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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group
DESCRIPTION:Givenness and the Said Construction - Alicia Stevers\nInformation within a discourse is introduced in a way that reflects the speaker’s assumptions about the knowledge of the hearer. Theories of discourse often label information that the hearer is expected to know at the time of utterance as “given” information. However\, different discourse theories have argued that a wider or narrower range of phrases should be considered given\, based on whether they contain information that has been explicitly mentioned\, inferred by something previously stated or assumed to be in the hearer’s consciousness by common world knowledge (Chafe 1967\, Haviland & Clark 1974\, Chafe 1976\, Kuno 1978\, Prince 1981\, 1992\, inter alia). One construction that seems to interact with notions of givenness is the Said Construction (SC). SC is characterized by the use of said as a determiner\, followed by a noun (N2) that seems to be given (in some sense) and licensed by an antecedent noun (N1): “I made a turkey sandwichN1 for lunch but I left said sandwichN2 on the kitchen counter.” A close examination of SC seems to show that said can only be used to refer to something that has already been stated or is linguistically entailed by the discourse. With this in mind\, looking at information structure through the lens of this construction can provide a new perspective into some of the less solidified and conventionally agreed upon details of the notion of givenness.\nI present the results of two studies on SC. The first is a corpus based analysis based on a collection of 261 tokens found across a variety of genres such as fiction\, spoken language\, written news\, historical documents\, blogs\, and social media. The results of this analysis reveal a strong tendency for SC to refer to information that is given due to linguistic context. The second study tested the results of the first analysis by gathering native English speakers’ judgements of the grammaticality of SC in various informational contexts. Results show that participants are most likely to rate said as acceptable in an environment with a linguistically stated referent. The results of these experiments point towards the idea that in order to account for SC’s relationship with information in a discourse\, a definition of givenness that is limited to linguistic context and excludes extralinguistic information (such as situational context and world knowledge) is necessary.\n\n\"People say\, 'Omarosa is Black\, Omarosa is a Woman\,' I'm an American First.\" :\nOmarosa and Hyperarticulated /t/ - Rachel Elizabeth Weissler \nMultiple scholarly treatments have argued that released or hyperarticulated /t/ indexes intelligence\, is used in more professional contexts\, and indexes emphasis and strength in discourse (Bucholtz 1995\, Podesva 2006\, Eckert 2008b). Podesva et al’s (2015) study on released /t/ demonstrates that even in a subject pool balanced for gender\, race\, regional accent\, and political affiliation\, women politicians use final and medial released /t/ more than their male counterparts. Additionally\, Podesva et al (2012) show that among many features that former Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice uses to construct her identity\, 72% of her final /t/’s are released.\nThe current study looks at the speech of conservative politician Omarosa Manigault and her use of hyperarticulated final /t/ in the construction of her identity. This study shows that variable proportions in how final /t/ is articulated function as an index that allows speakers significant performative flexibility. Though Condi and Omarosa are both black female conservatives\, they are very different kinds of conservatives. While Condi has worked in academia and politics her entire career\, Omarosa has no formal training in politics\, worked briefly in the office of Al Gore during the Clinton Administration\, and now works for President Donald Trump\, who she forged a relationship with during her stint on The Apprentice. While Condi’s speech reflects “neutrality and standard language” (Podesva et al 2012)\, Omarosa’s speech indexes a different kind of conservative performance\, one rooted in a more populist framework through which she can appeal particularly to African Americans\, since working with disenfranchised groups is central to her current role\, while also appealing to the American Public at large as a political figure.\nThe data consist of word-final /t/ realizations within a 15-minute interview of Omarosa on The View\, in which she discusses a myriad of topics including her role as assistant to President Trump and director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison\, her upbringing\, the African American community\, and her marital engagement. Realizations of final hyperarticulated /t/ were auditorily coded\, with a total number of 41 realizations of hyperarticulated /t/ relative to 40 /t/ unreleased realizations. Overall\, Omarosa hyperarticulated 50.6% of the time in this interview.\nI show that Omarosa’s use of both hyperarticulated /t/ and unreleased /t/ can be linked to specific factors such as particular socio-lexical items (buzzwords from the Trump administration)\, target audience (the African American community versus America at large)\, and spontaneous speech versus more prepared remarks. This variation endorses the conclusion that realizations of a feature can vary based on speaker’s opinions about the topics being discussed (Schilling-Estes 2004). Through the calibrated use of these variants of /t/\, Omarosa indexes intelligence and professionalism\, as has been found in previous research. However\, her choice to use unreleased /t/ while discussing certain topics such as her upbringing in the projects\, or her fiancé allows her to index a more populist stance\, thereby constructing an identity designed to resonate with multiple\naudiences.
UID:43008-9696288@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43008
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Discussion
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170824T150139
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory
DESCRIPTION:Details to come.
UID:42949-9685668@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42949
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170807T133639
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Surface Water-Groundwater Exchange and Nitrogen Fate in Tidal Rivers
DESCRIPTION:Tides in coastal rivers can propagate tens to hundreds of kilometers inland and drive pulses in water and nutrient exchange between rivers and their surrounding aquifers. Our group is using field observations and numerical models to understand enhanced surface water-groundwater exchange and nitrogen transformations in the riparian zones of tidal rivers. At our field site in White Clay Creek (Delaware\, USA)\, we observe that tidal water table fluctuations aerate shallow groundwater in the banks\, which allows high nitrate concentrations to develop. Continuous depth-resolved measurements of redox potential suggest that the zone of elevated nitrate is relatively stable over tidal timescales but moves up or down in response to storms. Much of the nitrate is removed by denitrification along oscillating flow paths towards the channel. However\, denitrification is limited within centimeters of the sediment-water interface by the mixing of groundwater with oxygen-rich river water. Our models predict that the benthic zones of tidal rivers play an important role in removing new nitrate inputs from discharging groundwater but may be less effective at removing nitrate from river water. Nitrate removal and production rates are expected to vary significantly along tidal rivers as permeability\, organic matter content\, tidal range vary. It is imperative that we understand nitrogen dynamics along tidal rivers and their role in nitrogen export to the coast.
UID:41527-9326538@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41527
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture
LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170901T154108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Associate Professor Matthew R. Chapman
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nAmyloid formation has a nefarious history. Linked to protein misfolding and cytotoxicity\, amyloids are the hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. However\, amyloid formation is not always bad. In fact\, organisms spanning nearly every facet of cellular life produce ‘functional’ amyloids that contribute positively to cellular biology. Bacterial functional amyloids called curli are the major proteinaceous component of the extracellular matrix\, and they help protect the cells during biofilm growth. Curli also provide a sophisticated suite of genetic and biochemical tools for understanding how cells coordinate and control amyloid formation. The major curli subunit is CsgA\, which is highly amyloidogenic\, although the cell has powerful mechanisms for discouraging intracellular CsgA amyloid formation. We have characterized several E. coli chaperones for their ability to deter CsgA amyloid formation\, including two proteins that work specifically during curli biogenesis. These two proteins\, called CsgC and CsgE\, are periplasmic proteins with unique and potent anti-amyloid properties. The anti-amyloid properties of CsgC will be discussed. Interestingly\, we found that CsgC also prevented amyloid formation by α-synuclein\, the underlying cause of Parkinson’s disease. A common Q-X-G-X1/2-N-X5-Q motif was identified in CsgC client proteins\, including α-synuclein. We are currently looking the anti-amyloid properties of a human protein called transthyretin (TTR) that shows remarkable structural homology to CsgC. When CsgA is co-incubated with either human TTR fibrillogenesis is inhibited. The biologic implementation of the TTR-CsgA interaction was assessed by observing the effect of TTR on amyloid-dependent biofilm formation by two different bacterial species using a pellicle forming assay. Biofilm formation was substantially inhibited by both the TTR tetramer and engineered monomer. Therefore\, both TTR and CsgC behave as a chaperone-like proteins that discourage amyloid formation. It is possible that this phenomenon might be utilized to enhance antibiotic efficacy in infections associated with significant biofilm formation.
UID:42537-9609354@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42537
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Biophysics
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry
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DTSTAMP:20170908T161307
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Climate & Space Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Our special guest for next week's first CLaSP Seminar of the fall 2017 semester will be U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering professor Joi Mondisa.\n\nProfessor Mondisa will give a presentation titled \"Mentoring Insights and Practices: Examining the Experiences of African-American STEM Mentors in Higher Education\" on Thursday\, September 14 at 3:30pm in the SRB Auditorium\, RM 2246.\n\nSee you there!
UID:43959-9855257@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43959
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Free,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
LOCATION:Space Research Building - 2246
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170802T162002
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T173000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Changes in Dowry Practices?: Insights on Dowry and Its Regulation
DESCRIPTION:The Law in India has prohibited demands for dowry since 1961 and expected penalties have been increased multiple times since then\, but from most accounts the incidence and magnitude of dowry demands appears to have only increased. I am examining dowry from a somewhat different perspective - are there examples of dowry having declined and what insights might we gain from these examples? This examination includes not only current instances of declines in dowry in India\, but also historical and comparative examples. Through this kind of inquiry one hopes to obtain some useful insights for law and law reform in the South Asian context. \n    \nVikramaditya Khanna is the William W. Cook Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He earned his S.J.D. at Harvard Law School and was Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law\, Fall 2013 at Harvard Law School. He was also a senior research fellow at Columbia Law School and Yale Law School\, and a visiting scholar at Stanford Law School. His interest areas include corporate and securities laws\, law and legal issues in India\, corporate and white collar crime\, legal profession and professional responsibility\, corporate governance in emerging markets\, and law and economics. He is the founding and current editor of India Law eJournal and White Collar Crime eJournal at the Social Science Research Network and has served as Special Master in a dispute involving an Indian and American company. He has testified at the U.S. Congress and his papers have been published in the Harvard Law Review\, Journal of Finance\, Journal of Econometrics\, Michigan Law Review\, Supreme Court Economic Review\, Journal of Law\, Economics and Organization\, American Journal of Comparative Law\, and the Georgetown Law Journal\, amongst others. News publications in the US\, India\, Germany\, Switzerland\, Brazil\, and the United Kingdom have quoted him. He has given talks at Harvard\, Columbia\, Stanford\, Yale\, NYU\, Berkeley\, Wharton\, NBER\, and other venues in the US\, India\, China\, Turkey\, and Greece amongst others\, including a keynote in Brazil.
UID:41487-9308241@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41487
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Law
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170905T130627
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:First Meeting | Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory
DESCRIPTION:The Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop Central Concepts in Contemporary Theory warmly welcomes all to its first meeting of the Fall 2017 semester this Friday\, September 8\, at 4pm\, in 2024 Tisch Hall. Coffee will be provided. \n\nFor the fall semester\, we will be thinking about the concept of tragedy in the work of the twentieth-century German theorist\, Walter Benjamin. To start us off\, this Friday we will discuss a series of short essays by Benjamin on tragedy\, melancholy\, and language. We will provide all interested participants with a full reader of the Benjamin texts to be discussed during the semester at the first meeting. \n\nIf you are interested to attend the first meeting\, please email either Megan Torti (mtorti@umich.edu) or Srdjan Cvjeticanin (srdjan@umich.edu) for a pdf copy of the readings to be discussed at the first meeting. Likewise please contact either Megan or Srdjan if you have any questions about the workshop\, the schedule for the fall semester\, or if you would like to be put on our regular email list for the term.
UID:43568-9821434@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43568
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,European,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Rackham,English Language And Literature,Classical Studies
LOCATION:Tisch Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170825T153638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Legacy: Art across Generations Grand Opening and DAAS Welcome Reception
DESCRIPTION:Legacy: Art across Generations presents selected paintings by Chrislan Fuller Manuel who experiments with vivid colors resulting in vibrant\, multifaceted creations that move the spirit. The exhibit also includes a selection of sculptures by Manuel's inspiration\, her great-grandmother\, the renowned artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. The exhibit united the two in a  powerful dialogue between women who share familiar ties and a passion for creating their vision through artistic expression.
UID:43034-9697029@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43034
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Visual Arts,History,Family,Exhibition,Art,African American
LOCATION:Haven Hall - G648 GalleryDAAS
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DTSTAMP:20170808T112652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
SUMMARY:Rally / Mass Meeting:Residential College Convocation
DESCRIPTION:Mass Meeting to welcome new Residential College students
UID:42032-9527910@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42032
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Welcome to Michigan
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Keene Theater, East Quad
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170802T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T183000
SUMMARY:Performance:Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say - Vital Signs for a New America
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner\, Sheryl Oring\, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner\, Oring\, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories\; listening and re-learning\; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.\n\nActive public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming\, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner\; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring\; and a tactile\, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out\, listen\, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.
UID:41895-9489331@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41895
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170731T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Exhibition Reception - The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is a group exhibition including image and video work by Terry Adkins\, John Akomfrah\, Shelagh Keeley\, and Zineb Sedira. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCo-curated by Gaëtane Verna\, Director of The Power Plant\, and Mark Sealy\, The Unfinished Conversation is grounded in the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall (1932-2014)\, who devoted his life to studying the interweaving threads of culture\, power\, politics\, and history. \n\nTaking Hall’s essay Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse as a point of departure\, viewers will be invited to think about how meaning is constructed\; how it is systematically distorted by audience reception\; and how it can be detached and drained of its original intent to produce specific or slanted narratives. Hall’s interdisciplinary approach drew on literary theory\, linguistics\, and cultural anthropology in order to analyse and articulate the relationship between history\, culture\, popular media\, cold war politics\, gender\, and ethnicity.\n\nBy presenting the work of artists who bring into play time\, memory\, and archives so as to construct new readings of the past\, the exhibition will lay emphasis on the idea that the “visual” is an assimilatory process continuously at work in the construction of cultural\, political\, personal\, and national identities.\n\nCo-curators Gaëtane Verna and Mark Sealy state that it is their curatorial intention to build a multiple moving/still/audio archive\, an image map\, a visual vehicle that will ferry the audience across the choppy waters of memory\, images\, and politics to an undeterminable\, obscure\, and un-chartable destination\, where people often meet with a fatal end. The exhibition aims to take viewers on a journey in time\, to bring them to encounter images\, which act as both objects of art and ideas in flux\, circulating in and out of the archive through the corridors of cultural re-construction.\n\nThis image map will be drawn by the work of Terry Adkins\, John Akomfrah\, Shelagh Keeley and Zineb Sedira\, four artists whose practice is devoted primarily to commenting on recent socio-political events and situations and relating them to the not so distant past in order to help us understand the world we live in.\n\nBy stimulating our personal and collective memory\, these works will show us how history agitates and causes anxiety in our personal lives and in the political realm as they will reveal the fact that national identity is not an essence or a state of being\, but a “becoming\,” a process whereby subjectivities are formed in the interstices between such binary oppositions as us/them\, black/white\, or native/foreigner\, and that it is in those in-between spaces that marginalized people are the agents and subjects of many possible futures\, imagined or real.\n\nThe thread that connects all these art works is the artist’s involvement with the significant social issues confronting humanity today and their profound desire to push formal boundaries in order to tackle them.\n\nThe Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding is organized and circulated by The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery\, Toronto in partnership with Autograph ABP\, London. The exhibition is co-curated by Gaëtane Verna\, Director\, The Power Plant and Mark Sealy\, Director\, Autograph ABP.\n\nPhoto by Toni Hafkenscheid.
UID:41798-9474973@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41798
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Reception
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170907T121540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T200000
SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Exhibition Reception: Vital Signs for a New America
DESCRIPTION:On view from September 8-October 14\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.\, Ann Arbor)\, Vital Signs for a New America is a group exhibition including work by Dylan Miner\, Sheryl Oring\, and the performance collective The Hinterlands. There will be an exhibition reception on Friday\, September 8 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nCurated by Srimoyee Mitra\, Vital Signs for a New America uses a range of meaningful and compelling of community-engaged approaches to invite the public to join Miner\, Oring\, and The Hinterlands in speaking out and sharing stories\; listening and re-learning\; and remembering the past to imagine new possibilities for the future.\n\nActive public engagement is at the heart of Vital Signs for a New America. Each work on view in this group exhibition offers opportunities to interact directly with the artists and their art. As part of the exhibition programming\, the gallery will become a common space for storytelling and tea drinking with Dylan Miner\; a bustling executive assistant’s office with Sheryl Oring\; and a tactile\, expansive personal archive with the performance collective The Hinterlands. Vital Signs invites the public to speak out\, listen\, and imagine new models for inclusive futures.\n\nDylan Miner: Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore\nSaturdays\, September 9-October 14\, 1-3 pm\n\nDylan Miner\, Director of American Indian and Indigenous Studies at Michigan State University\, is an artist\, activist\, and scholar. Miner identifies as a Wiisaakodewinini (Métis)\, the Ojibwe designation for a Native male of mixed ancestry. While conducting an oral history project with retired Anishinaabe autoworkers\, elders shared the idea that “we don’t visit as much as we used to” due to the limitations of urbanizations\, wage labor\, and settler colonialism to name a few. In response\, Miner was inspired to explore the methodology of visiting with an art gallery or museum context. Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore is a creative action where the public is invited to share tea and conversation with the artist\, creating new friendships and maintaining social relationships within a specific time and place.\n\nSheryl Oring: I Wish to Say \nFriday\, September 8\, 5-6.30 pm and 7-8 pm (two engagements)\nFridays\, September 15-October 13\, 5-7 pm\n\nNationally renowned artist Sheryl Oring’s belief in the value of free expression guaranteed by the American constitution propelled her to initiate I Wish to Say (2004-ongoing)\, a public platform that invites people to voice their concerns about the state-of-affairs in the country to the President of America. For this project\, Oring sets up a portable public office — complete with a manual typewriter — and invites viewers to dictate postcards to the President of the United States\, prompting with a simple phrase: “Do you have a message for the president?” Over the last decade\, Oring has toured this project across the country and more than 3\,000 postcards have been mailed to the White House. Taking place for the first time in Michigan\, Oring will be working with students and volunteers at the Stamps Gallery and in the city of Ann Arbor to spark dialogues not just among artists and academics but also among the diverse public of Ann Arbor on their notes to the President.\n\nThe Hinterlands: The Radicalization Process Papers \nTuesday\, October 3\, 6-7.30pm: History is a Living Weapon (performance)\n\nThe Hinterlands delve into the past to remember and re-learn the cultural memories and collective histories of Detroit and Ann Arbor. A collection of boxes is discovered in the basement of a house on the border of Detroit and Hamtramck. In them\, a rich personal archive of publication clippings\, which appear to chronicle radical U.S. histories of the 60s and 70s. Using the archive as a performative platform\, the artists invite audiences to engage with the materials contained in the boxes that blur the boundaries between fact and fiction\, real and imagined. The ephemera and memorabilia in the The Radicalization Process Papers takes audiences on a journey that navigates layers of historical accounts\, art\, politics\, and cultural artifacts and asks audiences to examine the assumptions of freedom and democracy in popular American culture. Created and compiled by The Hinterlands in collaboration with historian and poet Casey Rocheteau and designer Ben Gaydos.
UID:41896-9489338@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41896
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170905T171812
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T200000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Fall 2017 Kickoff Lecture: Dean Jonathan Massey\, \"Building Tomorrow\"
DESCRIPTION:Dean Jonathan Massey kicks off the Taubman College 2017 Fall Lecture Series\, welcoming back the Taubman College community and introducing a vision for the college in its next era: Building Tomorrow. \nArchitect and historian Jonathan Massey is dean and professor at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. In his previous position as dean of architecture at California College of Arts\, his primary responsibility was for the vision\, leadership\, and administration of the CCA Architecture Division\, which includes three accredited programs in architecture and interior design. At Syracuse University\, he was the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence\, where he chaired the Bachelor of Architecture program and the University Senate.\nMassey holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Princeton University as well as a Master of Architecture degree from UCLA. His professional training includes practice experience at Dagmar Richter Studio\, Brantner Design Associates\, and Gehry Partners along with teaching experience at Barnard College\, Parsons School of Design\, Pratt Institute\, and Woodbury University. In addition\, he was a co-founder of the Transdisciplinary Media Studio and the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative\, which focus on the ways that history and practice of architecture and urbanism are understood and taught. His ongoing research explores how architecture mediates power by forming civil society\, shaping social relationships\, and regulating consumption. In Crystal and Arabesque: Claude Bragdon\, Ornament\, and Modern Architecture (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2009) he reconstructed the techniques through which American modernist architects engaged new media\, audiences and problems of mass society. His work on topics ranging from ornament and organicism to risk management and sustainable design has appeared in many journals and essay collections\, including Aggregate's essay collection Governing by Design: Architecture\, Economy\, and Politics in the 20th Century (University of Pittsburgh Press\, 2012).
UID:43616-9821487@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43616
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Lecture
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Commons
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170908T180019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T200000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Networking Gala with Professionals! 
DESCRIPTION:Fall recruiting is in the air. We know your pain points so we invited young professionals from Ford\, EY\, P&G\, AVL\, and OFO to share their experiences and advice on how to stand out during networking. Please join us for this intimate networking dinner while food and drinks will be provided. Hurry\, seats are limited to only 25 spots! 
UID:43513-9801131@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43513
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Ross School of Business
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170908T180019
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20170908T211500
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Cocktail Party
DESCRIPTION:Come have fun in a casual networking environment with the PBL brothers!  
UID:42629-9616900@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:PBL 
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