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SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PICS Career Event. Conversation with Hardy Vieux
DESCRIPTION:Hardy Vieux serves as Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)’s executive vice president and chief program officer. In that role\, Hardy will help set the organization’s strategy\, vision\, and impact to support KIND’s mission of protecting the rights and well-being of children migrating alone in search of safety. Hardy will provide clear\, actionable thought leadership regarding KIND’s evolving programming\, global footprint\, and agenda to broaden the organization’s reach and impact. He currently leads the organization’s efforts to combat exploitative child labor in partnership with for-profit corporations. Up until June 2024\, Hardy served as KIND’s chief of staff. In that role\, he aligned vision\, strategy\, and tactics to address the legal and psychosocial needs of migrant children. \n\nHardy also currently chairs Refugee Council USA’s board of directors\, a coalition of 39 U.S. nongovernmental organizations representing a diverse group of nonprofits who advocate for and with refugees.\n\nPrior to joining KIND in May 2021\, Hardy served as the senior vice president\, legal\, at Human Rights First\, where he led the organization’s pro bono asylum representation team and its impact litigation efforts\, having started that work in 2018.\n\nSince January 2017\, Hardy has also served as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. In that role\, Hardy taught a fall semester\, graduate-level human rights law seminar at the policy school. This semester\, he is teaching at the University of Michigan’s law school.\n\nIn 2014\, Hardy served as a policy fellow with Save the Children in Jordan\, focusing on the problems of safeguarding and educating Syrian refugee children. Prior to living in the Middle East\, he was in private legal practice focused on white collar criminal defense and complex civil trials. While in private practice\, Hardy handled numerous pro bono matters\, from litigation stemming from the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq to juvenile detention impact litigation and asylum representation. \n\nBefore moving to private practice\, Hardy was a criminal appellate defense counsel in the United States Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps\, where he served as counsel on a death penalty case and national security matters\, among others. Upon leaving the JAG Corps\, Hardy  served on the board of the National Institute of Military Justice\, a nonprofit dedicated to the fair administration of justice in the armed forces. He started his legal career as a judicial law clerk in Denver federal district court\, where he worked on the Oklahoma City bombing cases.\n\nHardy is a 1997 graduate of the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Law School\, where he served as a co-founder and editor-in-chief of the *Michigan Journal of Race & Law*. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy Studies from Duke University\, later serving on the board of visitors of the university’s public policy school.
UID:126009-21856407@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126009
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Public Policy,Law,human rights,career
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20240903T161548
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241003T170000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE Advice
DESCRIPTION:Need some advice about your classes? Hoping to connect with other students in STEM? Looking for a new place to study or the meaning of life? Join our student mentors at WISE Advice\, open to all students in the WISE Office (3236 USB). We will have snacks\, coffee\, tea\, puzzles\, and you can even relax in our massage chair! Come to get trusted advice from new friends or  just hang out or study in our designated quiet space if you just want to get things done.
UID:124493-21853092@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124493
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building
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DTSTAMP:20241101T161113
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241003T173000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Liz Collins
DESCRIPTION:Liz Collins is well-known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric\, yarn\, and other materials and techniques associated with textile media. Although Collins embraces a language of abstraction\, bold colors\, patterns\, and symbols allude to queer and feminist references\, sourcing further inspiration from interpersonal and environmental forces such as electricity\, volatility\, connectivity\, and energy exchange. Whether in the form of textile\, painting\, drawing\, or installation\, Collins frequently explores the dichotomy of structure and entropy—qualities inherent to textile that speak to the fissures present in broader architectural\, political\, and social structures. \n\nCollins’s current and forthcoming exhibitions include the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia\, Foreigners Everywhere\, curated by Adriano Pedrosa\, and Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction\, curated by Lynne Cooke\, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Los Angeles\, CA\; the National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC\; the National Gallery of Canada\, Ottawa\, ON\; and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, NY. In 2025\, Collins will have a mid-career retrospective curated by Kate Irvin at the RISD Museum in Providence\, RI\, with an accompanying monograph.\n\nCollins has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Knoxville Museum of Art\, Knoxville\, TN\; the Museum of Arts and Design\, New York\, NY\; the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery\, Saratoga Springs\, NY\; Touchstones Rochdale\, Rochdale\, UK\, among others. She has been featured in group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art\, Boston\, MA\; the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art\, New York\, NY\; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Los Angeles\, CA\; the National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, DC\; the New Museum\, New York\, NY\; The Drawing Center\, New York\, NY\; and The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, NY\, among others. In 2020\, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery released Liz Collins — Energy Field\, the artist’s first major publication.\n\nPresented in partnership with Design Core Detroit. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan. Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Radio.
UID:123927-21852190@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123927
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20241003T180023
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Apologetics: Challenge your thinking (over pizza!) with Ratio Christi Thursdays.
DESCRIPTION:Hi all\,We are excited to invite you to Ratio Christi Meeting this Thursday 10/03 from 6-7 pm! The question for this week is: \"Does Evil Disprove God?\" Our meeting will be held at the Study Center at 611 1/2 E. William St. Ann Arbor. This is a safe space to ask questions about faith and share your ideas - ALL are welcome! There will be pizza! If you are interested in learning more about us\, you can join the Ratio Christi Maize page for updates and discussions: Ratio Christi Maize page. We're also active on Instagram: Ratio Christi Instagram page. We are excited to see you all soon and please feel free to reach out with any questions! Sincerely\,Ratio Christi Team
UID:127112-21858429@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127112
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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LOCATION:Study Center 
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DTSTAMP:20241003T100954
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241003T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Brotherless Night Book Reading: V. V. Ganeshananthan
DESCRIPTION:Join American fiction writer\, essayist\, and journalist V. V. \"Sugi\" Ganeshananthan as she reads from her new book \"Brotherless Night.\" Books will be available for purchase by Literati\, and the author will be signing copies after the reading.\n\nJaffna\, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade\, a vicious civil war tears through her home\, and her dream spins off course as she sees her four beloved brothers and their friend K swept up in the mounting violence. Desperate to act\, Sashi accepts K’s invitation to work as a medic at a field hospital for the militant Tamil Tigers\, who\, following years of state discrimination and violence\, are fighting for a separate homeland for Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority. But after the Tigers murder one of her teachers and Indian peacekeepers arrive only to commit further atrocities\, Sashi begins to question where she stands. When one of her medical school professors\, a Tamil feminist and dissident\, invites her to join a secret project documenting human rights violations\, she embarks on a dangerous path that will change her forever.\n\nV. V. Ganeshananthan (she/her) is the author of the novels Brotherless Night (winner of the 2024 Women's Prize for Fiction and the 2024 Carol Shields Prize\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, and an NPR Book of the Year) and Love Marriage (longlisted for the Women's Prize and named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post). Her work has appeared in Granta\, The New York Times\, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, among other publications.\n\nA former vice president of the South Asian Journalists Association\, she has also served on the board of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop\, and is presently a member of the boards of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. The National Endowment for the Arts\, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard\, Yaddo\, MacDowell\, and the American Academy in Berlin have awarded her fellowships. She has served as visiting faculty at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan and at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and now teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota\, where she is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. She co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast on Literary Hub\, which is about the intersection of literature and the news.\n\nThis event has been made possible by Asian\, Pacific Islander American Studies\, the Center for South Asian Studies\, Department of American Culture\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, Department of Comparative Literature\, Department of English\, the Department of History\, the International Institute\, and the Program in International and Comparative Studies. With the support of the U.S. Department of Education's Title VI grant.\n\nPhoto by Sophia Mayrhofer.
UID:125315-21854694@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125315
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:History,Interdisciplinary,International,Library,Storytelling,Humanities,Books
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton
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DTSTAMP:20240925T095633
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Digging Deeper: Thursday Night Lecture Series | Synthesizing Religion\, Politics\, and the Homeric Tradition: The West Sanctuary of Ilion during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
DESCRIPTION:Join us to hear from visiting scholar C. Brian Rose\, professor of Mediterranean archaeology and curator-in-charge of the Mediterranean Section at the Penn Museum. \n\nThe West Sanctuary at Troy (Ilion) was one of the main religious complexes at the site during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The sanctuary is exceptional due to its rich assemblage of votive objects and integration of the cults of Cybele\, Dardanus\, and the Samothracian Gods. All of these cults are tied to Ilion’s Homeric heritage\, as well as to the Romans\, once they began promoting their Trojan ancestry. This talk provides an overview of the significance of the West Sanctuary and the strategies that we employed in its architectural conservation. The latter subject\, in turn\, is tied to the question of how an archaeologist handles or mishandles the staging of history.\n\nThis event is being presented as part of our Thursday Night Lecture Series\, happening on select months during the academic year. Please join us in the Rackham Amphitheatre (located on the fourth floor of the Rackham Building) for an evening centered on exciting archaeological research and related topics.\n\nIf you have any questions or concerns regarding accessing this event\, please visit our accessibility page at https://myumi.ch/zwPkd or contact the education office by calling (734) 647-4167. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:124258-21852812@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/124258
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Mediterranean,Free,Museum,Lecture
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Amphitheatre
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DTSTAMP:20240930T094057
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Dinner for Democracy: The Electoral College
DESCRIPTION:Note: this is an in-person event on the Ann Arbor Campus.\n\nThe Electoral College is the system used in the United States to elect the president and vice president. You vote for a slate of electors and those electors choose the president. So the presidential election is actually 51 elections (50 states plus Washington D.C.). It sounds confusing\, but it doesn’t have to be.\n\nJoin Turn Up Turnout for a nonpartisan\, educational presentation on the Electoral College. FREE FOOD provided. \n\n Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/81546
UID:127119-21858436@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127119
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Food,Voting,Free,Government,Politics,Voter Registration,Discussion,Civic Engagement,Democracy,Democratic Engagement,Dinner
LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240
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DTSTAMP:20241003T172047
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20241003T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20241003T193000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Know Your Ballot
DESCRIPTION:Join Rackham Student Government for dinner and a preview of the upcoming election! Many voters feel overwhelmed when it comes time to research the candidates and issues they will see on their ballot--learn more in a casual and supportive environment!
UID:126750-21857859@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126750
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Rackham 4th Floor Assembly Hall
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