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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OGPS Leadership Development - Fall 2026
DESCRIPTION:This series will guide participants through a process of leadership growth and self-discovery: identifying their strengths\, examining their unique leadership behaviors\, and creating plans for continued growth. You will gain valuable insights into how you thrive\, how your strengths appear in your life\, and how you lead. By blending guidance\, self-assessments\, intentional reflection\, and practical frameworks\, this series supports you in taking ownership of your leadership development. All are welcome: you do not need to hold a formal leadership role to attend!\nLearning Objectives\nBy the end of this two-part series\, you will be able to:Identify and articulate your unique strengths and talents through the CliftonStrengths assessment\, and recognize how they appear in your personal and professional lifeDescribe the Michigan Model of Leadership and use its self-assessment to identify your existing leadership strengths and areas for growthCreate strategic plans for your ongoing development through setting intentional goals\nPlease note: we encourage participants to attend both sessions to gain the most out of the learning objectives\, but doing so is not required for registration.
UID:150374-21909138@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150374
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:THSL 6000
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DTSTAMP:20261022T172103
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T103000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Communication Working Group (PCWG)
DESCRIPTION:The Political Communication Working Group (PCWG) is an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to convene and discuss how political messages are produced\, disseminated\, and interpreted in contemporary media environments. Our core research topics focus on the evolving relationships between media\, politics\, and society. Drawing on the interdisciplinary fields of communication\, political science\, sociology\, and information science\, our members explore a wide range of topics such as public support for entertainment censorship\, climate change communication\, social learning on TikTok\, political para-social relationships\, polarization\, political biases in AI-generated content\, etc. Our sessions encourage the exchange of ideas and work across theoretical and methodological traditions.
UID:152771-21914489@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152771
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:ISR 1460
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DTSTAMP:20261005T145704
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T093000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Greek Manuscripts of the University of Michigan: A Celebration of the Collection and Its Catalogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the culmination of a decade-and-a-half-long project to fully catalog the University of Michigan Library’s extraordinary collection of Greek manuscripts. \n\nA Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts\, Volume 2 (https://myumi.ch/NXVQr)\, published by U-M Press\, brings this monumental undertaking to a close\, making one of the most extensive collections of Greek manuscripts in North America accessible to scholars around the world.\n\nEnjoy breakfast refreshments while three scholars offer complementary perspectives on the study of Greek manuscripts:\n\nTHE MAKING OF A CATALOGUE OF GREEK MANUSCRIPTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: CHALLENGES\, ACHIEVEMENT\, AND DISCOVERIES with Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann\, cataloger of U-M’s Greek manuscript collection.\n\nVolume 2 covers eighty-four manuscripts and fragments. Overall\, these manuscripts span a thousand years of history\, from the ninth to the nineteenth century\, and include a wide range of subjects\, from Bible texts and saints' lives to church music and secular writing.\n\nLearn about the detective work behind the project\, including three especially exciting finds: a small fragment that turned out to preserve lost portions of a medieval Byzantine text on Indian mathematics\; a beautifully illuminated fourteenth-century manuscript paired with poetry written specifically for it\; and a manuscript that may be traced back to the personal library of a nineteenth-century monk-scholar\, opening a new mystery about how it came to Michigan.\n\nTHE PRINCESS AND THE PHILOSOPHER: ANNA COMNENA AND THE MANUSCRIPTS OF ARISTOTLE'S \"ETHICS\" with Richard Janko\, professor of Greek in the Department of Classical Studies\, who has drawn on the collection for teaching and research.\n\nThe Byzantine historian and would-be empress Anna Comnena\, confined for life to a nunnery in Constantinople after trying to depose her imperial brother\, was a passionate philosopher. Beginning in 1118 C.E. she organized a scholarly edition of Aristotle's \"Nicomachean Ethics\" and induced three other scholars to write commentaries on it. Several remarkable paper manuscripts\, now precisely datable because they belong to her project\, reflect this effort. They show how her team evolved useful conventions like the comma and the footnote-number\, and worked with Italian scholars to create the earliest translation of this work into Latin. \n\nALWAYS INTERESTING: SELECTED BINDINGS FROM THE UM GREEK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION with Julia Miller\, bookbinding historian and contributor to the catalogue.\n\nMiller will focus on a selection of bindings\, looking at their structure\, materials\, and decoration — chosen based on gorgeous images in the catalogue of bindings ranging from small and exquisite\, Mich. Ms. 68 (15th century)\, and larger but equally beautiful\, Mich. Ms. 172 (14th century)\, both in their original and completely traditional Greek bindings\, to the fascinating layers of repair and rebinding represented by Mich. Ms. 76 (17th century).
UID:151611-21911825@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151611
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Greek,Library
LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th floor
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DTSTAMP:20260904T114252
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:10-Week Accessibility Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Join the 10-Week Accessibility Challenge to learn more about accessibility basics\, best practices\, and U-M resources and tools available to help you with this work. This training program is open to all U-M staff\, faculty\, and students - no prior accessibility experience or knowledge is required. These live sessions dive deeper into the Challenge content and give participants a chance to get live support and ask questions with our digital accessibility staff. If you have any questions or concerns\, please reach out to accessibility-challenge@umich.edu.\n\nThe 10-Week Accessibility Challenge Live sessions take place on Fridays at 10:00 - 11:00am\, October 2 - December 4\, 2026.\n\nSign up for the challenge today: https://mailchi.mp/umich/10-week-accessibility-challenge\n\nZoom Meeting ID: 995 6855 7925
UID:150570-21909631@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150570
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Discussion,Inclusion,Make It Accessible,Workshop,Virtual,Ndeam
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20261022T172104
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T120000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:2026 Robotics Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Robotics community for the 2026 Robotics Undergraduate Research Symposium\, a showcase celebrating undergraduate research\, creativity\, and innovation in robotics.Undergraduate researchers will share projects spanning areas such as autonomous systems\, artificial intelligence\, human-robot interaction\, sensing\, control\, mobility\, and robotic design. Attendees can meet student researchers\, learn about their work\, and connect with members of the robotics community.
UID:153159-21915199@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153159
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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DTSTAMP:20261014T092959
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T110000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Collaborative Intelligence: Learning Together from Heterogeneous Data and Language
DESCRIPTION:Data are increasingly generated by many connected users\, machines\, and systems\, which has led to explosive interest in collaborative analytics\, such as federated learning\, that borrow strength across diverse sources. To date\, these efforts have focused mainly on predictive modeling. In this talk\, I argue that collaboration\, without untangling the nature of heterogeneity across users\, can lead to swift and evident failures. Indeed\, borrowing from the wrong sources can be worse than not collaborating at all. To this end\, I present two frameworks that address two questions at the heart of collaboration: what to share\, and whom to borrow from. First\, we introduce Personalized PCA\, a descriptive framework that extracts interpretable and identifiable features describing what is shared and what is unique across diverse datasets. Second\, I bring language into the collaboration. When a new user has too little data to tell which collaborators are relevant\, expert textual descriptions of the new system\, often available yet overlooked\, can fill the gap. Here\, a large language model translates these descriptions into a prior over source relevance that guides learning when data are scarce and is gradually corrected as data accumulate. I conclude by highlighting future directions at the intersection of agentic AI\, statistics\, and decision making.
UID:153630-21916118@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153630
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,statistics,AEM Featured,seminar
LOCATION:West Hall - 340
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DTSTAMP:20261021T121244
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Craft Lecture by Tisa Bryant: \"Residual as Method\"
DESCRIPTION:Zell Visiting Writers Series craft lecutures are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (Michigan League\, Henderson Room 3rd floor). Seats are offered on a first come\, first served basis\; please arrive early to secure a spot. Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://myumi.ch/ZellWriters26\n\nTisa Bryant’s writing explores Black women’s subjectivity by remixing rhetorical\, literary\, cinematic and visual arts techniques into original modes of narrative and storytelling.  Her latest book\, *Residual*\, is an assemblage of the interiors of grief\, the home as archive\, and the mystery of mothers\, published by Nightboat Books in 2026. Her first book\, *Unexplained Presence*\, on the mythologies of Black presences in the arts\, was reissued by Wave Books in 2024. In her afterword to *Unexplained Presence*\, renowned critic Margo Jefferson hailed Tisa as a “literary and film auteur\, an auteur of performance on the page\, stage and screen or canvas.” \n\nA Boston native\, Tisa was a member of the Dark Room Collective\, an African-diasporic writing group that hosted a celebrated reading series in Cambridge and Boston.  She is co-editor of the three-volume\, cross-referenced literary journal\, *The Encyclopedia Project*\, and collaborated from 2015-2018 with critic and writer Ernest Hardy on *The Black Book*\, an original talk and film series presented at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Tisa is editor of *Deep West Assembly*\, a monograph of recent works by the award-winning visual artist Cauleen Smith\, forthcoming in 2026 from Astrup Fearnley Museet and Kestner Gesellschaft. She lives in Iowa City\, where she is Associate Professor of English in the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa\, and is currently at work on a novel.\n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email zvwseries@umich.edu--we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restroom is available on the third floor\, Room 343T.\n\nASL interpreters and CART services at in-person events are available upon request\; please email zvwseries@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event\, whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services.\n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). \n\nFor Public Parking: The Maynard Street Public Parking Structure (324 Maynard St.\, Ann Arbor) or The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) . All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.
UID:150951-21910488@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150951
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Books,Graduate,Literature,The Helen Zell Writers' Program,Undergraduate,Ann Arbor,Department Of English Language And Literature,Culture,Creative Writing
LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room, 3rd floor
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DTSTAMP:20261012T095405
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T112000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Double Duty: A Subsidy Design for\\Quality Promotion and Price Discipline
DESCRIPTION:This paper studies how the design of quality-linked subsidies shapes firm behavior in both quality choices and pricing decisions. We examine a major reform in Medicare Advantage that links subsidies to quality through two distinct policy parameters. We develop and estimate a structural model of demand and firm behavior to evaluate the reform\, decompose its effects\, and compare alternative quality-linked subsidy designs. A central finding is that a subsidy design that links product quality to both the subsidy level and the pass-through from firm prices to subsidized consumer prices can simultaneously raise quality and lower prices.
UID:151850-21912269@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151850
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:seminar,Industrial Organization,Economics
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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