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DTSTAMP:20240130T121551
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T200000
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:84303-21621567@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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DTSTAMP:20250403T181620
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:8-BIT Music Exhibit: The Gallery
DESCRIPTION:MORE INFO: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/8bitmusic/ \n\nThe 8-Bit Music Exhibit is a week-long exploration of the creation of the nostalgic\, retro tunes many have grown up with and come to love\, as well as a showcase of how such music has been reclaimed and repurposed for continued existence in the modern world. The gallery plans to guide viewers through a history of 8-bit music\, its significance to media and video games of its time\, and notable figures that influenced the legacy of the niched genre. In the workshop\, participants will learn how modern chiptune artists create music from Game Boys and the production software LSDJ\, and have the opportunity to create music of their own design. Throughout the end of the exhibit week\, we will celebrate the historic and modern legacies of 8-bit music in a set of live performances produced by Norah\, a seasoned chiptune artist.\n\nOur goal in developing this exhibit is to highlight 8-bit/chiptune music as a unique form of digital art celebrated for its sound\, cultural significance\, and innovation. Throughout the lifespans of the original hardware supporting this music\, artists often faced limitations due to hardware constraints. These difficulties led to early video game industry composers inventing new techniques and methods for music creation that have evolved over time and remain influential today.\n\nTHANK YOU to our co-sponsors and partners for your support in the creation of this event!\n-> U-M LSA Technology Services Digital Scholarship (https://lsa.umich.edu/technology-services/services/research-tools/digital-scholarship.html)\n-> U-M Digital Studies Institute (https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/)\n-> U-M Arts Initiative (https://arts.umich.edu/arts-initiative)\n-> Neutral Zone (https://www.neutral-zone.org/event-list/2025/4/11/free-tech-workshop-chiptune-8-bit)\n-> Ann Arbor District Libraries (https://aadl.org/)\n-> Ypsilanti District Libraries (https://www.ypsilibrary.org/)\n-> Pinball Pete's in Ann Arbor (https://www.pinballpetes.org/copy-of-east-lansing-location)\n-> Video Game Music Club (VGMC) (https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/vgmc)\n-> WolvSec (https://wolvsec.org/)\n-> LGBTQ+ Michigan (https://websites.umich.edu/~lgbtqmichigan/#)\n-> Ann Arbor Fighting Game Community at the University of Michigan (FGC) (https://maizepages.umich.edu/organization/a2fgc)
UID:134668-21874695@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134668
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Culture,Digital Media,Exhibition,Free,In Person,Music,Video Games
LOCATION:Shapiro Library - Clark Commons
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DTSTAMP:20250324T162500
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CGIS Advising Fair
DESCRIPTION:CGIS Advising Fair: Want to plan ahead but not sure where to start? Thinking of study abroad during the winter term but have questions?\nSign up for the CGIS Advising Fair and relevant info sessions to get answers before summer starts!\n\n- CGIS Advising Fair: Friday\, April 11 - Drop in to the CGIS Office between 11am-1pm\n     Pop in anytime for open advising on study abroad options with CGIS! We can answer questions about Winter 2026 programs\, the application process\, scholarships and financial aid\, and more.\n     LSA Scholarships\, the Office of Financial Aid\, Newnan\, and RLL will also be in attendance.\n     LSA Students can have a passport photo taken and printed at this event.\n\n     Popcorn will be provided!\n\nExplore all upcoming Info Sessions: https://myumi.ch/23R4D
UID:132757-21871761@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132757
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Abroad,Africa,African American,anthropology,Applications,Archaeology,Area Studies,Asia,Asia-pacific,Athletics,Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,center for southeast asian studies,Central America,Central European Studies,Chemistry,China,Chinese Studies,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Classical Studies,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Culture,Deadlines,Discussion,Diversity,Ecology,Economics,Education,English,Environment,Europe,European,French,Funding,global,global engagement,global opportunities,Health,Health & Wellness,History,Humanities,intercultural,Interdisciplinary,international,International Education,international studies,internships,Italian,Japanese Studies,Korea,Language,Latin America,Literature,Majors,Mathematics,multicultural,Natural Sciences,Networking,Nursing,Oxford,Philosophy,Physics,Politics,Pre Law,Pre Med,Pre-Health,Pre-Law,Psychology,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Romance Language,Scholarships,Sessions,Social Impact,social justice,Sociology,South Africa,Spanish Studies,study abroad,Sustainability,Transfer Students,Travel,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Women's Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - CGIS Office (2nd floor, Suite 200)
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DTSTAMP:20250411T102027
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T130000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:David Widder: Basic Research\, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment
DESCRIPTION:Talk AbstractIn the context of unprecedented \nU.S. Department of Defense (DoD) \nbudgets\, this talk examines the recent history of DoD funding for \nacademic research in algorithmically based warfighting. I draw from a \ncorpus of DoD grant solicitations from 2007 to 2023\, focusing on those \naddressed to researchers in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). \nConsidering the implications of DoD funding for academic research\, the \ntalk proceeds through three analytic sections. In the first\, I offer a\n critical examination of the distinction between basic and applied \nresearch\, showing how funding calls framed as basic research nonetheless\n enlist researchers in a war fighting agenda. In the second\, I offer a \ndiachronic analysis of the corpus\, showing how a ‘one small problem’ \ncaveat\, in which affirmation of progress in military technologies is \nqualified by acknowledgement of outstanding problems\, becomes \njustification for additional investments in research. I close with an \nanalysis of DoD aspirations based on a subset of Defense Advanced \nResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) grant solicitations for the use of AI \nin battlefield applications. Taken together\, I argue that grant \nsolicitations work as a vehicle for the mutual enlistment of DoD funding\n agencies and the academic AI research community in setting research \nagendas. The trope of basic research in this context offers shelter from\n significant moral questions that military applications of one’s \nresearch would raise\, by obscuring the connections that implicate \nresearchers in U.S. militarism.\nSpeakerDavid Gray Widder (he/him) studies how people creating “Artificial \nIntelligence” systems think about the downstream harms their systems \nmake possible\, and the wider cultural\, political\, and economic logics \nwhich shape these thoughts. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech\, and earned his PhD from the School of Computer Science\n at Carnegie Mellon University. He has previously conducted research at \nIntel Labs\, Microsoft Research\, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. \nHis recent research has been accepted to FAccT\, Nature\, CSCW\, and Big Data & Society. His scholarly and activist work has appeared in Motherboard\, Wired\, the Associated Press\,  and the New York Times. David was born in Tillamook\, Oregon\, and raised in Berlin and Singapore. He maintains a conceptual-realist artistic practice\, advocates against police terror and pervasive surveillance\, and enjoys distance running. You can engage with him on Mastodon\, Bluesky\, or Twitter.\n\n\n
UID:134714-21874780@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134714
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:North Quad 2255
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DTSTAMP:20250410T101007
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T140000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Student Dissertation Defense: Above- and Belowground Functional Trait Variation and Its Effect on Tree Seedling Response to Environmental Change
DESCRIPTION:Dissertation Title: Above- and Belowground Functional Trait Variation and Its Effect on Tree Seedling Response to Environmental Change\n\nAbstract: To predict forest composition and function under global change it is important to understand tree responses to environmental shifts. This is especially true for seedlings\, as the seedling stage represents an important forest recruitment bottleneck. Therefore\, understanding the capability of seedlings of different tree species to respond to environmental changes will provide insight into how forests may look in the future. Tree responses depend on their ecological strategies\, which can be defined by the functional traits of their leaves and roots\, organs responsible for resource uptake above- and belowground. Prior work at the interspecific scale suggests that traits separate into three independent axes: above- and belowground resource conservation axes describing plants resource uptake efficiency and investment in organ construction\, and a belowground collaboration axis describing the degree to which plants rely on mycorrhizal fungi – key root symbionts that aid in resource capture belowground. However\, no work to date has explicitly tested if the proposed collaboration axis accurately describes how plants associate with mycorrhizal fungi\, and therefore the extent to which roots and their symbionts contribute to nutrient uptake within species remains largely untested. My dissertation addresses this through four chapters that systematically examine patterns of plant functional trait variation and their implications for seedlings success.\n\nIn Chapter 1\, I outline the current understanding of the relationships between roots and mycorrhizal fungi in trees\, proposing that because roots and mycorrhizal fungi operate together\, we should examine both simultaneously to get a thorough understanding of resource acquisition strategies belowground. In Chapter 2\, I examined whether the collaboration axis exists independently of the two resource conservation axes intraspecifically within seedlings of Quercus rubra\, Acer rubrum\, A. saccharum\, and P. serotina collected across Michigan. I found that aboveground traits are independent of belowground traits\, however belowground traits aligned on a single axis\, further calling into question the functionality of the collaboration axis.\n\nIn Chapter 3\, I examined the degree to which plant functional traits of tree seedlings vary with communities of mycorrhizal fungi across a nitrogen (N) gradient. Changes in N impact the function of plants and mycorrhizal fungi alike\, though no study to date has examined both simultaneously. I collected seedlings of two different mycorrhizal types: Q. rubra (ectomycorrhizal\; EcM)\, and A. rubrum and P. serotina (arbuscular mycorrhizal\; AM). Some EcM fungi can provide access to organic N that is otherwise inaccessible to plants\, providing an advantage at low N. I found that seedlings tended to be more acquisitive belowground at higher N\, EcM access to organic N decreased with N\, and that traits not included in the collaboration axis change with mycorrhizal function\, suggesting that the proposed collaboration axis is insufficient to describe plant reliance on mycorrhizae.\n\nIn Chapter 4\, I applied the trait patterns observed within species in prior chapters to see how variation in traits affects seedling growth under multiple environmental stresses. Prior work examined responses of plants to a single stress\; yet stresses rarely occur alone. I grew seedlings of Q. rubra\, A. rubrum\, and A. saccharum in the greenhouse under three levels of water and light\, measuring their growth and functional traits. I found that growth decreased under multiple stresses less than is expected based upon the reduction in growth experienced when exposed to singular stresses. Furthermore\, different species had different trait strategies to cope with multiple stressors.
UID:134638-21874646@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134638
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Bsbsigns,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,Dissertation,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Museum - Herbarium,Museum - Zoology
LOCATION:Dana Natural Resources  Building - Room 1024
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DTSTAMP:20250411T181516
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250411T110000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Latinx Midwest History Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us at UMMA for an engaging exploration of Latinx history in the Midwest through the lens of zines\, DIY art\, and printmaking. In conjunction with the exhibition La Raza Art and Media Collective\, 1975-Today\, this symposium features a series of thought-provoking discussions with scholars and creators who will delve into the intersection of art\, community-building\, and activism within the Latinx Midwest\, while situating it within broader national and transnational movements. The keynote panel will feature three of the founding members of La Raza Art and Media Collective—Ana Cardona\, George Vargas\, and Jesse Gonzalez—offering a unique perspective on the collective’s impactful work.\n \nFree and open to the public\, registration required.\n 
UID:133726-21873487@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133726
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art,History,Museum,symposium,UMMA
LOCATION:Museum of Art - Museum of Art
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