Workshop / Seminar:Declare ECE
2024-01-31 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Detroit) | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building - 3316
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Michigan invites all undeclared CoE students to attend Declare ECE! This event is intended to help current, undeclared CoE students learn more about ECE and possibly consider either EE or CE as a major before registering for Fall 2024 courses.

Please visit our website to learn further information, and also please confirm your attendance by completing our RSVP FORM.

Activities include:

Opening presentation from Professor P.C. Ku, Associate Chair of ECE Undergraduate Affairs
Presentation on available events and activities for ECE students
Panel of current ECE students
Learn about EECS 200 that offers hands-on design, build, and test opportunities
Learn about Major Design Experience (MDE) options

Lecture / Discussion:Archival Research and Complicated Cases: Practical Advice for Graduate Students
2024-01-31 12:00 - 13:30 | LSA Building - 1040
Are you considering designing a comparative historical dissertation? Thinking about a trip to the archives? Wondering where to send your complicated case study in the wake of the turmoil at T&S?

Please join us for a discussion over lunch on Jan 31st at noon, 1040 LSA. The discussion is targeted toward graduate students planning, working through, or writing based on archival research. The event will feature brief presentations from Juan Delgado, Kristin Foringer, Pablo Gastón, Leydy Diosa Jimenez, and George Steinmetz. We will dedicate substantial time for Q&A, addressing your concerns, and exchanging practical tips.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/JZLbFLgTfqYQzn3e9

Community Service:Blood Drive @ Michigan Union
2024-01-31 12:00 - 18:00 | Michigan Union - ABC Room (2210)
Join the University Blood Initiative on January 31st, from 12 pm to 6 pm to donate blood that goes to hospitals in our community. With the national blood shortage, it's becoming increasingly important for healthy and eligible individuals to donate blood that goes to treat people in need. One blood donation can save up to three lives! Registration is preferred but walk-ins are welcome! The drive is at the Michigan Union, ABC Room (Rm 2210). Hope to see you there!

Careers / Jobs:Company Day on January 31 – Automotive Industry
2024-01-31 12:00 - 15:00 | Pierpont Commons - Boulevard and Center
This event will provide Michigan Engineering students the opportunity to engage with automotive organizations for recruitment and networking purposes.

For more information, visit Engineering Careers, by 12twenty.

Lecture / Discussion:CREES Noon Lecture. Learning to be Loyal: Political & Patriotic Education in Russia & China
2024-01-31 12:00 - 13:20 | Weiser Hall - Room 555
How do authoritarian regimes attempt to build loyalty among a globally-minded youth? How do they educate students to be patriotic and supportive citizens, and do these strategies actually generate popular support for those in power? Drawing on political and patriotic education materials from contemporary Russia and China—two countries of geopolitical importance with long histories of political education training—Karrie Koesel will compare how these countries seek to transmit political knowledge to young people; how they use schools to socialize students to be patriotic and cultivate popular legitimacy; and whether these efforts build support for the authoritarian status quo.

Karrie J. Koesel is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame where she specializes in the study of contemporary Russian and Chinese politics, authoritarianism, and religion and politics. She is the author of *Religion and Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict and the Consequences* (Cambridge University Press, 2014), co-editor of *Citizens & the State in Authoritarian Regimes: Comparing China & Russia* (Oxford University Press, 2021), and a fellow in the Public Intellectual Program for the National Committee on US-China Relations. Karrie Koesel is currently working on a book, *Learning to Be Loyal: Political Education in Authoritarian Regimes*. Prior to joining the University of Notre Dame, she taught at the University of Oregon and received her Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

Lecture / Discussion:Fair Enough? Support for Redistribution in the Age of Inequality
2024-01-31 12:00 - 13:00 | Institute For Social Research - 1430
What explains the public’s muted response to income inequality? To answer this question, Fair Enough? proposes a new framework for studying attitudes toward redistributive social policies in times of rising inequality. These attitudes, Cavaille argues, are shaped by at least two motives. First, people support policies that increase their own expected income. Second, they support policies that move the status quo closer to what is prescribed by shared norms of fairness. In most circumstances, saying the “fair thing” is easier than reasoning according to one's own economic interest. But there are important exceptions: when policies have large and certain pocketbook consequences, people take the self-interested position instead of the “fair” one. Combined with a new theory of fairness concerns, this simple framework helps explain puzzling attitudinal trends in post-industrial democracies including a decline in support for redistribution in Great Britain, the erosion of social solidarity in France, and a declining correlation between income and support for redistribution in the United States.
