Lecture / Discussion:Keeping the Dream Alive Part II: DACA and our Community
2017-10-06 11:45 - 12:50 (America/Detroit) | South Hall - room 0225
Who are DACA recipients and what effect does lack of immigration status have on individuals, families, communities? What role can law students and attorneys play? Professor William Lopez from the UM National Center for Institutional Diversity and Michigan Law alumnus George Barchini, '15, will discuss the social context for DACA and what law students and lawyers can do.

Performance:Book Reading & Signing: "Wallaçonia" by David Pratt
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery Room
Please join David Pratt and the Spectrum Center for a book reading: Wallaçonia. With themes of coming out, gay mentoring, and gay youth dealing with families, friends and significant others, Wallaçonia is timely and timeless and has so has tended to draw an audience of all ages, as it tells of a 40-year-old gay men mentoring an 18-year-old in the process of coming out -- a rarity in gay Young Adult category.

The reading will be followed by a talkback led by Beth A. Sherman, MSW., University of Michigan School of Social Work. Common Language Bookstore will also be there to sell copies of the book.

Other:Fall Brawl
2017-10-06 12:00 - 23:59 | Northern Columbus Athletic Association
Our very first tournament of the Fall season!!!

Lecture / Discussion:IOE 836 Seminar Series: Fred Feng, PhD, UMTRI
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G699
Fred Feng, PhD, University of Michigan

"Sorry Mate, I Didn’t See You: An Examination of Drivers Overtaking Bicyclists Using Large-Scale Naturalistic Driving Data"

Abstract: Bicycling has long been an important mode of transportation. However, the safety issues of riding a bicycle on roadways with mixed traffic have been a major concern. This work investigates how drivers overtake bicyclists using real-world objective data from a recent large-scale naturalistic driving study. Over 4,800 verified overtaking events were examined. The initial results show how the drivers' lateral maneuver of the vehicle during the overtaking was affected by a range of factors including the types of lane markings, traffic, bike lane, and whether the driver was distracted by an electronic device. This work provides objective data that could be potentially used to support the designs of better road infrastructures, safety technologies, and laws and regulations that aim to improve the safety of all road users.

Bio: Fred Feng is a research fellow at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). Dr. Feng joined the UMTRI Human Factors group after completing his Ph.D. in the IOE department at the University of Michigan under the supervision of Dr. Yili Liu. Dr. Feng's research interests include human-machine interactions and human performance modeling with the applications on driver behaviors and the safety of vulnerable road users.

Workshop / Seminar:Life After Grad School | Being a Physicist Business Leader, and the Art of People Management
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | West Hall - 335
I always wanted to be a teacher. And then once I got to grad school I learned that being a professor and running a lab required much more. Setting a research vision, budgets and funding, building the lab, recruiting students, guiding and growing them, and keeping the whole ship running… it wasn't mostly teaching the way I thought it was. If those were the things I was going to do anyways, I decided to do them in the business world and shipped myself off to Silicon Valley. I'll talk to you about what it’s like being a physicist in the business world, and what I've learned along my random walk. I'll go deeper on people management as the critical skill to scaling yourself. And I'll leave plenty of time for questions on anything, or to hear thoughts you have.

Joel leads the global Sales Planning & Operations org which scales Facebook's business. Prior to Facebook, Joel worked at Yahoo! leading the Americas Ad Marketplaces team and as the Chief of Staff to the CEO, and prior to that worked with McKinsey & Company leading digital media business growth in high tech. Joel holds a B.S.E. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan and an M.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech. And Joel still wants to be a teacher, someday.

Exhibition:Looking Back: 20th Century Dress from the Historic Costume Collection
2017-10-06 12:00 - 18:00 | Duderstadt Center - Gallery
Curated by Professor Jessica Hahn.

An 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.

Other:National Coming Out Week
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery
Please join us for the mutiple events happening during National Coming Out Week! Information about each event is listed below:

Wednesday Oct. 4: LGBTQ Monologues
Location: Pendleton Room, Union
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Share your story - http://bit.ly/2wr2qzl

Friday Oct. 6: Book Reading: Wallaconia by David Pratt
Location: Hatcher Gallery
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Monday Oct. 9: Coming Out Panel: Past, Present & Future ft Chris Armstrong
Location: Founders Room, Alumni Center
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Wednesday Oct. 11: Webinar: Navigating (Not) Coming Out as a Graduate Student
Location: Virtual Webinar
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Register here - http://bit.ly/2jdvQwg

Wednesday Oct. 11: Coming Out Mixer, hosted by Spectrum Center Programming Board
Location: Spectrum Center
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Workshop / Seminar:Paleontology Seminar - "Five Palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota" Marshall (2017)
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | Ruthven Museums Building - 1532
Marshall (2017) "Five Palaeobiological laws needed to understand the evolution of the living biota"

Class / Instruction:Teach Out Series- Fake News, Facts, and Alternative Facts
2017-10-06 12:00 - 17:00 | Off Campus Location
How can you distinguish credible information from “fake news”? Reliable information is at the heart of what makes an effective democracy, yet many people find it harder to differentiate good journalism from propaganda. Increasingly, inaccurate information is shared on Facebook and echoed by a growing number of explicitly partisan news outlets. This becomes more problematic because people have a tendency to accept agreeable messages over challenging claims, even if the former are less objectively credible. In this teach-out, we examine the processes that generate both accurate and inaccurate news stories, and that lead people to believe those stories. We then provide a series of tools that ordinary citizens can use to tell fact from fiction.

A Teach-Out is:

-an event – it takes place over a fixed, short period of time

-an opportunity – it is open for free participation to everyone around the world

-a community – it will be joined by a large number of diverse individuals

-a conversation – an opportunity to give and take ideas and information from people

The University of Michigan Teach-Out Series provides just-in-time community learning events for participants around the world to come together in conversation with the U-M campus community, including faculty experts. The U-M Teach-Out Series is part of our deep commitment to engage the public in exploring and understanding the problems, events, and phenomena most important to society.

Teach-Outs are short learning experiences, each focused on a specific current issue. Attendees will come together over a few days not only to learn about a subject or event but also to gain skills. Teach-Outs are open to the world and are designed to bring together individuals with wide-ranging perspectives in respectful and deep conversation. These events are an opportunity for diverse learners and a multitude of experts to come together to ask questions of one another and explore new solutions to the pressing concerns of our global community. Come, join the conversation!

Find new opportunities at teach-out.org.

Exhibition:The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding
2017-10-06 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
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.

Co-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.

Taking 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.

By 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.

Co-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.

This 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.

By 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.

The 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.

The 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.

Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid.

Exhibition:Vital Signs for a New America
2017-10-06 12:00 - 19:00 | Off Campus Location
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.

Curated 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.

Active 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.

Dylan Miner: Elders Say We Don’t Visit Anymore
Saturdays, September 9-October 14, 1-3 pm

Dylan 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.

Sheryl Oring: I Wish to Say
Friday, September 8, 5-6.30 pm and 7-8 pm (two engagements)
Fridays, September 15-October 13, 5-7 pm

Nationally 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.

The Hinterlands: The Radicalization Process Papers
Tuesday, October 3, 6-7.30pm: History is a Living Weapon (performance)

The 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.

Exhibition:Vote now in the As I See It Photography Competition!
2017-10-06 12:00 - 15:00 | Michigan Union
18 finalists have been selected from all the amazing black and white photography submissions we received and it's time to cast your vote! See the finalist photos and place your vote at the Michigan Union Lobby, Beanster's in the Michigan League, the Piano Lounge in Pierpont Commons, or you can vote online now by clicking here! http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/asiseeit/ Voting runs until noon on Friday, October 6, and first prize includes an iPod Touch and more! Vote now and help the best photo win!

Lecture / Discussion:Yiddish Leyenkrayz
2017-10-06 12:00 - 13:00 | 202 S. Thayer - 2000
The Yiddish Leyenkrayz is a weekly reading group open to faculty, students, and the general Yiddish-reading public. We read classics of Yiddish literature, but also rediscover lesser known texts in the original. We often read plays, so as to divide the reading according to roles. Copies of the text are made available at each meeting.

NOTE: Event details may vary, please contact the Judaic Studies office to confirm.

Performance:Dance Master Class Repertory Series: Cat Coury
2017-10-06 12:10 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater
Catherine Coury is a native of Detroit and a graduate of SMTD, Coury’s dance career consisted of extensive international touring with New York City’s Shen Wei Dance Arts, Shannon Gillen, Gallim Dance, and LoudHoundMovement. Coury will teach gaga for warm-up and then Marcat Rep from her new piece Codara and Preludio.

Each Modern Lab session features a different guest artist teaching a master class and sections from their repertory. This panorama of the contemporary dance field is presented to broaden the students’ awareness of potential career possibilities.

Each guest artist conducts a 30-minute technique class/warm-up and then teaches repertory that is performed by the class. In the final 15 minutes, faculty coordinator Bill De Young conducts a Q & A with each artist, discussing their career; their recommendations for transitioning from student to professional, and what they look for when they audition dancers for their projects.

This event supported in part by the EXCEL Lab.

Workshop / Seminar:Pain Regulation by Non-Neuronal Cells and Cancer
2017-10-06 12:15 - 13:15 | Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640
Host: Bo Duan

Ru-Rong Ji
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology & Neurobiology
Duke University
