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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture: Poetry's Musical Bloodline
DESCRIPTION:Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters24\n\nSeats are limited and are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot.\n\nZell Visiting Writers Series craft lectures are free and open to the public\, and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in The Robert Hayden Conference Room\, Angell Hall #3222). Please contact kimjulie@umich.edu with any questions or accommodation needs.\n\nAbout his lecture\, Tyehimba Jess says\, \"A Sociohistorical Soundtrack is a master class exploring the historic connections between music and poetry\, with particular interest in music of the African diaspora. Participants will plumb insights into creating poems that address the history\, culture\, characters\, geographies and politics of music across generations and across the world. We will read poems from selected authors\, provide a forum for deep listening to selected tunes\, and create assignments that prompt new and dynamic explorations that bring the energy of music into our poems.\"\n\nTyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry\, *Leadbelly* and *Olio*. *Olio* won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award\, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry\, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.  It was also nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN Jean Stein Book Award\, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award.  Leadbelly was a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series. The Library Journal and Black Issues Book Review both named it one of the “Best Poetry Books of 2005.”\nJess\, a Cave Canem and NYU Alumni\, received a 2004 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, and was a 2004–2005 Winter Fellow at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Jess is also a veteran of the 2000 and 2001 Green Mill Poetry Slam Team\, and won a 2000–2001 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry\, the 2001 Chicago Sun-Times Poetry Award\, and a 2006 Whiting Fellowship. He presented his poetry at the 2011 TedX Nashville Conference and won a 2016 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2018. Jess is a Professor of English at College of Staten Island.  \n\nJess' fiction and poetry have appeared in many journals\, as well as anthologies such as *Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry*\, *Beyond The Frontier: African American Poetry for the Twenty-First Century\, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art*\, *Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam\, Power Lines: Ten Years of Poetry from Chicago's Guild Complex*\, and *Slam: The Art of Performance Poetry*.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email kimjulie@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209)\, reflection room (Haven Hall #1506)\, and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email kimjulie@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:122396-21848945@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122396
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Art,arts at michigan,book discussion,book event,Book Talk,Books,Contemporary Literature,Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,English Language And Literature,fiction,Graduate,Literary Arts,Literati,Literature,Mfa Program In Creative Writing,Talk,UMMA,World Literature,Writing
LOCATION:Angell Hall - The Robert Hayden Conference Room, #3222
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DTSTAMP:20250110T153226
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250207T100000
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SUMMARY:Meeting:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour
DESCRIPTION:Spanish Coffee & Conversation Hours\n\nALL LEVELS AND STUDENTS WELCOME!\n- Practice your Spanish speaking skills with students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed setting\n- Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods\n- Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad\n\nEvery Friday\, Winter 2025\nJanuary 10 to April 18\n10:00am - 11:00 am\n4th Floor\, MLB Commons
UID:130925-21867398@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130925
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Coffee,Community,Culture,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Food,Free,Humanities,In Person,Inclusion,Interactive,intercultural,Interdisciplinary,Language,multicultural,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spanish,Talk
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
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DTSTAMP:20250110T170530
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250207T100000
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SUMMARY:Other:Leaves Under the Lens
DESCRIPTION:The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny\, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects\, absorb (or repel!) water\, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again! \n\nThis project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos.
UID:130943-21867433@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130943
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,eeb,Family,Free,In Person,science
LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens
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DTSTAMP:20250204T133742
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Reese Pathak\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Computer Science\, University of California\, Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Traditional machine learning often assumes that training (source) data closely resembles the testing (target) data. However\, in many contemporary applications this is unrealistic: in e-commerce\, consumer behavior is time-varying\; in medicine\, patient populations can exhibit more or less heterogeneity\; in autonomous driving\, models are rolled out to new environments. Ignoring these “distribution shifts” can lead to costly\, harmful\, and even dangerous outcomes. My research tackles these challenges by developing an algorithmic and statistical toolkit for addressing distribution shifts.\n\nThis talk focuses on covariate shift\, a form of distribution shift where the source and target distributions have different covariate laws. In the first part of the talk\, I demonstrate that for a large class of problems\, transfer learning is possible\, even when the source and target data have non-overlapping support. We introduce the “defect” of a covariate shift\, which quantifies the severity of a distribution shift. We demonstrate how the defect can be leveraged algorithmically\, leading to methods with optimal learning guarantees.\n\nIn the second part of the talk\, we refine the notion of defect to provide even stronger learning guarantees. We introduce a new method: penalized risk minimization with a non-traditional choice of regularization which is chosen via semidefinite programming. We show that our method has performance which is optimal with respect to the particular covariate shift instance. To our knowledge\, these are the first instance-optimal guarantees for transfer learning. Moreover\, our results are assumption-light: we impose essentially no restrictions on the underlying covariate laws\, thereby broadening the applicability of our theory.\n\nBased on the papers: https://doi.org/10.1214/23-AOS2268 and https://doi.org/10.1214/24-AOS2446\n\nhttps://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pathakr/
UID:130086-21865300@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130086
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
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SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n 
UID:84303-21621513@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art
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