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DTSTAMP:20160316T171311
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T090000
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Accent Elimination
DESCRIPTION:About Accent Elimination\n\nNina Katchadourian’s work Accent Elimination\, the last installation in the Institute’s Year of Conversions\, meanders and parses through our notions of identity. Katchadourian considers the ongoing quandary of where we really come from\, who we are\, trying to isolate our sense of ourselves in counterpoint with the way people define or judge us based upon their assumptions. It is\, of course\, the unique combination of things that offers our most comprehensive and authentic self-reflection\, not one thing or another\, and this amalgamation is to some degree indecipherable.\n\n\nAlthough they have lived in the United States for over 45 years\, Katchadourian’s foreign-born parents both have distinctive but hard-to-place accents that the artist has never been able to imitate correctly. Inspired by posters around New York advertising courses in “accent elimination\,” Katchadourian decided to hire a professional who could teach her to speak in each of her parents’ accents and teach them to speak with a so-called “standard American accent.” Katchadourian and her parents took intensive lessons with accent coach Sam Chwat at his office every other day for several weeks\, and also practiced in the artist’s studio between lessons. They worked with two scripts: one written by her mother and the other by her father\, both modeled on the typical conversation that each of them has when talking with a stranger who notices an accent and is curious about its origins.\n\nKatchadourian plays the part of the stranger. The dialogues are first performed in everyone’s natural accents\, then at the end of the piece\, after much practice and struggle\, they attempt to perform the\nsame scripts—in the best version they can muster—of their new accents.\n\nIn light of recent and all-too-familiar seismic political shifts consumed with “otherness\,” and building walls rather than bringing them down\, Accent Elimination feels especially prescient. It reminds us there\nare so many layers that comprise our cultural identities\, stacked up like markers\, artifacts of our points of origin as well as our extraordinary journeys. It is an ongoing and painstaking process as to what we save and what we lose along the way by choice\, necessity\, or circumstance. And in all of this\, perhaps we discover ourselves on common ground.\n\nAccent Elimination was included at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Armenian pavilion\, which won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Nina Katchadourian is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.\n\nNina Katchadourian’s University of Michigan visit is the result of a collaboration between the Institute for the Humanities and the Armenian Studies Program.
UID:28557-2757631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28557
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Film,Language,Visual Arts,Exhibition,History
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160512T143154
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Extreme Time
DESCRIPTION:Think you know all about time?  What about things that happen in femtoseconds or eons?  Time in the natural world is so extreme\, you can’t even perceive most of its scale unaided. You’ll be amazed by the types of time you can explore in our new exhibit\, and learn more about everyday time and how we measure it\, too!  The exhibit is open!
UID:27873-2579393@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27873
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Free,Family
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160319T130732
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Fellow Fellows
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents...\"Fellow Fellows\"\, the Architecture Fellows Presentation and Exhibition Opening. \n\nThe exhibition of projects of the 2015-2016 Architecture Fellows opens on Wednesday\, March 23 and runs through the end of the Winter term (May 2). The Fellows will present their projects to the college at 6:00 p.m. in the Auditorium. The projects present their ongoing research during their yearlong fellowship. A reception will follow the presentations\, with exhibition on view in the college gallery.\n\n\nCyrus Peñarroyo - William Muschenheim Fellow\n\nBLDG_DRWG\nBLDG_DRWG recoups handwrought drawing effects and rearranges drawing conventions at the building scale in order to reorient the ways in which architecture is produced and consumed. Oscillating between analog methods (ink\, paint\, tape) and digital processes (scanning\, photoshop filtering\, milling)\, this project intensifies attributes of drawing otherwise lost in translation. A series of 1:1 investigations harnesses the potency of these effects and uses them to emphasize\, deemphasize\, or reconstitute existing architectural conditions. The results of these studies are reassembled in the gallery as a room––one fragment of an unfinished building––that speaks to the instability of its own representation.\n\nTeam members: Andrew Barkhouse\, Peter Watkins\nWith assistance from: Chris Campbell\, Samantha Eng\, Matt Culver\, Asa Peller\, Tafhim Rahman\n\n\nAshley Bigham - Walter B. Sanders Fellow\n\nSafety Not Guaranteed\nArchitecture is inseparable from defense. From its most primitive and revered “origins\,” architecture was rehearsed in environments of conflict. As an alternative to the term defense architecture\, a category which typically refers to forms and types (fortresses\, citadels\, bastions\, urban walls)\, this project proposes the idea of an architecture of defense. An architecture of defense sees all of architecture as a reaction to some measure of paranoia and studies the built environment to recognize measures and methods used to subdue these fears. Safety Not Guaranteed explores the architecture of paranoia through a series of design manipulations and exaggerations. Its setting is the network of suburbia and everyday domestic scenes—spaces most commonly associated with privacy\, safety\, and security and where fortification occurs on the scale of the front door\, the home\, the cul-de-sac\, and the neighborhood.\n\nTeam Members: Connor Brindza\, James Howe\, Neall Oliver\, Sasha Pfeiffer\, Mark Boynton\, Kamsy Anyachebelu\n\n\nDavid Eskenazi - Willard A. Oberdick Fellow\n\nFor the Trees\nAt first I noticed how naked the papers were\, since they didn’t seem to be acting like something else. I guess they were supposed to be models\, it was an architecture exhibit after all\, but they were missing all those things that point elsewhere: no doors\, no windows\, nothing that particularly looks like anything but itself. They were formed\, sure\, but that’s not really enough to point outwards. Or is it? Before you answer\, there was one more thing: some of the papers were near an enlarged duplicate. Actually\, maybe they were shrunken copies. It was a lot like that moment at the top of Runyon Canyon when you turn around and realize there’s an entire other\, slightly smaller Los Angeles behind you. Were you just looking at the original\, or the copy? I think the most interesting part is right afterwards when your focus shifts around you to the ground\, the dirt\, the trees.. all that stuff that frames what you’re looking at\, like the base of a model or scale figures or model trees. Come to think of it\, the papers did look like trees. But the resemblance is fleeting\, and now I’m certain the papers were in fact models pointing around at each other. Or were they in the background\, acting like a frame for something else\, something that wasn’t there?\n\n\nAbout University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning:\n\nThe Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan is a leader in interdisciplinary education and research with a focus on creating a more beautiful\, inclusive and better built environment. The college and its alumni are committed to pushing the boundaries of architectural practice\, advancing global engagement\, and significantly enhancing diversity in the profession. The college offers the following degrees: Bachelor of Science in Architecture\, Master of Architecture (currently ranked #6 nationally\; ranked #1 in 2010 by Design Intelligence Report)\, Master of Science in Architecture\, Master of Urban Planning\, Master of Urban Design\, and PhD programs.
UID:29842-3230269@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Architecture,Graduate,Graduate School,Education
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - Auditorium (Rm 2104)
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DTSTAMP:20160311T101809
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Other:Service Cords for Graduating Students
DESCRIPTION:Our goal is to recognize students at graduation that have -- through voluntary service\, activism and advocacy\, or other forms of civic engagement -- helped address or make positive change around a specific social issue in partnership with economically or socially marginalized communities beyond campus.\n\nLearn more and apply here: ginsberg.umich.edu/servicecords
UID:29629-3155166@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29629
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Commencement,Community Service,Social Impact,Social Justice,Volunteer
LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
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DTSTAMP:20160311T162249
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Special Exhibit:On the Trail of Wonder: Selections from the Collection of Rolf Sapoli
DESCRIPTION:What makes an object wonderful? Is it an objective quality that can be measured and studied? Or is it an instinctive reaction\, welling up within the observer\, prompting us to ask: where did this come from? What does it mean? Is it real?\nNoted natural philosopher Rolf Sapoli has generously lent prized pieces from his world-renowned collection to the U-M Museum of Natural History for a short-term imposition. Objects rarely seen in a museum will be on display\, including a native Michigan koala\, Henry Ford’s pet dodo\, and a miniature manatee.  The items will be integrated with the permanent collections and interspersed throughout the galleries\, creating a trail of wonderful objects.  How many will you find?  The exhibit opens March 26 and runs through April 10\, though Mr. Sapoli tells us the best viewing will be on Friday\, April 1\, at 4:01 pm.
UID:29579-3138792@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29579
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Museum
LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building
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DTSTAMP:20160229T085728
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: A Cloth of Earth and Sky
DESCRIPTION:Every culture has found ways to restore body\, mind\, and spirit in nature. In this exhibit\, African-American quilters from the Great Lakes region interpret how plants\, gardens\, and nature are embedded in cultural awareness and expressions of health. The exhibit includes contemporary works that express cultural legacy based in the art of quilting related to individual and shared healing. Students from Flint's Eagle's Nest Academy also contributed works for display in the exhibit. Sponsored by the Great Lakes African American Quilters Network & Matthaei-Nichols
UID:27086-3056195@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Multicultural,Environment,Culture,African American
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160323T081336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibit: Hidden Worlds: The Universe of Pollen Revealed in Large-scale Ceramic Sculptures
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the beautiful forms that pollen takes\, the amazing power of these tiny grains of life\, and the challenges that honeybees and pollinators face\, U-M Stamps School of Art & Design professor Susan Crowell fashioned large-scale ceramic sculptures of pollen. The sculptures will be displayed in the conservatory at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. As part of the exhibit Crowell has also created three sculptures of  pollen collected from the 80-year-old agave that bloomed at Matthaei in 2014. The agave pollen sculptures are based on scanning electron microscope images of the pollen taken by the U-M Hospitals imaging lab.
UID:27101-3065117@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27101
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Environment
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20151118T144634
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:From Christianity to Islam: Egypt between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Selected papyri from the University of Michigan's Papyrology Collection illustrate the government\, society\, and religious culture of Egypt during its transition from Byzantine Christian to Arab Islamic rule (4th to 8th centuries AD). Texts Greek\, Coptic Egyptian\, and Arabic\, many never before on public display\, further highlight the richness and diversity of the U-M Collection.\n\nOn display Monday through Friday\, 10am to 5pm.
UID:26651-2127462@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26651
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Library,History,Exhibition
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
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DTSTAMP:20160405T221404
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T160000
SUMMARY:Community Service:Goodness Day 2016: Laugh!
DESCRIPTION:Do Random Acts of Kindness presents Goodness Day 2016! This year's theme is Laugh!\, focusing on the laughter that makes our days amazing! Over 20 student orgs will have tables of games and fun events! \n\nMake sure to pick up a FREE discount button for local restaurants\, including Afternoon Delight\, Ray's Red Hots\, Comet Coffee\, Sweetwaters\, Sweetwaters\, Elevation Burger\, and Sadako!\n\nLive performances from:\n- Women's Glee Club\n- Good News\n- Encore\n- Smile Bringer Singers\n\nFor more information\, check out dorak.weebly.com
UID:30232-3386547@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30232
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Student Org,Games,Free,Food,Festival
LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus
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DTSTAMP:20160411T120012
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T160000
SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:Goodness Day 2016: Laugh!
DESCRIPTION:Do Random Acts of Kindness presents Goodness Day 2016! This year's theme is Laugh!\, focusing on the laughter that makes our days amazing! Over 20 student orgs will have tables of games and fun events! \n\nMake sure to pick up a FREE discount button for local restaurants\, including Afternoon Delight\, Ray's Red Hots\, Comet Coffee\, Sweetwaters\, Sweetwaters\, Elevation Burger\, and Sadako!\n\nLive performances from:\n- Women's Glee Club\n- Good News\n- Encore\n- Smile Bringer Singers\n\nFor more information\, check out dorak.weebly.com
UID:30208-3379756@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30208
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:University of Michigan Diag
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151208T154015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T123000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Mindfulness-Based Dementia Care
DESCRIPTION:A free\, 7-week program specifically designed for family caregivers of persons with dementia. Learn how the practice of mindfulness can help you cope with the challenges and stresses of dementia care\, and also greatly improve the experience of the person in your care. For information and to register call U-M Memory Connection at 734.936.8803. (Note: program skips May 2\, with Day of Mindfulness\, 10 am-4 pm on Mon. April 25.)
UID:27094-2308831@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27094
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120396@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20160308T121704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Siebren Versteeg: LIKE II (2016)
DESCRIPTION:In Siebren Versteeg’s LIKE II (2016)\, a computer painting program creates a composition using a continuously changing algorithm\, and then runs a periodic Google search to find a matching image online. Every sixty seconds\, the painting made by the computer is uploaded to Google’s “search by image” feature\, and images that most closely match the composition are then downloaded and displayed.\n\nThe notion of abstraction plays a central role in this work. Throughout modernity\, artists have sought inventive ways to free painting from its tradition as a representational medium. LIKE II inverts this ambition\, finding the reality hidden within pure abstraction. Because the work evolves based on whatever content is available online at any given moment\, the artist relinquishes a certain degree of creative control. Versteeg says\, “As the nature of the images presented by the work is random\, the artist assumes both all and no responsibility for their presence and content.”\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29503-3129480@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29503
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Art,Exhibition,Information and Technology,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20160404T133905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Talking to Ourselves: Democracy and the Law
DESCRIPTION:This year's Law & Ethics Lecture will be delivered by Seana Shiffrin\, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law & Social Justice at UCLA. Professor Shiffrin will deliver her lecture\, and a moderated discussion will follow.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served.
UID:29863-3248355@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29863
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate,Law,Lecture,Philosophy,Politics,Pre Law,Scholarship,Discussion
LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - 250
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DTSTAMP:20160411T120012
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160411T130000
SUMMARY:Other:  The Active Bench: The Life and Times of the Honorable Judge Adam Shakoor  - ACS Co-Sponsorship
DESCRIPTION:The Honorable Judge Adam Shakoor\, former Chief Judge\, former Deputy Mayor and Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Detroit will speak about his life in the law and how he has used his law degree to create social change. Lunch will be provided.\n
UID:30140-3348371@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30140
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Hutchins Hall
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