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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T103000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:20th Annual CLIFF Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past twenty years\, the rise of food studies has brought the culinary to the attention of academics\, particularly among social scientists and in departments of cultural studies. This brings new valence to widely circulated notions of cultural and material consumption and their affective dimensions (e.g. desires\, appetites). Building on foundational work by scholars including Pierre Bourdieu\, Claude Lévi-Strauss\, and Roland Barthes\, researchers have added food to the ever-growing list of cultural products deserving of inquiry. This relatively new concern with food opens up the possibility of thinking consumption and appetites in broader terms. How do we consume bodies\, images\, and cultures? How can the humanities engage with food studies? Is it possible to think the consumption of food alongside other forms of consumption? This conference\, aimed at graduate students in all disciplines across the humanities\, social sciences\, and sciences\, is concerned with appetite and consumption in all their varied aspects.\n\nWe are very pleased to announce that this year's keynote speaker will be Rey Chow\, the Ann Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke University. Situated at the intersection of critical theory\, cultural studies\, literary studies\, film and media studies\, and postcolonial studies\, many of Chow’s recent publications directly address the connections between the culinary and the cultural\, with food becoming a window into the depths of the ordinary. Chow’s work also focuses on issues of cultural translation as tied to commodification. This nexus is central to discourses of consumption (culinary and otherwise)\, while at the same time bringing visual culture\, cinema\, literature\, and new media into the conversation.\n\nThursday\, March 10 \n\nKeynote Lecture by Rey Chow\, Duke University\n“A Tale of Deliveries”  \n5:00 PM – 7:00 PM \nAssembly Hall\, Rackham 4th Floor \n\nReception \n7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \nAssembly Hall\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\n\nFriday\, March 11 \n\nEdible and Eating Bodies \n10:30 AM – 12:00 PM\nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nCatherine Ellis\, University of Durham - ‘Sera-ce le contre-poison de la fatale Justine?’: Textual Antidotes\, Edible Prostitutes\, and Cannibal Monks in Rétif de la Bretonne’s l’Anti-Justine (1798)\n\nLisa Haushofer\, Harvard University – Appetite Historicized: The Eating Body and Nineteenth-Century Physiology of Digestion\n\nHelen Yilun Huang\, University of Oregon – Visual Sensations: From Josephine Baker’s Banana Skirt to Miss Chiquita’s Fruit Hat\n\nModerator: Mariane Stanev\n\nCLIFF@20 Lunchtime Roundtable \n12:15 PM – 1:30 PM\nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor \n\nJeffrey Middents\, American University - CLIFF 1996 \nMonika Cassel\, New Mexico School for the Arts - CLIFF 1996 \nCorine Tachtiris\, Earlham College - CLIFF 2006 & 2007 \nGenevieve Creedon\, Princeton University - CLIFF 2010 & 2011\nModerator: Mélissa Gélinas\, CLIFF 2016 \n\nFood in America \n1:45 PM – 3:45 PM\nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nNicole Rudisill\, University of Wisconsin – A Full Stomach: Life Behind the Façade of Fondant and Festivities\n\nBriel Kobak\, University of Chicago – Straight Whiskey and the Producer/Consumer It Protects\n\nNicolyn Woodcock\, Miami University – Remembering the “Forgotten War”: Transnational Entanglements and Foodie Trends in Eating Military Base Stew\n\nModerator: Xiaoxi Zhang \n\nFood as Data \n4:00 PM – 5:30 PM \nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nLelian Maldonado\, University of California\, Riverside – Artifact Acquisition\, Public Consumption\, and the Contemporary Destruction of Ancient Sites\n\nMarina Merlo\, University of Montreal – Food\, Porn\, and Selfies: Photographic Cultures of Consumption\n\nBrad Bolman\, Harvard University – Tasting/Testing Hogs: Cooking and Consumption as Science\n\nModerator: Vedran Catovic\n\n\nSaturday\, March 12 \n\nMaking the Nation \n10:30 AM – 12:30 PM\nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nDenise Castillo\, University of Wisconsin – Chiles en nogada: The Creation of National Identity\n\nDiksha Dhar\, Fulbright Visiting Scholar\, University of Pennsylvania – Is It Actually about Beef? Locating Subsuming Appetites of Nationhood under the Liberal Discourse of Choice\n\nArnab Dutta\, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and Rijksuniversiteit – Sweet\, Surfeit\, and Swadeshi: Rasagollā and the Consumptive Nationalism in Bengal\n\nElizabeth Collins\, University of California\, Los Angeles – The Poetics of Hunger in the Anticolonial Writings of Césaire and Fanon\n\nModerator: Alexander Aguayo \n\nGender and Food \n1:30 PM – 3:00 PM \nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nKaitlin Browne\, Eastern Michigan University – Womanly Appetite: From the Canterbury Tales to Gilmore Girls\n\nAlice Tsay\, University of Michigan – Weariness and Watercress\n\nDorthea Fronsman-Cecil\, University of California\, Los Angeles – Manly Appetites and Hungry Men: Identity\, Memory\, and Gendered Consumption in the Novels of Michel Houellebecq and Frédéric Beigbeder\n\nModerator: David Martin\n\nBeyond Fusion Cuisine \n3:15 PM – 4:45 PM \nWest Conference Room\, Rackham 4th Floor\n\nAjibola Boladale\, University of Ibadan – Dokunu as Staple: Diaspora\, Return\, and the Popularity of Ghanaian Food Culture in Nigeria\n\nBenjamin Ireland\, University of Michigan – Ook Chung’s Kimchi: Foodways in the Francophone Nippo-Korean Novel\n\nLeigh Saris\, University of Michigan – Mantı and Memory: Greek-Turkish Exchange Tourism and Cultural Heritage\n\nModerator: Yael Kenan \n\nConference Party \nSaturday Evening
UID:28190-2674962@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28190
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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DTSTAMP:20151228T002633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T133000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Unseen Cinema
DESCRIPTION:For financial reasons American film distributors screen mostly films made in this country and either ignore or give very small distributions to some very good films made abroad. We will screen six films from six different countries. We will talk about them and certainly discuss film as an international medium that brings us an awareness of people and cultures from other places\, perhaps better than any other art form. Here is a tentative list of the films we will see and discuss: “Bashu\, the Little Stranger” (Iran 1989)\; “My Father\, My Lord” (Israel 2007)\; “4 Months\, 3 Weeks and 2 Days” (Rumania 2007)\; “Alamar” (Mexico 2009)\; “The Japanese Wife” (India 2010)\; and “Poetry” (South Korea 2010). \n\nInstructor Ira Konigsberg is Professor Emeritus of Film at U-M.\n\nThese sessions meet Fridays\, March 11 through April 15.
UID:27297-2480775@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27297
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Retirement,Lifelong Learning,Discussion,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160404T105502
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Albert Kahn: Under Construction
DESCRIPTION:In the past two decades there has been a tremendous swell of interest in Detroit architect Albert Kahn (1869–1942)\, arguably the most important architect of American industrialization. Albert Kahn: Under Construction focuses on the remarkable archive of photographs assembled by Albert Kahn Associates while building the powerhouses of American industry\, from the Highland Park Ford Plant to the Willow Run Bomber Plant. Shot by an array of professional photographers based mainly in Detroit\, these often striking documentary images were a novel strategy for conveying information about the daily progress of construction to busy managers at the main office. The exhibition foregrounds the photographic series as a way of illustrating change over time—showing buildings as they grew on site—and Kahn’s innovative solutions to the architectural challenges of his day.\n\n**Special hours Sundays: 12–5pm\, CLOSED Mondays
UID:29456-3120365@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29456
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,Exhibition,Art,Architecture
LOCATION:Museum of Art
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DTSTAMP:20160308T112505
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Scoop: Windows Ease of Access
DESCRIPTION:Technology is suppose to make life easier\, right? This month\, Computer Showcase is hosting a series of workshops designed to help your tech do just that. We'll demo built-in features\, system settings\, and products that can make everyday tasks for work or class quicker\, easier\, and more efficient.\n\nThis session:\nModify settings and programs to make your Windows® computer easier to use and learn how to quickly access common tools with the Ease of Access Center. You can even answer a few questions about your daily computer use\, and Windows® will recommend customized settings and programs for you. For Windows® 7 and Windows® 10.\n\nLearn how to use these built-in features on your PC:\n- Use your computer without a display\, mouse or keyboard\n- Make display easier to see\n- Make the mouse and keyboard easier to use\n- Use text or visual alternatives to sounds\n- Make it easier to focus on tasks
UID:29497-3127217@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29497
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Information and Technology,Free,Inclusion,Workshop
LOCATION:Michigan Union - G-312
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DTSTAMP:20160202T134236
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits
DESCRIPTION:The first major U.S. exhibition of the accomplished Chinese artist Xu Weixin (b. 1958)\, Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits will focus on two of his acclaimed\, large-size portrait series: Miner Portraits and Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976. The subjects in Miner Portraits are coal miners working in harsh conditions in contemporary China. Chinese Historical Figures: 1966–1976 depicts people who lived—known and unknown\, and some of whom eventually perished—during the turbulent time of the Cultural Revolution. By portraying these individuals with monumentality and poignant realism\, Xu Weixin brings our focus to their lives and ordeals\, inviting an emotional connection. Reflecting the artist’s deep interest in the human condition\, these single-person portraits challenge our expectations and compel us to see beyond official narratives of historical events and social conditions. Xu Weixin is currently a professor of painting and the former executive dean of the School of Arts\, Renmin University\, Beijing.
UID:28691-2810469@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28691
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:UMMA,Museum,International,Exhibition,Chinese Studies,Art
LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160304T114849
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
SUMMARY:Presentation:\"History Compels Us To Be Daring\": Sites of Conscience in Action Around the World
DESCRIPTION:The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience draws connections between historic sites and their contemporary implications\, and this presentation will explore ways that sites of conscience serve as safe spaces to tell multiple stories in contentious environments and provide a platform for individuals to share their stories.
UID:29415-3091692@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29415
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,Museum
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Multi-Purpose Room (125)
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160215T093412
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSEAS Fridays at Noon Lecture Series: Burmese Spirit (nat)
DESCRIPTION:In addition to their devotion to Theravada Buddhism\, the Burmese people maintain a robust tradition of spirit (nat) worship. The purpose of the spirit worshipping rituals is to incarnate the spirits through the possession trance of a transvestite ritual specialist.  The spirits are mostly historical figures who lived during Burma’s period of military and political strength in the 11th-12th centuries CE. Because of their unfortunate deaths\, these spirits cannot be reincarnated\, but are doomed to endlessly wander this earthly realm.
UID:27940-2611312@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27940
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Southeast Asia
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1636 International Institute
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160301T125036
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Workshop: Metonymies of Longing and Belonging: Bodies\, Land\, Mobility\, and Redemption
DESCRIPTION:By the part one shall know the whole. The members of this panel examine the fragmentation of bodies\, lands\, and objects\, and their redemption by a unifying knowledge that is acquired through the reconfiguration of those parts in space and in text. Joost Van Eynde will discuss the collection of body parts by military surgeons in the periphery of the British Empire and their use in museum collections and scientific inquiry for the generation of new medical knowledge in the metropolis. Sheng Long will demonstrate that the division of family households and the redemption of mortgaged ancestral land in southern China during late imperial times constituted knowledge of the lineage through plots of land. Omer Sharir will analyze a British experiment in 1835 to produce knowledge of the Syrian desert and its peoples by the overland transport of two disassembled paddle steamers to the Euphrates.\n\nPanelists:\nCurie Virág (Assistant Professor\, East Asian Studies\, University of Toronto)\, Sheng Long (PhD Student\, Anthropology\, University of Michigan)\, Omer Sharir (PhD Student\, History\, University of Michigan)\, and Joost Van Eynde (PhD Candidate\, History\, University of Michigan)\; chaired by Christian de Pee (Associate Professor\, History\, University of Michigan).\n\nFree and open to the public. Lunch provided.\n\nThis 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.
UID:22918-1415047@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/22918
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160127T175912
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T200000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:MSC Fish Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Look for a delish fish dish at both lunch and dinner. And look for the MSC label. It means the fish has been certified by the Marine Stewardship Council as sustainably caught.
UID:28479-2747036@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/28479
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Food
LOCATION:South Quad - and All Dining Halls
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160305T185221
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:eHour (ENTR 407) with Inder Singh
DESCRIPTION:Inder Singh is the founder and CEO of Kinsa\, a venture backed startup creating the first real-time map of health. He also formerly served as the Executive Vice President of the multi-national Clinton Foundation\, Clinton Health Access Initiative [\"CHAI\"]. He rst attended the University of Michigan\, where he graduated magna cum laude with an Economics and Engineering degree. He then earned degrees from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology.\n\nKinsa is revolutionizing health by creating the world's first real-time map of health to track and stop the spread of illness. Its first product is an ultra-low-cost smartphone-connected thermometer. It will take a temperature and through the mobile app\, allow you to compare symptoms to \"what's going around\" in the local area\, seek advice from a medical professional\, find immediate care\, and keep records of health issues. The products also provide anonymous geo-located data on fever\, symptoms and illness to map health.
UID:29432-3104941@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29432
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship
LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160225T094217
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T133000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pastries with Paul and Ross Gay
DESCRIPTION:A special guest will be joining Paul - Ross Gay\, who is a well-known poet\, professor\, and author of three books\, will be with us during Pastries with Paul. Following this event\, he will host a reading at Literati at 7:00pm tonight and be welcomed as the keynote speaker at the Voices of the Middle West Book Fair/Festival tomorrow. Please join us for this great opportunity.
UID:29222-3020226@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29222
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Undergraduate
LOCATION:Alice Lloyd Hall - Living Room
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160121T142547
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T160000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:1st Fridays
DESCRIPTION:Feel Good Friday\, but with a twist! Same program\, same atmosphere\, same great food\, but to better serve our students\, we’re providing an all new\, comprehensive\, and impactful Friday program on the 1st Friday of every month. We invite you to take a break from classes and stop by to spend some time with your Trotter Family from 1:00PM-4:00PM.
UID:24840-1580025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/24840
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Justice,Social,Multicultural,Free,Food
LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160217T144823
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T173000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:CMENAS Symposium: Climate Change and Crisis in the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Arid zones are often characterized by highly variable precipitation—extraordinary droughts are ordinary occurrences—so human and natural communities ought to be adapted to them. Yet there are many strong arguments that droughts have and are precipitating violent conflict in the Middle East region. \n\nThis interdisciplinary symposium focuses on contemporary and historical cases analyzing the relationship between climate change and social conflict in the Middle East.\n\nPresentations:\n\n“Climate Change and State Deconstruction in the Middle East and North Africa”\nJeannie Sowers\, Professor of Political Science\, University of New Hampshire.\n\n“Climate Change and Internal Conflicts in the Middle East”\nHannu Juusola\, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Helsinki\n\nRound Table Discussion:\n\n“How to Think about Hot Spots: Historical\, Climatological\, and Policy Perspectives on Climate and Conflict”\nModerator: Perrin Selcer\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Michigan\n\nPanelists: \n\nRosina Bierbaum\, Professor of Natural Resources and Environment Policy\, University of Michigan\n\nRichard Rood\, Professor of Climate & Space Sciences and Engineering\, University of Michigan\n\nSamuel White\, Assistant Professor of History\, The Ohio State University \n\nSponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\; co-sponsored by the Department of History\, Environmental History Interest Group\, International Institute\, and International Policy Center at the Ford School of Public Policy\n\n*This symposium is funded in part by a Title VI NRC grant from the U.S. Department of Education.\n\n**This event is free and open to the public.
UID:27997-2620025@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/27997
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,symposium,Politics,History,Environment,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20160316T125430
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T170000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:COLOR CODE\, MARIANETTA PORTER
DESCRIPTION:Color Code: Conundrums and Complexities will be presented at GalleryDAAS\, located on the ground floor of Haven Hall on the University of Michigan’s central campus\, from March 11 to April 29\, 2016. The exhibition showcases the recent work of mixed-media artist and University of Michigan professor Marianetta Porter. Color Code celebrates the artistry and eloquence of the black experience in all its complexity--its brutal history\, the richness of its folklore and traditions\, and the beauty of its vernacular expression.
UID:29488-3138665@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/29488
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Social Justice,Exhibition,Diversity,Culture,African American,Africa
LOCATION:Haven Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20151130T122915
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20160311T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work
DESCRIPTION:TBA
UID:26842-2236392@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/26842
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Career,Undergraduate,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 (Askwith Auditorium)
CONTACT:
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