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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on  Culture & Health (Miguel Arce Rentería)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 1430.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life.  Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals.  The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nThese events are held Mondays from 3:30 to 5.\nIn person: ISR Thompson 1430\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded\, but as permissions allow\, interviews with speakers are later posted to our YouTube playlist.
UID:148585-21904483@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148585
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Population  Health,Multicultural,Psychology,Public Health,Social Sciences,Diversity,Health,Health & Wellness,In Person
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20260608T112653
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T130000
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:148599-21904502@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148599
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Science,Insights Speaker Series,Research
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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DTSTAMP:20260608T161737
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Complexity in the Social World: The Challenging Case of ‘Place’
DESCRIPTION:October 8-9\, 2026 | Institute for Social Research\n\nThe challenge: New data and approaches to study complexity in the social world has often been without a concurrent focus on the foundations of scientific inquiry\, including complex thinking\, broad causal thinking\, attention to epistemic lens\, and integrating multiple disciplinary approaches. Further\, the academic research model\, with its resource-segregated networks\, discipline-specific training\, and short-term productivity metrics\, contributes to a fragmented and potentially misleading understanding of the social world. In the second annual ISR Symposium on Complexity in the Social World\, we will use ‘place’ as the case study to facilitate discussions on rigorous social science in the public interest. \n\nUsing research on place as the case study\, discussion topics will include:\n- Complex thinking about the social world\n- The contribution of the humanities the study of the social world\n- Epistemic lens and research transparency\n- Theories\, frameworks\, and the limits of traditional causal inference\n- The draw and danger of cool new data \n- Addressing the challenges of the academic model of science\n\nPresentations on the science of place will include:\n- The relational nature of place in population social inequalities\n- The role of history in shaping place\n- The racialization of place\; the spatialization of race\n- Place as a neutral and rational driver of social inequalities\n- Approaches to testing (causal) ideas around place\n\nThe Institute for Social Research will provide 35 travel awards for early career scholars who are building a career around the interdisciplinary science of place. These awards are intended to reduce financial barriers for those who are not currently affiliated with the University of Michigan. The awards are designed to broaden participation\, support scholarly development\, and expand the network of scholars engaged with the symposium themes. Travel awards will cover coach class airfare\, symposium hotel\, and ground airport transportation. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis\, from July 1\, 2026 until September 4\, 2026. Details and application at https://myumi.ch/DWGnj\n\nRegistration will be available on this site soon.
UID:147845-21902038@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147845
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Sciences,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260608T161737
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261009T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Complexity in the Social World: The Challenging Case of ‘Place’
DESCRIPTION:October 8-9\, 2026 | Institute for Social Research\n\nThe challenge: New data and approaches to study complexity in the social world has often been without a concurrent focus on the foundations of scientific inquiry\, including complex thinking\, broad causal thinking\, attention to epistemic lens\, and integrating multiple disciplinary approaches. Further\, the academic research model\, with its resource-segregated networks\, discipline-specific training\, and short-term productivity metrics\, contributes to a fragmented and potentially misleading understanding of the social world. In the second annual ISR Symposium on Complexity in the Social World\, we will use ‘place’ as the case study to facilitate discussions on rigorous social science in the public interest. \n\nUsing research on place as the case study\, discussion topics will include:\n- Complex thinking about the social world\n- The contribution of the humanities the study of the social world\n- Epistemic lens and research transparency\n- Theories\, frameworks\, and the limits of traditional causal inference\n- The draw and danger of cool new data \n- Addressing the challenges of the academic model of science\n\nPresentations on the science of place will include:\n- The relational nature of place in population social inequalities\n- The role of history in shaping place\n- The racialization of place\; the spatialization of race\n- Place as a neutral and rational driver of social inequalities\n- Approaches to testing (causal) ideas around place\n\nThe Institute for Social Research will provide 35 travel awards for early career scholars who are building a career around the interdisciplinary science of place. These awards are intended to reduce financial barriers for those who are not currently affiliated with the University of Michigan. The awards are designed to broaden participation\, support scholarly development\, and expand the network of scholars engaged with the symposium themes. Travel awards will cover coach class airfare\, symposium hotel\, and ground airport transportation. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis\, from July 1\, 2026 until September 4\, 2026. Details and application at https://myumi.ch/DWGnj\n\nRegistration will be available on this site soon.
UID:147845-21902039@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/147845
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Sciences,Interdisciplinary
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research
CONTACT:
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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:Social Science,Insights Speaker Series,Education
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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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:Social Science,Insights Speaker Series
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260608T112731
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20270128T130000
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:148597-21904499@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148597
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Research,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430
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