BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UM//UM*Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T145419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty DESCRIPTION:Throughout her career\, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art\, addressing topics such as colonization\, slavery\, Manifest Destiny\, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America\, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.\n\nThe show’s title\, American Berserk\, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral\, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic\, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures\, which seem imported from a parallel universe\, include watermelons that become animated\, explode and then decay\, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries\, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells\, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.\n\nNote: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016. UID:43941-9855220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170911T104401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sacred Plants - Holiday Conservatory Exhibit at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:Focusing on plants in the conservatory collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens\,Sacred Plants explores how these plants figure in myth\, lore\, and ritual for cultures around the world. The exhibit also features seasonal flowers\, decorated trees\, kids activities\, and more. Free admission. Note: Closed Christmas Eve\, Christmas\, and New Year’s Eve. Open New Year’s day. UID:44125-9886155@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Multicultural,Nature LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T181529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T110000 SUMMARY:Other:Thesis Defense:\nMicrofabricated Probes for Monitoring Brain Chemistry at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution DESCRIPTION: \n \n \nThitaphat (Non) Ngernsutivorakul (Advisor: Dr. Robert Kennedy) UID:46722-10592240@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T201257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography\, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen\, Philippe Halsman\, Helmut Newton\, Andy Warhol\, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice\, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt\, Joel Meyerowitz\, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows\, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And\nartists James Van Der Zee\, Eduardo Paolozzi\, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography\, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.\n\nLead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:41652-9417937@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T195814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa DESCRIPTION:Before colonization\, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs\, and covered in beads and precious metals\, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status\, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles\, animal skin\, metal\, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans\, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria\, Ghana\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.\n\nLead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. UID:41651-9417808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Concert,Exhibition,Storytelling LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T115331 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Health\, History\, Demography & Development (H2D2) DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:43904-9852336@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43904 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T080748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Tuesday Lecture Series | ‘Spoken Drama (Huaju) with a Strong Chinese Flavor:’ The Resurrection and Demise of Popular Spoken Drama (Tongsu Huaju) in Shanghai in the 1950s and Early 1960s DESCRIPTION:Please note the new time and location for our 2017-18 lecture series.\n\nContrary to popular belief\, China’s first\, hybrid form of spoken drama wenmingxi (civilized drama) did not vanish after its brief glory in Shanghai in the 1910s\; it lingered on as part of the popular entertainment in the following decades\, including a brief revival in 1957. Known as tongsu huaju (popular spoken drama) by then\, it attracted the attention of modern theatre huaju (spoken drama) experts who praised its dramaturgy and performance as much closer to indigenous Chinese theatre than huaju\, thus triggering a debate over its efficacy and limitations in the nationalization of Western-oriented spoken theatre. Using contemporary sources\, Professor Liu examines the brief rise and fall of tongsu huaju in Shanghai in the late 1950s and early 1960s with focus on its performance\, the debate over its utility\, the policies that ultimately led to its demise\, and the implications of the tongsu huaju phenomenon on the periodization of modern Asian theatre. \n \nSiyuan Liu is an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia. He is a former President of the Association for Asian Performance and editor of Asian Theatre Journal. His published books include Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre (2016)\, Performing Hybridity in Colonial-Modern China (Palgrave Macmillan 2013)\, Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000 (co-author\, Methuen 2014)\, and The Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays (co-editor\, 2014). He has also published over two dozen articles and book chapters on Chinese theatre in the modern era. UID:41716-9440434@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170831T181541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2017 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition\, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, is on view Friday\, November 10-Saturday\, December 16\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors\, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception on Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Dates: November 10-December 16\, 2017\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm UID:43459-9766070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T120807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Biopsychology Colloquium DESCRIPTION:Physiological basis of near death consciousness UID:43471-9771961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43471 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171113T080418 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yamuna Krishnan\, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago\, will be presenting a seminar titled: \"Quantitative Imaging of Intracellular Ion Channel Activity.\" This seminar will take place on Tuesday December 5th\, 2017 at 12pm in North Lecture Hall\, MS II. UID:46755-10622858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46755 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biological Chemistry LOCATION:Medical Science Unit II - North Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170907T090112 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Medieval Lunch. Expressive Gestures: Affect and Violence in the late 16th century Russian Illustrated Historical Chronicle DESCRIPTION:The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate\, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. UID:43706-9832691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,History,Literature LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Other:MESA & OAMI Grant Celebration DESCRIPTION:An evening of networking and celebration for MESA & OAMI Grant recipients  UID:47307-10860622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47307 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T123324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Tuesday Lunch Seminar: P4 - interactions among Africa's top predator\, people\, parasites and their prey DESCRIPTION:Bring your lunch and join us for this weekly seminar UID:42888-9675064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Research,Science LOCATION:Ruthven Museums Building - 2009 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T084910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Karanis: Archives and Futures in an ancient Egyptian town DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan archaeologists excavated over 100 structures in the ancient Egyptian town of Karanis (modern Kom Aushim) between 1924 and 1935. These structures yielded over 60\,000 artifacts\, 2\,500 papyri and 1\,100 potsherds with writing. Taken together\, this seems to be a wonderful archive to mine for clues about daily life in an ancient town in the first three centuries CE. But is it? This talk will present some of the challenges of dealing with this wealth of material from ancient Karanis\, but also point at some of the potentialities of this site through a multi-disciplinary and collaboratory approach. UID:46946-10703021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46946 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,History,International,Writing LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room, # 1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T111638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.\n\nThe German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500\, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility). \nGo to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4\, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.\nFor more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html UID:44329-9908922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171103T161635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T150000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:No More Scantrons and Blue Books!: Electronic Exams in Canvas DESCRIPTION:Electronic exams in Canvas offer several advantages over Scantron and Blue Book exams. For example\, it is much easier to read student writing on an electronic exam. Today’s students are use to composing on a keyboard\, so it no surprise their penmanship is not always legible. And because students are so proficient with their laptops\, it is likely they will compose higher quality writing during an electronic exam. There are other benefits to using electronic exams in Canvas. The Speedgrader feature allows instructors to type responses more efficiently\, providing substantive feedback when appropriate. Multiple choice and true/false type questions are graded automatically and sent directly to the gradebook. Exams and grades are preserved for future reference—for example\, the next time a student asks for a letter of recommendation. Electronic exams can replace Scantrons and Blue Books\, saving faculty and staff a substantial amount of time. \n\nLSA has also added a security feature to Canvas that can lock down the testing environment and preserve academic integrity.\n\nThis workshop will introduce participants to the various question types and settings available in Canvas. Participants will also get to explore more advanced features in Canvas\, including embedding images and media\, setting timed exams and allowing for student accommodations\, grading essay questions\, and enabling the LockDown Browser. This session is recommended for anyone who wants to learn more the testing features in Canvas\; therefore\, it is suitable for both faculty and support staff. UID:46514-10512733@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46514 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Information and Technology LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - ISS Media Center PC Lab, Room 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T150000 SUMMARY:Performance:Strings Showcase DESCRIPTION:A monthly performance series featuring the finest among our outstanding SMTD string students. Soloists and chamber music groups will be selected by the faculty to perform on this prestigious event. UID:42581-9614607@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42581 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170926T112251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tarek Zohdi: Modeling and Simulation of Multistage Multiphysical Processes in Next-Generation Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing with New Multifunctional Materials DESCRIPTION:Within the last decade\, several industrialized countries have stressed the importance of advanced manufacturing to their economies. Many of these plans have highlighted the development of additive manufacturing techniques\, such as 3D printing\, which are still in their infancy. The objective is to develop superior products\, produced at lower overall operational costs. For these goals to be realized\, a deep understanding of the essential ingredients comprising the materials involved in additive manufacturing is needed. The combination of rigorous material modeling theories\, coupled with the dramatic increase of computational power can potentially play a significant role in the analysis\, control\, and design of many emerging additive manufacturing processes. Specialized materials and the precise design of their properties are key factors in the processes. Specifically\, particle-functionalized materials play a central role in this field\, in three main ways: (1) to endow filament-based materials by adding particles to a heated binder (2) to “functionalize” inks by adding particles to freely flowing solvents and (3) to directly deposit particles\, as dry powders\, onto surfaces and then to heat them with a laser\, e-beam or other external source\, in order to fuse them into place. The goal of these processes is primarily to build surface structures\, coatings\, etc.\, which are extremely difficult to construct using classical manufacturing methods. The objective of this presentation is to introduce the audience to basic techniques which can allow them to rapidly develop and analyze particulate-based materials needed in new additive manufacturing processes. This presentation is broken into two main parts: continuum and discrete element approaches. The materials associated with methods (1) and (2) are closely related types of continua (particles embedded in a continuous binder) and are treated using continuum approaches. The materials in method (3)\, which are of a discrete particulate character\, are analyzed using discrete element methods.\n\nBio: Tarek I. Zohdi received his Ph.D. in 1997 in Computational and Applied Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin and his Habilitation in General Mechanics from the Gottfried Leibniz University of Hannover in 2002. He is currently a Chancellor’s Professor of Mechanical Engineering\, Chair of the Computational and Data Science and Engineering Program at UC Berkeley and holder of the W. C. Hall Family Endowed Chair in Engineering. UID:45084-10081483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mechanical Engineering LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T181610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CM-AMO Seminar | Playing with Photons in Flatland: \nControlling Light and Matter in Two-Dimensional Materials\n DESCRIPTION:The discovery of monolayer two-dimensional semiconductors of atomic-scale thickness presents a new two-dimensional landscape in which to play with the interaction between light and matter. These nanomaterials at the extreme limit of surface-to-volume ratio exhibit rich optical phenomenology such as layer dependent bandgaps and degenerate\, but distinct\, valley-polarized excitonic states. The unique features of atomically-thin materials suggest that these layered systems can be exploited to achieve new regimes of light-matter interactions. In this presentation\, I will discuss efforts to control the interaction of monolayer semiconductors with light using both top-down nanopatterning and photonic device integration. In particular\, I will describe the emergence of spin-polarized exciton-polariton quasi-particles in monolayer semiconductors embedded in a photonic microcavity. Cavity enhancement of optical interactions results in modified dynamics of these coherent light-matter states. Examples will illustrate how optical and quantum phenomena can be rationally designed in monolayer semiconductors\, suggesting exciting potential for novel hybrid quantum systems or opto-electronic applications harnessing the unique properties of low-dimensional nanomaterials.\n UID:42195-9584883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42195 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T141935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Cross Campus Transfer to LSA Information Sessions DESCRIPTION:Are you thinking about transferring to LSA from another University of Michigan school or college? Before meeting with an advisor to complete the transfer application and to discuss your individual situation\, you will need to attend a group session to learn about the transfer process\, LSA requirements\, and LSA advising. This required information session will also help you understand how a degree in the liberal arts or sciences can help you achieve your goals. UID:44342-9911774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44342 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 (Newnan Advising Conference Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171026T144134 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:DAAS African Diasporic Film Festival. The Boers at the End of the World DESCRIPTION:Ty Dickason\, 82\, is a cowboy in remote Patagonia\, Argentina. He has never flown in a plane\, and yet he speaks a language from a country 7\,000km to the east. He is part of a 114-year-old Afrikaans community – a culture only found in South Africa. \n\nIn southern Africa\, after a devastating war with the British\, the Boers (“farmers”) sailed across the Atlantic to start a new life in freedom in 1902. They headed into the arid heart of Patagonia\, a land that reminded them of home. \n\nToday\, their descendants still endure in this harsh place. They speak archaic Afrikaans and sing old folk songs. But despite the fierce pride in their roots\, less than 50 of the oldest still speak their mother tongue. They struggle to keep their culture alive but are resigned to knowing that they are the last generation to speak the language in the region. It is a parallel world of Afrikaans society\, separate from the Apartheid policies that intervened in South Africa\, giving a unique glimpse into what might have been.\n\nThe film focuses on a family\, the Dickasons\, who have a deep yearning to see the land of their ancestors. They travel back to Africa for the first time to meet their distant family – and their ideas of home\, culture and belonging will never be the same. \n---\nLanguages: Afrikaans\, Spanish\, English \nDirector: Richard Finn Gregory\; Producer: Kelly Scott\n\nRichard Finn Gregory is an award-winning South African director and cinematographer. He lived in Tokyo for a number of years\, where he started creating music videos. Upon returning to South Africa\, he felt compelled to refocus on documentary filmmaking\, which led to working on projects across five continents. Much of his work has focused on social and environmental issues in the developing world. He was the last person to film Nelson Mandela in a private setting\, as part of the 21 Icons project. UID:46018-10353061@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Anthropology,Film LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery, Room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T181529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T053000 SUMMARY:Other:Ion Mobility Spectrometry: Beyond Separation and Structural Characterization DESCRIPTION: When exposed to a constant electric field\, ions in the gas phase move at constant drift velocities\; the proportionality constant between an ion’s velocity and the applied electric field is termed the ion mobility. Correspondingly\, ion mobility spectrometry (IM) is a gas phase separation technique in which analyte ions (as small as atomic ions and up to charged aerosol particles) are separated temporally or spatially in an electric. Recent years have seen increased usage of IM in two specific applications. First\, it is used as a pre-separation technique with mass spectrometry to better identify analytes in complex mixtures. Second\, IM is used as a tool to characterize the structures of protein and multiprotein complex ions in the gas phase. In both of these applications\, IM is used primarily as a structural characterization tool\, and the chemical information obtained in measurement is limited to collision cross section inference (a parameter directly linked to ion mobility). This presentation will discuss novel applications of IM developed in our laboratory group\, where measurements go beyond collision cross section determination. Specifically\, in conjunction with mass spectrometry\, we are developing techniques to examine ion-neutral complex formation in the gas phase (with applications in chemical warfare agent detection\, fundamental studies of ion-induced nucleation\, and measurement of the properties of atmospheric nanoclusters) and as a standalone technique we utilize IM to examine nanoparticle-protein conjugation. Also discussed will be the potential application of ion mobility-mass spectrometry in air pollution monitoring\, using newly developed data inversion schemes to isolate atmospheric aerosol populations from one another. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nChris Hogan (University of Minnesota) UID:41470-9269833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41470 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CHEM CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171113T074426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Laura Kasischke\, Allan Seager Collegiate Professorship in English Language and Literature\, Inaugural Lecture DESCRIPTION:Laura Kasischke’s most recent book\, from which she will read\, brings new poems together with work from her previous nine collections of poetry\, published over the last twenty-five years. The citation for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, which she received in 2011\, reads: “No poet alive has worked harder to depict the contemporary American life course: she has shown herself\, in sharply vivid poems\, as a girl\, as a wayward teen\, as a young adult\, as a passionate and worried mother with a baby\, a child\, and now a teenaged son…And no poet now at work does better than Kasischke in finding ways to depict not just how we feel about life stages and the people in them but also how we change as those stages go by…Kasischke stands for many among us.” Her collection of new and selected poems gathers together the breadth of this vision\, and Kasischke will offer readings from both her earliest and most recent work.\n\nCelebrated as both novelist and poet\, Kasischke demonstrates a compelling wry humor and sense of incredulous horror as she mines the narratives and observations of what it means to exist. The Harvard Review describes her work as “wildly imaginative…memorable\, often funny\, always profound.” Her reading will be followed by an opportunity for questions about the writing process\, her teaching\, and her long association with the University of Michigan\, from which she graduated in 1984 with a degree in Creative Writing and Literature from the Residential College. UID:41512-9316372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41512 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Literature LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171006T150441 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Distinguished Visitor Lecture Series | China’s Economic Reform in the Wake of the 19th Party Congress DESCRIPTION:China’s economic reform has been stalled for some years and in the meantime financial risks are building up. With leadership issues settled by the 19th Congress\, what are the prospects for vigorous economic reform? What are the key problems that Beijing needs to tackle? And how does this affect US-China economic relations? \n \nDavid Dollar is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s John L. Thornton China Center. He is a leading expert on China's economy and U.S.-China economic relations. From 2009 to 2013 he was the U.S. Treasury's economic and financial emissary to China. Before his time at Treasury\, Dollar worked at the World Bank for 20 years\, and from 2004 to 2009 was country director for China and Mongolia. His other World Bank assignments primarily focused on Asian economies\, including South Korea\, Vietnam\, Cambodia\, Thailand\, Bangladesh and India. From 1995 to 2004\, Dollar worked in the World Bank’s research department. Prior to his World Bank career\, Dollar was an assistant professor of economics at UCLA\, spending a semester in Beijing teaching at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.\n\nCo-sponsored by the International Policy Center of the U-M Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. UID:43141-9728911@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43141 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies,Economics,Public Policy LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - Annenberg Auditorium ~ Room 1120 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T083057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Positive Links Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 5\, 2017\n4:00-5:00 p.m.\nFree and open to the public.\n\nMichigan Ross Campus\nBlau Hall\n700 East University\nColloquium\, 5th Floor\nAnn Arbor\, MI 48109-1234\n\nRegister: http://myumi.ch/L1Yen\n\nGain inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in people. Learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics\, students\, staff\, and leaders.\n\nAbout Quinn's talk:\nWarren Bennis wrote that becoming a leader is becoming who you really are. Research shows\, counter to conventional thought\, that people of transformative power develop a characteristic called idealized influence. They become models worthy of admiration\, respect\, trust\, and emulation. They live from a moral core that generates attractive power. Without authority\, they can draw the best out of others. Conventional assumptions prevent us from seeing\, understanding or aspiring to this condition. \n\nThis limitation constrains organizational efforts in leadership development. Organizations cannot do what they spend much money trying to do. They can develop managers but they cannot develop leaders. This means we have to own our own leadership development. This session will explore how to become who you really are and how to help those around you to do the same.\n\nAbout Quinn:\nRobert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Professor Emeritus of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. Quinn is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship\, an area of inquiry that seeks to understand the best of the human condition. He had published eighteen books on purpose\, leadership\, and change. He is a fellow of the Academy of Management and has received multiple awards for both teaching and research. \n\nHost: \nGretchen Spreitzer\, faculty director of the Center for Positive Organizations\; Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration\; Professor of Management and Organizations\n\nSponsors:\nThe Center for Positive Organizations thanks Sanger Leadership Center\, Tauber Institute for Global Operations\, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies\, and Diane (BA ’73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2017-18 Positive Links Speaker Series. UID:44157-9889007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Business,Faculty,Graduate,Staff,Transfer Students,Undergraduate LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Michigan Ross Campus, Blau Hall, 700 East University Colloquium, 5th Floor Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171220T123007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Software Talent Mixer DESCRIPTION:Don't miss this chance to network with companies looking for IT Talent and technology professionals looking for their next career opportunity.\n\nThis Software Talent Mixer focuses on tech jobs and career opportunities from across Southeast Michigan. This career mixer is ideal for employers looking to fill software full-time positions. For those looking for a software opportunity don't miss out on this great way to connect with tech employers in a casual setting.\n\nFor anyone who is interested\, please have them use promo code 'STAR05' to waive the registration fee.\n\nhttps://www.amycelltalent.com/workshops-and-events/software-talent-mixer/\n UID:47097-10790918@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47097 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:215 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI 48197 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171109T144938 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCED Lecture. Civil Courts and Authoritarian Stability DESCRIPTION:Post-Soviet Kazakhstan has been ruled by a single\, personalist dictator since independence\, and power is concentrated among a narrow elite. As extant literature on dictatorships predicts\, state officials there regularly expropriate private property\; valuable urban land is a favorite target. In this context\, why would the Kazakhstani state – which has a highly effective security apparatus – take the seemingly redundant step of turning to courts to resolve the resulting conflicts with property owners? Moreover\, why would citizens do the same\, when they acknowledge courts’ lack of independence and high levels of corruption? In this lecture\, Hanson argues that the central government compels local officials to channel disputes through civil courts to address negative consequences from their predatory\, rent-seeking behavior. The dictator seeks to control rather than eliminate that behavior\, because tacit permission to use their positions for self-enrichment helps ensure subordinates’ loyalty. However\, it also generates costs for the autocrat. In particular\, it sparks social unrest. Requiring local officials to channel conflict through courts offers an improved outcome for a few victims\, while reducing the ability of all to engage in protests\; it also creates and enforces guidelines for officials’ informal behavior. In short\, formal legal institutions help manage corruption and its consequences. In making these arguments\, Hanson draw on extensive in-country fieldwork in three regions of Kazakhstan\, including interviews\, ethnographic observation in district and appellate courts\, original survey data\, and official court records and other documents. \n \nMargaret Hanson is a Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2017-18 academic year. Her research focuses on institutions that help autocracies endure. Specifically\, she examines how formal and informal institutions interact to shape governance in authoritarian regimes. Her broad research interests include authoritarian stability\, governance\, and development\, with an emphasis on the former Soviet Union. UID:43907-9855115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43907 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Democracy,International,Kazakhstan,Politics LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T112447 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:Schokoladenstunde will take place twice per week: Tuesdays between 5-6 p.m. with Mary Gell\, and Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m. with Silvia Grzeskowiak\, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad. The group will meet in the seating area between the two computer classrooms. \n\nAs the name promises\, chocolate will be available. Silvia and Mary will be bringing games to the Schokoladenstunde. The hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu). Students at all levels are welcome. UID:44270-9903258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44270 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Free,Games,Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Language Resource Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170905T142744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Gregory Pardlo DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Willingboro\, New Jersey. He is the author of Totem (2007)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, and Digest (2014)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited Pardlo’s “clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America\, rich with thought\, ideas and histories public and private.” In 2017\, Pardlo was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pardlo’s poems\, reviews\, and translations have been widely published and are noted for “language simultaneously urban and highbrow … snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” A memoir and collection of essays\, Air Traffic\, is forthcoming from Knopf. He is an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn. UID:43573-9821440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43573 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170925T125944 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mindfulness Strategies to Reduce Stress DESCRIPTION:College and graduate students will learn about different factors that can impact stress and mindfulness strategies to reduce stress. The first half of the wellness group will be education-focused and the second half will be a support group. Each wellness group is led by a licensed social worker affiliated with the UM Depression Center. \n\nWellness groups are free to attend and no pre-registration is required. Refreshments will be provided. UID:45028-10072844@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Mental Health,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170830T145042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:PitE Information Session DESCRIPTION:PitE will be holding an information session for any students who are currently undeclared. Students must attend an information session before scheduling an advising appointment. Register below. UID:43276-9748069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43276 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1160 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T132958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:Ross Diaries DESCRIPTION:Ross Diaries is an intimate gathering where students from across the business school and beyond will share powerful and compelling stories about events and experiences that have shaped their lives. The storytellers at Ross Diaries attended a comprehensive storytelling workshop to craft their stories and hone their skills—now they are looking for an audience!\n\nAll are welcome to attend and hear powerful stories from U-M students.\n\nRoss Diaries\n5:30-7:00 PM\nRobertson Auditorium at Michigan Ross\n701 Tappan Ave.\, Ann Arbor\n\nThis program is offered as part of our Story Lab series.\n\nSpace is limited—RSVP on our website! UID:41058-8916660@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41058 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Culture,Free,Inclusion,Leadership,Storytelling LOCATION:Ross School of Business - Robertson Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T143244 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Gregory Pardlo\, Distinguished Poet in Residence DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Willingboro\, New Jersey. He is the author of Totem (2007)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, and Digest (2014)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited Pardlo’s “clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America\, rich with thought\, ideas and histories public and private.” In 2017\, Pardlo was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pardlo’s poems\, reviews\, and translations have been widely published and are noted for “language simultaneously urban and highbrow … snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” A memoir and collection of essays\, \"Air Traffic\,\" is forthcoming from Knopf. He is an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.\n\nUMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series\, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage. UID:46550-10547319@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Museum Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T124934 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T210000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CWPS Graduate Student Capstone Presentations DESCRIPTION:Free & open to the public\, light refreshments provided.\n\nSession One\nNovember 28\, 6-9pm\nRoom 2202 (Prechter Lab)\, School of Education\n610 E. University\n\n\nEllen Myers\nFacebook and Indonesian Youth Culture: Identity Performance in the Digital World\n\nIndonesia is a country that has consistently ranked within the top five users of Facebook in the world for several years The culture surrounding social networking is a new concept for the social sciences to tackle. While there are some commonalities throughout the world concerning this topic\, there also exists a unique set of challenges\, benefits\, and implications that are culturally specific. From wall posts to statuses\, the agency that Facebook and other social networking sites allows people to have over what\, when\, and how they perform their identities can provide useful insight into functionalities of online activities within this platform. In the context of the performance of identity in everyday life\, Ellen's lecture will explore her summer research study on young adult Facebook users in Indonesia as a means of examining the various ways in which people are utilizing the growing digital ecology as a platform from which they perform their identities. \n\n\nFabiola Torralba\nMexico Negro: Culture\, Identity and Politics of Afro Mexicanos\n\nThis presentation will highlight some of the cultural workers\, artists and organizers of the Afro Mexican movement in the Costa Chica. Through stories featuring the local leadership of Guerrero and Oaxaca\, this presentation will share diverse perspectives that reveal the complexity of Afro Mexican identity\, culture and politics. \n\n\nAlyssa Wells\n \"This is My Family\": Toward an Understanding of the Culture of Drum and Bugle Corps\n\nIn this presentation\, Alyssa explores the creation of close relationships among drum and bugle corps members. Her research with the Tokushima Indigoes Senior Drum and Bugle Corps (Tokushima\, Japan) and the Jubal Drum and Bugle Corps (Dordrecht\, Holland) allows her to ask the question of how cultural practices and the norms of a particular society influence the creation of relationships among drum and bugle corps members. \n\n\nLaura-Ann Jacobs\nTalking Lei\n\nTalking Lei is a performance-based storytelling installation centered around flowers. The installation features a community of women talking story while creating lei kūpeʻe (wrist lei) in the wili (wrapping) style and includes a gallery of autoethnographic work by LA Jacobs. This project explores the process of lei making as a metaphor for the embodiment of the connectedness of storytelling in physical space.​\n\nSession Two\nDecember 5\, 6-9pm\nCady Room\, Stearns Buidling\n2005 Baits Dr.\n\nKiran Bhumber\n\"Phulkari\"\n\nThis presentation will be on an interactive multimedia performance called Phulkari\, which involves wearable electronic textiles\, dance\, music and visuals. This interdisciplinary project aims to envelop South Asian cultural identity\, tradition\, and memory within the present digital realm. The electronic textile\, Phulkari\, is based on a technique of weaving practiced by women in Punjabi villages -- one that is passed down from mother to daughter and from bride to new village. Inscribed in the practice are processes of cultural change and continuity\, the transmission of memory\, and nostalgia. \n\nAJ Covey\nPerspectives on Teaching and Learning World Music\n\nHow can educators account for the radical shift in cultural context when teaching a foreign musical tradition in the Western conservatory\, and how can students get the most out of learning world music? AJ will draw on his experiences abroad as student and ethnographer in India and Indonesia as well as his time teaching world music as a GSI in the School of Music. Theatre and Dance.\n\nSydney Schiff\nWhat is Brazilian Zouk? \n\nOriginally from Rio de Janeiro\, Brazilian Zouk is a partnered social dance that is practiced in local communities and international congresses all over the world. This summer\, Sydney set out on an exploratory ethnographic research project to identify international influences on the dance movement and culture in Canada and Europe. Unexpectedly\, she learned as much about herself as she did about basic steps\, virtuosic movements\, dance floor etiquette\, and stroopwaffles. \n\nAdam Shead\nThe Present is Present: Amsterdam\n\nAdam Shead will present and live score a thirty minute documentary he has developed in attempt to showcase concepts of cultural memory\, political activism through Improvisation\, the relationship of Improvisation and composition\, and consciousness within the creative Improv community of Amsterdam\, NL. UID:46662-10578198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Dance,Multicultural,Music,Storytelling,Theater LOCATION:Stearns Building - Cady Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171123T110141 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:FAST Lecture | The Sarcophagi of Beth She'arim: Jewish Patrons and the Roman Stone Trade DESCRIPTION:Presented by Field Archaeology Series on Thursday\, sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, the Department of Classical Studies\, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. \n\nReception 5:30 PM\, Lecture 6:00 PM. \n\nFAST lectures are free and open to the public. UID:47018-10733233@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classical Studies,Judaic,Lecture LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T132100 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Finals Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:Finals Mindfulness is swooping in just in time for the end of classes! We'll have free mindfulness activities and snacks and we'll be joined by Terry and Kristi from Insight Meditation Ann Arbor. \n\nJoin us on Monday\, December 4\, from 5pm-7pm in Room D of the Michigan League or Tuesday\, December 5\, from 6pm-8pm in Pierpont Commons! UID:46940-10703015@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46940 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Center Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Finals Mindfulness DESCRIPTION:Finals Mindfulness is swooping in just in time for the end of classes! We'll have free mindfulness activities and snacks and we'll be joined by Terry and Kristi from Insight Meditation Ann Arbor. Join us on Monday\, December 4\, from 5pm-7pm in Room D of the Michigan League or Tuesday\, December 5\, from 6pm-8pm in Pierpont Commons Center Room! UID:46956-10705768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46956 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Study Tables DESCRIPTION:Come and study with fellow PPSO members! One point for attendance. UID:41761-10882770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Great Lakes North Room, Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171107T081147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Time to Evolve DESCRIPTION:A conversation between Julie Stein\, Executive Director\, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture\, University of Washington and Amy Harris\, Director\, Museum of Natural History\, U-M. UID:46573-10555736@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46573 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Museum LOCATION:Museum of Art - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T153737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Transforming Education: Conversations about the past\, present and future of university museums DESCRIPTION:Directors from two university natural history museums will discuss the changing roles of such museums in research\, education\, and cultural heritage. Access to such collections allows visitors the opportunity to connect with the process of scientific research. The opportunities offered by transitioning into new museum space will be emphasized. UID:45905-10321786@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45905 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Museum,umich200 LOCATION:Museum of Art - Auditorium (lower level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T102209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bioethics Discussion: Death DESCRIPTION:A roundtable discussion on our ends.\n\nAll are encouraged to come\, though in time all will be met.\n\nFor more information\, please contact belmont@umich.edu. UID:43721-9832709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Deadlines,Discussion,Economics,Engineering,History,Interdisciplinary,Law,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Nursing,Philosophy,Politics,Public Health,Public Policy,Science LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 2185 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171009T211521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Detroiters Speak: Reclaiming the Commons DESCRIPTION:Co-curated this semester by Diana Copeland\, Will Copeland and Craig Regester\, this interactive public course will focus in the first three sessions on the interconnected crises facing everyday Detroiters around water shutoffs\, home foreclosures\, public schooling\, labor and gentrification. \n\nIn the last five sessions\, however\, we'll turn to an exploration and further creative development of the many grassroots community responses happening in Detroit that are pushing back against efforts to privatize practically everything in the City. UID:45613-10234582@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Detroit,Dinner,Food,Free,Meal,Social Justice LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171107T090524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The New Cold War DESCRIPTION:CBS News team\, and the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Award Prize winners for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense\, David Martin and Mary Walsh\, will discuss the complexities of covering critical issues of present-day national defense. While the war against terrorist organizations continues with no end in sight\, a stream of new threats is emerging in space\, in cyber space\, and even in social media. \n \nAnd now the one threat we thought was behind us – the unthinkable specter of nuclear weapons – is reemerging\, both in North Korea and in Russia. The New Cold War is a lot more difficult to cover than the old one. \n\nFree Admission. Free Parking. Reception follows program. UID:46574-10555739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46574 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cold War,Journalism,National Defense,Nuclear Weapons LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T180012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T213000 SUMMARY:Other:What the Russian Revolution meant for Art and Culture DESCRIPTION:The Russian Revolution of 1917 was an earthshaking event\, the first time in history the working class and oppressed took power. It opened up a new era in human history. The Revolution inevitably had the most profound implications for art and culture\, not only in Russia but worldwide. It shattered old ideas and relationships\, and opened up enormous new possibilities. Soviet art and film of the early 1920s began to reflect these possibilities\, before the rise of Stalinism violently cut them off.Art today has reached an impasse\, bound up with the general crisis of capitalist society. Dominated to a large extent by skepticism and postmodernist cynicism\, along with gender and racial politics\, very far removed from the conditions of life of wide layers of the population\, art needs a new perspective. The lessons and experience of the Russian Revolution are critical in this regard. David Walsh\, arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site\, will discuss the impact and influence of the Russian Revolution on art and culture\, and their meaning today. UID:47243-10827433@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47243 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:East Room, Pierpoint Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T235905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:What the Russian Revolution Meant for Modern Art and Culture DESCRIPTION:IYSSE at UM Meeting information:\n\nTuesday\, December 5 at 7PM\nUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor-North Campus\nPierpoint Commons\, East Room\n2101 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109\n\nThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was an earthshaking event\, the first time in history the working class and oppressed took power. It opened up a new era in human history. The Revolution inevitably had the most profound implications for art and culture\, not only in Russia but worldwide. It shattered old ideas and relationships\, and opened up enormous new possibilities. Soviet art and film of the early 1920s began to reflect these possibilities\, before the rise of Stalinism violently cut them off.\n\nArt today has reached an impasse\, bound up with the general crisis of capitalist society. Dominated to a large extent by skepticism and postmodernist cynicism\, along with gender and racial politics\, very far removed from the conditions of life of wide layers of the population\, art needs a new perspective. The lessons and experience of the Russian Revolution are critical in this regard.\n\nDavid Walsh\, arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site\, will discuss the impact and influence of the Russian Revolution on art and culture\, and their meaning today. UID:47072-10782628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47072 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Film,History,Lecture,Literature,Poetry,Politics,Theater,Writing LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - East Room (Second Level) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Recital: Matt Albert\, violin DESCRIPTION:Chair of the Department of Chamber Music Matt Albert will present a violin recital of 20th and 21st-century solo\, duo\, and trio repertoire by composers John Adams\, Kristin Kuster (SMTD chair of composition)\, Sergei Prokofiev\, György Ligeti\, and Kevin Puts. Albert will perform with U-M professors Adam Unsworth (horn)\, Danielle Belen (violin)\, and guest artist Eric Huebner (piano). UID:45386-10167089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45386 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T121514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Orpheus Singers DESCRIPTION:Jerry Blackstone\, director\nGraduate Choral Conductors\n\nPROGRAM: \nMozart- Vesperae solennes de confessore\nVivaldi- Magnificat\nGjeilo- Serenity (O magnum mysterium)\nVictoria- O magnum mysterium UID:45377-10167080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45377 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816369@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171220T183007 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:CodeVita- TCS Global Coding Contest DESCRIPTION:Are you up for the challenge of competing against the best student coders in the world? \nCodeVita is a test of programming skills in one of the most challenging 24-hour coding competitions for students\, hosted by Tata Consultancy Services\, one of the top three global brands in IT services\, consulting and business solutions. As the second largest recruiter of IT services in the United States\, TCS is looking for the brighteststudent coders to compete. \nThis year\, CodeVita is an individual challenge that pits you against students across the globe with $20\,000 in prizes on the line. The contest is split into two rounds. The first round starts on December 9\, 2017 and runs through December 10\, 2017. Coders have six hours to solve six real-world computer programming problems. The top 15 ranked individuals globally will advance to the second and final round\, which will be held in India in Feb/Mar 2018. In addition to bragging rights\, the top coder will win a $10\,000 prize and an internship opportunity with the TCS Chief Technology Officer Team. Second place takes home a $7\,000 prize and third place takes home $3\,000 prize. \nLast year\, 261\,000 registrants from 3\,908 institutions and 40+ countries competed\, using 10different coding languages. \nSo are you up for the challenge? Registration must be completed by December 6\, 2017 to be eligible to compete. Find all the details and register for CodeVita at: www.tcscodevita.com\n\nEligibility Criteria \nStudents who are currently studying at colleges/universities located across North America are eligible to take part in the contest. Students in undergraduate/postgraduate disciplines from engineering and/or science backgrounds without any specialization are encouraged to apply.\nRegistration Process \n• North American applicants will need to register at www.tcscodevita.com by December 6\, 2017 to be eligible to compete.\n• Registrations for Global phase of CodeVita began in September 15\, 2017. \n• At the time of registration\, all information will be taken atface value and all registered participants will be allowed to compete in the first round of CodeVita. Candidates who qualify to move on to the grand finale will need to prove enrollment status at the academic institution provided at the time of registration for CodeVita. \n\nThe process may vary slightly\, but TCS will communicate with students who have qualified forthe grand finale. At that time\, qualifiers will need to provide proof of: \n• College ID card \n• Certification of enrollment from the academic institution \n\nInability to prove that current enrollment at the statedacademic institution will result in disqualification. \nGeneral Guidelines \n• It is up to the contestant/institution to provide the necessary infrastructure/software required for compiling/interpreting code. TCS will not be liable for any damage to the institute’s infrastructure that may be caused by participants from the institute during the contest. \n• Language compilers/interpreters are open source applications that can be downloaded from the internet. Participants will need to submit the source code to a problem only. For example\, codes written in Java should be submittedin .java format. \n• CodeVita platform supports coding in nine languages. Language names and supported compiler/interpreter versions are mentioned in table below. \n\nAdditional Details \nThis year CodeVita is open for individual participation only. \nRound 1: In the first round of the competition\, contestants will receive a series of computer programming problems. Each student will have six hours to solve the set of six problems. Top performers of round one will be qualified for the grand finale based on theoverall global rankings. \nGrand Finale: The top 15-20 contestants (depending on the global programming benchmark) will be invited for the grand finale\, to be held in one of the TCS offices in India Feb/Mar 2018. \nPrizes: The top three contestants in the grand finale will share in $20\,000 prize money. First place wins $10\,000\, second place $7\,000 and third place $3\,000. The first place winner will also be offered an internship opportunity with the TCS CTO team.\nIndemnification \nYou fully indemnify and hold Tata Consultancy Services Limited harmless for and against all damages\, losses\, and costs that might be caused by: \n-Your failure to comply with the terms of the above agreement. \n-Third party claim(s) of their rights and IPR being violated / effected by your article(s) submitted to us. \n UID:47213-10816483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47213 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T120018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework\, reading\, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students\, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success.  Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application\, background check\, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here UID:42459-10890832@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Community Action Network CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Study Tables DESCRIPTION:Come and study with fellow PPSO members! One point for attendance. UID:41761-10882771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Great Lakes North Room, Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869268@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial\, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city\, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:41334-9144092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments DESCRIPTION:The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world that is housed in a North American university. Known internationally as a unique collection\, it is not only a precious heritage from the past\, but also a rich resource for musical\, educational\, and cultural needs of the present and future. This exhibition features a selection of Americana musical instruments with origins from around the world. UID:43033-9697024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION:Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003\, she has primarily been a landscape artist\, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in oil. In November 2016\, following a trip to Mexico\, birds unexpectedly started migrating to her canvases and an entirely new body of work began to take shape. The current exhibit\, Flights of Fancy\, features birds in colorful\, light-filled works. The birds represent the lightness she associates with qualities of joy\, hope\, healing and inspiration she sees as a source of personal well-being. UID:43020-9696418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43020 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the on-site ballot box. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm. UID:43024-9696600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner DESCRIPTION:Steve and Ann Loveless both grew up in northwestern lower Michigan and love the nature and beauty of the outdoors. Steve is a fine art photographer\, and Ann is a textile artist. After exhibiting some of Ann’s textile designs inspired by Steve’s photography\, they had the idea to create works that morph a photograph into a textile. One aspect of the process is that it can trick the viewer into questioning what they are seeing and invite them to engage more with the work. Northwood Awakening\, a 25 by 5 foot piece that was the ArtPrize 2015 Public Vote Grand Prize winner\, will be on display. UID:43026-9696685@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43026 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage DESCRIPTION:Laura Cavanagh is a Michigan native who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BFA in Art & Design and a minor in Art History. Cavanagh’s work consists primarily of cut paper and mixed media. Working with these materials allows her to approach her work in much the same way a sculptor does: adding to and cutting away from. Cavanagh finds the artistic process to be deeply meditative. Cavanagh lives and has her studio in a historic home in downtown Rochester\, Michigan. UID:43028-9696770@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Cat Crotchett’s current work combines elements of eastern and western cultural patterns in fragments that together form something different than their individual parts. These images represent an intersection of information as well as ideas of cultural appropriation\, assimilation\, fragmentation and alteration. Crotchett uses wax because it is relevant to both eastern and early western artistic cultures. A professional artist for over 30 years\, Crotchett has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a professor at Western Michigan University and lives in Kalamazoo\, Michigan. UID:43022-9696503@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43022 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T151503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION:Professional artist and instructor Gregory Potter believes that anyone can develop artistic skill if they put the work into it. Potter’s teaching helps with that\, but he also shows his paintings in art fairs\, galleries and even Army barrack walls\, anywhere people enjoy art and laughing out loud. A flightless bird\, his flamingo isn’t deep or subversive\, but it does have a top hat and is riding on the back of a zebra that is standing in a nest powered by a propeller. Nothing unusual for a man who served four tours in the Middle East. Working in his home gallery in Franklin\, Indiana\, he is amused as viewers sometimes see his animals as “above all the B.S.” or “leaving without knowing where [they’re] going.” UID:43032-9696940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T142355 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:43942-9855183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43942 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Weill Hall (Ford School) - 3240 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T145419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty DESCRIPTION:Throughout her career\, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art\, addressing topics such as colonization\, slavery\, Manifest Destiny\, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America\, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.\n\nThe show’s title\, American Berserk\, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral\, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic\, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures\, which seem imported from a parallel universe\, include watermelons that become animated\, explode and then decay\, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries\, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells\, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.\n\nNote: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016. UID:43941-9855221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889078@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171110T164617 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:LNF Users Symposium DESCRIPTION:Building upon the success of past events\, we continue our annual tradition of bringing the whole LNF community together to learn about each other’s work and celebrate the wide variety of research being done at the LNF.\nThe symposium is free and open to all but please register – Online registration is available. In addition\, LNF tours can be scheduled at the end of the symposium for those interested. Food will be provided.\nIf you are an LNF user\, participate in the poster contest and share your research! There are cash prizes for 1st\, 2nd and 3rd place.\n\nTentative agenda\n10:00am: Welcome from Professor Wei Lu\, LNF Director\n10:15am – 11:15am: Keynote Speaker\, Professor Euisik Yoon\, Biointerface Technologies: Where Engineering Meets Science and Medicine\n11:15am – 1:20pm: LNF Users Poster Sessions with over 40 posters and excellent food!\nVendor Exhibition!\nLNF Users Tech Talks\, part I\n2:30pm – 2:45pm: Coffee Break\nLNF Users Tech Talks\, part II\n4:05pm: Poster Prizes and Wrap Up\n4:30pm: Adjourn and LNF tours for those who signed up UID:46731-10592249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46731 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Prospective Graduate Students,Research,symposium LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170911T104401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sacred Plants - Holiday Conservatory Exhibit at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:Focusing on plants in the conservatory collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens\,Sacred Plants explores how these plants figure in myth\, lore\, and ritual for cultures around the world. The exhibit also features seasonal flowers\, decorated trees\, kids activities\, and more. Free admission. Note: Closed Christmas Eve\, Christmas\, and New Year’s Eve. Open New Year’s day. UID:44125-9886156@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Multicultural,Nature LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T201257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography\, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen\, Philippe Halsman\, Helmut Newton\, Andy Warhol\, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice\, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt\, Joel Meyerowitz\, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows\, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And\nartists James Van Der Zee\, Eduardo Paolozzi\, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography\, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.\n\nLead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:41652-9417938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T195814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa DESCRIPTION:Before colonization\, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs\, and covered in beads and precious metals\, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status\, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles\, animal skin\, metal\, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans\, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria\, Ghana\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.\n\nLead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. UID:41651-9417809@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Concert,Exhibition,Storytelling LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546912@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170831T181541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2017 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition\, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, is on view Friday\, November 10-Saturday\, December 16\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors\, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception on Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Dates: November 10-December 16\, 2017\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm UID:43459-9766071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T083551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:HET Brown Bag Seminar | From higher spins to generalized SYK models DESCRIPTION:The spectrum of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model consists of an infinite tower of operators\, which resembles the spectra of various vector models that are holographically dual to higher spin gravity theories. In this talk\, I will discuss a direct connection between SYK-like tensor models and the Gross-Neveu vector model. This is achieved by studying a toy model where a tensor field is coupled with some vector fields. By integrating out the tensor field\, the toy model reduces to the Gross-Neveu model in 1 dimension. At a different corner of the moduli space of this toy model\, a perturbation can be turned on and the toy model flows to an SYK-like model at low energy. In addition\, a chaotic-nonchaotic phase transition is observed as the sign of the perturbation is altered. If time permitted\, I will briefly discuss some aspects of supersymmetric SYK-like models. UID:46737-10592252@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46737 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Students,Lecture,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 3481 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T154852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LinkedIn for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding\, networking\, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows Ph.D. students to learn to effectively use LinkedIn to accomplish their career development goals. Sponsored by the University Career Center.\n\nPre-registration is required at https://umich.joinhandshake.com/login. UID:46902-10670084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46902 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Professional Development,Rackham,Research,Scholarship LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171221T063005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PhD Pathways - LinkedIn for Graduate Students DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a great tool for professional branding\, networking\, and exploration. The University Career Center will provide a hands-on workshop that allows PhD students to learn to effectively use LinkedInto accomplish their career development goals. UID:42387-9601884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42387 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:West Conference Room Rackham 915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170830T105705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T133000 SUMMARY:Meeting:University Outreach Council Meeting DESCRIPTION:An initiative to foster collaboration and coordination between units on campus that engage in educational outreach\, the University Outreach Council convenes monthly to inform one another of best practices\, engage in meaningful discussion around strengthening the university’s outreach\, and inspire creative and innovative strategies and approaches to strengthen educational outreach. Participants include U-M faculty and staff engaged or interested youth outreach and engagement. Lunch is served. RSVP is required\; see link below. UID:43248-9748041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43248 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,first-generation,Inclusion,Networking,Poverty,Professional Development,Social Impact,Social Justice LOCATION:Galleria - 259 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T111638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.\n\nThe German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500\, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility). \nGo to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4\, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.\nFor more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html UID:44329-9908936@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T181536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T140000 SUMMARY:Other:Thesis Defense: \nRational Design and Activation of Metal-Organic Frameworks \n\n\n\nTowards Targeted Structures and Porosity DESCRIPTION: \n \n \n \n \nJialiu Ma (Advisor: Dr. Adam Matzger) UID:46936-10703010@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46936 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T130212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Futures of Law and Political Inclusion DESCRIPTION:Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on\, interpret\, and imagine the future of political participation\, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation\, debates over free speech and safe spaces\, and the shifting configurations of social movements. \n\nThe Futures of Law and Political Inclusion panel features:\n\nJowei Chen\, Associate Professor\, Political Science\, University of Michigan\nEllen D. Katz\, Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law\, University of Michigan\nReuben Miller\, Assistant Professor\, School of Social Service Administration\, University of Chicago\n\nJowei Chen is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan. His research interests include distributive politics\, executive agencies and legislatures. He has studied how legislators' pork-barreling strategies are shaped by the electoral geography of their districts\, and he has examined how government spending influences voters. He is also interested in the political control of executive agencies. \n\nEllen D. Katz\, the Ralph W. Aigler Professor of Law at the University of Michigan\, writes and teaches about election law\, civil rights and remedies\, and equal protection. Her scholarship addresses questions of minority representation\, political equality\, and the role of institutions in crafting and implementing anti-discrimination laws. Professor Katz has published numerous articles\, including an influential empirical study of litigation under the Voting Rights Act. Prior to joining the Michigan Law faculty\, Professor Katz practiced as an attorney with the appellate sections of the US Department of Justice's Civil Division and its Environment and Natural Resources Division.\n\nReuben Jonathan Miller is an assistant pProfessor at the University of Chicago in the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race\, Politics and Culture. His research examines life at the intersections of race\, crime control\, and social welfare policy. Miller has conducted fieldwork in Chicago\, Detroit\, and New York City\, examining how law\, policy and emergent practices of state and third-party supervision changed the contours of citizenship\, activism\, community\, and family life for poor black Americans and the urban poor more broadly. \n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:42639-9619866@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,History,LSA200,Politics,Sociology,umich200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T112447 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:Schokoladenstunde will take place twice per week: Tuesdays between 5-6 p.m. with Mary Gell\, and Wednesdays from 2-3 p.m. with Silvia Grzeskowiak\, in the Language Resource Center in North Quad. The group will meet in the seating area between the two computer classrooms. \n\nAs the name promises\, chocolate will be available. Silvia and Mary will be bringing games to the Schokoladenstunde. The hour will be spent chatting and playing games in German (e.g. Tabu). Students at all levels are welcome. UID:44270-9903276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44270 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:European,Free,Games,Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Language Resource Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171115T170404 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The influence of gender stereotypes on behavior and identification among students in engineering group project teams. DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk I will present research examining how gender stereotypes of men as engineering experts and women as supporters/organizers influence outcomes for male and female students on engineering group project teams. Using various methods (e.g.\, analysis of archival video footage\, laboratory experiments\, and coding of observed behaviors)\, these studies show that men engage in more technical aspects of engineering projects than women and speak longer than women during group project presentations\, consistent with gender stereotypes favoring men in engineering. We also show that women who are targeted by gender stereotyping on their teams (as assessed by independent observers) report weaker identification with engineering than women who are not targeted. These studies indicate that gender stereotypes prevalent in our society can have significant influence on outcomes that may predict retention in engineering. \n\nBio: Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Psychology\, University of Michigan. Her research program in experimental social psychology focuses on stereotyping\, implicit bias\, and the experiences of women and underrepresented minorities in science and engineering. Her research program has been supported by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Sekaquaptewa served as associate editor for the APA journals Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin\, and Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. She received the Harold R. Johnson Diversity Service Award (2015)\, and the Sarah Goddard Power Award (2012)\, from the University of Michigan for her work on diversity-related issues. UID:46842-10647803@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Engineering Academic Calendar,Psychology LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Boulevard Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T181630 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Department Colloquium | Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes\n… or how to make atomic-level movies of molecules and materials \n DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will describe how combining ultrafast lasers and electron microscopes in novel ways makes it possible to directly 'watch' the time-evolving structure of condensed matter on the fastest timescales open to atomic motion. By combining such measurements with complementary (and more conventional) spectroscopic probes one can develop structure-property relationships for materials under even very far from equilibrium conditions.\n\nI will give several examples of the remarkable new kinds of information that can be gleaned from such studies and describe how these opportunities emerge from the unique capabilities of the current generation of ultrafast electron microscopy instruments. For example\, in diffraction mode it is possible to identify and separate lattice structural changes from valence charge density redistribution in materials on the ultrafast timescale and to identify novel photoinduced phases that have no equilibrium analogs. It is also possible to directly probe the strength of the coupling between electrons and phonons in materials across the entire Brillouin zone and to probe nonequilibrium phonon dynamics (or relaxation) in exquisite detail. In imaging mode\, real space pictures of nano- to microstructural evolution in materials at unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution can be obtained. \n\nI will assume no familiarity with ultrafast lasers or electron microscopes.\n\n UID:43295-9751017@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43295 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T130024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Futures of Free Speech\, Safe Space\, and Political Expression DESCRIPTION:Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on\, interpret\, and imagine the future of political participation\, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation\, debates over free speech and safe spaces\, and the shifting configurations of social movements. \n\nThe Futures of Free Speech\, Safe Space\, and Political Expression panel features: \nMatthew Countryman\, Associate Professor\, American Culture and History\, University of Michigan\nChristina Hanhardt\, Associate Professor\, American Studies\, University of Maryland\nLaKisha Simmons\, Assistant Professor\, History and Women's Studies\, University of Michigan\n\nMatthew Countryman is an associate professor of American culture and history at the University of Michigan. He also serves as faculty advisor for the Rackham Graduate School's Program in Public Scholarship. His publications include Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2006).\n\nChristina B. Hanhardt is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the historical and contemporary study of US social movements and cities since the mid-20th century\, with an emphasis on the politics of stigma\, punishment\, and uneven development. Her first book\, Safe Space: Gay Neighborhood History and the Politics of Violence (Duke University Press\, 2013)\, won the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in LGBT Studies\, and honorable mention for both the American Studies Association’s John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies\, and the Lora Romero Prize for Best First Book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender\, class\, sexuality and/or nation.\n\nLaKisha Simmons is an assistant professor of history and women's studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (UNC Press\, 2015)\, which won the SAWH Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for best book in southern women's history and received Honorable Mention for the ABWH Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award for the best book in African American women's history. \n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:42640-9619867@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42640 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,History,LSA200,Politics,Sociology,umich200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170912T111126 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:44212-9897591@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44212 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Haven Hall - 5670 (Eldersveld Room) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171102T094848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Nam Center Colloquium Series | Homelands of the Imaginary DESCRIPTION:David Chung will present an illustrated lecture that traces his career as a visual artist and filmmaker. He will discuss projects about Korean diasporic populations in the United States and the former Soviet Union as well as a work in progress about North Korean refugees living in Seoul.\n\nBorn in Bonn\, Germany\, and educated in the United States\, David Chung is an acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker known for his large-scale drawings\, prints\, video installations and films. His work focuses on how identities are shaped in immigrant communities and the challenges of refugees as they integrate into new homelands. Chung's work has been exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, the Asia Society\, the Walker Arts Center\, Project Rowhouses\, the Studio Museum in Harlem\, the Gwangju Biennale in Korea\, the Tretyakov Gallery of Art in Moscow\, the Williams College Museum of Art\, the Smithsonian Institution and a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Chung has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and the National Board Film Board of Canada’s Award for Best Documentary Film.\n\nDavid Chung is a professor with the Stamps School of Art and Design and Core Faculty with the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan. Recently\, he was the Kim Koo Visiting Professor at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. UID:45781-10276754@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45781 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T095312 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:SLE Community Dinner DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a monthly meal together in the Noble Community Kitchen with other SLE students. Some dinners will feature guest speakers or discussions\, while others will be all about cooking and eating and spending time with the SLE community. UID:41418-10880021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41418 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Food,Meal,Social,Sustainability LOCATION:Oxford Housing - Noble Kitchen CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171128T150214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T161000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:IOE 899: Philip Kaminsky\, University of California\, Berkeley DESCRIPTION:IOE 899: Philip Kaminsky\, University of California\, Berkeley\n\"Centralized and Decentralized Warehouse Logistics Collaboration\"\n\nAbstract: In an emerging trend in the grocery industry\, multiple suppliers and retailers are sharing a warehouse to facilitate horizontal collaboration\, in order to lower transportation costs and increase delivery frequencies. Typically\, these systems (sometimes known as Mixing and Consolidation Centers) are operated in a decentralized manner\, where individual suppliers decide when to make deliveries to the warehouse\, and retailers order from the inventory in the warehouse\, so that limited effort is made to coordinate the orders of different retailers with the deliveries of different suppliers. Indeed\, implementing coordination in this setting could be very challenging. In our research\, we characterize the loss due to this decentralized operation\, to help assess the value of making the extra effort and investment necessary to implement some form of coordinated control. To do this\, we consider a setting where several suppliers ship to several retailers through a shared warehouse\, so that outbound trucks from the warehouse contain the products of multiple suppliers. We extend the classic one warehouse multi-retailer analysis of Roundy (1985) to incorporate multiple suppliers and per truck outbound transportation cost from the warehouse\, and develop a cost lower bound on centralized operation as the benchmark. We then analyze decentralized versions of the system\, in which each retailer and each supplier maximizes his or her own utility in a variety of settings\, and analytically bound the ratio of the cost of decentralized to centralized operation\, to bound the loss due to decentralization. We find that easy-to-implement decentralized policies are cost efficient\, effective\, and easy to implement\, suggesting that centralization (and thus\, coordination effort intended to lead to some of the benefit of centralization) does not bring significant benefits in this setting. Finally\, through a computational study\, we explore how system parameters impact the relative performance of this system under centralized and decentralized control. \n\nBio: Phil Kaminsky is Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he also serves as Executive Associate Dean of the College of Engineering. Until assuming his current position\, he served as Department Chair of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research\, co-director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology\, and director of the Initiative for Research in Biopharmaceutical Operations. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University. Prior to that\, he worked in production engineering and control at Merck and Co. His current research focuses on the analysis and development of robust and efficient tools and techniques for design\, operation\, and risk management in logistics systems and supply chains\, with a particular recent focus emphasis on the pharmaceutical and transportation industries\, and on logistics collaboration. He is a co-author of \"Managing the Supply Chain: the definitive guide for the business professional\" and \"Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts\, Strategies and Case Studies.\" He has been an associate editor for Management Science\, Production and Operations Management\, Naval Research Logistics\, Operations Research Letters\, and IIE Transactions. He consults in the areas of production planning\, logistics\, and supply chain management. UID:47105-10790924@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47105 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial and Operations Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171108T103811 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A 21st Century Model for Disseminating Knowledge DESCRIPTION:In the early years of the third millenium\, most professors are still teaching in virtually the same way they were taught and their teachers were taught\, stretching back centuries. This situation is likely to change\, relatively soon. Technology is transforming (if not threatening to overwhelm) higher education\, as MOOCs and online content become widely available. University students seeking to learn a topic who now have little if any choice are about to be presented with a vast array of choices. What student would not want to swap a tired professor writing slowly on a chalkboard for a well-produced series of videos and associated content\, given by a world leader in the field? We are on the verge of a transformation on the scale of the transformation wrought by Gutenburg. This imminent change raises a host of fascinating and far-reaching questions. \n\nIn this talk\, we describe a scalable model for teaching and learning based on a combination of studio-produced video lectures\, innovative online content and assessment mechanisms\, and an authoritative classic textbook. We initially proved this approach effective for teaching algorithms and data structures\, the analysis of algorithms\, and analytic combinatorics. More recently\, we have published a new textbook in computer science\, new studio-produced lectures\, and online content that teachers and learners can use for a first-year course sequence in computer science that can stand alongside traditional first courses in physics\, chemistry\, economics\, and other disciplines. Our model now enables us to reach millions of students and professionals around the world. UID:46625-10566979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46625 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Free,Information and Technology LOCATION:BBB - 1670 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171119T172357 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Finals Carnival DESCRIPTION:Join CCI for a FREE event in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union! On December 6th from 4:30pm-6:30pm\, we will have a photo booth\, food\, and stress relief activities hosted by 4 student organizations! Drop by & walk in to de-stress before finals! UID:46917-10692053@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Social LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pond Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Finals Carnival DESCRIPTION:Join CCI for a FREE event in the Pond Room of the Michigan Union! On December 6th from 4:30pm-6:30pm\, we will have a photo booth\, food\, and stress relief activities hosted by 4 student organizations! Drop by & walk in to de-stress before finals! UID:46919-10694791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171127T104106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T181500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:When Science is in Defense of Value-Linked Facts DESCRIPTION:A fundamental and early difference between Western philosophy and Chinese Confucianism is the importance in the West of certain dichotomies and their absence in China. I refer to reason/emotions and mind/matter\, which\, as dichotomies\, are absent in classical Chinese thought. The Chinese position is that we cannot talk about knowing apart from the emotions\; they are mutually involved. The same is true of the subjective and objective. My comments argue that in modern Anglo American philosophy there has also been a division between natural facts and moral values. Violating this division (such as claiming that we can derive an “ought” from an “is”) is called the “naturalistic fallacy.” This division owes part of its origin to the old dichotomies between knowing and emotions\, and between mind and matter. Drawing on Chinese ethics\, and also considering Western positions\, I argue that there is a necessary connection between moral values and a theory of human nature. There are also connections between certain values\, emotions\, and facts: (1) Health and well-being\; contentment and suffering\; clinical and subjective facts (2) Social bonding\; love and sympathy\; symbiotic care. (3) Harmonious [和谐的] adaptation to hierarchy\; respect and shame\; conformity and potential cooperation. My position ends by being in some ways consistent with those of the contemporary Western thinkers Daniel Dennett\, Sam Harris\, and Hillary Putnam.\n\nThe lecture will be followed by a response from Professor Sonya Özbey. If time permits\, there will be a Q&A at the end. UID:46693-10581049@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46693 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Lecture,Philosophy LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Free Pilates class DESCRIPTION:The great Pilates instructor and Ross partner\, Hannah Keltner\, is offering us a free class on December 6th.\nPlease take advantage of this offer and show up. Come with your enthusiasm\, leave with better core. Class with start at 5:30pm UID:47112-10793689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47112 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:http://imxpilates.com/branches/AnnArbor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T122548 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:INDUSTRY PREVIEW |Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces DESCRIPTION:Industry is invited to this special preview of the IPD Trade Show. \nRSVP here: http://conta.cc/2kmwlVG\n\nThe preview is from 5:30-6:30p.m. (just prior to the IPD Trade Show that starts at 6:30p.m.). \n\nIPD is an experiential\, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design\, Business\, Engineering\, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations\, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nThe Problem Statement: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces.\n\nSee the actual products and test them out prior to the opening of the Trade Show. Then cast your vote! Network\, have fun and meet up with friends\, old and new!\n\nParking is street meter or there is public parking at the Liberty Square Structure Parking Garage UID:47274-10857846@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47274 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Business,Engineering,Information and Technology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171103T154923 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MBC Workshop: Impact Assessment DESCRIPTION:As part of the co-sponsored Seigle Impact Track of the Michigan Business Challenge\, this workshop offers approaches to and tools for social impact assessment. Students competing in Round 2 of the Impact Track need to attend so they can learn how to prepare this deliverable as part of the campus-wide Michigan Business Challenge competition. The Seigle Impact Track is offered by the Center for Social Impact in partnership with the Zell Lurie Institute of Entrepreneurship and the Frederick A. and Barbara M. Erb Institute. The top prize is awarded to the most compelling business plan that delivers social impact. UID:46511-10512729@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46511 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Entrepreneurship,Environment,Social Impact,Sustainability LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R2220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170819T142239 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Togetherness: QTPOC Dinners DESCRIPTION:Spectrum Center and the Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) are proud of introducing a new initiative centering Queer and Transgender People of Color (QTPOC) which consist of Community Dinners for/by QTPOC. The hosts will consist of QTPOC staff\, faculty\, and community members around U-M. \n\nFREE DINNER will be provided to the first 10 students who sign up for the respective dinners. If there are more than 10 students signing up for a dinner session\, they will be put on a waiting list. Please complete the form below to register for a dinner.\n\nRegistration form: bit.ly/2x8aLoK\n\nShould there be any cancelations/changes\, please contact Mark Chung Kwan Fan at markckf@umich.edu at your earliest convenience.\n\nHost: \nSeptember - Liz Gonzalez\nOctober - Kerene Moore\nDecember - Jonathan Merrill UID:42557-9611973@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42557 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dinner,LGBT LOCATION:North Quad - Room 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171116T102251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Arts of Islam. \"Crumbs: Toppling the Bread Cartel\" DESCRIPTION:\"Crumbs\" is the David versus Goliath story of Imraahn Mukaddam\, the lone bread distributor who blew the whistle on price collusion within the South African bread industry. The documentary explores the personal and financial turmoil Imraahn faces in wrestling the corporate food machine in a quest for social justice. Together with fellow activists and a tiny legal team\, Imraahn is pitted against the bread companies' army of attorneys. While the mighty bread companies side-step the filmmakers\, he champions the cause of the disenfranchised in a Constitutional Court bid to launch the first ever class action lawsuit in South African history. \n\nThe screening will be followed by an Q&A with the director\, Richard F. Gregory. UID:46852-10656087@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46852 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Arts of Islam,Film,International LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Annex Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171109T134254 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Fall Commencement Celebration: Cap Decorating & Thank You Notes DESCRIPTION:Prepare for fall commencement with CCI cap decorating and thank you note writing! This event will be taking place in the Anderson D Room of the Michigan Union from 6-8 pm on December 6th\, 2017! Spots are limited so reserve your place by emailing ccicommencement@umich.edu as soon as possible. UID:46683-10581038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46683 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduation,Social LOCATION:Michigan Union - Anderson Room D CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Fall Commencement Celebration: Cap Decorating & Thank You Notes DESCRIPTION:Prepare for fall commencement with CCI cap decorating and thank you note writing! This event will be taking place in the Anderson D Room of the Michigan Union from 6-8 pm on December 6th\, 2017! Spots are limited so reserve your place by emailing ccicommencement@umich.edu as soon as possible. UID:46700-10583840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46700 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Anderson Room D, Michigan Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170629T095312 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:SLE Community Dinner DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a monthly meal together in the Noble Community Kitchen with other SLE students. Some dinners will feature guest speakers or discussions\, while others will be all about cooking and eating and spending time with the SLE community. UID:41418-10790931@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41418 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Food,Meal,Social,Sustainability LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180033 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Study Tables DESCRIPTION:Come and study with fellow PPSO members! One point for attendance. UID:41762-9460682@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41762 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Great Lakes North Room, Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T181533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 SUMMARY:Other:Winter 2018 Community-Engaged Courses DESCRIPTION:Students can explore community-engaged courses from across the university. UID:47206-10816476@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T133502 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T203000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Trade Show | Integrated Product Development: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces DESCRIPTION:University of Michigan’s Art & Design\, Business\, Engineering\, and School of Information students are gearing up for the 21st offering of the Integrated Product Development (IPD) Trade Show! Members of our community will gather to view and make purchase decisions from the “best of the best” of their work over the past semester in this interdisciplinary course.\n\nIPD is an experiential\, cross-disciplinary course that puts teams of students from Art & Design\, Business\, Engineering\, and Information in a competitive product development environment. This innovative course has been featured on CNN and written up in the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal and Businessweek. The course is hosted by the Tauber Institute for Global Operations\, and is taught jointly by faculty members Eric Svaan of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Stephanie Tharp from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.\n\nYou won’t want to miss this year’s trade show! \n\nThe Problem Statement: Efficient & Satisfying Use of Small Living Spaces.\n\nSee the actual products and test them out. Then cast your vote! Network\, have fun and meet up with friends\, old and new!\n\nParking is street meter or there is public parking at the Liberty Square Structure Parking Garage\n\nEvent is Free and open to the public\, with light refreshments.\n\nNEW LOCATION: Downtown Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art & Design's new gallery space\, STAMPS Gallery located at 201 S. Division St. (between Liberty St. and Washington St.)\n\nONLINE VOTING BEGINS November 28TH:\nhttp://www.tauber.umich.edu/integrated-product-development/2017Fall UID:46858-10658843@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46858 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Business,Engineering,Free,Graduate School,Information and Technology LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180812T084925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T201500 SUMMARY:Well-being:FREE 4-Session Mindfulness Class DESCRIPTION:REGISTRATION OPEN FOR ALL STUDENTS!\nWednesdays from 7:00 - 8:15pm (11/15\, 11/29\, 12/6\, 12/13)\n@ Ann Arbor District Library Meeting Room (343 S. Fifth Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104)\n\nDuring this 4-session class you will be introduced to the practice of mindfulness and learn several skills\, including meditation\, for managing stress and enriching your life. Mindfulness is about developing the ability to be fully attentive to all the moments of your life\, reducing the amount of time you spend worrying about the future or fretting about the past. An important aspect of mindfulness is developing a non-judgmental\, accepting\, even curious\, attitude about your moment-to-moment experience. The more you develop this attitude\, the less you will feel overwhelmed by changes and challenges in your life.\n\nKoru is designed to introduce you to the practice of mindfulness and get you well on your way to developing this important skill. Like learning any new skill\, it takes practice to get comfortable with mindfulness. We invite you to devote yourself to the study and practice of mindfulness over the next four weeks\, and we challenge you to stay curious about what evolves for you as you persistently and patiently practice living mindfully. We also have a free mobile app to track meditation practices for this course!\n\nRegister today before the seats are filled! \n\nFor any questions\, please contact Hitomi Katsumi at hkat@umich.edu. UID:46013-10353051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46013 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate,Health & Wellness,Psychology,Undergraduate LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Meeting Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T082538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:ISP Films. The Short Films of Larissa Sansour DESCRIPTION:Larissa Sansour is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker who uses experimental methods and sci-fi tropes to examine Palestinian identity and Middle East politics. By turns entertaining\, thought provoking\, and frightening\, her films brilliantly explore one aspect of the Islamic Studies Program's theme\, \"Muslim Futures\": the use of future tense speculation to understand the present. Join us to watch three of her shorts: \"In The Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain\" (29 min.\, 2015)\, \"A Space Exodus\" (6 mins.\, 2008)\, and \"Nation Estate\" (10 mins.\, 2012). UID:42982-9688338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42982 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,International,Iran,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Weekly Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join us for our weekly meeting to hang out and knit or crochet! We'll be meeting in the Welker Room in the Michigan Union! UID:44007-9866257@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44007 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Welker Room in the Union CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171128T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Concert Band DESCRIPTION:Courtney Snyder\, conductor\nElliott Tackitt\, graduate conductor\n\nTravel the world in both time and place. Music from the Renaissance\, Romantic era\, 20th century\, and modern day. Music from Spain\, England\, China\, Germany\, and a world premiere inspired by the Karnatik music of India.\n\nPROGRAM: Gandolfi- Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme\; Holst- Hammersmith\; Schachter- Karnatakamalika\; Chen- Come Drink One More Cup\; Wagner- Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral UID:45496-10197987@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45496 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171115T181526 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Opera Workshop I DESCRIPTION:Featuring undergraduate and graduate students of Prof. Robert Swedberg performing scenes from Monteverdi’s l’incoronazione de Poppea\, Handel’s Giulio Cesare\, Mozart’s Don Giovanni\, Abduction from the Seraglio\, and Così fan tutte\, Bellini’s Capuletti ed i Montecchi\, Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia\, Verdi’s Rigoletto\, Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict\, and Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. UID:45606-10234575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45606 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170918T135529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T210000 SUMMARY:Meeting:SLE Board Meeting DESCRIPTION:Join the SLE Board! Gain leadership experience\, plan social events\, service learning activities\, sustainability projects\, and educational workshops. UID:41402-9969022@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41402 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Leadership,Sustainability LOCATION:Oxford Housing - Noble Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171115T181516 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:String Ensembles Final Term Recital DESCRIPTION:12/4: A variety of string chamber music\, including movements from the Schubert Cello Quintet.\n\n12/6: Student groups perform movements from a variety of string quartets. UID:45376-10167079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45376 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816370@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507577@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T120018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework\, reading\, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students\, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success.  Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application\, background check\, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here UID:42459-10890833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Community Action Network CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T180032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T220000 SUMMARY:Other:Study Tables DESCRIPTION:Come and study with fellow PPSO members! One point for attendance. UID:41761-10882772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Great Lakes North Room, Palmer Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869269@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667122@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial\, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city\, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:41334-9144093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments DESCRIPTION:The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world that is housed in a North American university. Known internationally as a unique collection\, it is not only a precious heritage from the past\, but also a rich resource for musical\, educational\, and cultural needs of the present and future. This exhibition features a selection of Americana musical instruments with origins from around the world. UID:43033-9697025@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION:Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003\, she has primarily been a landscape artist\, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in oil. In November 2016\, following a trip to Mexico\, birds unexpectedly started migrating to her canvases and an entirely new body of work began to take shape. The current exhibit\, Flights of Fancy\, features birds in colorful\, light-filled works. The birds represent the lightness she associates with qualities of joy\, hope\, healing and inspiration she sees as a source of personal well-being. UID:43020-9696419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43020 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the on-site ballot box. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm. UID:43024-9696601@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150442 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Photography into Fiber: ArtPrize Winner DESCRIPTION:Steve and Ann Loveless both grew up in northwestern lower Michigan and love the nature and beauty of the outdoors. Steve is a fine art photographer\, and Ann is a textile artist. After exhibiting some of Ann’s textile designs inspired by Steve’s photography\, they had the idea to create works that morph a photograph into a textile. One aspect of the process is that it can trick the viewer into questioning what they are seeing and invite them to engage more with the work. Northwood Awakening\, a 25 by 5 foot piece that was the ArtPrize 2015 Public Vote Grand Prize winner\, will be on display. UID:43026-9696686@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43026 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T150834 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents The Cut Ups: Paper Collage DESCRIPTION:Laura Cavanagh is a Michigan native who graduated summa cum laude from the University of Michigan in 2011 with a BFA in Art & Design and a minor in Art History. Cavanagh’s work consists primarily of cut paper and mixed media. Working with these materials allows her to approach her work in much the same way a sculptor does: adding to and cutting away from. Cavanagh finds the artistic process to be deeply meditative. Cavanagh lives and has her studio in a historic home in downtown Rochester\, Michigan. UID:43028-9696771@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43028 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101149 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Under Covers: Encaustic & Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Cat Crotchett’s current work combines elements of eastern and western cultural patterns in fragments that together form something different than their individual parts. These images represent an intersection of information as well as ideas of cultural appropriation\, assimilation\, fragmentation and alteration. Crotchett uses wax because it is relevant to both eastern and early western artistic cultures. A professional artist for over 30 years\, Crotchett has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a professor at Western Michigan University and lives in Kalamazoo\, Michigan. UID:43022-9696504@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43022 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170825T151503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents When Pigs Fly: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION:Professional artist and instructor Gregory Potter believes that anyone can develop artistic skill if they put the work into it. Potter’s teaching helps with that\, but he also shows his paintings in art fairs\, galleries and even Army barrack walls\, anywhere people enjoy art and laughing out loud. A flightless bird\, his flamingo isn’t deep or subversive\, but it does have a top hat and is riding on the back of a zebra that is standing in a nest powered by a propeller. Nothing unusual for a man who served four tours in the Middle East. Working in his home gallery in Franklin\, Indiana\, he is amused as viewers sometimes see his animals as “above all the B.S.” or “leaving without knowing where [they’re] going.” UID:43032-9696941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Comprehensive Cancer Center, Level 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Life and Times of Lizzy Bennet DESCRIPTION:As the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death\, 2017 presents an opportunity to showcase not only significant early editions of Austen’s works held in the Special Collections Library\, but a much broader swath of materials revealing the historical milieu in which she and her characters lived.\n\nThe 1780s-1810s was a tumultuous time period in Britain with effects reaching to the present day\, and we are fortunate to be able to draw on a rich collection of sources that illustrate Austen’s historical moment\, from A Companion to the Ballroom and The Book of Common Prayer to An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species... and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:45823-10310384@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45823 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170908T145419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:American Berserk exhibition by Valerie Hegarty DESCRIPTION:Throughout her career\, Brooklyn-based artist Valerie Hegarty has explored fundamental themes of American history and particularly the legacy of 19th-century American art\, addressing topics such as colonization\, slavery\, Manifest Destiny\, nationalism and environmental degradation. Elaborating upon visual references to the art-historical canon of North America\, Hegarty repurposes the ideological tenets of such works into a critical examination of the American legacy.\n\nThe show’s title\, American Berserk\, is borrowed from Philip Roth’s Pulitzer-winning novel American Pastoral\, in which he defines the inverse of the American pastoral ideal as the “indigenous American Berserk.” The show includes a group of ceramic sculptures and a mixed-media site-specific sculpture jutting from the wall. Hegarty’s anarchic\, revisionist take on American history as manifested in the nation’s artistic legacy is embodied in her fantastical works. The sculptures\, which seem imported from a parallel universe\, include watermelons that become animated\, explode and then decay\, sly depictions of George Washington as a series of topiaries\, spectral clipper ships sinking and calcifying into shells\, a branch breaking through the wall and piercing a painting of George Washington making his nose appear to grow and a duo of “fruit face” personae that survey the surreal proceedings.\n\nNote: This grouping of works is an edited restaging of the original show that was initially presented at Burning in Water gallery in New York in 2016. UID:43941-9855222@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43941 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,History,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T093933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:An Accidental Photographer: Seoul 1969 DESCRIPTION:As a Peace Corps volunteer in Seoul in 1969\, U-M alumna Margaret Condon Taylor (PhD psychology) photographed the changing scenes of ordinary Korean life in a rapidly modernizing society. These photographs are being exhibited for the first time in nearly fifty years. \n\nPhotographs were selected in collaboration with Associate Professor Youngju Ryu\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, and Professor David Chung\, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. \n\nThis exhibition is made possible by the Institute for the Humanities and the Nam Center for Korean Studies with the generous support of the Friends of Korea. The Nam Center is celebrating its tenth anniversary and would like to thank Amanda Krugliak for her support. UID:46965-10711247@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46965 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T160147 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T100000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BME Seminar: Claudia Fischbach-Teschl\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:\"Engineering approaches to analyze tumor-associated ECM dynamics\"\n\nClaudia Fischbach-Teschl\, Ph.D. Associate Professor\, Department of Biomedical Engineering Cornell University\n\nAbstract: \n \nMicroenvironmental conditions contribute to the pathogenesis of cancer\, and aberrant extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling plays a key role in this process. However\, our understanding of the specific mechanisms by which the ECM promotes cancer is relatively limited. Our lab focuses on the integration of materials science\, tissue engineering\, and cancer biology approaches to test the role of ECM biological and physical properties in cancer initiation and progression. More specifically\, we characterize the effect of tumors on ECM composition\, structure\, and mechanics and investigate the relevance of these changes to tumor cell behavior both in vitro and in vivo. Additionally\, we are evaluating whether obesity\, a condition commonly associated with an increased risk and worse clinical prognosis for cancer\, may promote tumorigenesis by mimicking tumor-like ECM dynamics. UID:44634-9934457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44634 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180115T182509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Excavating Archaeology @ U-M: 1817‐2017 DESCRIPTION:This exhibition explores the history of archaeology and museums at the University of Michigan for the past 200 years and looks forward to the future of archaeology and museums at Michigan in the coming century. The exhibition relies on carefully chosen objects\, archival documents and images\, and other illustrative materials to examine moments in the history of the University of Michigan’s involvements in archaeology and the location of archaeology in the museum environment.\n\nCurators: Carla M. Sinopoli and Terry G. Wilfong\n\nVisit the exhibition website: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/excavating-archaeology-bicentennial/ UID:44170-9889079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44170 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Archaeology,Bicentennial,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170911T104401 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Sacred Plants - Holiday Conservatory Exhibit at Matthaei DESCRIPTION:Focusing on plants in the conservatory collection at Matthaei Botanical Gardens\,Sacred Plants explores how these plants figure in myth\, lore\, and ritual for cultures around the world. The exhibit also features seasonal flowers\, decorated trees\, kids activities\, and more. Free admission. Note: Closed Christmas Eve\, Christmas\, and New Year’s Eve. Open New Year’s day. UID:44125-9886157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Multicultural,Nature LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171016T152600 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:THE FUTURE LIES EAST: POSTCOMMUNIST EUROPE’S NEW MODEL OF POPULISM DESCRIPTION:Dr. Deegan-Krause\, Professor of Political Science\, Wayne State University\, received his B. A. in Economics and History from Georgetown University and his Ph.D. in Government and International Relations from the University of Notre Dame. His research focus is on political and governmental systems in Central and Eastern Europe. He has authored or co-edited books and journal articles on a variety of political topics. His current research focuses on political party system transformation\, populism\, and the sources of electoral support for authoritarian leaders. \n\nWe have come to associate the word populism with the right in Western Europe and with the left in Latin America\, but in Eastern Europe new political movements advance not from the left or the right but from the outside\, as dissatisfied citizens rally around non-political celebrities to challenge what they see as a corrupt status quo. As the trend-setter in this new political style\, Eastern Europe offers insights into an increasingly widespread variation on populism. \n \nThis is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Populism: The Common People in Modern Politics. The next lecture series will start January 11\, 2018. The title is Architecture: Shaping Buildings\; Shaping Us. UID:45837-10310517@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lifelong Learning,Populism,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T201257 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gloss: Modeling Beauty DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the prominent role of women as the subject of photography\, GLOSS: Modeling Beauty explores the shifting ideals of female beauty that pervade European and American visual culture from the 1920s to today. The exhibition features images of sleek and poised female models and celebrities destined for the glossy pages of fashion magazines and catalogs by leading photographers such as Edward Steichen\, Philippe Halsman\, Helmut Newton\, Andy Warhol\, and Guy Bourdin. Outside of commercial advertising practice\, documentary photographers Elliott Erwitt\, Joel Meyerowitz\, and Ralph Gibson portray candid images of fashionable women on city streets and mannequins in shop windows\, resulting in intriguing juxtapositions of haute couture and everyday life. And\nartists James Van Der Zee\, Eduardo Paolozzi\, and Nikki S. Lee employ the visual strategies of traditional fashion photography\, while offering alternative narratives to mainstream notions of female beauty.\n\nLead support for Gloss: Modeling Beauty is provided by Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender. UID:41652-9417939@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41652 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140104 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection DESCRIPTION:\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" showcases the master draftsmanship of two of the most significant artists of the twentieth century: Henri Matisse (1869–1954) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015). Curated by Kelly in 2014\, the exhibition speaks to his admiration for Matisse\, as well as to the centrality of drawing in both artists’ practices. To accompany the forty-five rarely exhibited works by Matisse made in the first half of the 20th century\, which reveal his process and range of creativity as a draftsman\, Kelly selected nine of his own lithographic drawings that derive from his time in France during the 1960s\, when the American artist studied Matisse’s sketches and studies of nature and human figures. Together\, the works by Matisse and Kelly form a thought-provoking\, visually striking artistic dialogue\, allowing viewers to experience one artist through the eyes of another and to immerse themselves in the pleasures of close looking.\n \n\"Matisse Drawings: Curated by Ellsworth Kelly from The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation Collection\" is organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in collaboration with The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation.\n\nThis exhibition was made possible by the generous support of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust and The Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. Additional support provided by the JFM Foundation and Mrs. Donald M. Cox.\n\nLead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and the Department of the History of Art. UID:46544-10546834@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170724T195814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa DESCRIPTION:Before colonization\, complex hierarchical societies flourished in Central and West Africa. At their summits were a select few—kings and chiefs whose authority was derived from their direct connection to powerful ancestors and predecessors. These rulers were wrapped in expensive textiles or costly furs\, and covered in beads and precious metals\, materials that not only signaled their extraordinary status\, but were also intended to safely contain the great power they wielded. The famous minkisi (meaning “power figure”) sculptures of Central Africa were similarly activated through the addition of charged materials. Textiles\, animal skin\, metal\, and beads allowed the lifeless wooden carvings to be activated by local spiritual leaders in order to communicate with the realm of the ancestors and spirits. This exhibition explores the parallels between the adornment of the king’s physical body and minkisi. Drawing on works from UMMA’s collection and several loans\, the exhibition demonstrates how authority was expressed and power contained across a range of historical cultures in Nigeria\, Ghana\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.\n\nLead support for Power Contained: The Art of Authority in Central and West Africa is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the African Studies Center. UID:41651-9417810@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Concert,Exhibition,Storytelling LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T140510 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece DESCRIPTION:Since the 1980s\, British artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster have been known for their shadow sculptures built from materials as diverse as scrap metal\, garbage\, taxidermy\, and sex toys. When light is directed at these assemblages\, they project shadows that are exceptionally accurate and intricate representations of other things entirely.\n\n\"The Masterpiece\" (2014) is a shadow self-portrait of the artists created from metal casts of dead vermin they collected and welded together into a ball. From afar the casts appear to be a stunning abstract silver sculpture\; on closer inspection the disturbing menagerie of creatures emerges\, only to change form again—as a shadow on the wall—into a precise and elegant image that is astonishingly different from the objects that create it.\n\nLead support for \"Tim Noble and Sue Webster: The Masterpiece\" is provided by the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, the Susan and Richard Gutow Fund\, and the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the Richard and Janet Miller Fund. UID:46545-10546913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46545 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art - Media Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170823T095957 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Eating Contests in Early Modern Japanese Entertainment Media DESCRIPTION:Early modern Japan witnessed the rise of food as a subject of entertainment media as exemplified by numerous literary and visual depictions of culinary contests in which pedants debated the virtues of rice or tea\; strong men (and women) measured their endurance in the number of bowls of noodles or cups of sake they could swallow\; and posters ranked seafood recipes against vegetarian dishes. Visual and literary artists even helped audiences imagine what would happen if food or drinks came alive and debated and battled each other. Early modern media proved that food and beverages were not mundane objects\, but instead had lives of their own\, which were poetic\, heroic\, and potentially precarious. \n \nEric C. Rath is the CJS Toyota Visiting Professor for the 2017-2018 academic year and a professor of premodern Japanese history at the University of Kansas where he specializes in Japanese cultural history. His publications include Japan’s Cuisines: Food\, Place and Identity (Reaktion Books\, 2016) and Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press\, 2010).\n\nImage: Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) “Peace\, Joy\, and the Price War Between Sake and Sweets” (Taiheiki mochi sake tatakai) produced between 1843-46 UID:42854-9672379@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Food,History,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170830T124839 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:International Economics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:43312-9751043@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43312 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T115151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Transforming Mental Health Care with Social Media Munmun De Choudhury - School of Interactive Computing - Georgia Tech DESCRIPTION:ABSTRACT: Social media platforms continue to deeply intertwine with our lives. In this talk I will present a body of work demonstrating how social media can serve two purposes supporting our mental wellbeing. First\, employing social media as a passive “sensor” of behaviors\, emotion\, socialization\, and linguistic expression\, I will highlight a series of projects that enable fine-grained and proactive assessment of risk to conditions as diverse as depression\, schizophrenia\, and post-traumatic stress and anxiety. Second\, I will talk about how several social media sites are purposefully and inadvertently providing an interventional platform\, ranging from meeting support needs of vulnerable individuals\, to enhancing therapeutic outcomes. Cross-cutting across this research agenda\, I will discuss the broader implications for computing as well as mental health research and practice\, and the ethical and privacy challenges we have encountered\, what we have done about them\, and what questions still remain. In conclusion\, I will highlight three ongoing multi-institutional initiatives that define the next phase of this research program – one around addressing the mental health challenges of college students\, a second around building a psychologically healthy and thriving workplace\, and a third around improving how we clinically treat\, intervene\, and care for mental illness.\n\nBio: Munmun De Choudhury is an assistant professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech where she directs the Social Dynamics and Wellbeing Lab. She is also affiliated with the GVU Center. Munmun’s research interests are in computational social science\, with a focus on assessing\, understanding\, and improving personal and societal mental health from online social interactions. Her work has been the recipient of ten best paper and honorable mention awards at premier conferences\, has been supported by awards like the James Edenfield Faculty Fellowship and the Yahoo Faculty Engagement Award\, and has also been extensively covered by popular press venues like the New York Times and the NPR. Earlier\, Munmun was a faculty associate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard\, a postdoc at Microsoft Research\, and obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University. UID:46986-10714060@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Complex Systems,Computer Science,Healthcare,Mental Illness,seminar,Social Media,Sociology LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171011T121933 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Meeting:U-M MLK Symposium Cross-Campus Planning Meeting DESCRIPTION:YOU’RE INVITED!\n\nThe University of Michigan Martin Luther King\, Jr. Symposium is proudly one of the largest commemoration of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. across the country. The symposium consists of a keynote memorial lecture public event the morning of the MLK holiday (January 15) [open to the public\, not ticketed]. The efforts to determine the symposium theme\, the artwork for the event booklet\, and speakers for the symposium are determined from a dedicated group of students\, faculty\, staff and administrators across campus. \n\nWe welcome any interested individuals who are passionate about social justice\, civil and human rights\, and UM’s role in creating a dynamic program that honors Dr. King to attend our monthly meetings. They are informal\, please attend when you would like. Each meeting focuses on finalizing a piece of the symposium events\, sharing department or org events\, and always reflecting on current affairs\, with an emphasis on mindfulness and community. \n\nSTUDENTS! (undergrad\, grad\, professional\, etc) We need your voice at the table!\n\nMore information about putting your event in the booklet or online\, the history of speakers\, and other ways to get involved\, please visit mlksymposium.umich.edu hosted and sponsored by the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI).\n\nPlease email mlksymposiuminfo@umich.edu if you plan on attending an upcoming meeting\, so that we may have an accurate food count.\n\nThe theme for the 2018 Symposium is The Fierce Urgency of Now. This theme calls us to claim ownership of the challenges we face and not leave it for future generations to address. Amidst technological advancements and increased global connections\, much work still needs to be done to heal the wounds of our past\, and resolve the injustices of our present. The Fierce Urgency of Now compels us to not only act\, but to also acknowledge that the absence of action and the continuation of silence\, serves to bring us deeper into the shadows of division. UID:44869-9992125@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Community Service,Culture,Detroit,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free,Inclusion,Multicultural,Social Impact,Social Justice LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - 1st floor lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170831T181541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:2017 Undergraduate Juried Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The Stamps School’s annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition\, a showcase of the best work produced by Stamps undergraduate students\, is on view Friday\, November 10-Saturday\, December 16\, 2017 in the Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). A highly anticipated Stamps School tradition\, the Undergraduate Juried Exhibition provides an opportunity for the school to support students whose creative work is recognized as exceptional by invited jurors\, with thousands of dollars in awards announced at the exhibition reception on Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.\n\nExhibition Dates: November 10-December 16\, 2017\nExhibition Reception: Friday\, November 10 from 6-8 pm UID:43459-9766072@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T125909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T140000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Futures of Democratic Social Movements DESCRIPTION:Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on\, interpret\, and imagine the future of political participation\, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation\, debates over free speech and safe spaces\, and the shifting configurations of social movements. \n\nThe Futures of Democratic Social Movements panel features: \n\nCedric de Leon\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Tufts University\nJessica Garrick\, Doctoral Candidate\, Sociology\, University of Michigan\nMaria Cotera\, Associate Professor\, American Culture and Women's Studies\, University of Michigan\n\nMaria Cotera is currently an associate professor in the Departments of Women’s Studies and American Culture at the University of Michigan. She holds a PhD from Stanford University’s Program in Modern Thought\, and an MA in English from the University of Texas. Professor Cotera currently serves as director of the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies Program. She is the author of Native Speakers: Ella Deloria\, Zora Neale Hurston\, Jovita Gonzalez and the Poetics of Culture (University of Texas Press\, 2008).\n\nJessica Garrick is a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Michigan\, where she transferred after starting her graduate career at the University of New Mexico. While in New Mexico\, she worked closely with an immigrant worker center to document the incidence of wage theft among Mexican immigrants in the area. For her dissertation\, Jessica is using the case of US labor law to explore how laws long “on the books” are repurposed to fit new contexts. \n\nCedric de Leon is an associate professor of sociology at Tufts University. Before arriving at Tufts\, he served as chair of the sociology department at Providence College. He is the author of The Origins of Right to Work (Cornell University Press\, 2015) and Party and Society (Polity Press\, 2014) and is co-editor of Building Blocs (Stanford University Press\, 2015) with Manali Desai and Cihan Tugal. He has served in numerous elected and appointed posts in the American Sociological Association and Social Science History Association and sits on the editorial boards of Contemporary Sociology and Social Problems.\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:42641-9619868@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42641 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,History,LSA200,Politics,Sociology,umich200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170919T092557 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LSI Seminar Series: Barbara Mellone\, Ph.D.\, University of Connecticut DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nCentromeres are essential regions of the genome that mediate the accurate segregation of chromosomes during mitosis and meiosis. In most metazoans\, centromeres are composed of satellite DNA and transposable elements organized into a specialized type of chromatin marked by the histone H3 variant CENP-A. For the past two decades\, the centromere has been thought to be epigenetically specified\, with centromeric DNA being regarded as neither necessary nor sufficient for centromere function. However\, the respective contributions of chromatin and DNA to centromere formation and propagation have remained elusive. We tested whether ectopic centromeres\, which are devoid of centromeric DNA\, can be formed and transmitted during Drosophila development and investigated their ability to compete with native centromeres. We induced the formation of ectopic centromeres on integrated lacO repeats to which the CENP-A assembly factor CAL1 is tethered via the Lac Repressor (CAL1-LacI). Ectopic centromeres formed successfully in flies with insertions at discrete chromosomal locations in both euchromatin and heterochromatin. During constitutive tethering\, an ectopic centromere on the X chromosome sometimes prevailed\, causing the inactivation of the endogenous centromere by DNA loss or HP1-dependent epigenetic silencing. Upon release of CAL1-LacI\, however\, ectopic centromeres were lost\, suggesting out-competition by the native centromere. These results suggest that the presence of the CENP-A epigenetic mark is not sufficient for centromere propagation\, pointing to a critical role of the underlying centromeric DNA in long-term centromere inheritance.\n\nSpeaker: \nBarbara Mellone received her bachelor’s of science in biology from the University of Milano in Italy\, with a thesis on DNA replication in yeast. She then obtained a Ph.D. in molecular genetics from the Medical Research Council in Edinburgh\, Scotland\, where she studied heterochromatin silencing mechanisms in S. pombe under the mentorship of Robin Allshire. For her postdoctoral training\, Dr. Mellone went to the University of California\, Berkeley to work with Gary Karpen\, where she conducted a genome-wide RNAi screen that identified centromere assembly factors in Drosophila. She joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 2009\, where she investigates centromere specification mechanisms. Her work to date has revealed how centromeric chromatin is established and how centromeric proteins co-evolve leading to centromere incompatibilities. She was promoted to associate professor in 2015 and was the recipient of the 2016 American Society for Cell Biology Women in Cell Biology Junior Award for excellence in research.\n\nBoxed lunch will be provided. UID:44728-9969029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44728 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Science LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Forum Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171010T142419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Michigan Engineering Design Expo DESCRIPTION:See how Michigan Engineering students are designing solutions to our world's challenges.\n\nThe College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.\n\nThrough this venue\, the greater University community and general public has the opportunity to learn how Michigan's students are contributing in significant ways to solving major technology challenges across various disciplines.\n\nThese student projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects\, non-profit community projects and industry-sponsored projects. Most of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses\, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate.\n\nThe goal of the Undergraduate Engineering Office is to have participation from all departments within the College of Engineering (and eventually across university schools and colleges) to promote cross-disciplinary cooperation as well as high school outreach.\n\nIndustry sponsors have been a large part of promoting this within the college through sponsorship of projects and financial support of the event itself.\n\nThe Fall 2017 Design Expo is sponsored by Toyota.\n\nThis event is held in multiple North Campus locations including the Duderstadt Center\, Bob & Betty Beyster Building\, Pierpont Commons\, EECS Building\, and Chrysler Center.\n\nFor more information\, contact Lindsey Dowswell in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at lindsd@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818. UID:45634-10242981@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45634 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Exhibition,Free,Interdisciplinary,Michigan Engineering,Multidisciplinary Design,North campus,Research LOCATION:BBB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T095858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:P&SC Area Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Titel: The Interplay Between Identity and Advocacy UID:42789-9661723@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Psychology LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171103T131638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Gifts of Art presents Holiday Harmonies DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy some of your holiday favorites with the local band Counterpoint. Their blended vocal harmonies and refreshing arrangements of seasonal music are a Michigan Medicine tradition. With Debbie Colesa\, Deborah McKenzie\, and Laurie Williams on vocals\, Peter Tchoryk on trumpet and vocals\, guitarist Dave Karl\, and bass player Daniel McConnell\, their full bodied yet easy listening sound is enlivening. Guest performers often make appearances\, and the band brings song lyrics\, extra percussion instruments and bells for audience members to join in on the fun. Look for live stream video and event subscriptions on Gifts of Art Facebook. UID:46499-10512719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46499 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Concert,Culture,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,Holiday LOCATION:University Hospitals - University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T111638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:German Lab in Alcove B in the Language Resource Center in North Quad is open Mon-Thu 1-4 pm.\n\nThe German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500\, http://lsa.umich.edu/lrc/facility). \nGo to the German Lab for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-231)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4\, do your homework in the LRC! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck.\nFor more info: http://lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/Miscellaneous/deutschlabor.html UID:44329-9908949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44329 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T171838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading Group on Joseph North's Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on a selection from Joseph North's Literary Criticism: A Concise Political History. We will be reading a portion of the book selected by Evan Radeen\, a PhD student in English Language and Literature\, who will also be leading the group discussion. He describes the work below:\n\nThis section comes from the fourth chapter of Joseph North’s 2017 book. The book traces the development of academic literary criticism in the Anglo-American world\, offering a bold\, polemical account of its forgotten origins and historical advances. The fourth chapter builds on this account\, taking stock of new critical paradigms in order chart the possibilities for the future of the discipline\; in the second section\, “Intimations\,” North turns the discussion toward the work of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick\, D.A. Miller\, and Lauren Berlant.\n\nTo RSVP and receive an electronic copy of the reading\, please contact Rachel Cawkwell (rcawkwe@umich.edu) or Kyle McCormick (krmcc@umich.edu). UID:46953-10703026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T062829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers DESCRIPTION:Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on\, interpret\, and imagine the future of political participation\, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation\, debates over free speech and safe spaces\, and the shifting configurations of social movements. \n\nThe Democratic Futures at Michigan: A Discussion with Local Organizers panel features: \n\nHoai An Pham\, Students4Justice\nMaria Ibarra-Frayre\, Washtenaw ID Project\nJoel Batterman\, Motor City Freedom Riders\nAmina Kirk\, Detroit People’s Platform\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by the Department of History and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. UID:42642-9619869@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42642 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,History,LSA200,Politics,Sociology,umich200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171115T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T141000 SUMMARY:Performance:Dance Composition Class Showing DESCRIPTION:Freshman and sophomore Dance majors and first-year Dance MFAs present choreography created during their semester-long composition classes with Dance professors Jessica Fogel\, Peter Sparling\, and Sandra Torijano. UID:41648-9417560@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41648 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171206T153129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Creating & Curating Online Teaching Portfolios DESCRIPTION:Dr. Arola will discuss how her own teaching portfolio has evolved since she put her first syllabus online in Spring of 2000. Through sharing her own successes and missteps\, and asking participants to explore a sampling of teaching portfolios\, this workshop/lecture will engage participants with best practices for cultivating an online teaching identity.\n \nBio:\nKristin Arola is an Associate Professor in the Writing\, Rhetoric\, and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University and an affiliate faculty in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program. Arola’s research and teaching focus on the intersections between American Indian rhetoric\, multimodal pedagogy\, and digital rhetoric. Along with numerous essays and book chapters\, she is the co-author of Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects\, and the co-editor of CrossTalk in Comp Theory and Composing(Media) = Composing(Embodiment). UID:47364-10880013@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47364 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170830T085958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Econometrics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:43245-9748034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180109T142652 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:ASC Lecture. 2017-2018 UMAPS Colloquium Series DESCRIPTION:Each UMAPS fellow will have the chance to present their scholarly work in a session of an ongoing monthly series. Talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to increase skills in effective communications\, to promote dialogue on topics\, and to share the research with the larger U-M community. All are invited to attend to grasp the range and depth of work occurring through the UMAPS partnerships. \n\n10/5\, UMAPS Colloquium (#1)—Social Sciences I (Kalamazoo Room\, Michigan League)\nVERONICA DZOMEKU\, Nursing\, KNUST\, Ghana\n“Exploration of Expectations and Experiences of Mothers toward Childbirth Care”\n\nTHELMA FENNIE\, Psychology\, University of the Westewrn Cape\, South Africa\n“Exploring Psychological Effects of Adolescent Girls’ Experiences of Menarche & Menstruation in School Settings”\n\nAUDREY KALINDI\, Population Studies\, University of Zambia\n“Factors that Affect Use of Maternal Health Services\, HIV Testing and Linkage to Medical Care in Zambia”\n\n-----\n10/12\, UMAPS Colloquium (#2)—STEM I (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\nDEBELA GEMEDA BEDANE\, Pharmacology\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“Pharmacogenetic Predictors of Antidepressant Drug Response”\n\nMTHOKOZISI SIMELANE\, Biochemistry\, University of KwaZulu-Natal\, South Africa\n“Ursolic Acid Acetate as a Promising Agent for Malarial Chemotherapy”\n\nMESTEWAT DEBASU MOGNHODIE\, Biochemistry\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“The Exploration and Utilization of Glycan-Based Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy in Ethiopia”\n\n-----\n11/ 9\, UMAPS Colloquium (#3)—Humanities (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\n\nPAMELA KHANAKWA\, History\, Makerere University\, Uganda\n“Bagisu Men Don’t Cry: Imbalu and the Construction of Masculinities in Uganda”\n\nYIKUNNOAMLAK MEZGEBU\, Literature\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\n“From Competition to Composition:  Languages\, Regions and Religions in an Ethiopian Literature”\n\nPAUL CONWAY & KELLY ASKEW\, University of Michigan “Radio\, Cyberspace\, and the Repatriation of African Musical Heritage”\n\n-----\n12/7\, UMAPS Colloquium (#4)—STEM II (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\nOLUWAKEMI ROTIMI\, Biochemistry\, Covenant University\, Nigeria\n“The Role of Epigenetics in the Toxicity of Environmental Exposures”\n\nZEWDU JIMA TAKLE\, Physiology\, St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College\, Ethiopia\n“The Molecular Signaling Mechanisms in the Vessel Wall after Stroke and Pathways Mediated by Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF)”\n\nSENYO ADZEI\, Music\, University of Cape Coast\, Ghana\n“Processes in Shrine Music of the Awudome People of Ghana–An Ethnomusicolowgical Inquiry”\n\n-----\n1/ 11\, UMAPS Colloquium (#5)—Social Sciences II (Kuenzel Room\, Michigan Union)\nODUR BENARD\, Statistics\, Makerere University\, Uganda\n“A Retrospective Analysis of Progression in Neonatal and Infant Mortality Drivers in Uganda (1995-2016)”\n\nPRECIOUS NDLOVU\, Law\, University of the Western Cape\, South Africa\n“The Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions in Africa’s Regional Competition Law Frameworks: An Examination of the COMESA Competition Commission”\n\nMOSES MUHUMUZA\, Human Ecology\, Mountains of the Moon University\, Uganda\n“Holistic Community-based Biodiversity Conservation in National Parks in Rural Africa”\n\n------\n2/8\, UMAPS Colloquium (#6)—STEM III (Koessler Room\, Michigan League)\n\nKALILU DONZO\, Biology\, University of Liberia\n“Advanced Training in Molecular Biology Techniques: Introducing Research-based Techniques at the University of Liberia”\n\nMELESSEW NIGUSSIE GEREME\, Physics\, Bahir Dar University\, Ethiopia\n“Investigation of Triggering Mechanisms of Ionospheric Irregularities in the Equatorial Ionosphere” UID:44121-9888979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44121 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Anthropology,Biology,Discussion,Ecology,Engineering,Environment,Information and Technology,Interdisciplinary,International,Law,Lecture,Literature,Materials Science,Medicine,Music,Pharmacy,Psychology,Research,Science,Sociology,Women's Studies LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171120T164631 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Faculty Forum on Outreach & Engagement DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7\, CEO will host its second Faculty Forum event. The theme for the series is \"Educational Outreach to Inform\, Engage & Inspire: Fulfilling U-M's social contract with the public.\" Barbara Israel from the U-M School of Public Health and Angela Reyes\, founder and executive director of the Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation\, will present. A reception will follow the discussion. Please RSVP via the link below. UID:46952-10703024@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46952 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Faculty,Inclusion,Social Impact LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171109T231639 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Holiday Open House DESCRIPTION:You are invited to a Holiday Open House at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Enjoy the galleries\, light fare\, and music.\n\nRSVP by November 29 to (734) 763-8639 or dawnlynn@umich.edu. UID:46705-10583844@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46705 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Museum,Reception LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171128T125411 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia: Speaker & Discussion DESCRIPTION:ASEE is holding a series of discussions and talks this semester focusing on teaching as an academic. For our last event of the semester\, we will have Professor Joanna Millunchick come and talk about her teaching experiences at Michigan\, followed by questions and discussion. UID:47098-10790919@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47098 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Pierpont Commons - Boulevard Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T141525 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE585 Graduate Seminar Series - Computational Synthesis and Design of Complex Mechanical Systems Using Structural Topology Optimization DESCRIPTION:Algorithmic design processes offer a level of mathematical rigor that can both augment and complement human creativity. By incorporating algorithms earlier and more deeply in the design process\, we will ultimately enable the creation of better performing designs. Structural topology optimization is particularly well-suited to this task\, as it can be used to automatically generate novel design concepts\, as well as to optimize conventional design configurations. This seminar will explore the use of topology optimization for the design of complex structures\, each of which presents unique challenges within the context of computational design. By combining nonlinear finite element analysis with original numerical optimization strategies\, we investigate several example problems\, including optimal design of an elliptically cambered non-planar wing\, a bi-stable airfoil structure\, and functionally graded compliant mechanisms. Additionally\, we present a novel framework for computational synthesis of compound machines using a multi-body design approach.\n\nAbout the speaker...\nKai James joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, as an assistant professor in 2015. Prior to this\, he was a postdoc at Columbia University in New York\, and he earned his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies in 2012. His research focuses on computational solid mechanics and computational design optimization with an emphasis on problems involving various sources of nonlinearity\, including viscoelastic creep\, aeroelastic coupling\, and large deformations. He is especially interested in developing novel algorithms that leverage high-fidelity computational models and topology optimization methods for conceptual design and synthesis of complex engineering structures and mechanisms. Some of his major research projects include aerostructural optimization of transonic aircraft wings\, structural design optimization of a cardiovascular stent\, and optimal design of resilient structures while accounting for material damage and viscoelastic effects. UID:44316-9908884@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44316 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171208T104429 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bicentennial Lecture: Overlapping (and Non-Overlapping) Generations DESCRIPTION:Mel Stephens is professor of economics\, with a courtesy appointment as a professor of public policy at the Ford School. He serves as a research affliate at the Population Studies Center and a faculty associate at the Survey Research Center\, both within the Institute for Social Research. Stephens is also affliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research where he is currently a research associate. He also is a member of the Academic Research Council at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Stephens is a labor economist whose current research interests include consumption and savings\, aging and retirement\, education\, the impact of local labor market fluctuations on household outcomes\, and applied econometrics. He received his BA in economics and mathematics from the University of Maryland and his PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. UID:47293-10857865@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Economics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 265 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171004T153213 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Communication & Media Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:Dr. Osei Appiah is a Professor and Associate Director of the School of Communication at The Ohio State University. Dr. Appiah is a renowned communication and race scholar who has written and lectured about the impact of strategic communication messages and the role stereotypes play on intergroup interaction. His work attempts to provide a better understanding of the theoretical underpinnings and psychological mechanisms at work when people are exposed to ethnic-specific messages in the media. His main research interests are in advertising effects on ethnic majority and minority audiences\, and the impact of cultural identity on audiences’ responses to advertising and strategic communication messages. Dr. Appiah also has co-edited the book\, Advertising & Persuasion\, and is working on a book on the concept he coined called cultural voyeurism. UID:45432-10175527@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45432 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Cultural Voyeurism LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - West Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171205T062740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Eddie S. Glaude Jr.\, Lecture: Fugitive Democracy Revisited DESCRIPTION:Crisis Democracy: Conversations on Politics in America will encourage the university community to reflect on\, interpret\, and imagine the future of political participation\, inclusion and expression. Conversations between academics and local organizers will explore topics including: legal developments that affect citizen democratic participation\, debates over free speech and safe spaces\, and the shifting configurations of social movements. \n\nEddie S. Glaude Jr. will deliver the keynote lecture of the Crisis Democracy symposium. His most well-known books\, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul\, and In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America\, take a wide look at black communities and reveal complexities\, vulnerabilities\, and opportunities for hope. In addition to his readings of early American philosophers and contemporary political scientists\, Glaude turns to African American literature in his writing and teaching for insight into African American political life\, religious thought\, gender and class.\n\nEddie S. Glaude\, Jr. is currently the chair of the Department of African American Studies and the William S. Tod Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University. Widely regarded as one of the most important black intellectuals in the United States today\, Glaude offers a critical and insightful view on the problems currently facing black America as well as the nation at large. He is the author of Exodus: Religion\, Race\, and Nation in Early 19th Century Black America (Chicago\, 2000)\, winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Book Prize\, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America (Chicago\, 2007)\, and African American Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford\, 2014). He is the editor of Is it Nation Time? Contemporary Essays on Black Power and Black Nationalism (Chicago\, 2002) and co-editor with Cornel West of African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Westminster John Knox\, 2003). His award-winning book\, In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America\, has been characterized as a tour de force. Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (Crown Publishing\, 2016) is his latest book\, a provocative account of the current state of race in the United States.\n\nThis LSA Bicentennial Theme Semester event is presented with support from the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts and the University of Michigan Bicentennial Office. Additional support provided by Afroamerican and African Studies\; American Culture\; College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts Graduate Student Events and Conferences Fund\; History\; Institute for the Humanities\; Joseph A. Labadie Collection\; Rackham Graduate School Dean's Initiative\; Philosophy\; and Sociology. UID:42643-9619870@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42643 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Bicentennial,History,LSA200,Politics,Sociology,umich200 LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery (Room 100) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180214T163255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar: The role of Beringia in high latitude faunal diversification DESCRIPTION:The Beringian Coevolution Project (BCP)\, a field program underway in the high northern latitudes since 1999\, focuses on building basic scientific infrastructure for integrated specimen-based studies on mammals and their associated parasites. BCP has contributed new insights across temporal and spatial scales into how ancient climate and environmental change have shaped faunas\, emphasizing processes of assembly\, persistence and diversification across the vast Beringian region. BCP collections also represent baseline records of biotic diversity from across the northern high latitudes at a time of accelerated environmental change. Because of the dual focus on hosts and parasites\, the BCP record also provides a foundation for comparative analyses that can document the effects of dynamic change on the geographic distribution\, transmission dynamics\, and emergence of pathogens. Using specific examples from carnivores\, shrews\, lagomorphs\, rodents and their associated parasites\, I show how broad\, integrated field collections provide permanent infrastructure to explore the effect of climate change on natural populations and inform policy regarding human impacts on these environments.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/wC72vyA14xY UID:46828-10647793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46828 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Ecology,Environment,Research,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1210 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T181535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Enabling Medicinal Chemistry with Synthesis and Technology DESCRIPTION: In the Beeler Research Group we take a multidisciplinary approach toward developing small molecule tools for human disease. This lecture will focus on new technologies and synthetic strategies that provide a foundation for our medicinal chemistry programs. It will highlight ongoing efforts to develop platforms that enable us to explore and leverage the biological activities of complex natural products. A common theme in our lab\, and in this lecture\, is the use of flow chemistry to enable critical reactions. Why flow chemistry? Reactions have been carried out in batch vessels for over two centuries and amazingly the tools chemists use have remained largely unchanged. As such\, many of the challenges presented by batch reactions are still unsolved. Issues related to mass transfer\, heat transfer\, or photon penetration can be exceptionally challenging in batch reactors\, but are often overcome in flow. Ultimately\, I hope to demonstrate how flow chemistry provides us a tool for development of new and more efficient reactions that are robust\, highly scalable\, and provide access to complex and novel chemotypes. \n \n \n \nAaron Beeler (Boston University) UID:41361-9170360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41361 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171130T100519 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ruth Behar\, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professorship in Anthropology\, Inaugural Lecture DESCRIPTION:Pondering the relationship between feeling at home and being homesick has long been an anthropological obsession. The discipline took off from the idea that an anthropologist had to leave home in order to study otherness in a distant place. Knowledge was built through reflecting on the meaning of insider and outsider\, familiar and exotic\, native and stranger. But in our age of massive displacement\, immigration\, natural disasters\, and world travel\, the meaning of home is being redefined. Where is home in an age where the soul is global? These questions have long fascinated Ruth Behar\, a MacArthur Fellow. In her lecture she will reflect on her travels in Spain\, Mexico\, and Cuba\, discussing how in each of these journeys she has entrusted herself to the beauty and danger of life\, trying to do anthropological work that heals the heart of homesickness. UID:41513-9316373@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170907T094905 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T164500 SUMMARY:Meeting:Mindfulness@Umich (All UofM Students) DESCRIPTION:Invite a sense of calm and ease into your busy day by creating space to breathe. These Mindfulness@Umich sessions are open to all students\, are free\, and are great for experienced and beginning meditators. They are drop-in. Come as often as time allows in your schedule. Students\, please complete the Google Registration Form. UID:43153-9729054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Health & Wellness,Meditation,Mindfulness,Stress Reduction LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Martha Cook Residence CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171113T151602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Gingerbread Houses DESCRIPTION:Bursley Dining Hall will be having a spectacular display of gingerbread houses during the winter celebration theme dinner on Thursday December 7th! Come see these magnificent gingerbread houses and enjoy a delicious dinner! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46775-10625654@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170914T091230 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Munger Case Competition: Poverty Solutions DESCRIPTION:Munger's Case Competition challenges transdisciplinary teams of graduate students to address important topics. This semester\, we've partnered with Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan to challenge graduate students to think about solutions to poverty in Michigan. Learn more about the competition and supplemental activities on the Poverty Solutions webpage. \n\nRegistration opens: September 14th\, 5:00p.m.\nRegistration closes: October 9th\, 11:59p.m.\nCompetition showcase: December 7th UID:44476-9920264@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44476 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poverty LOCATION:Munger Graduate Residences - 8th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625645@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Bursley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625646@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:East Quadrangle CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625648@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:South Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625649@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Oxford Housing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625651@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170921T145022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Buster Simpson: Art Antioxidant DESCRIPTION:Buster Simpson\, an artist active since the late 1960s\, has worked on major infrastructure and planning projects\, site-specific sculptures\, museum installations\, and community interventions. Simpson was born in Saginaw\, Michigan\, and attended the University of Michigan\, where he received his MFA in 1969\, and later\, the Distinguished Alumni Award in Architecture and Design. Simpson is a recipient of numerous awards\, including NEA fellowships and the Americans for the Arts Public Art Award in 2009. “I prefer working in public spaces. The complexity of any site is its asset\, to distill\, build upon\, and reveal\, the challenge is to sharpen the conjunction between poetry and place.”\n\nSimpson has exhibited at The New Museum\, MoMA PS1\, Seattle Art Museum\, The Hirshhorn Museum\, Capp Street Project\, International Glass Museum\, and a recent retrospective at the Frye Art Museum. Simpson’s work is included in numerous public commissions throughout North America.\n\nA University of Michigan Bicentennial event.\n\nAll Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series presentations are free and open to the public\; visit http://stamps.umich.edu/stamps to view upcoming events. UID:42273-9593307@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42273 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170905T142744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T183000 SUMMARY:Other:Gregory Pardlo DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Willingboro\, New Jersey. He is the author of Totem (2007)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, and Digest (2014)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited Pardlo’s “clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America\, rich with thought\, ideas and histories public and private.” In 2017\, Pardlo was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pardlo’s poems\, reviews\, and translations have been widely published and are noted for “language simultaneously urban and highbrow … snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” A memoir and collection of essays\, Air Traffic\, is forthcoming from Knopf. He is an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn. UID:43573-9821441@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43573 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T152744 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Winter Celebration Theme Dinner DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, December 7th all dining halls will be having a winter celebration theme dinner! This will be a delicious dinner you will not want to miss! Meal plan\, Blue Bucks\, or individual meal purchase required. UID:46774-10625653@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46774 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Holiday LOCATION:Lawyer's Club & Munger Residences CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T143046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Yoga for Wellness and Stress Reduction DESCRIPTION:Join us for a slow\, deep yoga flow specifically created for graduate students. CAPS M.S.W. Intern and certified yoga instructor Valerie Maloof will lead an hour-long\, breath-focused\, energizing yoga practice focusing on releasing the tension that builds in our bodies from endless sitting and working at a computer. We will finish with a brief sitting meditation for long-lasting relaxation. All levels welcome. Wear comfortable clothes and bring your yoga mat if possible (we will have some mats available). No pre-registration required. UID:47160-10802661@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47160 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate School,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Rackham,Rec Sports LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Common Room, Lower Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171106T143244 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Zell Visiting Writers Series: Gregory Pardlo\, Distinguished Poet in Residence DESCRIPTION:Gregory Pardlo was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Willingboro\, New Jersey. He is the author of Totem (2007)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize\, and Digest (2014)\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer judges cited Pardlo’s “clear-voiced poems that bring readers the news from 21st Century America\, rich with thought\, ideas and histories public and private.” In 2017\, Pardlo was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Pardlo’s poems\, reviews\, and translations have been widely published and are noted for “language simultaneously urban and highbrow … snapshots of a life that is so specific it becomes universal.” A memoir and collection of essays\, \"Air Traffic\,\" is forthcoming from Knopf. He is an associate editor for the literary journal Callaloo and teaches creative writing at Columbia University. He lives in Brooklyn.\n\nUMMA is pleased to be the site for the Zell Visiting Writers Series\, which brings outstanding writers each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (AB ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Series webpage. UID:46550-10547320@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46550 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Literature,Museum,Poetry,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Helmut Stern Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171122T135026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Munger Case Competition Fall 2017: Poverty Solutions DESCRIPTION:Each semester\, Munger Graduate Residences challenges transdisciplinary teams of graduate students to address important topics through its Case Competition. Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan partnered with Munger for the Fall 2017 Case Competition\, asking students to create an action plan to effectively address the root causes of poverty and move the needle on poverty alleviation using a strategy of their team’s choosing and a fictional $100\,000 of seed money. View teams' projects\, and find out who takes home the prize! \n\nHeavy hors d'oeuvres will be provided\, so please RSVP! \n\nREGISTER HERE: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/6139\n\nMore about the competition can be found here: http://poverty.umich.edu/news-releases/munger-case-competition/ UID:47006-10725012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poverty LOCATION:Munger Graduate Residences - Fellows Lounge & South Commons, 8th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171030T141207 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Presentation:ESG Monthly Town Hall DESCRIPTION:All students are invited to contribute ideas and hear about the current initiatives of Engineering Student Government. UID:46366-10466898@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46366 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Service,Discussion,Engineering,Interdisciplinary,Student Org LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - 1180 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170705T165002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 SUMMARY:Performance:This Wonderful Life DESCRIPTION:Check back soon for more details. UID:41451-9263728@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:ZoukMi Thursdays DESCRIPTION:7:00pm Lesson\n8:00pm Practica and Performance practice\n9:00pm Zouk Social\n\nLocation: Michigan League in the Vandenberg room (second floor)\nCost: Free\n\nEveryone is welcome. You don’t have to be a student. You don’t have to have any experience in dance. We have a very welcoming community filled with dancers of all levels. I can’t wait to meet you and make you addicted to Zouk. :) UID:42485-9609277@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42485 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171204T181522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Dissertation Recital: Merryl Neille\, traverso DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Quantz - Caprice no. 36 in G Major\; Trio Sonata in G Major QV 2:Anh28\; Caprice no. 6 in G Major QV 3:1:14\; Boismortier - Divers Pièces no.\, 22–25 in B Minor\, op. 22\; Telemann - Methodical Sonata in A Major TWV 41:A3\; Quantz - Trio in D Major for Three Flutes QV 3:3.2. UID:47309-10860627@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/47309 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171121T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Merry Wives of Windsor DESCRIPTION:Department of Theatre & Drama\nDirected by John Neville-Andrews\n\nShakespeare’s most popular comedy featuring the unforgettable Sir John Falstaff. UID:41464-9265781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171115T181518 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Violet DESCRIPTION:Music by Jeanine Tesori\nBook & Lyrics by Brian Crawley\nBased on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts\n\nDepartment of Musical Theatre Studio Production\nDirected by Mark Madama\nMusic Direction by Jason DeBord\n\nA young woman\, scarred in a childhood accident\, travels to Oklahoma in hopes of being healed. Along her journey\, she discovers what a mirror cannot tell her\, her inner strength and beauty. This winsome 1997 Off-Broadway musical was nominated for four revival Tony Awards in 2014. UID:41465-9265785@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41465 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T181515 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:halfway between (BFA Dance Concert) DESCRIPTION:Senior bachelor of fine arts students in Department of Dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Danielle \"DeeDee\" Fattore\, Yoshiko Iwai\, and Callie Marie Munn each perform a solo and present a group work. UID:42773-9656453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jazz Lab Ensemble & Jazz Ensemble Concert DESCRIPTION:Ellen Rowe and Dennis Wilson\, directors.\n\nRepertoire will include compositions and arrangements by Remy LeBouef\, Dominic Bierenga\, Ellen Rowe\, Dennis Wilson\, and Jim McNeely. UID:45864-10321745@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45864 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171129T181514 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171207T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Percussion Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Joseph Gramley\, director\nFeaturing the Bowling Green State University Percussion Ensemble directed by SMTD alumnus Dan Piccolo.\n\nIn these concerts\, the works performed by the U-M Percussion Ensemble have a special excitement\, having been created by composers who searched for a compositional identity both within their native countries and outside of them. In doing so\, they forged a “hybridity of identity.” Most notable of these is Lou Harrison\, a true “American Musical Maverick\,” who would have turned 100 this year. Featuring a large cross-section of Harrison's works\, the Percussion Ensemble will also focus on both “canonic” and “newer” composers\, almost all of whom have looked beyond their own homelands toward rhythms and techniques from foreign lands\, including the other Americas\, the Middle East\, Asia\, and Africa\, which they then married to their own ‘new’ traditions. There is a strong element of ‘tradition and innovation’ throughout the works. UID:45559-10231716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/45559 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180601T120009 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T235959 SUMMARY:Community Service:Assisting Elderly At Medical Appointments With Jewish Family Services and Partners In Care Concierge DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will accompany older adults to medical appointments and provide support to the client.  Volunteers will facilitate communication with medical staff to ensure all necessary questions are asked\, taking notes for the patients to reference.  Just 2-3 hours of your time can help patients to attend appointments safely and provide comfort and confidence to them and their family members.  Volunteers must commit to a minimum of one appointment a month for a minimum of nine months.  Must fill out application\, background check\, and attend a two-hour training session. Contact carolcib@umich.edu for the necessary materials and directions to apply!40 Points/SemesterSign-Up Here UID:43238-12816371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Jewish Family Services CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20180502T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Food Distribution with Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers help distribute food from the truck\, \"shop\" with families\, and clean the community center afterward. Volunteers must complete volunteer application and brief online training. This is a large-scale food pantry in Ann Arbor that supplies food to hungry families. Join us and make a positive difference by helping families select the foods they need to bring back to their families.  Sign-Up Here UID:42456-12507578@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Bryant Community Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171207T120018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T180000 SUMMARY:Community Service:Long-Term Tutoring - Community Action Network DESCRIPTION:Volunteers will help build academic success and confidence in the students they tutor. Tutors help with homework\, reading\, and enrichment activities. Tutor shifts also include time to hang out with the students during meals or recreation. These are good times to make meaningful connections with students\, helping them become better students and community members. Your time and passion could make a difference in one's educational success.  Volunteers must commit to one day per week for a min. of 12 weeks. Must complete application\, background check\, and online training. 60 points Sign-Up Here UID:42459-10890834@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/42459 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Community Action Network CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170927T201723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T235900 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Window Installation | Cosmogonic Tattoos DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the University’s Bicentennial in 2017\, artist and professor Jim Cogswell has been invited by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the University of Michigan Museum of Art to create a set of public window installations in response to the objects in their collections. Titled \"Cosmogonic Tattoos\,\" his project uses adhesive vinyl images applied in saturated colors to windows in the two buildings\, highlighting the role of these museums in the life of our campus community. Through close examination of objects separated from us by deep chronological and cultural divides\, imaginatively transformed within our campus context\, this project celebrates the power of architecture\, ornament\, and material objects to shape knowledge\, historical memory\, and cultural identity. UID:44018-9869270@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/44018 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Art,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171117T093156 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:\"Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\" DESCRIPTION:“Student Reflections: A Retrospective of Dental Education\,” 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday\, through December 2019\, Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry\, School of Dentistry\, 1011 N. University. The major new exhibit features artifacts\, photos and stories of student life in the 142 years that the U-M dental school has been educating dentists. Displays date to the late 1880s when “new technology” meant primitive gas lamps replaced window light\, which was the only light source for dental treatment when the school was founded in 1875. The exhibit showcases changes in students\, tools and technology from the school’s pioneering early days to its standing today as one of the top dental schools in the world. UID:46881-10667288@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/46881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dentistry,History,Science LOCATION:Dental & W.K. Kellogg Institute - Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20171214T122804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Creating a Campus: A Cartographic Celebration of U-M's Bicentennial DESCRIPTION:Learn about the campus’ history and architecture and explore the campus that might have been. In honor of the University of Michigan’s bicentennial\, we highlight the U-M Ann Arbor campus\, both before its creation and throughout its continuous evolution. Depicting the Ann Arbor area before the establishment of the city\, the exhibit celebrates the Native American community and highlights its presence throughout the decades. Featuring the work of famous architects such as Alexander Jackson Davis\, Albert Kahn and Eero Saarinen\, the exhibit presents maps\, plans\, architectural drawings\, proposals\, and photographs of the campus throughout its evolution.\n\nThe Library will be closed December 23 to January 1. UID:41334-9144094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/41334 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, Second Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Americana Musical Instruments DESCRIPTION:The Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments within the U-M School of Music\, Theatre & Dance is one of the largest accumulations of historical and contemporary musical instruments from all over the world that is housed in a North American university. Known internationally as a unique collection\, it is not only a precious heritage from the past\, but also a rich resource for musical\, educational\, and cultural needs of the present and future. This exhibition features a selection of Americana musical instruments with origins from around the world. UID:43033-9697026@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43033 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness,History LOCATION:University Hospitals - Cancer Center Elevator Alcove, Level 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Flights of Fancy: Oil Painting DESCRIPTION:Since Ellie Harold started painting in 2003\, she has primarily been a landscape artist\, painting Michigan barns and lake shore scenes in oil. In November 2016\, following a trip to Mexico\, birds unexpectedly started migrating to her canvases and an entirely new body of work began to take shape. The current exhibit\, Flights of Fancy\, features birds in colorful\, light-filled works. The birds represent the lightness she associates with qualities of joy\, hope\, healing and inspiration she sees as a source of personal well-being. UID:43020-9696420@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43020 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170901T101330 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20171208T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Gifts of Art presents Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are ribbon awards for Best in Category and Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award will be determined by votes of visitors to the exhibit by using the on-site ballot box. Winners will be announced at the Artist Reception and Award Ceremony held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm. UID:43024-9696602@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/43024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Children,Culture,Exhibition,Family,Free,Health & Wellness LOCATION:University Hospitals - Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1 CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR