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DTSTAMP:20171009T111647
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag Seminar | Soft Photons\, Soft Gravitons and Decoherence
DESCRIPTION:Central to the solution of the infrared catastrophe of quantum electrodynamics and perturbative quantum gravity is the idea that detection apparatus inevitably have limited resolution and\, in any scattering process\, an infinite number of arbitrarily soft photons and gravitons are produced and escape detection. Photons and gravitons have polarizations and momenta and one might suspect that those which escape can carry away a significant amount of information. In this talk\, I will  examine the question as to the quantity of this information loss\, its consequences.
UID:45552-10228908@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45552
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171005T121516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Looking Back: 20th Century Dress from the Historic Costume Collection
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Professor Jessica Hahn.\n\nAn exhibit of costumes from the 20th-century showcasing significant clothing from each decade. From daywear to evening wear\, from every strata of society—homemade to couturier fashions.
UID:41484-10186738@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41484
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,North campus,Theater
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170927T164721
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T130000
SUMMARY:Other:National Coming Out Week
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the mutiple events happening during National Coming Out Week! Information about each event is listed below:\n\nWednesday Oct. 4: LGBTQ Monologues \nLocation: Pendleton Room\, Union\nTime: 7:00pm - 9:00pm\nShare your story - http://bit.ly/2wr2qzl\n\nFriday Oct. 6: Book Reading: Wallaconia by David Pratt\nLocation: Hatcher Gallery\nTime: 12:00pm - 1:00pm\n\nMonday Oct. 9: Coming Out Panel: Past\, Present & Future ft Chris Armstrong \nLocation: Founders Room\, Alumni Center\nTime: 6:30pm - 8:00pm\n\nWednesday Oct. 11: Webinar: Navigating (Not) Coming Out as a Graduate Student \nLocation: Virtual Webinar \nTime: 12:00pm - 1:00pm\nRegister here - http://bit.ly/2jdvQwg\n\nWednesday Oct. 11: Coming Out Mixer\, hosted by Spectrum Center Programming Board\nLocation: Spectrum Center\nTime: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
UID:45124-10095913@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45124
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Inclusion,Lecture,LGBT,Literature,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171006T113544
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T133000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Social Psychology Brown Bag: \"Putting Power in the Right Hands: The Leadership Solution to Collective Action\"
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UID:45476-10195171@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45476
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:brown bag,Psychology
LOCATION:East Hall - 4464
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170731T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition: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:41797-9474969@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41797
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170907T121539
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T190000
SUMMARY:Exhibition: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:41894-9489327@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41894
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Social
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170912T122214
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Out in Grad School
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Coming Out Day with our panel of graduate students who will discuss the complexities of being out and/or not being out mean to them.\n\nRegistration is required: https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=471
UID:44216-9900382@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44216
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,LGBT,Rackham,Social,Webcast
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170914T161432
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webinar: Out in Grad School
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate National Coming Out Day with our panel of graduate students who will discuss what the complexities of being out and/or not being out mean to them\, and how they navigated their personal and professional identities during this time frame.\n\nPlease note: An individual webinar link will be sent to all registrants.\n\nPre-registration is required at https://secure.rackham.umich.edu/wsEvents/wsreg.php?ws_id=471.
UID:44541-9923132@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44541
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Inclusion,LGBT,Rackham,Social Justice,Student Affairs,Webcast
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170913T111638
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T160000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab
DESCRIPTION:German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.\n\nThe German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500\, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility).  \nGo to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4\, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.\nFor more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html
UID:44329-9908928@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44329
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate
LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170823T151229
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T143000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Cathy O'Neil\, author of \"Weapons of Math Destruction\"
DESCRIPTION:As part of the Michigan Institute for Data Science annual symposium\, Cathy O'Neil\, author of NYT best-seller \"Weapons of Math Destruction\,\" will speak.\n\nAbstract: We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly\, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school\, whether we get a car loan\, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans\, but by mathematical models. In theory\, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules\, and bias is eliminated.\nBut as Cathy O’Neil reveals\, the opposite is true. The models being used today are opaque\, unregulated\, and uncontestable\, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling\, they reinforce discrimination: If a poor student can’t get a loan because a lending model deems him too risky (by virtue of his zip code)\, he’s then cut off from the kind of education that could pull him out of poverty\, and a vicious spiral ensues. Models are propping up the lucky and punishing the downtrodden\, creating a “toxic cocktail for democracy.” Welcome to the dark side of Big Data.\nTracing the arc of a person’s life\, O’Neil exposes the black box models that shape our future\, both as individuals and as a society. These “weapons of math destruction” score teachers and students\, sort résumés\, grant (or deny) loans\, evaluate workers\, target voters\, set parole\, and monitor our health.\nO’Neil calls on modelers to take more responsibility for their algorithms and on policy makers to regulate their use. But in the end\, it’s up to us to become more savvy about the models that govern our lives. This important book empowers us to ask the tough questions\, uncover the truth\, and demand change.
UID:42896-9675072@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42896
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Mathematics
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171003T150823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Artist Lecture: Sophia Brueckner
DESCRIPTION:Sophia Brueckner\, futurist artist\, designer\, and engineer gives an artist lecture. As an assistant professor at the University of Michigan\, her ongoing objective is to combine her background in design and engineering with the perspective of an artist to create technologies that inspire a more positive future.
UID:45029-10069976@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45029
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Lecture,Library,Research
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171009T095536
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Presence as Profanation: German Naturalism's Anti-Apotheoses
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine the short life of German naturalism through a look at the early work of Arno Holz. More even than his literary heroes Émile Zola and Henrik Ibsen\, Holz draws on a particular aesthetics of presence with roots in the theater’s placing of real bodies on a real stage in real time. However\, Holz’s writings also actively work to destroy any sense of the auratic quality of such presence — not to mention\, of art as “Verklärung\,” as proposed by the practitioners of German realism and pugnaciously argued against by Holz in his own theoretical works. This talk will examine both the weirdness and the prescience of Holz’s attempts at an anti-apotheotic art in the context of the era’s debates around naturalism vis-à-vis realism\, looking also at the fraught legacy of the theater in Germany and the residues of the Baroque stage on the cusp of literary modernism.\n\nWeitzman's book Irony’s Antics: Walser\, Kafka\, Roth and the German Comic Tradition (Northwestern University Press\, 2015) explores the crucial but largely neglected role of the comic and its relation to irony in German-language literature from the Romantic era to the early twentieth century\, through an examination of the works of Robert Walser\, Franz Kafka\, and Joseph Roth\, and theories of comedy in Freud\, Hegel\, and others. \n\nShe is also co-editor and contributing author of the volume Suspensionen. Über das Untote (Fink\, forthcoming)\, which considers “the undead” as a figure that challenges not only the life/death binary but also the regimes of knowledge that this structures. \n\nHer current project\, tentatively titled “At the Limit of the Obscene: Realism\, Profanation\, Aesthetics\,” deals with how the concept of obscenity relates to questions of representation\, perception\, and knowledge in nineteenth-century German and European realism and beyond.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact Germanic Languages & Literatures at 734-764-8018 or germandept@umich.edu at least one week in advance.
UID:44777-9977683@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44777
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Literature,Poetry,Theater
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170913T112447
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T150000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde
DESCRIPTION:Schokoladenstunde will take place twice per week: Tuesdays between 5-6 p.m. with Mary Gell\, and Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m. with Silvia Grzeskowiak\, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad.  The group will meet in the seating area between the two computer classrooms. \n\nAs the name promises\, chocolate will be available.  Silvia and Mary will be bringing games to the Schokoladenstunde.  The hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu). Students at all levels are welcome.
UID:44270-9903268@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44270
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:European,Free,Games,Language,Undergraduate
LOCATION:North Quad - Language Resource Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171005T114133
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T160000
SUMMARY:Other:Global Chat: Intern in India
DESCRIPTION:Come to this informal chat to learn about interning abroad in India this summer! Chat with advisors who work on the India Internship Initiative as well as U-M students who have already interned in India. Students are welcome to drop by for a few minutes or stay the full hour. Snacks will be provided! \n\nMore information about the India Internship Initiative can be found here: https://internabroad.engin.umich.edu/india-internship-initiative/.
UID:45070-10081469@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45070
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Engineering,India,International,Internship,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:LSA Building - LSA Opportunity Hub Lobby
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170824T103143
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171011T160000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Personal Identity and Navigating the Job Search
DESCRIPTION:Navigating the job search can be an emotional and tricky process. That process becomes more difficult when we factor in our various personal identities into the mix. Which identities do we disclose? Which identities are we comfortable in? Most of all which identities do we need to be aware of (even if they aren't dominant for us)? In this workshop we will discuss the basic tools we need to have as it relates to navigating personal identity in the job search. Participants will\, identify and reflect on their identities\, understand the role social media can play this process\, and be given one clear action step to assist them in helping navigate personal identity in the job search.
UID:42924-9683011@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42924
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 Duderstadt
CONTACT:
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