Lecture / Discussion:Psychology Diversity Week Discussion Panel
2025-04-02 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Detroit) | East Hall - 4448
Panelists:
Dr. Germine Awad, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Professor of Psychology

Dr. Matthew Countryman, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, Past Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Faculty Director of the OVPR Arts of Citizenship Program

Dr. Carla O’Connor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Education, Director of Wolverine Pathways

Dr. Alford Young, Jr., University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy

Moderator:
Dr. Kevin Cokley, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, Professor of Psychology, Associate Chair for Diversity Initiatives

The assault on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is one of several threats to higher education. These threats are part of what former U-M president Lee Bollinger has characterized as “an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government”. For years the University of Michigan has been a higher education leader in DEI initiatives, operating one of the most comprehensive DEI operations in the country. This has made U-M a target, resulting in a New York Times article critically evaluating DEI at U-M and concluding that students and faculty are more frustrated than ever. Instead of defending diversity as prior U-M leadership has done, current leadership has engaged in “anticipatory compliance” by banning diversity statements and threatening to cut funding from a “DEI bureaucracy”. Diversity officers from across the country are closely watching what happens at U-M, because successfully dismantling DEI at U-M would send shock waves throughout higher education and likely represent DEI’s last stand.

In this panel, participants from different disciplinary backgrounds who are part of a DEI workgroup will discuss their efforts to defend DEI at U-M. They will discuss the strategies they have used and describe the successes as well as ongoing challenges of their efforts.

Livestream / Virtual:Rackham Consultation Services: Virtual Office Hours
2025-04-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
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Conference / Symposium:What is Critical Now? Media Studies Between Crisis and Critique
2025-04-02 14:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher 100
Media today are our situation; they constitute the fabric of living. But a number of new crises–and subjects–have profoundly shaped the field of media studies, including an environmental turn in media studies, elemental media, ubiquitous computing, distributed sensing, and pervasive algorithms and artificial intelligence. Accordingly, this conference revists and updates Mark B.N. Hansen and WJT Mitchell’s landmark Critical Terms for Media Studies (2010) by accounting for how these new ways of thinking impact the subjective, aesthetic, political, material and economic registers of life and living in the twenty-first century.

In particular, the conference will explore the many disciplinary and post-disciplinary transformations in the study of media since its publication (including the moment of “post-critique”). To that end, the conference will bring together an interdisciplinary set of emerging scholars external to the University of Michigan with UM graduate students and faculty to reconsider the project of media critique today.

The morning session (10:00 am-11:30 am, Digital Studies Institute Lab Space) is reserved for a limited-capacity working session with the invited speakers for graduate students involved broadly in the critical study of media. RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/qZkRx

The afternoon (2:00 pm- 5:00 pm, Hatcher Graduate Library, Hatcher Gallery, Room 100) will consist of four 45-minute “Keyword Panel” sessions, with a talk by each guest speaker followed by a dialogue with U-M faculty. The panel discussion is open to graduate students, the Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan faculty and students, and the general public to reflect on post-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary turns within the study of media technology and culture as well as new limits and possibilities for media critique. RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/qZkRx

2:00 - 2:05 pm: Opening Remarks

2:05 - 2:40 pm: Dr. Thomas Pringle (USC), Keyword: “Environment,” Respondent: Dr. Megan Ewing (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)

2:40 - 3:15 pm: Dr. Hannah Zeavin (UC Berkeley), Keyword: “Mother,” Respondent: Dr. Andreas Gailus (Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures)

3:15 - 3:30 pm: Break

3:30 - 4:05 pm: Dr. Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal (Basel), Keyword: “Concretion,” Respondent: Dr. Justin Joque (Visualization Librarian, Social Sciences and Clark Library)

4:05 - 4:40 pm: Dr. Anna Shechtman (Cornell), Keyword: “Text,” Respondent: Dr. Megan Ankerson (Communication & Media)

4:40 - 4:55 pm: Faculty Lightning Presentations

4:55 - 5:00 pm: Closing Remarks

Speaker Bios:

Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in English Literature, with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, from University of California, Davis. Ranjodh’s research, which traces the aesthetic and political entanglements of our technological cultures, lies at the intersections of science fiction studies, critical media theory, and histories of science and technology.

Thomas Patrick Pringle is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Pringle focuses on historical approaches to film and media, with an emphasis on how media shape how environments are conceived in a given place and time and how technologies interact with physical environments.

​​Anna Shechtman is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, specializing in media studies and American literature. She is writing a two-volume history of the “media” and “data” concepts in the United States. The first examines the social formations and technologies of production that have allowed "media" to incorporate—and perhaps even supersede—the categories of "art," "literature," "communication," and "culture" in the second half of the 20th century.

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History (Science / North America) in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.

We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form, please email Rebecca Uliasz at ruliasz@umich.edu.

We would like to thank the following co-sponsors:

Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing
Department of American Culture
Department of Comparative Literature
Department of English Language & Literature
Department of Film, Television, and Media
Department of Communication and Media
Digital Studies Institute
Institute for Humanities
Media Studies (Graduate Student) Interest Group

Workshop / Seminar:What is Critical Now? Media Studies Between Crisis and Critique
2025-04-02 14:00 - 17:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library, Hatcher Gallery, Room 100, 913 S. University Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 481909
Media today are our situation; they constitute the fabric of living. But a number of new crises–and subjects–have profoundly shaped the field of media studies, including an environmental turn in media studies, elemental media, ubiquitous computing, distributed sensing, and pervasive algorithms and artificial intelligence. Accordingly, this conference revists and updates Mark B.N. Hansen and WJT Mitchell’s landmark Critical Terms for Media Studies (2010) by accounting for how these new ways of thinking impact the subjective, aesthetic, political, material and economic registers of life and living in the twenty-first century.In particular, the conference will explore the many disciplinary and post-disciplinary transformations in the study of media since its publication (including the moment of “post-critique”). To that end, the conference will bring together an interdisciplinary set of emerging scholars external to the University of Michigan with UM graduate students and faculty to reconsider the project of media critique today.The morning session (10:00 am-11:30 am, Digital Studies Institute Lab Space) is reserved for a limited-capacity working session with the invited speakers for graduate students involved broadly in the critical study of media.
The afternoon (2:00 pm- 5:00 pm, Hatcher Graduate Library, Hatcher Gallery, Room 100) will consist of four 45-minute “Keyword Panel” sessions, with a talk by each guest speaker followed by a dialogue with U-M faculty. The panel discussion is open to graduate students, the Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan faculty and students, and the general public to reflect on post-disciplinary or trans-disciplinary turns within the study of media technology and culture as well as new limits and possibilities for media critique.

Speaker Bios:Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, and Media Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in English Literature, with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies, from University of California, Davis. Ranjodh’s research, which traces the aesthetic and political entanglements of our technological cultures, lies at the intersections of science fiction studies, critical media theory, and histories of science and technology.Thomas Patrick Pringle is an Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Pringle focuses on historical approaches to film and media, with an emphasis on how media shape how environments are conceived in a given place and time and how technologies interact with physical environments.​​Anna Shechtman is an Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, specializing in media studies and American literature. She is writing a two-volume history of the “media” and “data” concepts in the United States. The first examines the social formations and technologies of production that have allowed "media" to incorporate—and perhaps even supersede—the categories of "art," "literature," "communication," and "culture" in the second half of the 20th century.Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor of History (Science / North America) in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.
We want to make our events accessible to all participants. CART services will be provided. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate or would like help filling out the RSVP form, please email Rebecca Uliasz at ruliasz@umich.edu.We would like to thank the following co-sponsors:Media Studies (Graduate Student) Interest GroupDepartment of Comparative LiteratureDepartment of English Language & LiteratureDepartment of Film, Television and MediaDepartment of Communication and MediaDigital Studies Institute

Workshop / Seminar:Firm Premia in Pay vs. Amenities
2025-04-02 14:30 - 15:50 | Lorch Hall - 201
This paper develops a new approach to measuring non-wage amenities and compensating differentials in the labor market. Using a survey of 20,000 job movers in Denmark, we elicit workers’ reservation wage to return to their previous job. Our sample contains a large, connected network of firms, enabling us to estimate firm-wide premia and match effects in amenities. Overall, higher-paying firms provide slightly worse non-pay amenities. Although they provide better perks and flexibility, they also come with higher layoff risk, faster work pace, and greater stress. On average, moves to jobs offering 10% higher pay involve a 5% reduction in the value of amenities, with 0.7% attributable to firm-wide tradeoffs and the remainder attributable to match effects. Using a standard search model, we quantify the role of amenities in labor market inequality while accounting for endogenous mobility. While firms in the top wage decile pay 16% more than those in the bottom decile, the difference in total utility remains substantial at 12% of wages, reflecting that most amenity-wage tradeoffs are idiosyncratic.

Workshop / Seminar:Learning Seminar in Algebraic Combinatorics: A Brief History of Intersection Theory (two lectures)
2025-04-02 14:30 - 15:30 | East Hall - 4088
Early remarkable discoveries in intersection theory go back to
1849, when algebraic geometry as we know it was just beginning.
Schubert (and others) during the next half century found
many amazing formulas, but without solid proofs or foundations.
Hilbert's 15th problem asked for such foundations. Providing
them involved developments in topology, algebra, and algebraic
geometry, although the required rigor remained a challenge for
some time.

My aim is to emphasize some of the less well known parts of this
story, as well as to point out some of the common misconceptions.

Other:A Collaborative Community Art Experience
2025-04-02 15:00 - 18:00
A Collaborative Art Experience with Hillel Smith: Join us for a unique and meaningful art event led by future social workers of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program (JCLP) in partnership with U-M Hillel and the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor. The tension and tragedy in Israel and on campus has made an indelible mark on our student community. Renowned visual artist Hillel Smith will guide us in curating a collaborative art piece that reflects the strength and resilience of our community over the past year and half. Together, we will explore creativity, connection, and community through art, and the final product will be a lasting tribute, finding its permanent home at the University of Michigan Hillel.

This event is an opportunity to engage in a hands-on art session that promotes expression, unity, and connection with others in the Jewish community. No prior art experience is necessary! All materials will be provided. Come as you are and leave as a part of something greater. This an "open house" style event with a short introduction beginning at 3 PM - drop in as you're able! We look forward to creating something beautiful with you.

Please RSVP at ssw.umich.edu/r/jclp2025.

Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | An introduction to climate engineering
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 | West Hall - 340
It is possible to reduce some of the climate risks of accumulated CO2 by deliberately altering the Earth's albedo using Sunlight Reflection Methods (SRM) also called solar geoengineering. It is possible to remove carbon from the atmosphere at large scale using various methods for Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR). Estimates of the cost, risks, and efficacy these tools will remain uncertain but it is now possible to make some policy-relevant quantitative comparisons between risks and benefits, and to speculate about the appropriate use of energy-system decarbonization, CDR, and SRM.

Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Coffee Chats
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite
Join the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) student orgs for coffee and conversation every Wednesday from 3-4 p.m. in the IOE Community Suite.

Recreational / Games:Schokoladenstunde
2025-04-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Modern Languages Building - 3110
Convenes on Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m. in 3110 MLB. There will be some German chocolate to snack on. Silvia Grzeskowiak (sgrzesko@umich.edu) will bring games, and the hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu.)
