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DTSTAMP:20260105T094142
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T123000
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SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pause Café: French Conversation Hour
DESCRIPTION:-Enjoy coffee\, tea\, and snacks while improving your French skills!\n\n-Chat for 10 minutes or the entire hour. All language levels are welcome.\n\nThe RLL Commons is located in the center hallway of the 4th floor of the Modern Languages Building.\n\nFor more information contact Alan Ames at (alanames@umich.edu).
UID:143171-21892382@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143171
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Global,Talk,Social,Romance Languages And Literatures,Networking,Multicultural,Language,Intercultural,Interactive,In Person,Humanities,Games,French,Free,Food,Discussion,Culture,Community,Coffee,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons, 4314 MLB
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DTSTAMP:20260324T122245
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T133000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:RSG Winter 2026 Lunch with the Deans
DESCRIPTION:Want a chance to meet and chat with the Rackham Deans? Come join us at Lunch with the Deans series! The Rackham Student Government will be hosting two Lunch with the Deans events at the following dates and locations:Central Campus (In-person only): Tuesday\, February 24 at 12-1pm\, Rackham Building\, 4th Floor\, Assembly HallNorth Campus (In-person only): Tuesday\, March 24 at 12:30-1:30pm\, Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)\, 3rd Floor\, Johnson Rooms ABCStudents can provide their thoughts and ask questions. Students who are unable to attend\, but have questions for the Deans are encouraged to submit questions to us via email (rsg-exec@umich.edu) or in the RSVP. RSVP is highly recommended.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144399
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Sessions
LOCATION:Lurie Engineering Center (LEC), Johnson Rooms ABC (Rm 3213ABC)
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DTSTAMP:20260128T081827
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Freemium Model for Information Provision
DESCRIPTION:The paper explores a theoretical freemium model for the sale of information\, drawing on mathematical tools used in the study of repeated zero-sum games and Bayesian persuasion. Unlike in standard persuasion models\, the information seller (IS) is not affected by actions taken by the information buyer (IB)\, and is concerned solely with maximizing the revenue from selling information to the IB. Offering some information for free may increase the IB’s willingness to pay for additional information. The information that the IB seeks is modeled as information about the state of the world. Initially\, the IB only knows the prior distribution over possible state. The IS supplies both free and paid information through signals whose state‑dependent distributions determine the IB’s posterior via Bayes’ rule. The IB’s utility is a function of the posterior. An optimal free signal is one that maximizes the IS’s expected revenue from the subsequent paid signal. That revenue is equal to the IB’s expected gain in utility from the posterior induced by the free signal to the one induced by the paid signal. The paper characterizes the optimal free and paid signals and derives a formula for the maximal revenue in terms of the IB’s utility function. It shows that any revenue gain for the IS from providing free information is accompanied by an equally large or larger direct loss to the IB\, implying that free information is never socially beneficial. Whether or not free information can increase the IS’s revenue depends on the form of the IB’s utility function. In the two-state case\, the utility functions that allow such gains are fully characterized. In the general case\, only necessary conditions are obtained. In particular\, if the IB’s utility function is convex\, the IS can never profit from providing free information. This occurs\, for example\, when the IB uses the information to solve a decision problem. By contrast\, when the IB is engaged in strategic interaction with a third party\, the IS may benefit from providing free information. The paper presents a game‑theoretic example illustrating this possibility.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/143379
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Theory,Economics,seminar
LOCATION:North Quad - 4300
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DTSTAMP:20250926T155648
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Digital Accessibility
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/139948
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Digital Accessibility,Accessibility,Information and Technology
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTAMP:20260109T094127
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Political Economy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, 1-2:20pm\, Eldersveld Room\, 5670 Haven Hall (unless a different time and location have been specified)\n\nFaculty Coordinators: Hoyt Bleakley\, Edgar Franco-Vivanco\, Mark Dincecco\, Iain Osgood\n\nGraduate Student Coordinators: Jun Fang and Pedro Luz de Castro
UID:112502-21893401@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112502
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science
LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld, Room  5670
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DTSTAMP:20260303T163836
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260324T130000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:SRC Seminar Series Presents: Pricing Job Amenities: A Practitioner's Manual
DESCRIPTION:https://umich.zoom.us/s/96736010964\nMeeting ID: 967 3601 0964\nPasscode: 685364\n\nAbstract: This paper presents a simple estimator for pricing job amenities in the presence of unobserved worker ability. First described in Bell (2020) and Bell et al. (2024)\, the approach treats ability as a structured residual that jointly shapes access to both pay and non-pay job attributes. Job choice is assumed to be governed by a single vertical job-quality index\, and\, conditional on this index\, an observed proxy for worker ability serves as an “anti-instrument” for recovering amenity prices. Identification hinges on a conditional independence assumption: if pay\, amenities\, and true ability were observed\, the anti-instrument would be redundant. I demonstrate that this approach generates amenity price estimates in line with experimental evidence from Mas and Pallais (2017)\, illustrating how observational data can replicate gold-standard experimental insights when first-order differences in workers’ offer sets are allowed to translate into better jobs not only in terms of pay\, but also along non-pay dimensions. The talk will also discuss how these ideas shed new light on patterns observed in major survey datasets\, including how the PSID can be used to study the role of job choice primitives in intergenerational economic mobility.\n\nBio: Alex Bell is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. His research\, grounded in labor economics\, focuses on inequality and innovation\, with methodological contributions to the study of compensating differentials. His work has appeared in leading economics journals\, including the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics\, and he received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University.
UID:146155-21898601@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146155
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Economics
LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430BD
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DTSTAMP:20260126T121750
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SUMMARY:Performance:Adam Lenhart\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Adam Lenhart performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/144536
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:North Campus,Music,Free
LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower
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DTSTAMP:20260320T102907
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SUMMARY:Presentation:Can ‘Slavic’ Speak for Minorities? — Who Gets to Belong in Eastern Europe? - Talk 6
DESCRIPTION:A small number of East European manuscripts of magic and practical kabbalah enumerate recipes directed at disabling a specific function of Lilith focused on replacing or substituting a healthy human child with a disformed\, physically\, or mentally disabled demonic one. Designated by the Yiddish term\, banem ביינעם (to take\, replace\, or substitute)\, which appears in these manuscripts with an abundance of variant spellings\, expose the influence of local dialects and diverse linguistic usage. As several recipes attest\, the switching could occur either in utero or within a few weeks after birth. The wealth of magical formulas\, designed to chain Lilith’s power to carry out child substitution or replacement\, reflect pervasive anxieties among Jews concerning the mental and physical health of newborns. Dread and fear were powerful emotional triggers in the mythical presentation of Lilith’s child stealing activities prompting individuals and members of the Jewish community to seek effective cures from Jewish miracle healers\, designated as Ba’alei Shem or Masters of the Name. My talk will trace six types of curative options against child switching: nature-based formulas\; the use of Hebrew divine and angelic names\, amplified by the ten sefirot\; historiolae\; diagrammatic-visual amulets\; illocutionary speech acts\; and combined formulas to highlight that concerns about children’s wellbeing comprised a shared cultural-religious space between Jews and their Slavic neighbors and occupied a place of vital importance for the care and wellbeing of Jewish family and communal life.\n\nThis is a hybrid event. For Zoom attendance\, please register here: https://myumi.ch/R3RNX
UID:146844-21899687@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/146844
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Slavic,Rackham,eastern europe,Crees
LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3308
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