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DTSTAMP:20261029T022108
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
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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
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DTSTAMP:20260911T121616
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T170000
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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:italian,Theme Year,Politics,Italian Studies,Europe
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010
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DTSTAMP:20261016T132653
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T173000
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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:Free,Urban Planning,Library,China,Architecture
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st Floor
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DTSTAMP:20261029T000157
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
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LOCATION:Mason Hall
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DTSTAMP:20261029T022121
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
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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
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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:Psychology Departmental,Psychology,Neuroscience,Neuropsychology,Brain,Addiction
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - 4th Floor Program Room
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DTSTAMP:20261021T141043
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261102T180000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE Backpacking Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join the IOE Peer Advisors for our annual Backpacking Event. We will be sharing everything you need to know about winter course registration\, all over FREE FOOD!\n\nCome prepared to ask questions about registration and learn more about IOE courses offered next semester. We will be covering class difficulty\, 400 level courses\, scheduling best practices\, and more!
UID:153924-21916752@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153924
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610
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