Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Facebook, Politics, and Participation in the Philippines
2018-09-14 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Detroit) | Weiser Hall - 110
Filipinos spend more time on social media than anyone else in the world, yet little is understood about how social media impacts politics in the Philippines. The speakers have examined the broad relationship between Facebook usage and political participation in an increasingly digitally networked Philippines society. New scholarship in political communication espouses a strong positive relationship between social media and the rise of populist politicians, but this hypothesis may not hold true in the case of Rodrigo Duterte's electoral victory. Citing survey findings and social network analysis following the 2016 presidential election, the speakers will demonstrate that political engagement via Facebook played a key role in this unprecedented election, but not in ways previous research has posited. The speakers will use their findings to explain the implications for future political developments in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia.

Aim Sinpeng is a lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is a co-founder of the Sydney Cyber Security Network and a Thailand Coordinator for the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre. She has published widely on Thai politics and has been awarded multiple research grants to study social media and political participation in Southeast Asia. She is completing a manuscript on anti-democratic politics in democratizing states.

Aries A. Arugay is an associate professor of political science and co-convenor of the Strategic Studies Program of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on comparative politics, international relations, research methodology, and political thought. He currently holds an ASEAN@50 Fellowship from New Zealand’s Southeast Asia Centre of Asia-Pacific Excellence and the One UP Professorial Chair in Comparative Democratization.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cseas@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Qiyang Han, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
2018-09-14 11:30 - 13:00 | West Hall - 411
We study the convergence rate of the least squares estimator (LSE) in a regression model
with possibly heavy-tailed errors. Despite its importance in practical applications,
theoretical understanding of this problem has been limited. We first show that from a
worst-case perspective, the convergence rate of the LSE in a general non-parametric regression model is given by the maximum of the Gaussian regression rate and the noise rate induced by the errors. In the more difficult statistical model where the errors only have a second moment, we further show that the sizes of the 'localized envelopes' of the model give a sharp interpolation for the convergence rate of the LSE between the worst-case rate and the (optimal) parametric rate.
These results indicate both certain positive and negative aspects of the LSE as an estimation procedure in a heavy-tailed regression setting. The key technical innovation is a new multiplier inequality that sharply controls the size of the multiplier empirical process associated with the LSE, which also finds applications in shape-restricted and sparse linear regression problems.

Workshop / Seminar:Closing the Deal: Arabidopsis LORELEI is Required for Pollen Tube Reception by the Female Gametophyte
2018-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Biological Sciences Building - 1060
Host: Cora MacAlister

Workshop / Seminar:Dance Modern Lab Master Class Series: Sean Hoskins
2018-09-14 12:00 | Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater
Sean Hoskins investigates the intersections of dance and technology as a choreographer, teacher, performer, and screendance creator. Hoskins was a dance major at Middlebury College and received his MFA from SMTD, where he specialized in choreography. He is an avid improviser and creator. As a teacher, Hoskins directed the dance program at Blair Academy and has taught courses and workshops at U-M, Wayne State University, Oakland University, Middlebury, and Bates colleges, and regularly at regional American College Dance Association conferences. Hoskins is currently the dance technology coordinator and part-time faculty at SMTD.

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.

Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium: Museum Stories: The Ethics of Collecting
2018-09-14 12:00 - 14:00 | Tisch Hall - 1014
What constitutes rightful ownership of cultural objects? The unprecedented looting of modern wars as well as various protest movements have spawned international regulations, declarations, and efforts that offer guidance in this regard. The extant framework, however, falls short of exhausting the ethical problems raised by artifacts, their histories, and their displays. For museum and university collections these questions have gained the greatest urgency. Our panel offers reflections on this vast terrain; three case studies will follow an opening contribution by one of the foremost experts on restitution, repatriation, and cultural heritage law.

Note: This event counts toward Responsible Conduct in Research and Scholarship (RCRS) training requirements for graduate students in History and possibly other disciplines.

Panelists:
Patty Gerstenblith, Distinguished Research Professor of Law, DePaul University
Raymond Silverman, Professor, History of Art, Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
Terry G. Wilfong, Director / Curator of Graeco-Roman Egyptian Collections, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
Yao-Fen You, Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative ArtsDetroit Institute of Arts
Helmut Puff (chair), Elizabeth L. Eisenstein Collegiate Professor of History and Germanic Languages, University of Michigan

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided.

This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

Lecture / Discussion:Eldersveld Prize Lecture
2018-09-14 12:00 - 13:30 | Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room (5670)
When Sam Eldersveld died, he generously donated money to the Department of Political Science to be used to honor faculty and graduate students (in alternating years) for their research accomplishments. Every other year the Department's Executive Committee chooses a faculty member to receive the Eldersveld Prize. Iain Osgood is this year's recipient of the prize.

Sporting Event:Great Lakes Intercollegiate Offshore Regatta (GLIOR)
2018-09-14 12:00 - 23:59 | Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club
Competetive Keelboat Regatta (Tartan 10)

Other:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-September 24, 2018
2018-09-14 12:00 - 23:59 | Off Campus Location
Michigan in Washington Fall 2018 Deadline for Winter 2019 and early admission Fall 2019.

Presentation:Psychology Methods Hour - A Frequentist’s Journey into the Land of Bayes—the problem(s) that pushed me over the edge.
2018-09-14 12:00 - 13:00 | East Hall - 4464
Dr. Flannagan will talk about a study that she led in 2013-2015 during the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) (EU-US trade) negotiations. The study evaluated whether EU-regulated cars and US-regulated cars could be deemed "equally safe." She will focus on the methods and some of the political context for this study that made the choice of methods critical. In the study, she and her colleagues used both Bayesian and non-Bayesian methods, but she'll focus on the Bayesian approach that they took. Although the particular study is closer to Epidemiology than Psychology per se, it has obvious parallels to any situation in which the question of "are these the same" is of great importance. In addition, the sponsor had a particular point of view that had implications for the methods the team used and the conclusions they could draw.

Meeting:Departmental Emergency/Active Attacker Training
2018-09-14 12:30 - 14:15 | Angell Hall - 3222
The English Department will host an Active Attacker Training presented by Officer Matt Butzky from the UM Division of Public Safety & Security on Friday, September 14th from 1 - 2:15 pm in AH 3222. A light lunch will be provided for those attending the training, starting at 12:30 pm. All English Department members are encouraged and welcome to attend. For planning purposes, please RSVP to amyarger@umich.edu if you plan to attend the training and/or lunch. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Careers / Jobs:ECRC and Steelcase Elevator Pitch Booth
2018-09-14 13:00 - 16:00 | Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector
Representatives from Steelcase and the Engineering Career Resource Center will be available to listen to your elevator pitch and provide feedback to help you prepare for the Career Fair. Steelcase will be representing a recruiter’s perspective and this event is not company focused, all engineering and computer science students are welcome! The booth will be held from 1-4 PM on Friday, September 14, in the DUDE Connector.

This is a College of Engineering event.

Lecture / Discussion:Phondi Discussion Group
2018-09-14 13:00 - 14:00 | Lorch Hall - 473
Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology.

Well-being:Wolverine Support Network's Back-to-School BBQ
2018-09-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Trotter Multicultural Center
Wolverine Support Network will be hosting a Back-to-School BBQ Kickback Friday on September 14th at Trotter Multicultural Center's Front Lawn!

All University of Michigan students are welcome to join for FREE food, a chance to learn more about WSN, and an opportunity to meet some new friends. We hope to see you there!

Want to join the Wolverine Support Network community? Head over to https://www.umichwsn.org/join and sign-up to be placed in a group at a time and location of your choosing. Open to all Michigan students, undergraduate and graduate.

Lecture / Discussion:The Promise of Making: Desiring Alternatives and Hacking Entrepreneurial Living in China
2018-09-14 13:30 - 15:00 | Ross School of Business - R0220
Since 2014, a series of Western media outlets from Wired UK over the Economist to Forbes have begun celebrate the city of Shenzhen in the South of China as a rising hub of innovation, a so-called “Hollywood for Makers” and “Silicon Valley of Hardware.” These media stories took up an idea that open source hardware advocates had been promoting for several years: that the city of Shenzhen had become crucial for the realization of one of the key promises of the maker movement, i.e. to prototype concrete alternatives to the pitfalls of the information society and contemporary capitalism. Just a couple years earlier, Shenzhen was largely known as a place of copycats and fakes that lacked creativity where ideas created elsewhere were simply executed and mass produced. What happened within the timespan of only a few years that changed Shenzhen’s image from demonstrating China’s continuous lag in technology innovation towards a place where alternatives to neoliberal capitalism could be prototyped? In this talk, I present excerpts from my forthcoming book “The Promise of Making” to unpack the historical contingencies of this transformation of Shenzhen, and with it China, in the global tech imaginary. Drawing from more than seven years of ethnographic research, I show how the displacement of technooptimistic onto Shenzhen unfolded through and alongside the emergence of “making” as a mode of intervention in the status-quo by hacking not only machines, but also markets and work itself. Shenzhen, I show, was rendered by open source hardware advocates, venture capitalists, avant-garde designers, Chinese politicians and state actors alike as a laboratory to prototype what I call “entrepreneurial living,” i.e. a naturalization of experimentation as a mode of “living on" amidst a pervasive economization of life. While making reformulated a key neoliberal logic of self-economization as a story of empowerment by promising to include ever more people in its call for self-transformation into human capital, Shenzhen came to be seen as the place to accomplish this upgrade of the self and to regain a sense of control amidst anxieties over economic and environmental crisis. Entrepreneurial living as an analytical frame moves beyond a theorization of making or hacking as a countercultural or grassroots movement that exists separate or independent from the systems it sets out to challenge, but points instead to the parasitic relations between contemporary maker cultures, China’s shifting relations in geopolitics and the global political economy.

Presentation:Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Forum
2018-09-14 14:00 - 15:00 | East Hall - 4464
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