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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:La Tertulia
DESCRIPTION:*Practice your Spanish speaking skills with fellow students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed environment\n*Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods\n*Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad\n\nFridays\, January 12th - April 19th\n\nAll levels and students are welcome!\n\nFor more information\, please contact Julie Harrell at harrelju@umich.edu
UID:117043-21838520@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/117043
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Language,Social,Spanish Studies
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314)
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DTSTAMP:20240412T102359
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Product Bans as Protectionism: The Maggi Scare
DESCRIPTION:Governments can implement industrial policy by withdrawing operational permits from specific firms. These actions\, in the form of product or firm bans\, may affect market competition and possibly the demand for the whole product category. We analyze the ban of Nestlé's Maggi\, the largest producer of instant noodles in India\, for alleged non-compliance with health safety standards. Maggi returned to the stores six months later when The High Court at Bombay ruled the ban unjustified. We show the presence of negative spillovers to competitors\, which led them to decrease their sales in the first months of the ban. We also document substantial heterogeneity in consumers' responses to the ban according to political preferences and government alignment. Using a structural model of consumer and firm behavior\, we separately identify demand and supply responses to the ban. Through counterfactuals\, we show that the ban had a substantial impact on consumer surplus. Further\, 45 percent of the overall effect was due to spillovers of the ban to the entire instant noodles category\, while the rest resulted from changes in market structure. \n\n\nThis talk is presented by the Applied Microeconomics/Industrial Organization Seminar\, sponsored by the Department of Economics with generous gifts given through the Jean Coven Speakers Fund in Economics and the Economics Strategic Fund.
UID:118207-21840648@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/118207
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics,Industrial Organization,Microeconomics,seminar
LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301
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DTSTAMP:20240404T110149
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T190000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective was co-founded by Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad (U-M Linguistics) and Dr. Ethan Kutlu (University of Iowa). Currently\, the collective has over 50 scholars. \n\nThe 1st ROLE Collective Symposium will take place this year online on April 12th (keynotes and short talks) and April 19th (workshop). The theme of this symposium is “Rejecting Harmful Native Speaker/Signer Ideologies.”\n\nStructure of the Symposium\nThe one-week difference between Day 1 and Day 2 is to ensure that any attendees who may not have been able to attend some or all of the talks on Day 1 will have enough time to watch the videos and be prepared for the second day. In addition\, though all of the short talks will be uploaded online only\, and not broadcast synchronously on Day 1\, there will be a synchronous discussion of these talks on Day 2.\n\nDay 2 will begin with a structured discussion of the short talks. Then\, participants will split up into at least 5 themed breakout rooms to work together to discuss how to address harmful notions of language in various contexts. These contexts include research practices (e.g.\, how to ethically and accurately capture differences in language experience\, how to implement conceptual changes via novel statistical methods\, how to recruit participants without relying on the native speaker/signer construct)\, clinical assessments (e.g.\, creating resources about how language ideologies can lead to misdiagnoses of individuals whose language practices are marginalized\, and advocating for the further development of assessment materials which are inclusive of a broader range of language/varieties)\, admissions processes (e.g.\, creating white papers for graduate and undergraduate programs to eschew native speaker/signer ideologies in assessments of the language of incoming students)\, evaluation of academic language (e.g.\, creating guidelines for editors and reviewers to assess the language of submitted manuscript/grant application without relying on the native speaker construct)\, communicating with the public (e.g.\, creating public-facing information for the affirmation of all kinds of language experience)\, and whatever other priorities are identified by participants – participants’ priorities will be identified via a survey distributed after the first symposium day and before the workshop day.
UID:121141-21845880@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/121141
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Language Policy
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20240401T153217
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Arian Maleki\, Department of Statistics\, Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Consider a model trained with 𝑝 parameters from 𝑛 independent and identically distributed observations. To assess a data point’s impact on the model\, we remove it from the dataset and aim to understand the model’s behavior when trained on the remaining data. This scenario is relevant in various classical and modern applications\, including risk estimation\, outlier detection\, machine unlearning\, and data valuation. Conventional approaches involve training the model on the remaining data\, but these can be computationally demanding. Consequently\, researchers often resort to approximate methods. This talk highlights that in high-dimensional settings\, where 𝑝 is either larger than 𝑛 or at the same order\, many approximation methods may prove ineffective. We will present and analyze an accurate approximation method tailored for high-dimensional regimes\, elucidating the conditions for its accuracy. In the concluding part of the presentation\, time permitting\, we will briefly discuss some of the unresolved issues in this domain.
UID:120056-21843992@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/120056
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20240322T104633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T100000
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SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:The Clements Library Bookworm
DESCRIPTION:Join David Hancock in our Bookworm series for a discussion on his forthcoming book\, The Man of Twists and Turns: William Fitzmaurice\, 2nd Earl of Shelburne and the End of Enlightenment\n\nHancock’s biography delves into the life of William Fitzmaurice\, the second Earl of Shelburne and First Marquess of Lansdowne (1737–1805). Hailing from Ireland\, Fitzmaurice was not only a scholar and soldier but also a seasoned politician\, aesthete\, and office-holder. As prime minister\, his negotiations were instrumental in securing the peace that concluded the Revolutionary War. The William Petty\, 1st Marquis of Lansdowne\, 2nd Earl of Shelburne papers (1665-1885) housed at the Clements contain the letters and official papers of Lord Shelburne.\n\nFree event - Registration required: http://myumi.ch/gjgzR
UID:120592-21845005@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/120592
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:american history,Books,Free,History,Humanities,Library,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20240412T090450
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20240419T163000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium 2024
DESCRIPTION:The annual Dr. John Lamont Peterson Annual Research Symposium is the culminating event for participants in the Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) program. The symposium features a keynote\, and presentations by SOAR scholars who share findings from their behavioral and social science research related to HIV and/or sexual and gender minority populations. \n\nThis symposium is free and open to the public. Portions of the symposium will be streamed on Zoom. RSVP if you wish to attend lunch or to get the Zoom link.\n\nSchedule:\n10 am: Welcome Remarks\n10:30 am -12 pm: Keynote Talk by Lisa Bowleg (The George Washington University) with Myla Lyons (SOAR '23 graduate and current PhD student)\n12 pm: Lunch (provided)\n12:30-1:30 pm: Student Poster Session (in person only)\n1:30-3:30 pm: Student Oral Presentations\n3:30-4:30 pm: Graduation & Awards Ceremony\n\nKeynote by: Lisa Bowleg\, Ph.D.\, MA\,Professor of Applied Social Psychology\, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences\, The George Washington University\, and Founder & President\, Intersectionality Training Institute\n\nTitle: Want to Be a Future HIV Prevention and Treatment Researcher? You’re Going to Need to Get Critical\n\nAbstract: \nCritical theories — think\, intersectionality\, critical race theory\, structural racism\, for example — are those that expose\, interrogate\, and challenge power by highlighting the social\, structural\, political\, and economic determinants of health. Critical approaches offer a stark contrast to the primarily individualistic\, biomedical\, psychosocial theories and frameworks that still dominate most doctoral social and behavioral science programs. With a handful of exceptions\, people’s thoughts\, beliefs\, attitudes\, and behaviors about HIV testing\, condom use\, PrEP\, and HAART adherence remain the primary focus of doctoral-level HIV education. Structural and political determinants of health\, and the constraints they impose on the ability of groups historically marginalized at multiple intersections (e.g.\, racialized/ minoritized\, sexual and/or gender minority\, and low SES) to engage in health promoting behaviors are rarely a focus of doctoral training. But they should be. The indomitable Audre Lorde admonished that the “Master’s tools will not dismantle the Master’s house.” This is also true of conventional approaches to HIV prevention and treatment research. More than four decades into the HIV epidemic and despite PrEP and HAART\, HIV still disproportionately affects Black and Latino gay\, bisexual\, and other men who have sex with men\, transgender and nonbinary people\, and Black and Latina women who have sex with men. These intersectional HIV inequities spotlight a dire need for a more critical approach to Ending the HIV Epidemic\, than the conventional theoretical approaches used thus far. This talk will address what it means to get critical about HIV prevention and treatment research\, some strategies for doing so\, and why SOAR students should consider critical and structural perspectives to be essential to their future HIV research careers.\n\nSYMPOSIUM DETAILS:\nAccessibility Alert: We are asking all attendees to avoid wearing fragranced personal products (like perfume or scented lotions) to accommodate attendees with fragrance allergies. Thank you for making this event more inclusive to all.\n\nRamp & Elevator Access at Palmer Commons: Use the South entrance\, across from the Undergrad Science Building. From the South entrance\, turn left\, through the door\, elevator is on the right. The symposium will be held on the 4th Floor.
UID:118726-21841534@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/118726
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:gender studies,Health,hiv,lgbtq,research,Sessions,symposium
LOCATION:Palmer Commons - 4th Floor
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