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DTSTAMP:20160921T145430
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T200000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Piecing It Back Together: Mixed Media
DESCRIPTION:Candra Boggs is an art teacher and two-dimensional mixed media artist. She has been actively working as a traveling artist and teacher for over twelve years. Her work is constructed from her original two-dimensional drawings\, paintings\, prints and photography. She cuts the 2-D works into a variety of shapes and then collages them back into quilt-like mosaics. Boggs loves Michigan and has been vacationing and participating in art shows for over ten years in the great state. Up most mornings before 5:00 am\, she works in the studio with the birds and the morning light\, all before waking three small children.
UID:34016-4836452@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34016
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:University Hospitals - Gifts of Art Gallery — University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
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DTSTAMP:20160926T150633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Works by Belle Kogan: First Female Industrial Designer
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition presents industrially-produced art pottery pieces designed by Belle Kogan (1902–2000)\, for Red Wing Potteries in Red Wing\, Minnesota. Kogan is considered the first prominent female industrial designer in the United States\, a founder of the profession\, and one of the 20th century's most significant designers. Her design aesthetic was heavily influenced by the geometric and streamlined shapes of Art Deco. Belle Kogan Associates\, her New York–based studio\, was the first American female-led design firm. Her contracts with Red Wing Potteries produced over 400 different art pottery shapes from the late 1930s to the early 1960s\, as well as several dinnerware and kitchenware lines. Belle Kogan and her firm designed products not only in ceramics but also clocks and small appliances\, glassware\, and pieces in silver\, plastics\, wrought iron and wood.
UID:34202-4886046@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34202
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Health & Wellness
LOCATION:Cancer Center - Gifts of Art Gallery — Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2
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DTSTAMP:20160920T172805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T235900
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Florence Flood\, November 1966
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit focuses on the destruction of Florence during the flood on November 4\, 1966. Among the collections severely impacted by the muddy waters were those in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze. Book conservators from the United States and Western Europe were called in to help with the recovery efforts. The exhibit features a British team\, headed by Peter Waters\, which created a washing-drying-mending-rebinding system to deal with tens of thousands of books damaged by the disaster.\n\nThe two most important outcomes of the tragedy are the professional training of library conservators and the establishment of disaster preparedness and response programs.\n\nLearn more and register for the symposium\, The Flood in Florence\, 1966: A Fifty-Year Retrospective\, happening November 3-4\, 2016. https://www.lib.umich.edu/flood-florence-1966-fifty-year-retrospective
UID:33962-4826156@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33962
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Free,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor Hatcher
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160909T135525
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T081500
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Detroit's Russian Heritage
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with OLLI's Russia lecture series\, Feet on the Street shows OLLI members the contributions Russian and Eastern European immigrants have made to Detroit. We will begin with a visit to the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church\, 8 Mile & Anglin in Detroit\, which was built in 1915\, where church leadership will discuss the community's history\, the architecture of the building\, their current membership and the effects of immigration in the community over time. Next\, we will tour the Polish Art Center in Hamtramck and learn about matryoshka (Russian nesting dolls)\, followed by a 7-course Russian Tea Luncheon at St. Sabbas\, the Sanctified Orthodox Monastery in Harper Woods\, where we will also stroll the monastery grounds. Finally\, we will visit Big Bang Films\, where we will talk with a Russian immigrant about her personal experiences\, the Soviet Jewry resettlement in Metro Detroit and North America and her current film project about Russian hockey players. This trip is for adults over 50.  Register by September 15. \nhttps://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg/viewEventDetails/844
UID:32461-4582905@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32461
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Retirement,Museum,Multicultural,Lifelong Learning
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160816T170457
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:It's Still Terrific! Citizen Kane at 75
DESCRIPTION:Artifacts from the University of Michigan Library's various Orson Welles collections highlight the production of Citizen Kane\, often called the greatest film ever made. The year 2016 marks the film's 75th anniversary.\n\nAudubon Room Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am to 7 pm\, Saturday 10 am to 6 pm\, Sunday 1 pm to 7 pm
UID:32121-4499609@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32121
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Library,Film
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161011T160114
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Joint EEB and SNRE Software Carpentry workshop
DESCRIPTION:Joint SNRE and EEB workshop next week on reproducible data analysis & visualization of data in R\n\nThe workshop is open to anyone in EEB and SNRE (undergrads\, master's and Ph.D. students\, technicians\, faculty\, etc.) \n\nPh.D. students in EEB and SNRE are cohosting a FREE Software Carpentry workshop\, designed to orient scientists with computer skills that can make them more productive! \n\nThe topics covered include:\n\n    Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell\n    Using Databases and SQL\n    Data Analysis and Visualization in R\n    Version Control with Git\n\nFor more information (see below) and to register for this workshop\, please visit the website below and reserve a ticket.\n\nPlease see below for more information regarding background knowledge and info about Software Carpentry.\n\nThe workshop material is oriented around ecology and genomics data but you do not need to be familiar with these kind of data.  \n\nThis workshop is targeted for SNRE PhD students and EEBers with:\n1) Some basic experience in R*\n2) Little to no prior experience with the Unix shell\, SQL\, version control\, or Git.\n\nWhile we do expect you have had some prior experience with R (see notes at bottom*)\, the workshop is otherwise designed for scientists at ALL levels of experience\, including those with no prior experience in computing (other than basic familiarity with R).\n\nThere are 15 seats reserved for EEB participants (and 15 seats for SNRE PhD students). If and when the EEB reserved seats fill up\, please add yourself to the waitlist if you are interested! If you register and are unable to attend\, please cancel your registration. You should only sign up if you are able to attend the full two-day workshop.\n\nThe Software Carpentry Foundation is committed to training in and promoting the use of best practices in computer-aided analysis to improve the scientific enterprise. In particular\, the University of Michigan Software Carpentry group is committed to promoting equity in scientific computing by proactively including underrepresented groups in our workshops.\n\n*For the \"Data Analysis and Visualization in R\" module of the workshop\, we expect that participants will be familiar with the following topics in R (which are covered in this online tutorial):\n\n- Assigning variables in R\n- Creating and calling functions in R\n- Writing for loops in R\n- Writing if() statements and using conditional operators (==\, >=\, etc.)\n- Basic knowledge of vectors (with c() function)
UID:34949-5046451@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34949
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics,Information and Technology,Workshop,Science
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library
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DTSTAMP:20160914T142524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Documenting Detroit - A Monts Hall Photo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Documenting Detroit is a collection of photographs taken by students from the College for Creative Studies during the 1970s and 1980s. Under the guidance of Detroit photographer and photography instructor Bill Rauhauser\, students turned the urban landscape into works of art.\n\nThis exhibition offers a select sample of a vast collection that includes nearly 1\,250 photographs of Detroit\, from churches to construction sites\, grocery stores to warehouses\, hospitals to schools\, and many others. The collection also provides a snapshot of visual symbols of Detroit during 20th century\, including the Michigan Central Train Station\, the J. L. Hudson’s Department Store on Woodward Avenue\, construction of the Renaissance Center and Joe Louis Arena\, and the abandonment of Poletown and the Warehouse District. Photographs also document everyday Detroit\, such as favorite restaurants (Jacoby’s\, Astoria Bakery\, Pegasus Taverna\, Circa 1890 Saloon\, and Sweetwater Tavern)\, families on Belle Isle\, and vendors at Eastern Market.\n\nYou can search the entire Documenting Detroit collection and develop your own primary source sets by visiting: http://detroiths.pastperfect-online.comand search for “Documenting Detroit.” The current exhibit is available during regular Detroit Center hours\, now through November 30\, 2016.
UID:33646-4767266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33646
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Visual Arts,Exhibition,Diversity,Detroit Center,Detroit,Art
LOCATION:Detroit Center - Monts Hall
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DTSTAMP:20170922T110712
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Symposium: Ambiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to the public\nAmbiguous Territory: Architecture\, Landscape\, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural\; the era of climate change\, the Anthropocene\, and altered ecologies. The symposium asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege\, philosophically as well as experientially\, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well\, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment?\nBy bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives\, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand\, imagine\, interrupt\, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene.\nAmbiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects\, artists\, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.\nChairs:       \nKathy Velikov\, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and principal of RVTR\nCathryn Dwyre\, Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt institute School of Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nChris Perry\, Associate Professor at Rensselaer Architecture and partner at pneumastudio\nDavid Salomon\, Assistant Professor of Art History at Ithaca College.\nKeynotes:\nLiam Young\, urbanist\, designer and futurist\; founder of the futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today (tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com)\; the ‘Unknown Fields Division’ (unknownfieldsdivision.com) at the Architectural Association in London\, and the ‘Fiction and Entertainment’ program at SciArc\nDavid Gissen\, author\, historian\, and Professor of Architecture and Visual and Critical Studies at the California College of the Arts and co-director of the Experimental History Project (http://davidgissen.org/)\nFor a full list of speakers and bios\, please visit the Ambiguous Territory symposium web page. \nAmbiguous Territory Symposium Schedule\nAll events in Taubman College Commons unless otherwise noted\nThursday October 5th\n5:00pm\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition Reception\n(Taubman College Gallery)\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: Liam Young\n(Art + Architecture Auditorium)\n \nFriday October 6th (all events occuring in The Commons)\n9:00am\nCoffee\n9:30am\nWelcome: Dean Jonathan Massey\nIntroductory Remarks: Associate Dean of Research and Creative Practice Geoffrey Thün\nSymposium Introduction: Kathy Velikov\n10:00am\nAtmospheric Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Kathy Velikov\nSpeaker 1: Christopher Hight\nSpeaker 2: Lydia Kallipoliti\nSpeaker 3: Sean Lally\nRespondent: Meredith Miller\nRoundtable Discussion\n12:00pm\nLunch Break (lunch not provided)\n1:00pm\nBiologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: David Salomon\nSpeaker 1: Jennifer Peeples\nSpeaker 2: Linsdey french\nSpeaker 3: Ricardo de Ostos\nRespondent: Ellie Abrons\nRoundtable Discussion\n3:00pm\nCoffee Break\n3:30pm\nGeologic Mediations Panel\nIntroduction: Cathryn Dwyre and Chris Perry\nSpeaker 1: Alessandra Ponte\nSpeaker 2: Bradley Cantrell\nSpeaker 3: Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy\nRespondent: Mark Lindquist\nRoundtable Discussion\n5:30pm\nBreak\n6:00pm\nKeynote Lecture: David Gissen\nAmbiguous Territory Exhibition \nSeptember 27th – October 18th 2017\nUniversity of Michigan Taubman College Gallery\nDecember 2018 – January 2019\nPratt Manhattan Gallery\, New York
UID:44929-10012289@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Exhibition,symposium
LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building
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DTSTAMP:20160915T082349
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Foreshadowing - Endangered and Threatened Plant Species
DESCRIPTION:A unique exhibit of botanical portraits that illuminates native and invasive plant species in a different light. Local artist and photographer Jane Kramer spent weeks exploring Michigan’s nature preserves and botanical gardens---including Matthaei---taking pictures of the shadows cast by native plant species. The shadow images were then transferred to handmade paper created from invasive plant species. For Kramer the shadows speak to the fragility of threatened plants and their struggle to survive in a changing environment that includes invasive species. The coupling of shadow and paper underscores the complex relationship between invasive and endangered plant species. Free admission. Open Wednesdays until 8 pm.
UID:33678-4774737@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33678
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Environment,Outdoors,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20160921T100144
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Of Love and Madness: The Literary History of Layla and Majnun
DESCRIPTION:This exhibit offers a glimpse into the literary history of Layla and Majnun\, a romance of Arabian origins that exists in many poetic versions. Celebrating the popular Persian and Turkish renderings of the tale\, the display features a modest yet striking selection from the library’s collections\, centered on richly illuminated manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection.\n\nThe exhibit is offered in conjunction with the Islamic Studies Program event \"Layla and Majnun: From the page to the stage\" and with the UMS performance of Layla and Majnun.
UID:33066-4655752@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33066
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Muslim,Middle East Studies,Literature,Library,Art
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - 7th Floor Exhibit Space
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160915T082730
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T163000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Prison Creative Arts Project Traveling Exhibit
DESCRIPTION:PCAP's traveling exhibition includes reproductions of artwork from 20 years of the Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners. The exhibit is free and open to the public. Locatoin: Immaculate Heart of Mary Motherhouse Gallery\, 610 W. Elm Avenue\, Monroe MIchigan. Contact Danielle Conroyd at 734-240-9750 or dconroyd@ihmsisters.org
UID:33679-4774797@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33679
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Multicultural,Free,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160422T140125
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Catie Newell: Overnight
DESCRIPTION:Detroit-based architect Catie Newell’s work is focused on the tactile\, sensory qualities of the materials we use to build things: their texture\, density\, or malleability. Her investigations combine architectural research\, material studies\, and art experiments\, a strategy she began as a student that now defines her career.\n\nThe most important element in her formal vocabulary is light\, not only as a “material” in its own right\, but also as a condition. Varying in strength\, form\, and duration\, light constructs architecture as a situational experience rather than a fixed space. Newell’s fascination with light is a fascination with darkness. Through urban interventions\, installations\, and photographs\, she investigates how darkness creates alternate environments\, with unseen geographies\, untold histories\, and secret identities.\n\nNewell\, assistant professor of architecture at U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning\, is a recent recipient of the Rome Prize in architecture. Overnight includes photographs from her Rome project as well as new photography from the series Nightly\, featuring nighttime images of Detroit streetscapes and interiors\, alongside a site-specific sculptural installation commissioned by the Museum.
UID:30497-3530692@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30497
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,UMMA,Museum,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
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DTSTAMP:20161006T114729
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art
DESCRIPTION:Kabuki actors were superstars in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Japan. They were admired by passionate fans with an insatiable appetite for images of them\, fed by a publishing industry that mass-produced colorful woodblock prints of actors on stage that could be cheaply purchased as souvenirs of or substitutes for a theater experience. Japanese Prints of Kabuki Theater from the Collection of the University of Michigan Museum of Art presents a selection of these dramatic prints that connected fans to their idols\, including off- or backstage portrayals that satisfied fans’ voyeuristic curiosity about their favorite actors’ lives\, fantasy scenes of actors in unlikely groupings\, and even death portraits of especially famous actors. This introduction to the visual culture surrounding kabuki theater includes prints by major artists such as Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825)\, Utagawa Kunisada (1786–1865)\, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861)\, and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the William T. and Dora G. Hunter Endowment\, AISIN\, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation\, and the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. Additional generous support is provided by the Japan Foundation and the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
UID:34760-4987508@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Visual Arts,UMMA,Storytelling,Museum,Multicultural,Japanese Studies,Exhibition,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20160329T124905
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Mexico’s Poet of Light
DESCRIPTION:Manuel Álvarez Bravo spent nearly his entire career photographing his native Mexico. His style drew upon numerous international influences\, ranging from the Modernism of Edward Weston and Tina Modotti\, whom he met when they spent time in Mexico in the 1920s\, to the formally exquisite photojournalism of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans\, whose work he knew in New York\, and the Surrealism of André Breton\, who visited Mexico around 1940.\n\nAlthough not strictly Surrealist\, many of Álvarez Bravo’s works manifest a similarly fantastical mood\; one of the artist’s most arresting qualities is his ability to imbue scenes of everyday life with an otherworldly\, metaphysical power. The twenty-three photographs in the exhibition\, drawn from UMMA’s collections\, show the artist’s ability to synthesize a personal—even nationalistic—style that merged the motifs of Mexican religious and indigenous works and plant forms (such as agave leaves) with a Modernist approach to image making. Throughout\, the presence of light as a wondrous metaphor and revealer of life animates even the emptiest and most silent of Álvarez Bravo’s scenes.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:30043-3321501@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Visual Arts,UMMA,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Photography Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161012T112259
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161018T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Health\, History\, Demography & Development (H2D2)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nPatients often rely on personal interactions with health care providers to form and update their beliefs about quality. In this study\, we examine the role played by initial patient-provider interactions in determining the demand for elective surgery\, a setting in which patients and providers interact in two well-defined phases: initial diagnosis and\, if appropriate\, surgery. We implemented an experiment in a low-cost cataract surgery clinic in Mexico City\, in which we randomized the price of a “premium” diagnostic consultation meant to increase perceptions of clinic quality by improving the consumer experience. Demand for the premium consultation is downward sloping and highly nonlinear. Using the price randomization to instrument for premium consultation take-up\, we find that improving the quality of the initial patient-provider interaction dramatically increases the probability of surgery take-up (which is two orders of magnitude more expensive than the diagnostic session) for those with positive diagnoses. The large price elasticity of demand for the premium consultation suggests that investing in improving the quality of initial interactions can substantially increase the subsequent demand for health care.
UID:33493-4752439@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33493
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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