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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:EIHS Symposium: The Politics of Memory and Palestinian Struggles for History: An Interdisciplinary Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The construction of memory and the ongoing reinterpretation of history are living processes. How have Palestinians\, in historic Palestine and in the diaspora\, conceptualized and materialized their own history\, while confronting long standing policies of destruction and erasure? What does it mean for Palestinian individuals and institutions to engage with their heritage in the face of occupation and violence? This symposium takes up these questions with the help of experts in museological practice and historical anthropology. In conversation with the audience\, our guests will explore strategies Palestinians have adopted to sustain collective identities rooted in shared histories\, while navigating tensions across geographies\, classes\, and generations.\n\nDiana Abouali is the director of the Arab American National Museum\, located in Dearborn\, Michigan. Previously\, she was an assistant professor at Dartmouth College (New Hampshire\, USA)\; head of research and collections at the Palestinian Museum (Birzeit\, Palestine)\, and director of education\, outreach and awareness at the Petra National Trust (Amman\, Jordan). She serves on several boards and committees including ArteEast (NYC)\, CultureSource (Detroit)\, the Citizens Advisory Committee at the University of Michigan- Dearborn\, and the general assembly of Taawon-Welfare Association (Palestine). Diana is Palestinian\, was born in Toronto\, Canada and grew up in Kuwait. She received her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University in 2004.\n\nRochelle Davis is the Sultanate of Oman Associate Professor in anthropology at Georgetown University in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Her research focuses on refugees\, war\, and conflict\, particularly Palestinian\, Syrian\, and Iraqi refugees. She authored Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced\, (Stanford University Press\, 2012). She’s currently completing a manuscript on the cultural training the U.S provided soldiers about Arabs\, Muslims\, and Iraqis in the U.S. military invasion and occupation of Iraq\, using interviews with US military servicemembers and Iraqis. She’s also at work on another manuscript chronicling the lives of Palestinian refugees who fled Jerusalem in 1948.\n\nThis event presented by the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.
UID:150712-21909990@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150712
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Middle East Studies,Research,Social Sciences
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Wolverine Room
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DTSTAMP:20260622T092756
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
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SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Meditation
DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe session involves 3 simple steps:\n\nBreathing\nRelaxation\nMeditation\n\nDeep breathing bring a pause followed by Relaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself  by listening to your heart’s voice. This is the art of Heartfulness Meditation. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.
UID:143758-21893966@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143758
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260902T165633
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T130000
SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:IOE 101: Brooke Silverstein “How IOE Can Take You Anywhere”
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Brooke will share how a remarkably specific childhood goal—determining how many blue shirts should be on a store shelf—led her to Michigan IOE and a career spanning luxury beauty\, fashion and consumer products. She will explore how IOE’s combination of analytics\, optimization\, systems thinking\, business judgment and collaboration helped her grow from a hands-on planner into an enterprise and people leader—and why an IOE degree can take students almost anywhere they imagine.
UID:150604-21909698@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150604
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Graduate,Graduate Students,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610
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DTSTAMP:20260915T105028
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T124500
SUMMARY:Well-being:Lunchtime Yoga
DESCRIPTION:Lunchtime yoga is an opportunity to provide your body with some gentle movement\, strengthening\, stretching and balancing.  We will use the poses to reconnect with your senses\, to breathe some life back into ourselves\, find internal balance and to recover from the efforts of the work week.  The focus is on calm reconnection with ourselves rather than working out.  Please bring a mat and a water bottle. Register on our website\, see link below.
UID:138074-21913188@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/138074
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,yoga
LOCATION:School of Kinesiology Building
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DTSTAMP:20260909T131136
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar Series> Rewriting the rules of DNA synthesis: Reverse transcriptases in antiviral defense
DESCRIPTION:CRISPR–Cas systems illustrate how noncoding RNAs (ncRNA) can program immune functions by targeting foreign DNA for degradation. Intriguingly\, a widespread family of defense-associated reverse transcriptases (DRTs) instead leverages noncoding RNAs to direct programmable DNA synthesis during antiviral defense. Here we investigate the mechanism of immunity mediated by tripartite DRT10 systems\, which rely on a membrane effector protein and RT-catalyzed generation of repetitive DNA. The RT associates with a structured ncRNA and uses a short template region to catalyze protein-primed\, processive synthesis of tandem DNA repeats. Repeat addition proceeds through iterative cycles of template-directed extension and realignment encoded within the ncRNA. This mechanism closely parallels the repeat-addition strategy of telomerase\, revealing an unexpected connection between antiviral RT systems in bacteria and conserved pathways of repetitive DNA synthesis in eukaryotes that maintain genome integrity.
UID:151229-21911127@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151229
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Biology,Bsbsigns
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260825T094950
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Michigan in Washington Application Deadline-Winter 2027/Early Admission Fall 2027
DESCRIPTION:Michigan in Washington (MIW) is a full-semester program in Washington\, D.C.\, open to U-M students from all majors. Students complete a full-time internship during the day and take U-M courses in the evening. MIW provides support with the internship search\, application materials\, interviews\, housing\, and the transition to living and working in D.C.\nWinter 2027 applications are due September 25\, but we will begin reviewing applications and interviewing qualified students as they are submitted. Admission decisions will also be made on a rolling basis\, so we strongly encourage you to apply early rather than waiting until the deadline.\nPlease also keep in mind that our two required professional development sessions will be held on Saturday\, October 3\, and Saturday\, October 31 and they are mandatory.
UID:150465-21909480@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150465
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Activism,AEM Featured,Applications,Business,Career,Community Service,Deadlines,Department Of Political Science,Diversity,first-generation,Free,Human Rights,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Law,Leadership,Majors,Multicultural,Networking,Political Science,Politics,Pre-Law,Professional Development,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Public Policy,Recruiting,Scholarship,Scholarships,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
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DTSTAMP:20260910T200155
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T120000
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Museum Studies Program\, Museums at Noon
DESCRIPTION:Because fossils of our human ancestors (hominins) remain in their country of discovery\, museum collections relating to human origins predominantly consist of casts. These cast collections are often overlooked and undervalued in human origins research since they are not the original fossils. But\, these collections hold untapped research and teaching potential. During my internship\, I explored the 90-year legacy of human origins research at the Field Museum in Chicago through the reorganization of their hominin cast collection. \n\nThis talk highlights how I used my background on human evolution to contextualize the collection in support of teaching\, exhibition development\, and science communication. Overall\, this case study demonstrates how deeper investigations into museum collections can create new avenues for research and support broader museum goals.\n\nPresentation by Georgia Oppenheim (Museum Studies Program\; PhD candidate\, Biological Anthropology)
UID:151986-21912544@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151986
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Exhibition,Humanities,Museum
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Library Gallery Lab, Room 100H
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