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DTSTAMP:20260908T150343
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T133000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kreativwerkstatt
DESCRIPTION:Chat in German and express yourself creatively. Crafting\, coloring\, painting\, drawing\, knitting\, sewing\, crochet\, embroidery\, origami? You will combine speaking German\, any level welcome\, beginners included\, and creatively expressing yourself. You are encouraged to bring your own materials or (ongoing) projects\, but we will also provide some materials and prompts each week. \n\nContact Laura Okkema (lokkema@umich.edu) or Iris Zapf-Garcia (iriszaga@umich.edu.) with questions.
UID:151749-21912096@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151749
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,Discussion,German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures,Visual Arts
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - Conference Room, 3308
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260821T104852
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T153000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pause Café: French Conversation Hour
DESCRIPTION:-Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and snacks while improving your French skills!\n\n-Chat for 10 minutes or the entire hour. All language levels are welcome.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Alan Ames at (alanames@umich.edu).
UID:150689-21909908@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150689
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Coffee,Community,Culture,Discussion,Food,Free,French,Games,Global,Humanities,In Person,Interactive,Language,Networking,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20261026T193514
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Math Grad Show and Tell Seminar: The ADE classification
DESCRIPTION:The ADE diagrams\, originating in Lie theory\, often provide a classification of the ‘simplest’ objects in seemingly unrelated fields of mathematics. Examples include reflection groups\, the Platonic solids\, isolated singularities\, and quivers\, with further links to some finite simple groups. We will present a few of these cases and explore their connections. No background in Lie theory is assumed.
UID:154129-21917229@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154129
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261016T095336
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Presentation:Yue Xin - Dissertation Defense
DESCRIPTION:Please join Yue Xin for their dissertation defense titled \"Advances in High-Throughput Chemical Reaction Screening\, Rapid Chromatography\, and Quantification for Pharmaceutical Development\".\n\n*Date:* Monday\, November 2nd\n*Time:* 3:00 p.m.\n*Where:* Rackham Building\, West Conference Room\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 915 5885 7486\nPasscode: 110226
UID:153759-21916284@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153759
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chemistry
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room
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DTSTAMP:20260825T082004
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RCGD Fall Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture and Health (Emily M. Briceño)
DESCRIPTION:RCGD Fall 2026 Seminar Series: Global Perspectives on Culture & Health\, meets Mondays 3:30 to 5 at ISR Thompson 6050.\n\nGlobal Perspectives on Culture and Health explores fundamental aspects of human life. Culture facilitates human interaction by providing meaning to lived experience. Accounting for culture in both theories and methods potentially advances the study of health by connecting the macro and micro levels of human experience. Yet\, culture should be understood as dynamic and complex. It fundamentally shapes individuals and simultaneously is shaped by individuals. The importance of systematically attending to culture includes topics of values\, language\, immigration\, and society.\n\nTheories and methods that incorporate culture hold great potential for advancing the understanding of health outcomes and health trajectories in various global contexts.\n\nThe speakers for this series will focus on various aspects of culture and diverse groups living in the U.S. and across the globe to address the ways in which attending to culture helps clarify and overcome challenges to good health.\n\nThe Group Dynamics Seminar series is considered one of the longest running seminar series in the social sciences. It has been running uninterruptedly since it was founded by Kurt Lewin in the 1920’s in Berlin. The seminar series runs every semester on a theme chosen by faculty organizer/s who are affiliated with the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. A very important feature of this seminar today is its interdisciplinary nature. Recent themes have included political polarization\, evolution and human behavior\, and cultural psychology.\n\nIn person: ISR Thompson 6050\, unless otherwise specified.\nOrganized by Kristine Ajrouch and Sela Panapasa\nEvents are not recorded.
UID:149693-21906959@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149693
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology,Emotions,Health & Wellness,Research,Social Science
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 6050
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DTSTAMP:20261026T134319
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Depressed Mothers and Rebellious Sons: Relationships in the History of American Mood Disorders
DESCRIPTION:The formal diagnosis of adult major depressive disorder emerged in the 1970s in the context of research with medication\, though disagreement about whether children could experience depression was not resolved until the 1980s and 1990s. Many critics and scholars have interrogated the construction of psychiatric diagnosis in the United States. This talk will attend to the relationships that formed the backdrop in depression research\, especially between depressed mothers and their rebellious sons. In the process of creating purportedly objective categories of illness\, relationship dynamics were redefined as genetic propensity\, while the brain was located as a value-neutral site\, away from social context.\n\nLaura Hirshbein\, MD\, PhD is the George E Wantz MD Distinguished Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan. She is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and director of the Program of the History of Medicine and Public Health within the Center for History\, Humanities\, the Arts\, Social Sciences\, and Ethics of Medicine (CHHASSEM).\n\nShe has published two books (American Melancholy in 2009 and Smoking Privileges in 2013)\, and her third book is forthcoming from Columbia University Press (Troubled). She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
UID:152530-21913887@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152530
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Society,Technology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261026T105540
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dynamics Seminar: Yet another unstabilizable rational surface map
DESCRIPTION:I will discuss a newly identified example of a plane rational map that has constant Jacobian determinant relative to the natural holomorphic volume form on the algebraic torus.  A distinguishing feature is that it `tropicalizes' as a self-map of the circle that is topologically conjugate to angle doubling.  Using this and post-composing with an appropriate monomial map we get a new and rather different example of a rational surface map that is not birationally conjugate to any algebraically stable map.  This work\, joint with Chase Bender and Holly Krieger\, relies on some AI input\, but maybe not where you'd guess it does.
UID:152181-21913183@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152181
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Dynamics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3096
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DTSTAMP:20261012T104103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T172000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Easy to Collect\, Costly to Bear: Mobile Money Taxation and  Network Spillovers in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:This paper provides evidence that a tax on mobile money transactions shrinks its base by an order of magnitude more than taxes on income or turnover do\, that the base responds to whether it is taxed rather than to how much\, and that the damage spreads through the payment network to users and payments the law never taxed. First\, using the complete transaction records of Tanzania’s three largest providers around the introduction of a notched levy on person-to-person transfers and cash withdrawals in July 2021\, we show that the levy reduces the volume of taxed transactions by 23 percent and their average value by 13 percent relative to untaxed transactions on the same platform\, an elasticity with respect to the net-of-tax price of about 10. Second\, we show that a cut of about 30 percent seven weeks later brings none of it back\, nor do two further cuts\, while the removal of the levy on transfers in 2023 does\, slowly. Third\, we document that relationships between senders and receivers survive at two-thirds the normal rate\, that new ones form at less than half the pre-levy pace\, and that senders stop rerouting activity around recipients who go quiet\; none of these margins recovers when the tax rate falls. Fourth\, we find that the levy reaches activity it does not tax\, as wages paid into wallets fall by a fifth\, and that senders of every size cut back by a similar share\, whether or not they have a bank account. Fifth\, we estimate that the levy destroys 47 cents of surplus for every shilling it raises\, several times the cost of a value-added tax in comparable settings.
UID:149332-21906243@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Public Finance,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4325
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DTSTAMP:20261102T062058
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Florent Gillet (2026-2027) (Housing)
DESCRIPTION:
UID:150389-21915523@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150389
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Florent Gillet Lobby
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DTSTAMP:20261030T155140
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:GLNT: Modular Character Sheaves and Monodromic Hecke Categories
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:  Character sheaves provide a geometric framework for studying characters of finite groups of Lie type. Introduced by Lusztig in the 1980s\, they played a central role in the classification of irreducible complex representations of these groups and in the computation of their characters. Although the definition of character sheaves can be formulated with modular coefficients\, much of Lusztig's characteristic-zero machinery breaks down in this setting.\n\nIn this talk\, I will give a streamlined overview of the theory of character sheaves using modern language from categorical representation theory. From this perspective\, categorical traces allow one to study character sheaves through monodromic Hecke categories. I will describe two models for these categories: a geometric categorification in terms of parity sheaves and an algebraic categorification in terms of Soergel bimodules. A key advantage of these models is that they are tightly controlled by p-Kazhdan–Lusztig combinatorics. This paves the way for a more algebraic study of modular character sheaves.
UID:152484-21913803@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152484
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 4088
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DTSTAMP:20261101T133035
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How plabic graphs describe weakly separated collections
DESCRIPTION:Two k-element subsets I\,J of {1\,2\,…\,n} are weakly separated if the sets I\J and J\I (when drawn on a circle with vertices 1\,2\,…\,n) can be separated by a chord. A maximal weakly separated collection is a set of pairwise weakly-separated k-element subsets of {1\,2\,…\,n} that is not contained in any larger set with this property. This definition gives rise to natural combinatorial questions: How big is a maximal weakly separated collection? How many are there? How are they related to each other?\n\nI will outline how Oh\, Posknikov\, Speyer answered most of these questions via a bijection between maximal weakly separated collections in a positroid and move-equivalent plabic graphs. Along the way\, we’ll meet some fun combinatorial objects related to plabic graphs including bounded affine permutations\, Grassmann necklaces\, positroids\, and plabic tilings.
UID:154396-21917646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:East Hall - 3866
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DTSTAMP:20261007T095927
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISRMT Seminar: Title TBA
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: TBA
UID:153397-21915803@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153397
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Mathematics
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261012T153958
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T171500
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Transfer Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the LSA Transfer Recruitment Team for our virtual sessions where we will discuss LSA requirements\, transfer credit\, pre-transfer academic advising\, LSA opportunities and other transfer tidbits.\n\nRegistration is required. Register using link to the right
UID:141040-21916067@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/141040
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Transfer Students
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261102T062057
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T190000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Maize & Blue Cupboard Volunteering
DESCRIPTION:Come help us during normal operating hours\; as well as\, unload our weekly Food Gatherers deliveries and stock our shelves! If you are outside the U-M community\, please reach out to maize.blue.cupboard@umich.edu to sign up.
UID:102102-21917183@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/102102
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Maize and Blue Cupboard inside Betsy Barbour
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260911T121616
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T183000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Teresa Poggi Lecture on Italy and the Mediterranean World. “Signor Presidente:\" Giorgia Meloni and the Italian Laboratory
DESCRIPTION:In 2022\, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni became the first far-right leader of Italy since Fascism and the first woman to ever lead the country. Four years later\, Meloni has proven resilient\, despite challenging economic indicators and after losing a referendum to limit the independence of the judiciary. A skillful politician\, Meloni has deftly navigated between Italy’s commitments to the European Union and the country’s longtime strategic alliance with the United States\, even as the Trump Administration has pushed to scale back NATO in Europe\, causing confusion and distress in Europe’s halls of power.\n\n   From Fascism to the personality-driven phenomenon of Silvio Berlusconi to the anti-system Five Star Movement\, Italy has always been a political laboratory\, a harbinger of political trends to come. With this lens\, what larger lessons can we draw from Meloni’s leadership about the direction of Italy and Europe? Has Meloni normalized the far right or transformed it into a mainstream conservative movement? What are her most concrete accomplishments? As a study in power\, what do we make of this small\, blonde\, fierce woman who insists on using the masculine form of address\, “Signor Presidente”?\n  \nThe annual Teresa Poggi Lecture on Italy and the Mediterranean World focuses on contemporary and historical issues related to the region. It is made possible by a generous gift from Stephanie and Sue Augustyniak in honor of their mother.\n   \nRachel Donadio is a Paris-based writer\, a contributing writer for *The Atlantic*\, and a former Rome Bureau Chief and European Culture Correspondent for *The New York Times*. She regularly publishes textured profiles and features at the intersection of culture and politics\, as well as literary criticism\, and is a frequent contributor to *The New York Review of Books*. Donadio has reported from more than two dozen countries and interviewed heads of state and major cultural figures\, including four Nobel Laureates in literature.\n   \nIn her many years covering Italy\, she has written on Giorgia Meloni’s culture wars\, Curzio Malaparte\, Nicola Gratteri when he was a leading Italian anti-Mafia prosecutor\, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi\, Gina Lollobrigida\, Paolo Sorrentino\, a rare book theft in Naples\, why Italians gesticulate\, Amalfi lemons\, a family of centenarians in Sardinia\, a Bangladeshi Cricket league in Rome\, and the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi. She has also covered the Vatican and led *The New York Times* coverage of the conclave in which Pope Francis was elected.\n   \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact gosiak@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n\n*Part of the International Institute Theme Year: Sovereignty*\nhttps://myumi.ch/ii-theme
UID:149056-21905367@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Europe,italian,Italian Studies,Politics,Theme Year
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20261029T153009
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T190000
SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:SAPAC Care Collective's JoyLab: Day of the Dead - Ofrenda & Clay Making
DESCRIPTION:Come spend an afternoon making clay sculptures and contribute to Care Collective’s Day of the Dead community altar!\n\nSAPAC’s Care Collective is a low-pressure\, semi-structured\, confidential\, student-led community space for student survivors of sexual assault\, intimate partner violence\, stalking\, sexual harassment\, gender-based harassment\, and/or other forms of harm. Students do not need to label or share their experiences to join Care Collective spaces\, and all students are welcome. The Care Collective offers various connection opportunities centered around wellness\, grounding\, and community\, including but not limited to study days\, stand-alone events\, regularly offered wellness spaces\, and more. Events are free to attend\, unless otherwise noted. Drop in anytime and come as you are.
UID:154294-21917517@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154294
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:sapac,student org,Wellness
LOCATION:Michigan Union - 4100
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261016T132653
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T200000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:The Chinese Mayor
DESCRIPTION:Watch the documentary The Chinese Mayor (2015\, 86 mins.)\, followed by discussion with Hao Zhou\, the film's director\, and Lan Deng\, professor and chair of the Urban and Regional Planning Program in the U-M Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Light refreshments provided.\n\nOnce the thriving capital of Imperial China\, the city of Datong is now among the country’s most polluted cities\, burdened by aging infrastructure and uncertain economic prospects. Mayor Geng Yanbo announces an ambitious plan to restore Datong to the cultural center it was 1\,600 years ago. The plan comes at a devastating cost: thousands of homes will be demolished\, and half a million residents — 30 percent of Datong’s population — will be relocated. The Chinese Mayor offers remarkable access to a leader\, and to a country\, moving urgently toward an increasingly unstable future. It also allows audiences to draw their own conclusions about the promises and costs of the mayor’s project\, while raising questions that continue to echo today.\n\nThe CHOP (China Ongoing Perspectives) film series is sponsored by the U-M Library (Asia Library) and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
UID:153777-21916313@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153777
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Architecture,China,Free,Library,Urban Planning
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261102T060135
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T210000
SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Brazilian Zouk Dance Lesson
DESCRIPTION:Hi zoukinis! Join us for Brazilian Zouk Dance Lessons!\nNot sure what Zouk is? Zouk is a Brazilian social partner dance known for its fun-loving and playful style\, often involving close embrace\, body rolls\, and hair whips. Check out our page for example videos! \n6 pm-Beginner Lesson\n7 pm-Practica\n8 pm-Improver Lesson\nAll of our lessons are open level and require no experience\, feel free to drop in and meet our fun-loving and welcoming community. See you soon!
UID:151442-21911599@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151442
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:
LOCATION:Mason Hall
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261102T062059
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T190000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Empowerment Self-Defense -Striking Drills with pads
DESCRIPTION:Empowerment Self-Defense - (physical workshop) The empowerment self- defense class will explore the culture of violence\, and teach concrete but practical effective skills for personal safety and physical self defense in a wide variety of contexts. Participants will be able to: understand how situational awareness can deter or prevent an attack\, use verbal skills for assertive communication\, evade and set boundaries (verbal & physical)\, use practical options to make ourselves more comfortable when uncomfortable situations occur\, recognize and interrupt unwanted behavior when in social situations\, interpersonal/intimate relationships as well as interactions with strangers.
UID:153463-21915886@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153463
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:500 S. State St., LSA building, Ann Arbor 48109, room 1040
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20261013T133043
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T193000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Mind | Pleasure\, Desire\, and Addiction in the Brain
DESCRIPTION:How is pleasure (‘liking’) different from desire (‘wanting’)\, and how are they generated by the brain? Answering those questions is crucial to understanding addiction\, compulsivity\, and many other aspects of human behavior. Our work at Michigan helped show that the brain’s mesolimbic dopamine system is not a pleasure ‘liking’ mechanism as was once thought\, but rather only a motivational ‘wanting’ mechanism. Separate brain opioid hedonic hotspots generate feelings of ‘liking’.\n\nIn addiction\, drug-induced sensitization of dopamine systems in vulnerable individuals can amplify ‘wanting’ to arguably compulsive levels\, even when what is desired does not provide pleasure once obtained. A recent animal laboratory demonstration is ‘wanting what hurts:’ desiring experiences that give no pleasure at all\, as a prototype of how addictive compulsion works. Incentive sensitization helps explain how addiction can create a vulnerability to relapse that persists despite sincere desire to quit\, even long after drugs are no longer taken.\n\nAbout the speaker: Kent Berridge is James Olds Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Research in Berridge’s lab has aimed for better answers to questions such as: How is pleasure (‘liking’) generated by the brain? How is desire (‘wanting’) generated by the brain? How does wanting something differ from liking it? And how does addiction become compulsive?
UID:150333-21909012@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150333
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Addiction,Brain,Neuropsychology,Neuroscience,Psychology,Psychology Departmental
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Program Room
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