Lecture / Discussion:Douglass Day 2021
2021-02-12 13:30 - 16:00 (America/Detroit) | Off Campus Location
You're invited to a birthday party for Frederick Douglass. This year, Douglass Day celebrates the life and activism of Mary Church Terrell, a co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the National Association of Colored Women. Register to join us for any or all of these Zoom events: https://umlib.us/douglassdayreg

1:30–2:15 pm

Keynote address: “Tragedy and Triumph: the Personal Cost of Racial Injustice and Social Justice Activism in the Life of Mary Church Terrell," by Dr. Shelley Haley, Ph.D. ‘77

2:30–4:00 pm, drop in to participate in any of these!

* Virtual transcription session: transcribe the papers of Mary Church Terrell

* Digital arts and crafts session: make valentines for Black women activists

* Great Douglass Bake Off: compete with your baked goods in celebration Frederick Douglass — so bring your best bakes!

Although Douglass was born into bondage and never knew his birthdate, he chose February 14th as his day. We're celebrating Douglass Day on February 12th this year, taking time to create and preserve Black history together.

Well-being:CCI Presents: New Year, Knew YOU! - Gratitude Nature Walk
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
If you completed the Weekly Wanders Session this week: "Gratitude Nature Walk Scavenger Hunt" Weekly Wanders, we invite you to come and share your experience with others! We will be checking in, discussing and sharing photos, thoughts, perspectives, etc. through our own personal walk experience.

More information on the Weekly Wanders Gratitude Scavenger Hunt can be found on Happenings @ Michigan here: https://events.umich.edu/event/81043 . *Please note that in order to get the Scavenger Hunt materials and be eligible for prizes, you must do the following:

Participants can join in the game by following these simple steps:

1) Download the GooseChase iOS or Android app from https://www.goosechase.com/download/

2) Choose to play as a guest, or register for a personal account with a username & password.

3) Search by game name (Weekly Wanders) or game code (5DQ4X4) to join the game.

4) Follow the prompts to create an individual player profile. Request to use uniq name

Currently enrolled U of M students can participate in 8 wanders throughout the semester and be entered to win exciting prizes!

Presentation:CCN Forum: Binding again: Does it help or hurt?
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Abstract:
Working memory and episodic memory processes both decline with age. Correlational evidence suggests reduced working and age-related episodic memory difficulties are closely related. However, Bartsch, Loaiza & Oberauer (2019) recently failed to find that reduced working memory causes older adults’ EM impairment. The study used a three-alternative forced-choice recognition task to test memory for word-pairs immediately after encoding, tapping working memory processes, and then again later in the task, ultimately tapping episodic memory processes. Interestingly, probing the contents of working memory in this manner may have negatively affected subsequent episodic memory for the same word-pairs. Alternatively, testing working memory may serve as an opportunity for retrieval practice that will improve episodic memory. The current project investigates the conditions in which testing working memory will be beneficial and when it will reveal memory vulnerability and explores whether the effects of testing working memory on episodic memory depends on individual differences in working memory capacity.

Social / Informal Gathering:Community Meet Up: Journaling
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
Journaling is for everyone! Whether its to-do lists, gratitude journaling, or simply note taking, anyone can incorporate it into their lives. At this session we will come together and share tips and tricks for intentional journaling! I’d like for this session to be a chance for people to show off their different styles. Additionally, if anyone has never journaled before, we will talk through ways to get started! Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/8010

Lecture / Discussion:German Studies Departmental Colloquium
2021-02-12 14:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Open to all members of the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures.

Lecture / Discussion:Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Off Campus Location
"Big Noses, Angry Babushki, Mixed Messages: Racialized Expectations of Linguistic and Cultural Performance in Asian Russia"
Kathryn Graber (PhD Anthropology '12), Indiana University, Bloomington

"Gender Articulations from Decolonial Indigenous Perspectives in the Russian and American Arctic"
Olga Ulturgasheva, University of Manchester

Moderator: Manduhai Buyandelger, MIT

CREES is a proud co-sponsor of this event, which is part of the series "Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies." This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing scholars from underrepresented minorities and/or research on communities of color to the center stage.

Register to attend at https://myumi.ch/v2ORo

The event will also be recorded and livestreamed on the ASEEES Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/slavic.e.european.eurasian.studies)

Sponsors:
Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, University of Chicago
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Michigan
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Ohio State University
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, Bloomington
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington

Livestream / Virtual:Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
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Exhibition:Story, Word, Sound, Sway
2021-02-12 14:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
Story, Word, Sound, Sway is on view at Stamps Gallery January 18, 2021 – February 28, 2021. The gallery is currently open Tuesdays and Fridays from 2pm to 7pm to U-M faculty, staff, and students with valid MCards only. Learn more about COVID health and safety restrictions prior to your visit: https://stamps.umich.edu/exhibitions/stamps_gallery
The work in the exhibition can also be viewed online: http://stamps.umich.edu/calendar/event-detail/story_word_sound_sway

Artists: Carisa Bledsoe (BFA Interarts ’14), Schroeder Cherry (BFA ’76), Elshafei Dafalla (MFA ’08), Masimba Hwati (MFA ’19), Caleb Moss (BFA ’13), Senghor Reid (BFA ’99), Valencia Robin (MFA ’08), Yvette Rock (MFA ’99), Wes Taylor (BFA ’04), Levester Williams (BFA ’13), and Elizabeth Youngblood (BFA ’73)

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is an exhibition of work by eleven Stamps School of Art & Design Alumni using performance, movement, text, sound, and design to interrogate systems of oppression and interrupt the status quo. It explores themes of alternative histories, archives, Black identity, collective memory, storytelling; meshing performance and performativity, and the interplay of the oral and aural in one’s experience of the world. An undercurrent of movement explored in multiple variations thread the works together, realized through a variety of methods including painterly gesture, repetitive mark-making, performance with an audience or without, spoken word, ambient sound, and reimagined instruments. The exhibition aspires to pull at the loosened threads of a social fabric in crisis, revealing larger complex histories and art discourses, nationally and internationally, framed through the experiences and trajectories of Stamps alumni during their time in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication that will include interviews with each of the alumni artists conducted by current Stamps’ student and exhibition co-curator Moteniola Ogundipe.

Story, Word, Sound, Sway is co-curated by Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and Moteniola Ogundipe.

Image: Levester Williams, “Shift, Sift, Swoosh Bods,” 2018, (detail, video still) HD video, color, four audio channels; 17 minutes 33 seconds (full length).

Lecture / Discussion:SynSem Discussion Group
2021-02-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Off Campus Location
The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

Please note, the zoom link is passcode protected. The passcode will be provided in SynSem email communications. If you are not on the SynSem email list and would like to attend a meeting, please contact Lucy (lucyyc@umich.edu) or Yourdanis (sedarous@umich.edu).

Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Looking for new physics in the neutrino sector
2021-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
Seminar Link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

I will briefly review the motivation for the existence of new physics
in the neutrino sector and I will describe a few different ways of
looking for such new physics.

Careers / Jobs:KPMG U.S. Japanese Practice Recruiting
2021-02-12 15:00 - 16:30
Fast-Track Your Career - A recruiting event for 2022-2023 graduates

This virtual event will be presented in Japanese only.

The U.S. Japanese Practice of KPMG is seeking highly talented, bilingual students to join our Audit or Tax practice in 2022 as an intern or as a full timeassociate.

Join us online on February 12 for an interactive Q&A with our professionals in small groups, details on our opportunities, and tipson how to prepare for your best possible internship experience and career.
— This event is for students graduating between December 2021 and summer 2023.
— We are accepting résumés, but you are also welcome to join the session to learn more about us without submitting your résumé.

We look forward to having you join us!

Target audience

We are currently recruiting students planning to graduate from U.S. universities between December 2021 and summer 2023.
Business-level or above Japanese and English language skills.
Desired majors: Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Tax
U.S. work authorization visa (H-1B) provided for those graduating from U.S. universities (Update as of January 2021)

Registration

To register for the seminar, click http://kpmgcampus.avature.net/japanesepracticeevent?eventId=6950&tags=japanesepractice

After registering, you will receive details on how to log in to the event.

For any questions, please email us at us-jprecruiting@kpmg.com.

Social / Informal Gathering:MLCA Zoom Game Night: Mosher Jordan
2021-02-12 15:00 - 18:00 | Off Campus Location - https://umich.zoom.us/j/97939761532
Join the Mosher Jordan MLCA Emily for a virtual game night on Fridays from 3-6 PM over Zoom to hang out and meet other residents!

Livestream / Virtual:Transcultural Studies Virtual Information Session
2021-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Off Campus Location
The Accelerated Master's Degree Program in Transcultural Studies is hosting a virtual information session on Friday, February 12 at 3 PM. LSA students in any department are welcome to attend.

Transcultural Studies is an interdisciplinary master's degree program designed for LSA undergraduate students. The program is structured as a sequential undergraduate-graduate degree program, enabling current undergraduate students in LSA to earn their MA degree with one additional year of study beyond their bachelor’s degree. Students begin their graduate coursework during their senior year while finishing their undergraduate degree.

This information session will be a great opportunity for interested students to learn more about program requirements, what you can study, and how to apply!

Please email tcs-admin@umich.edu to request the Zoom link.

Learn about Transcultural Studies by visiting our website: https://lsa.umich.edu/transcultural

Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Molecular Memories of Earth’s Antiquity
2021-02-12 15:30 - 16:30 | Off Campus Location
Zoom Meeting ID# 986 8692 2782
Every cell contains a biochemical record of four billion years of Earth-life coevolution. Our mitochondria were once free-living bacteria. Each unit of the electron transport chain that we use to breathe oxygen was borrowed from older microbial machinery. Aerobic respiration is a medley of pieces of older anaerobic respiratory pathways such as methanogenesis and denitrification. Yet we have barely begun to chart the vast landscape of myriad microbial metabolisms. In this talk, I will describe how dissecting the molecular machines of modern microbes can give us glimpses of the early Earth environments that supported life’s first breaths.

Livestream / Virtual:The Materiality of *Kunshan qiang:* The Emergence of a “Refined” *(Ya)* Singing Style of *Chuanqi* in Late Ming China
2021-02-12 16:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
*Chuanqi* is a dramatic genre comprising dialogue and arias that was prevalent in late Ming and early Qing China. Sheng's work investigates the interface between page and performance to explore the relations among literary texts, musical sound, and staging practices embedded in the genre, thereby decentering the hegemony of text in the study of *chuanqi.*

For this talk, Sheng will focus on *Kunshan qiang,* a specific singing style, and analyze how it became the refined, orthodox voice of *chuanqi* in early modern China. The discussion will center on a series of material practices paramount to the reform of Kunshan qiang, including the introduction of melodic instruments, the construction of a new stylized language for singing through typographical inventions, and the promotion of bodily techniques of rhythm. Such analyses of material practices cast light on a late Ming ecology of music in which the human body was deployed together with instruments and writing/printing technology as an essential tool for the practice, reproduction, and circulation of music.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96135507409
