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DTSTAMP:20170914T201713
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Language Conversation Group
DESCRIPTION:Are you a student of Russian looking to develop your conversational skills? Does the world of contemporary Russian popular culture interest you? Would you like to meet other ambitious students in the field? If so\, please consider attending the Russian Language conversation group this year at the University of Michigan. Students from all language levels are welcome.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact slavic@umich.edu (or call 734.764.5355). Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.
UID:43680-9829830@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43680
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate,Talk,International,Graduate,Free,Discussion
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3304
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171019T114212
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T141000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T153000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Prison Creative Arts (PCAP) Panel: Careers in Social Justice\, followed by a Reception in Keene Theater Lobby
DESCRIPTION:Panelists discuss how their time at the University of Michigan and Prison Creative Arts Project shaped their careers in social justice. Audience members are invited to share their experiences and questions during a Q&A and a reception immediately following the panel.\n\nPanel Members: Sara Bursac\, Elaine Chen\, Jesse Janetta\, Mary Naoum\, Jaime Nelson\, Matthew Schmitt. Special Guests: Performers from Maine Inside Out.
UID:41874-9487263@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41874
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Activism,Discussion,Social Impact,Free,Food,Career,Social Justice
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Keene Theater, East Quad
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170802T103013
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T160000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:\"Divine Power and Human Subjection in the Iliad of Homer\"
DESCRIPTION:A Residential College 50th Anniversary Celebration Event
UID:41875-9487264@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Books,Discussion,Language,Lecture,Literature
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Benzinger Library, 1423 East Quad
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170914T181524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Stephan Moore
DESCRIPTION:Stephan Moore is an audio artist\, sound designer\, composer\, improviser\, teacher\, and curator based in Chicago. His creative work manifests as electronic studio compositions\, improvisational outbursts\, sound installations\, scores for collaborative performances\, algorithmic compositions\, and sound designs for unusual circumstances. Evidence\, his long-standing project with Scott Smallwood\, has performed widely and released several recordings over the past 15 years. He is the president of Isobel Audio\, LLC\, and is a member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology\, The Nerve Tank\, a canary torsi\, Composers Inside Electronics\, and the Wingspace Theatrical Collective. He toured for several years as the music coordinator and sound engineer of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Pauline Oliveros\, Anthony McCall\, and Animal Collective\, among others. He is a lecturer of sound art and sound design in the Department of Radio\, Television and Film at Northwestern University.
UID:42616-9614648@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42616
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North campus,Music,Free
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Chip Davis Technology Studio
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170926T121522
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
SUMMARY:Performance:EXCEL Talk: Nicholas Guest\, actor
DESCRIPTION:This EXCEL Talk will feature actor Nicholas Guest\, and focus around the steps he took to build his career. The session will also feature a Q&A portion.
UID:45091-10084357@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45091
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theater,North campus,Free
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Rosen Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171020T063020
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T160000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk: Nicholas Guest\, actor
DESCRIPTION:This EXCEL Talk will feature actor Nicholas Guest\, and focus around the steps he took to build his career. The session will also feature a Q&A portion.
UID:44676-9963211@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44676
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:B207 Walgreen Drama Center, Ann Arbor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171020T180015
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T210000
SUMMARY:Other:Game vs Saginaw Valley State @ SVSU
DESCRIPTION:Game vs Saginaw Valley State University @ SVSU\, Saginaw\, MI
UID:43739-9835316@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43739
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Saginaw Valley State University, Saginaw, MI
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170919T133122
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MEMS Lecture Series. Pisanello\, Adrian Stokes\, and the Image of the Threshold
DESCRIPTION:In his mind-bending early essay\, “Pisanello” (1930)\, Adrian Stokes laid the groundwork for the project that claimed the “Quattro Cento” as the period that contained the beating heart of humanist culture. Central to the essay is an elaborate ekphrasis loosely evoking the arch fresco that Pisanello painted circa 1438 in Church of Sant’Anastasia in Verona. In constructing his own image Stokes both stages a passage and holds it in suspension\, as a threshold. My paper explores the potential of Stokes’ threshold as a means of formulating a critical position capable of engaging the unruly\, sometimes disturbing aspects of Pisanello’s art\, those aspects that the central discourses of modernist art history found difficult to accommodate.
UID:43880-9852279@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43880
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,History,European
LOCATION:Tappan Hall - 180
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171016T083652
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Moral Norms and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
DESCRIPTION:The central issue in environmental aesthetics is whether there are norms that constrain aesthetic judgments about nature\, and if so\, what are they? This paper asks whether there are \"moral\" norms that act as such constraints. I will argue that the recent attempts to demonstrate that there are have been unsuccessful\, but I will also try to construct the best case I can for the existence of such a moral norm.\n\nThose who believe that morality has a bearing on aesthetic judgments about nature take one of two tacks. The first appeals to the idea that morally bad states of nature detract from their aesthetic value. Call this idea \"interaction.\" The other tack is that certain aesthetic judgments manifest disrespect for nature\, which makes them defective or inappropriate\, while others manifest respect making them more appropriate. Call this idea \"respect for nature.\"\n\nI will first explain why constraints on aesthetic judgment play such central role in environmental aesthetics. I will then consider each of the two approaches to justifying the claim that there are moral constraints on such judgments\, and in each case show that there has not been successful arguments for a moral norm that bears on aesthetic judgments. I will then use elements from each approach to make a case for the existence of such moral norms. I will argue that there are at least two reasonable competing moral norms that bear on our aesthetic judgments about nature\, and in general\, it is permissible to adopt either one in the face of degraded natural environments.
UID:45805-10307557@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45805
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Philosophy
LOCATION:Angell Hall - 2163
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171016T090532
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory: Reputation and Information Design
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nCan the legal commitment assumption on which much of the information design literature depends be replaced by reputational enforcement? A long run sender (a public health authority or central bank\, for example) periodically makes cheap talk announcements related to private information it obtains. Under ideal observational conditions\, implicit enforcement mechanisms can perform as well as legal enforcement. Under more realistic conditions the sender’s best equilibrium payoff may be highly inefficient relative to what he achieves with legal commitment. However\, an institution should be able to build a reputation for using information in particular ways. Modeling reputation explicitly\, in the tradition of Kreps\, Milgrom\, Roberts and Wilson (1982)\, restores efficiency if the institution is sufficiently patient. A dynamic version of the standard Bayesian persuasion example illustrates those effects: the nature of reputational dynamics in perfect Bayesian equilibrium is studied\, and the speed of convergence to maximal payoffs (as the sender’s impatience vanishes) is explored. A general existence theorem for PBE in the model with reputational types is established using a modification of the APS algorithm.
UID:42954-9685674@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42954
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170821T160402
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mastering the American Accent Workshop - For New Clients
DESCRIPTION:This 10-week workshop is for students who would like help developing their language skills for improved communication. Workshop participants can expect:\n- A 15-20 minute assessment and discussion of goals\n- Exercises for improving articulation\, rate control and projection\n- Guidance from a licensed speech-language pathologist\n- Group conversations and activities\n- Increased confidence in spoken language skills\n\nThis session is for new workshop students. For the advanced/returning client session\, please see Thursday's workshop listing.
UID:42761-9653811@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42761
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Graduate,International,Language
LOCATION:V. Vaughan
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171016T085553
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T163000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special Astronomy Talk | Light Pollution: Simple Solutions for a Serious Environmental Issue
DESCRIPTION:Light pollution is increasingly a major environmental threat. In addition to obscuring the night sky\, the destruction of the natural nocturnal environment disrupts the behavior of countless species\, triggering biological abnormalities and seriously impacting the health of many populations\, including our own. Light pollution is a waste of energy\, generated simply by human thoughtlessness and poor planning.  Although meant to improve public safety\, many lighting systems actually compromise safety. Light pollution is easy to address by good planning and public awareness\, and at low financial cost. There is already substantial awareness of light pollution in Michigan\, where dark skies are a recognized commodity. I will review the types of light pollution\, safety and environmental impacts\, and easy things everyone can do to help.
UID:45806-10307559@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45806
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students,Talk,Science,Physics,Lecture,Graduate Students,Free,Astronomy
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170816T155037
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:What is Cancer and Why is it So Hard to Cure?
DESCRIPTION:Cancer is one of the most dangerous health problems in the world today. The course provides general knowledge about cancer biology and how tumors form\, progress\, and metastasize. Recent knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms underlying those events will be explained. The battle between science and cancer is ongoing. The strategies used by scientists to kill cancer cells and how cancer cells resist and develop will be discussed. Finally\, participants will learn about how research affects treatment practices as well as current approaches in cancer research. \n\nThis course for those 50 and above will meet for 90 minutes each Friday from October 20 through December 15 (except for November 24).\n\nInstructor Dr. Mai Tran received a Ph.D. in Cancer Biology from the University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center in 2013. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Pathology Department at the University of Michigan.
UID:42427-9601970@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42427
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Lecture,Lifelong Learning,Medicine,Retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20170802T103455
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T180000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Alumni Art Show Opening Reception
DESCRIPTION:A Residential College 50th Anniversary Celebration Event
UID:41877-9487266@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41877
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Exhibition
LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Art Gallery, East Quad
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20171017T160312
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171020T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Assistant Professor Michael Cianfrocco - University of Michigan
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Cytoplasmic dynein is a minus-end-directed microtubule-based motor that couples ATP hydrolysis to force generation to move diverse cargos in cells. One of dynein’s conserved essential regulators is Lis1\, a gene that is mutated in the brain developmental disease lissencephaly. Previous studies have shown that Lis1 regulates dynein by anchoring it to microtubules. Here we made the unexpected discovery that Lis1 can also act in an opposing manner to stimulate dynein to release from microtubules. Our work describes the molecular basis for these two mechanisms of Lis1 regulation. Using a combination of cryo-electron microscopy structural analysis and in vitro single molecule-assays we show that dynein’s nucleotide state dictates which mode of regulation Lis1 uses. Based on these mechanistic insights we propose a new model for the cell biological regulation of dynein by Lis1.
UID:42545-9609362@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42545
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biophysics,Chemistry
LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1300 Chemistry
CONTACT:
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