to be understood.\n\nAt Ludwig Oxford\, my lab is focusing on two questions. First\, how to convert “cold tumors to “hot” and how to sustain durable responses to cancer immune checkpoint blockade therapy. Second\, how to induce therapeutic differentiation of cancers\, using acute myeloid leukemia and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma as models where chromatin/epigenetics have been shown to play a crucial role in the maintenance of a poorly differentiated state.
UID:143395-21893072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143395
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260507T144558
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260916T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Shakespearean Studies Biannual Lecture in Honor of Barbara Hodgdon
DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming\n\nAbout the speaker:\nAndrew James Hartley is Emeritus professor in UNC Charlotte’s Department of Theatre in which he served as the Russell Robinson Distinguished Professor of Shakespeare studies for 18 years\, specializing in performance theory and practice. In addition to working as a dramaturg and director\, he is the author of various scholarly books including The Shakespearean Dramaturg\, Shakespeare and Political Theatre\, a performance history of Julius Caesar\, essay collections on Shakespeare on the University stage\, Shakespeare in Millennial fiction\, and (with Peter Holland) Shakespeare and Geek Culture. He is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on staging Renaissance drama. He was the editor of the performance journal Shakespeare Bulletin for Johns Hopkins UP for a decade\, was resident dramaturg for Georgia Shakespeare\, and is an honorary fellow of the University of Central Lancashire\, UK. Dr. Hartley is currently editing Julius Caesar for the Arden 4th series. In addition to teaching Shakespeare related classes\, he also taught creative writing courses for the English department. Under the pen names AJ Hartley and Andrew Hart he is the award winning\, New York Times bestselling author of 27 novels in a variety of genres\, including several books co-written with Tom DeLonge of Blink-182. Several of his books are currently in development for television and film\, and some have appeared in numerous languages overseas. As AJ Hartley he is a regular presenter at DragonCon and other regional conventions. His latest book series is Hideki Smith\, Demon Queller.
UID:148155-21903163@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260921T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 21\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nIra Hall\, PhD\nProfessor of Genetics\nDirector of the Yale Center for Genomic Health\nYale School of Medicine\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Ryan Mills\, PhD\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nDr. Hall's research career spans the fields of genetics\, genomics\, bioinformatics and data science. He received a B.A. in Integrative Biology from the University of California at Berkeley (1998)\, and worked as a technician for 2 years in Sarah Hake's plant genetics group at the USDA/ARS Plant Gene Expression Center. He received his Ph.D. in genetics from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2003)\, where his work in Shiv Grewal's laboratory established the first direct link between RNA interference and chromatin-based epigenetic inheritance. As a postdoc with Michael Wigler (2004) and independent Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow (2004-2007)\, Dr. Hall used microarray technologies and mouse strain genealogies to conduct the first systematic study of DNA copy number variation hotspots. As a faculty member at the University of Virginia (2007-2014)\, Washington University (2014-2020) and Yale (2020-present)\, his work has sought to understand the causes and consequences of genome variation in mammals\, with an increasing focus on computational methods development and human genetics. His group has developed bioinformatics tools for variant detection\, variant interpretation\, sequence alignment\, data processing\, and data integration. He has led genome-wide studies of human genome variation\, heritable gene expression variation\, human genetic disorders\, tumor evolution\, mouse strain variation\, genome stability in reprogrammed stem cells\, and single-neuron somatic mosaicism in the human brain. Dr. Hall's work has been featured in Science Magazine's Breakthrough of the Year (2003 & 2007)\, the NIMH Director's \"Ten Best of 2013\" and The Scientist (2013)\, and he has received several prestigious awards including the AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize (2003)\, the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award (2006)\, the NIH Director's New Innovator Award (2009)\, and the March of Dimes Basil O'Connor Research Award (2010). He has also served as an Associate Editor at Genome Research (2009-2014) and Genes\, Genomes and Genetics (2011-2018).\n\nMost recently\, Dr. Hall has played a leadership role in several large collaborative projects funded by NIH/NHGRI including the Centers for Common Disease Genomics\, the AnVIL cloud-based data repository and analysis platform\, and the Human Pangenome Project. His current work is focused on two broad goals: (1) mapping variants and genes that confer risk to human disease\, with ongoing projects focused on coronary artery disease and cardiometabolic traits in unique and underrepresented populations\, and (2) developing methods for the detection and interpretation of human genome variation\, with an emphasis on structural variation and other difficult-to-detect forms\, and on comprehensive trait association in human disease studies.
UID:143396-21893071@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260519T085610
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260923T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Me\, Myself and AI: Where Human Creativity and Algorithms Intersect
DESCRIPTION:Etgar Keret is a celebrated Israeli author and filmmaker known for his unique\, surreal\, and darkly comedic short stories. Keret spent time engaging with AI models to test the limits of what a machine could generate about stories and narratives. In his talk \"Me\, Myself and AI\" Keret notably explores the intersection of human creativity and algorithms. \n\nKERET BIO \nBorn in Ramat Gan in 1967\, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and film. His books have been published in over four dozen languages and his writing has appeared in The New York Times\, Le Monde\, The New Yorker\, The Guardian\, The Paris Review and Zoetrope\, among others. Over a hundred short films and several feature films have been based on his stories. He has received the Book Publishers Association of Israel's Platinum Prize several times\, and the Newman Prize for Literature (2012). In 2010\, Keret was honored in France with the decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2007\, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's \"Caméra d'Or\" award for their movie Jellyfish\, and Best Director Award from the French Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers. The two also co-wrote and directed \"The Middleman\" (2019)\, a French mini-series for ARTE\, which won the best screenplay award at Festival de la Fiction in La Rochelle. Keret was awarded the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize. His latest collection\, \"Fly Already\,\" won Israel’s most prestigious literary award\, the Sapir Prize (2018) and a National Jewish Book Award (2019). Since 2021\, he has been publishing the weekly newsletter \"Alphabet Soup\" on Substack. In 2022\, Keret presented an exhibition about his mother at the Jewish Museum Berlin. His newest short-story collection is Autocorrect.
UID:148338-21903955@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Film,Humanities,Jewish Studies,Middle East Studies,Poetry,Storytelling,Writing
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheater
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DTSTAMP:20260507T144539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Heberle Lecture and Award Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Details forthcoming\n\nAbout the speaker:\nAmanda Anderson is Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities. Her research focuses on broad questions of intellectual history\, disciplinary formation\, and the relations among literature\, moral life\, and politics. Her books include Humanities Theory (Oxford University Press\, 2025\; with Simon During)\; Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies (University of Chicago Press\, TRIOS series\, 2019\; with Rita Felski and Toril Moi)\, Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life After Psychology (Oxford University Press\, Clarendon Lectures in English Literature\, 2018)\, Bleak Liberalism (University of Chicago Press\, 2016)\, The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory (Princeton University Press\, 2006)\, The Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, and Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell University Press\, 1993). She is co-editor of George Eliot: A Companion (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2013) and Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press\, 2002). She leads the Cogut Institute’s Collaborative Humanities Initiative.
UID:148160-21903171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148160
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260518T151607
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: Coming fall 2026!\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.
UID:148332-21903934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260507T142424
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260929T181500
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guerline Jozef | 2026 Wallenberg Medal and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Guerline Jozef\, the co-founder and executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance\, will receive the 2026 Wallenberg Medal on Tuesday\, September 29th at 4:30PM in Rackham Auditorium. In keeping with the tradition of the Wallenberg Lecture\, Jozef will draw on her personal experience to share with the audience her understanding of how one person can make a difference.\n\nGuerline M. Jozef\, a servant leader rooted in faith\, is a globally recognized human rights advocate\, thought leader\, and strategist who has worked to transform the conversation on migration\, race\, and justice. Jozef is the executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA)\, a Haitian-American-women-led organization serving immigrants\, with a particular focus on Black immigrants at the US-Mexico border and beyond. With the HBA\, she has built a movement that centers people of African descent in migration while amplifying the voices of the most marginalized. She is the creator of “Tales from the Borderlands and Beyond\,” and co-founder of both the Black Immigrants Bail Fund (BIBF) and the Cameroon Advocacy Network.\n\nHer influence has been recognized nationally and internationally. She was named one of the Washingtonian’s 500 Most Influential People of 2025\, one of Politico’s 40 Most Influential People on Race\, Politics\, and Policy of 2021\, and one of the BBC’s Top 100 Women of 2024. She was honored with the Afro-Caribbean Diaspora IMPACT Award from the Caribbean Philanthropic Alliance (CariPhil)\, the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award\, the AFL-CIO’s 2024 GMLK Human Rights Award\, the 2024 Haitian Impact Awards\, and the 2023 Midwin Charles Legacy Award from the 1804 Haitian Roundtable. She has been recognized by the Women’s Refugee Commission (Voices of Courage Award\, 2024)\, The Haitian Times (Newsmaker of the Year\, 2022)\, the National Haitian-American Elected Officials Network\, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award among others.\n\nMs. Jozef has been featured in Forbes\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Politico\, Time Magazine\, The Miami Herald\, The Haitian Times\, Politico\, and DemocracyNow. She has testified before the United Nations\, the United States Congress\, and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)\, and recently brought her advocacy to the international stage during the IV International Forum of Parlamentarians in Barranquilla\, Colombia. Guerline went to the border for Haitians—but she stayed for everyone seeking safety and protection. \n\n“Guerline Jozef is a powerful advocate for the dignity and rights of migrants who has linked the experience of migration at the US-Mexico border to global human rights movements. She works tirelessly to give voice to the marginalized and to shape a more just future for all\,” said Sioban Harlow\, chair of the Wallenberg Medal Executive Committee and Professor Emerita of Epidemiology\, Obstetrics and Gynecology\, and Global Public Health.\n\nFree and open to the public. Wheelchair and ADA accessible. ASL and CART provided.
UID:145865-21897966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145865
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:human rights,Wallenberg Lecture
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260107T120553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Human Genetics Research Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, October 12\, 2026\n11:00am - 12:00pm\nLocation TBD\n\nMalia Fullerton\, DPhil\nAdjunct Professor\, Epidemiology\nProfessor\, Bioethics and Humanities\nAdjunct Professor\, Genome Sciences\nAdjunct Professor\, Medicine - Medical Genetics\nActing/Interim Center/Institute Director\, School of Public Health\nUniversity of Washington\n“Seminar Title TBD”\n\nHosted By: Wendy R. Uhlmann\, Department of Human Genetics\n___\nStephanie Malia Fullerton\, DPhil\, is Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is also Adjunct Professor in the UW Departments of Epidemiology\, Genome Sciences\, and Medicine (Medical Genetics)\, as well as an affiliate investigator with the Public Health Sciences division of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. She received a PhD in Human Population Genetics from the University of Oxford and later re-trained in Ethical\, Legal\, and Social Implications (ELSI) research with a fellowship from the NIH National Human Genome Research Institute.\n\nDr. Fullerton’s work focuses on the ethical and social implications of genomic research and its equitable and safe translation for clinical and public health benefit. She serves as the ELSI lead for the Clinical Sequencing Evidence-Generating Research (CSER2) Consortium coordinating center\, co-chairs the TOPMed Consortium ELSI Committee\, and chairs the Bioethics Advisory Board of the Kaiser Permanente national Research Bank. She contributes to a range of empirical projects focused on clinical genomics translation and precision medicine approaches to the treatment and prevention of cancer and kidney disease in diverse patient populations.
UID:143398-21893070@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143398
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Basic Science,basic sciences,biolgical chemistry,biological chemistry,biological science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,cancer,Chemistry,Discussion,epilepsy,Faculty,Free,genetics,genome,genomics,human genetics,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Epidemiology,Human Genetics\, Genetics\, Neurogenetic Diseases,Information and Technology,lecture,Life Science,lifton,Medicine,Natural Sciences,neel,neurological disease,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Public Health,Public Policy,Reception,research,Science,seminar,sodium channel,symposium
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DTSTAMP:20260519T152754
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261014T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics
DESCRIPTION:We’re finalizing the details for this event! Please check back for updates.
UID:148343-21903967@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Physics,Smoke-free,Undergrad Physics Events
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheatre
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DTSTAMP:20260506T121518
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISR Insights Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Discover groundbreaking research on social issues at the ISR Insights Speaker Series. Join us as ISR researchers take the stage to share their insights.
UID:148129-21902997@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Education,Insights Speaker Series,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260518T151607
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: Coming fall 2026!\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.
UID:148332-21903935@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260515T044220
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261027T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:148250-21903442@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148250
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Applied Mathematics,Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260527T110226
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261028T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:UM Law and Philosophy workshop: Gideon Rosen (Princeton Philosophy)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the The UM Law and Philosophy workshop\, Gideon Rosen will be speaking at U-M.\n\nMore information\, including location and talk theme will be provided closer to the date.\n\nFind more information on Gideon Rosen here: https://grosen.scholar.princeton.edu/
UID:148427-21904249@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:law,Lecture,philosophy
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DTSTAMP:20260527T113428
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Program in Philosophy\, Politics\, and Economics Lecture: Dart Lindsley
DESCRIPTION:More information\, including a description of the talk\, will be provided closer to the date.\n\nThere will also be a reception following the talk.
UID:148431-21904255@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148431
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Business,Philosophy
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888297@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260603T121827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261110T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Tanner Lecture on Human Values | Kieran Setiya
DESCRIPTION:Can humour help us cope with hardship without distancing or denial? Does laughter at misfortune manifest what Bergson called “a momentary anesthesia of the heart”—or worse? This talk takes up a puzzle about confessional comedy: why isn’t it vicious to draw pleasure from another’s suffering\, as we do when comics joke about trauma? The answer turns on the fine structure of empathy\; and the upshot is a theory of confessional stand-up as bespoke theodicy: a temporary\, interpersonal solution to the emotional problem of evil. This solution is one we can administer to ourselves\, using humour to confront adversity. Content note: violence and sexual assault.\n\nKieran Setiya is Peter de Florez Professor of Philosophy at MIT\, where he works on ethics and related questions about human agency and human knowledge. He is the author of Reasons without Rationalism\, Knowing Right From Wrong\,Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way\, which was selected as a Best Book of 2022 by The Economist and The New Yorker. His writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The Guardian\, the LA Review of Books\, the TLS\, the London Review of Books\, the Boston Review\, The Atlantic\, Aeon\, and The Yale Review\, as well as numerous academic journals. He is working on a book about laughter as a guide to life.\n\nMore information about Kieran Setiya can be found here: http://www.ksetiya.net/\n\nAbout the Tanner Lectures on Human Values\nMichigan is one of nine institutions worldwide that hosts an annual Tanner Lecture on Human Values. Tanner Lectures are funded through the generosity of the late Professor of Philosophy\, industrialist\, and philanthropist\, Obert Clark Tanner\, and his wife\, Grace Tanner. Professor Tanner wrote:I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth\, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.Although the Tanners established the supporting endowment in 1978\, Joel Feinberg's April 1977 lecture at Michigan inaugurated the international series of Tanner Lectures.Each year\, Michigan has a Tanner Lecture combined with an interdisciplinary symposium to which we invite distinguished scholars from around the world. These events are free and open to the public. The complete list of Tanner Lectures at Michigan is available here: \nhttps://lsa.umich.edu/philosophy/news-events/all-events/tanner-lecture/tanner-lectures-on-human-values-at-the-university-of-michigan.html.
UID:148434-21904271@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148434
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888405@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260527T110126
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:UM Law and Philosophy workshop: Miranda Fricker (NYU Philosophy)
DESCRIPTION:As part of the The UM Law and Philosophy workshop\, Miranda Fricker will be speaking at U-M.\n\nInformation about the location and talk theme will be provided closer to the date.\n\nMore information about Miranda Fricker can be found here: https://www.mirandafricker.com/.
UID:148429-21904251@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148429
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Law,Lecture,Philosophy
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CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260505T165245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISR Insights Speaker Series
DESCRIPTION:Discover groundbreaking research on social issues at the ISR Insights Speaker Series. Join us as ISR researchers take the stage to share their insights.
UID:148107-21902963@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148107
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251028T082420
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2026 Van Eenan Lectures: Ronnie Sircar
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:141176-21888406@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141176
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260518T151607
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: Coming fall 2026!\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.
UID:148332-21903936@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260518T151607
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: Coming fall 2026!\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.
UID:148332-21903938@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Lecture
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20251205T091103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270420T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Colloquium: TBA
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:142065-21889962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/142065
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 1360
CONTACT:
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