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DTSTAMP:20161101T134620
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T120000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Veterans Week - Vietnam War Veteran Panel
DESCRIPTION:This is a chance to hear Vietnam Veterans talk about their experiences during that controversial war and how they were treated when they returned home.  Their remarkable stories of service\, sacrifice and perseverance will  change how you look at Vietnam and the men and women who served there.
UID:35055-5076896@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35055
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asia,Diversity,Veterans Week,Veterans And Military,Storytelling,Politics,History
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161101T150929
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T103000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Weekly Drop-in Meditation/Gentle Yoga Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Open to all U-M students\, faculty and staff. No mats required. \n\nQuestions? E-mail Paola Savvidou (savvidou@umich.edu)\nWellness Coordinator\, School of Music\, Theatre & Dance.
UID:35623-5280579@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35623
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Free
LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Room 2038
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161006T114729
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T170000
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:34760-4987529@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34760
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Multicultural,Visual Arts,UMMA,Storytelling,Museum,Japanese Studies,Exhibition,Asia,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161006T115239
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Aesthetic Movement
DESCRIPTION:Pictorialism was the first truly international photography movement\, and its practitioners\, among them Alfred Stieglitz\, Edward Steichen and Gertrude Käsebier\, sought to position photography as a legitimate aesthetic art form. They favored soft-focus images that drew upon the conventions of important artists and movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the influence of the Pre-Raphaelites\, James McNeill Whistler\, Japonisme\, and Art Nouveau are readily seen in the images on view in this exhibition.\n\nIn 1902 Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialist photographers founded the Photo-Secession in New York\, with Camera Work as the flagship periodical that published images by the group. Their poetic compositions drawn from contemporary life\, combined with the use of expensive and labor-intensive printing materials such as platinum and gum bichromate\, established these photographs as complex and nuanced works of high artistic quality. The exhibition features work by the principal Pictorialists\, including Stieglitz\, Steichen\, Käsebier\, Clarence White\, Paul Strand\, and Alvin Langdon Coburn.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment.
UID:34762-4987716@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34762
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Visual Arts,Storytelling,Museum,Multicultural,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161006T114936
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Traces: Reconstructing the History of a Chokwe Mask
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition Traces focuses on one artwork from the Museum's African holdings: a Chokwe mask that was collected in 1905 near the Angolan city of Dundo by the German explorer Leo Frobenius. Its presence at UMMA today—almost 7\,500 miles away from the context in which it was originally created\, used\, and valued—is the result of a long and tumultuous journey\, spanning a hundred years\, three continents\, and numerous people whose lives are forever connected to the artifact that passed through their hands.\nTraces tells the stories of some of these individuals as it reconstructs the “biography” of the mask. Drawing on the Museum’s African art collection and complemented with national loans\, the exhibition is informed by research that exposes the mask’s many layers and restores some of its historical complexity. Visitors will be able to look closely\, and in great detail\, at this intriguing artwork and its fascinating story.\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the James and Vivian Curtis Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Center for the Education of Women's Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund and African Studies Center.
UID:34761-4987630@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34761
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Museum,Africa,African American,Art,Culture,Multicultural
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20161101T165550
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:From spike trains to mice behavior: point processes in neurobiology
DESCRIPTION:Neurons\, the main information processing cells in the nervous system\, are complex analog computers which encode incoming information in sequences of point events called action potentials or spikes. To understand how the brain computes we must first develop a precise language to speak about these spike trains. It is generally accepted that such language is provided by the theory of point processes. Interestingly\, this theory is also useful in the description of behavior of mice cohorts studied in modern intelligent cages\, such as the IntelliCage\, which allows for multiple mice to be kept together to study the social aspects of their behavior in an environment that is essentially human-free. In my lecture I will briefly discuss these two remote levels of animal functioning illustrating them with some results of specific experiments. I will then show how increasing mathematical precision of the description of the studied phenomena may lead to biologically interesting results.
UID:35599-5280529@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35599
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Complex Systems,Neurobiology,Science,Talk
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161107T121101
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Health\, History\, Demography & Development (H2D2)
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nThis paper estimates the value of a common form of political connections for firms from a policy shock in China. In October 2013\, the central government announced a new policy prohibiting former government officials from working in firms. Firms previously having former government officials as independent directors were affected. There are two main findings in this paper. First\, the affected firms had on average a -10 pp buy-and-hold-abnormal-return (BHAR) in 6 to 12 months following the policy shock\, which can be attributed to a loss of political connections. Due to the favorable features of the policy shock\, this political connection value estimation has a cleaner interpretation and has greater potential to be generalized. Second\, the policy effects exhibit considerable heterogeneity\, which suggests firms count on political connections to different degrees. There is some suggestive evidence connecting the value of political connection for a firm to its certain characteristics.
UID:33496-4752442@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/33496
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Economics
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201
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DTSTAMP:20160923T152450
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series
DESCRIPTION:Marc Lapadula is a playwright\, screenwriter\, film producer\, and university lecturer. His stage plays have been produced in the U.S. and in England. He produced Angel Passing\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won\, among other awards\, the grand prize at WorldFest Houston. Marc has taught screenwriting\, playwriting\, and film analysis at Johns Hopkins\, the University of Pennsylvania (his alma mater)\, Columbia University\, and Yale University. He led the Screenwriting Series at the Smithsonian Institution. Marc studied Irish and English Drama at Oxford University\, received his MA from the University of East Anglia in England\, and earned an MFA in playwriting from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
UID:34131-4856588@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34131
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Writing,Film
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Ballroom
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DTSTAMP:20161104T135512
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Data Cleaning with R (A2DataDive Bootcamp)
DESCRIPTION:R (Statistical Analysis)\nTuesday\, November 8\, 12-1 pm in NQ 2185\n\nIn this session\, we will explore a “cookbook” of “recipes” for common data cleaning and wrangling tasks\, specifically geared toward preparing your client’s raw data for the data dive. We will specifically focus on using R/RStudio and a variety of common R libraries to execute recipes for merging datasets\, cleaning and rearranging text fields\, pivoting/reshaping data\, summarizing by groups\, handling categorical data\, creating indicator variables\, scaling quantitative variables\, and other tasks requested in the pre-bootcamp survey. If we have time\, we will also look at some quick\, useful exploratory data analysis tools in R.\n\n\nIf you are attending this session\, please share what your needs are by filling out this 30-second survey: https://goo.gl/forms/pnRpvzzLByAjJQPt1. Please also download RStudio before the session.  https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
UID:35488-5235716@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Community Service,Information and Technology,Social Impact,Volunteer
LOCATION:North Quad - 2185
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20161025T065030
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Scott Williams\, Senior Investigator and Deputy Chief of the Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Lab at NIH/NIEHS\, will present a seminar titled: \"Novel Mechanisms for Resolution of Topoisomerase DNA-Protein Crosslinks.\" on Tuesday November 8\, 2016 at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall\, MS II.
UID:35343-5199189@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/35343
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biological Chemistry
LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160608T151615
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series  |  Can China Reform? Economic Reform Policy Under Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Xi Jinping came to power with an ambitious reform agenda\, but a series of reverses in 2015-16 have thrown this agenda into disarray. Which of these factors are most important in explaining this outcome: Xi’s commitment to reform objectives\; China’s political system\; or the nature of China’s economic challenges? \n\nBarry Naughton is Professor at the University of California\, San Diego specializing in the Chinese economy and economic policy. He spent fall 2012 and 2013 as a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing\, following closely the economic initiatives of the then-new Xi Jinping Administration. He has consulted extensively for the World Bank\, as well as for corporate clients. Dr. Naughton’s comprehensive study\, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth in 2007 (MIT Press) has been translated into Chinese and Korean. His first book\, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform\, 1978-1993 (Cambridge University Press\, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton publishes extensively in top economics and social science journals. He also publishes regular quarterly analyses of China’s economic policy-making online at China Leadership Monitor. Naughton’s most recent book\, co-edited with Kellee Tsai\, is State Capitalism\, Institutional Adaptation and the Chinese Miracle\, published by Cambridge University Press\, 2015. Naughton received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1986\, and was named the So Kuanlok Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) of the University of California at San Diego in 1998.
UID:30946-3907010@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/30946
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
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DTSTAMP:20161011T105746
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Economic Workshop (PEW)
DESCRIPTION:Held in the Eldersveld Room
UID:34914-5043567@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/34914
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Politics
LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5670
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160831T163358
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T140000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Andreas Gailus Lecture\, \"Forms of Life\"
DESCRIPTION:The notion of “life” has become a focal point of study and dispute in diverse fields\, from political theory to ethics\, and from animal studies to aesthetics. Gailus’ work engages these contemporary debates by way of an historical detour. It explores the rich discourse of life in German literature\, philosophy and politics from the a late 18th to the mid-20th century\, analyzing\, in particular\, its sustained attention to questions of form and formation. Part historical study\, part philosophical essay\, the work seeks to develop a vocabulary that helps us articulate the many lives—biological and biographical\, political and psychical\, aesthetic and ethical—that we live and are.\n\nAndreas Gailus is associate professor\, Germanic languages and literatures\, and a 2015-16 fellow at the Institute for the Humanities.
UID:32961-4636661@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32961
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Politics,Philosophy
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities, Osterman Common Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160906T080446
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Digital Destiny
DESCRIPTION:Digital Destiny presents 20 sculptures in metal and found materials created over the past five years by the Cameroonian artist Dieudonne Fokou. Fokou experiments continuously with new media\, as he explores different modes of creation in the plastic arts. His work is nourished by themes of justice and the search for peace and liberty\, as well as by his travels\, problems inherent to his society as well as his hopes and dreams for a better world.
UID:32548-4592264@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32548
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Outdoors,Visual Arts,Africa,Art,Culture,Diversity,Environment,Exhibition,International,Sustainability,Social Justice,Multicultural
LOCATION:Haven Hall - G648 (Ground floor)
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DTSTAMP:20160907T082748
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20161108T150000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Story of the Human Body
DESCRIPTION:This study group will read and discuss Daniel E. Lieberman's lucid and engaging account of how the human body evolved over millions of years. Lieberman argues that the jumble of adaptations in our stone-age bodies and advancements in the modern world have created a paradox: greater longevity but increased chronic disease. Please read the first two chapters for the first class. Marlin Ristenbatt is a retired electrical engineer and science enthusiast. This class for adults over 50 meets Tuesdays through December 6th. \nhttps://olli-umich.org/olli/index.php/member/ctlg/viewEventDetails/863
UID:32700-4599326@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/32700
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Lifelong Learning,Anthropology,Retirement
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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