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:20250304T111151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 SUMMARY:Meeting:BLI Community Meeting - Mindful Communication DESCRIPTION:BLI Community Meetings are bimonthly events for Leadership Learning and Connection Making (with Delicious Food)!\n\nAre you interested in connecting with students from across campus while elevating your leadership learning? Exploring the possibilities in the BLI and enjoy a free dinner in a dynamic\, welcoming\, and supportive community. At this event\, we will focus on Valuing Difference and Mindful Communication! We will do several activities to practice our communication\, all with catering from Basil Babe!\n\nPlease note: We love sharing meals with our community\, but know that the dinner is intended for those who actively participate in the event and activities. UID:133073-21872344@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Barger Leadership Institute,Bli,Collaborative,Discussion,Free,Leadership,Mindfulness,Well-being LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1st Floor Classroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250214T083654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:An Evening with Aneesa Strings DESCRIPTION:Join us for an unforgettable musical evening as the talented Aneesa Strings takes the stage. She'll perform a captivating selection of her latest compositions that blend jazzy-soulful melodies with thoughtful lyrics. In addition to showcasing her new work\, Aneesa will treat the audience to some of her most beloved songs that have become fan favorites on social media. Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of Aneesa Strings live in the eclectic Kerrytown neighborhood in Ann Arbor.\n\nAdmission is free but seating is limited\; please arrive early.\n\nAbout Aneesa Strings\n\nAneesa Strings is a creative\, thought leader\, singer-songwriter\, performer\, influencer\, music director\, professor\, and composer. After studying jazz\, and music theory\, and acquiring degrees from USC & Michigan State University\, Aneesa has scored and led countless musical moments within the jazz\, pop\, and R&B space. Indie and a-list artists call on her regularly to compose\, create\, and lead musical direction from the ideation\, creation\, and activation elements of music\, scoring\, and touring. Aneesa brings you storytelling through sounds\, rhythm\, and motion. She's a beacon of light for young women\, black artists\, and creatives as a whole and is claiming space across many mediums in real-time. Aneesa is an all-encompassing artist and composer with a strong share of voice on the ground of the digital space. UID:130237-21865624@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130237 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Concert,Humanities,Music,Storytelling LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T112336 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Celebrate Women's History Month DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Women's History Month by enjoying a tote bag decorating\, and free snacks with fellow residents. UID:133497-21873168@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Crafts,Women's History Month LOCATION:South Quad - Yuri Kochiyama Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250210T102937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Deutschtisch im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Deutschtisch is a weekly event in the North Quad dining hall for Max Kade residents and visitors from outside of Max Kade Haus to speak German during a meal. UID:132570-21871273@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T172045 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:FSL - St. Patrick's Day Risk Managemnet Meeting 3.12.25 DESCRIPTION: UID:133667-21873366@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T122730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T193000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Welcome Back to West Quad! DESCRIPTION:After a refreshing Spring Break\, the West Quad Multicultural Council and DPEs\, invite you to reconnect with neighbors and make new friends. Enjoy delicious snacks\, engaging activities\, and the chance to share stories about your break. Let’s celebrate the unique West Quad spirit and welcome the energy of a new season! UID:133264-21872674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133264 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Diversity Peer Educators,Food,free,Free Food,Welcome To Michigan,West Quad LOCATION:West Quadrangle - Asubuhi Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T201500 SUMMARY:Other:Karate Practice DESCRIPTION:\"True karate is this: that in daily life one's mind and body be trained and developed in a spirit of humility\, and that in critical times\, one be devoted utterly to the cause of justice.\"\n--Gichin Funakoshi- Founder of Shotokan KarateNew members are always welcome. No previous experience is necessary. Just come to any practice. You may watch a practice or actually participate when you come. If you want to participate\, wear loose fitting clothes\, trim your nails\, and no jewelry. See more information on our website: https://michigan.ska.org/ Winter 2025 Practice Schedule Wednesday 6:30pm - 8:15pm  @  Gretchen's House\, 1580 Dhu Varren Rd Sunday 2:30pm - 4:30pm  @  B225 Medium Multi-purpose Room\, Intramural Sports Building (please complete the liability waiver prior to your first Sunday practice)    Exceptions -- no Sunday practice at IMSB on Jan 26th\, Mar 2nd\, and Mar 9th  UID:130987-21867557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130987 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Gretchen's House CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T213000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Swing Ann Arbor: Weekly Beginner Lesson + Social Dance DESCRIPTION:Swing Ann Arbor hosts a beginner drop-in lesson and social dance every Wednesday! No partner or experience needed. You do not need to be student of the University of Michigan to attend. Just bring yourself and some comfy shoes! WHEN:\nJoin us Wednesdays from 6:30-7:30pm for a free beginner drop-in lesson\, followed by a social dance from 7:30-9:30pm!  COST:\nAdmission to beginner drop-in lesson: FREE!\nAdmission to social dance: $5 or FREE if you take the beginner drop-in lesson/are an SAA member Photo Credit: Samantha Kunz Photography UID:131272-21868056@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131272 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Vandenberg Room (2nd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120003 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Bujinkan Budo Training Session DESCRIPTION:During the Winter 2025 semester\, Bujinkan Budo Club training will be held on Wednesdays from 19:00 - 21:00 (7-9pm) at the Intramural Sports Building (IMSB) in Room MPR B. If you are interested in trying out a class\, please send a message through Maize Pages or an email to michiganbujinkan@gmail.com. --For more information\, email us at michiganbujinkan@gmail.com or checkout our website\, which also includes a training schedule! UID:129157-21862228@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129157 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Intramural Sports Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T112706 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:March Movie Night in North Quad DESCRIPTION:Join us for Movie Night at the Edward Said Multicultural Lounge! Enjoy a fun\, laid-back evening with fellow residents to watch the movie Despicable Me 4 and enjoy free snacks. Don’t miss out on this perfect chance to relax and unwind! UID:133467-21873137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133467 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,free,Movie Night LOCATION:North Quad - Edward Said Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250203T111428 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 SUMMARY:Livestream / Virtual:Virtual Transfer Student Panel DESCRIPTION:Join a panel of LSA Transfer Student Ambassadors to learn more about the transfer student experience. The Ambassadors will be chatting about the academic transition to U-M\, how to get involved on campus\, housing\, all the amazing programs and support for transfer students\, and any other questions that you have. Join us even if you don't have specific questions.\n\nPlease register with link at the right. After you register you will receive the Zoom login. UID:132238-21870647@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132238 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Transfer Students LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240611T181701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T194500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Pre-Concert Lecture: Concert Band DESCRIPTION:This lecture begins at 7:15 pm before the 8:00 pm Concert Band performance. UID:122666-21849512@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122666 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Lecture,Music,Talk LOCATION:Hill Auditorium - Lower Level Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240806T150742 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Performance:Rosamunde String Quartet DESCRIPTION:Founded in 2015\, the Rosamunde String Quartet is composed of members from three of the world’s greatest orchestras.\n\nNoah Bendix-Balgley\, the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic (who was featured soloist with the ensemble in the Mozart Violin Concerto in 2022)\; Shanshan Yao\, a concert violinist and former member of both the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Philharmonic\; Teng Li\, principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic\; and Nathan Vickery\, cellist with the New York Philharmonic\, coordinate their complex schedules to find time each year to explore the string quartet repertoire together. By uniting their experiences\, they create a distinctive sound and unanimity of expression\, sharing their love of chamber music with each other and with audiences worldwide.\n\nPROGRAM\nLudwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 3 in D Major\, Op. 18\, No. 3\nBéla Bartók String Quartet No. 3\, Sz. 85\nFranz Schubert String Quartet No. 14 in d minor\, D. 810 (“Death and the Maiden”) UID:121991-21847901@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/121991 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Anthropology,Art,art and design,artists,artists and curators,arts,chamber orchestra,Classical,classical music,concert,Culture,Family,In Person,Mindfulness,multicultural,music,performance,Strings,UMS,university musical society,Well-being LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T192042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UMSI Iftar DESCRIPTION:Date: Wednesday\, March 12\, 2024Time: Doors open 7:30 PM\, food served 7:40 PM - 8:40 PMLocation: UMSI Engagement Center\, 777 N. University Ave\, Suite 200 (above Panera Bread)Intended Audience: UMSI Community of all faiths and backgrounds. Open to families.\nPlease join us for an evening filled with traditional delicacies\, heartwarming conversation\, and celebrating the joy of Ramadan. This is a wonderful opportunity to make new friends and enjoy the company of our loved ones. Private rooms for individual or small group prayer or reflection will be available throughout the event. Registration is preferred\, but not required to attend! \nFor any questions\, concerns\, or requests\, please email the UMSI DEI office at umsi.deioffice@umich.edu.  UID:133206-21872595@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133206 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:UMSI Engagement Center, 777 N. University Ave, Suite 200 (above Panera Bread) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T131552 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Ari Hoenig Trio DESCRIPTION:The Center for World Performance Studies hosts jazz drummer\, composer and educator\, Ari Hoenig\, known for his unusual and intense approach to drumming emphasizing complex rhythms in direct harmony with other group members. Hoenig will be joined by his Trio (Gadi Lehavi and Ben Tiberio) in performance at the Keene Theater.\n\nPresented by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies within the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. For more information visit smtd.umich.edu/cwps\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact Center for World Performance Studies\, at cwps.information@umich.edu\, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.\n UID:132673-21871552@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132673 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T121653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Concert Band DESCRIPTION:Join the Concert Band as it presents a concert celebrating journeys across the globe\, across the universe\, and over the course of a lifetime. With works by Milhaud\, Debussy\, Nelson\, Brandon (featuring faculty soloists Nancy King and Jeffrey Lyman)\, and Maslanka\, this will be a concert with something for everyone. \n\nCourtney Snyder\, conductor\nJohn Mange\, graduate conductor\nNancy King\, oboe\nJeffrey Lyman\, bassoon\n\nPROGRAM\nDarius Milhaud\, *Suite Francaise*\nClaude Debussy\, [McWade]\, *Pagodes*\nRon Nelson\, *Rocky Point Holiday*\nJenni Brandon\, Double Concerto for Oboe and Bassoon\nDavid Maslanka\, *Traveler* UID:122667-21849513@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122667 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Hill Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T121649 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Kyle Kato\, saxophone DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Kyle Kato performs a chamber music degree recital. UID:132854-21871961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132854 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241001T162137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Lunasa DESCRIPTION:“An Irish music dream team” –Folk Roots\n\nNamed for an ancient Celtic harvest festival in honor of the Irish god Lugh\, Lúnasa was formed in 1997 from members of some of the greatest Irish groups of the previous decade\, an early review from Folk Roots magazine describing the band as an “Irish music dream team.” From the start\, the band’s complex arrangements and unique sound reshaped the boundaries of traditional music and energized audiences the world over. Critical acclaim followed\, The Irish Echo describing the band as the “the hottest Irish acoustic band on the planet”\; MOJO magazine named the band \"the new gods of Irish music\,” adding that “nobody since the Bothies has wielded such a thrilling rhythmic underlay.” Billboard raved that “anybody who listens can’t help but find them contagious.” \n\nHaving since sold over a quarter of a million records and performed over 2\,500 shows across 36 countries\, Lunasa has won multiple awards and become one of the most influential bands in the history of traditional music. Collaborations with singers Natalie Merchant\, Mary-Chapin Carpenter\, and Tim O’Brien and high-profile concerts at The Hollywood Bowl\, New York’s Carnegie Hall\, Glastonbury Festival and Bercy Arena Paris helped broaden the band’s audience and cement it place at the forefront of contemporary Irish music. UID:127167-21858612@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127167 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Mutotix LOCATION:ARK Reserved CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Star Wars Watch Party DESCRIPTION:Come join some fellow Star Wars fans and watch iconic story arc episodes from Star Wars the Clone Wars! Democracy will choose exactly what episodes we watch day of. Snacks provided: rebellions are built on food. UID:130791-21866887@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130791 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T165633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250312T230000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Flowers For You: A Markley Women’s History Month Celebration DESCRIPTION:Join RAs Ameilia & Ava and DPE David in celebrating Women's History Month by watching Hidden Figures and making arrangements of flowers that celebrate the strength and resilience of women. All are welcome! UID:133516-21873191@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133516 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Crafts,Diversity Peer Educators,Women's History Month LOCATION:Mary Markley Hall - Angela Davis Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T115736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Session in Epidemiology DESCRIPTION:Join us for the longest-running summer program in epidemiology! Choose from engaging 1-week or 3-week online courses designed to provide skills-based training in applied epidemiology.\n\nFor 60 years\, the University of Michigan's Summer Session in Epidemiology (SSE) has been one of the nation's longest-running and premier summer epidemiology programs. In just one to three intensive weeks\, gain valuable knowledge and skills to enhance your academic and professional journey. SSE is designed for public health and healthcare professionals\, researchers\, and anyone eager to build a foundation in epidemiologic science. We welcome participants from diverse backgrounds\, including undergraduate students\, public health professionals\, clinical and biomedical researchers\, and scholars in related fields such as psychology\, sociology\, and earth sciences. \n\nWhile experience in public health\, epidemiology\, or biostatistics is beneficial\, it is not required. By the end of our program\, you will have developed a solid understanding of key research principles in clinical populations\, covering areas such as: Study Design\, Biostatistical Analysis\, and Causal Inference These essential skills will help you advance in epidemiology\, public health\, and related fields. UID:133411-21872891@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,biostatistics,Complex Systems,data,Dentistry,Education,Epidemiology,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Pre Med,Professional Development,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T122635 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T070000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Suhoor DESCRIPTION:Ramadan is a month-long observance of fasting and worship for Muslims around the world. This year\, Ramadan started on the evening of Friday\, February 28th and will end on Saturday\, March 29th. Check out the fact sheet to learn more. In observance of Ramadan\, the Diversity Peer Educators invite you to join them for community meals! Whether you’re observing Ramadan or simply want to learn more\, all are welcome to join. UID:133263-21872665@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133263 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Culture,Diversity Peer Educators,Food,free,Free Food LOCATION:Betsy Barbour House - Audre Lorde Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T133729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pierpont Poetry Project DESCRIPTION:Check out the Pierpont Poetry Project! 50 student-written poems are on display throughout Pierpont Commons. The poems were all inspired by the theme “seeking” but interpreted in many different ways - they explore themes of love\, justice\, family\, loss\, hope\, identity\, and more. Explore the building and find all the poems - for every poem you log\, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a Literati Bookstore gift card! UID:132261-21871713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Poetry LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T170337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Prison\, a Prisoner\, and a Prison Guard DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multimedia exploration of the impact of prisons on countries and communities across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through the lens of “prison art.” The exhibit delves into the dynamic interplay between incarceration and creative expression to make sense of carceral systems.\n\nBy presenting prison art from various countries in the MENA region\, including Algeria\, Egypt\, Iran\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, Sudan\, Syria\, and Yemen\, this exhibit unfolds as a “journey” into the prison system and demonstrates the ways in which art can be a tool of expression and reconciliation for survivors\, detainees’ families\, and society at large. It promotes drawing parallels between the prison experience in the region and worldwide\, highlights the intentionality of carceral systems\, and expands the conversation to include prison-impacted communities. Viewers are invited to navigate the cross-generational\, human experiences of imprisonment often obscured behind prison walls and within individuals.\n\nCurated by Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid of The Ḥafathah Collective\, this traveling exhibit was organized by U-M Students Organize for Syria (SOS) in partnership with U-M Library and with support from the U-M Arts Initiative.\n\nPlan to attend the related discussion\, \"Art\, Justice\, and Carcerality: The Role of Creative Expression in the Pursuit of Justice\,\" on February 6. UID:130114-21865418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250124T095019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World DESCRIPTION:The exhibit \"Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World: Interracial Identity in the U.S. and Around the World — What Research and Mixed Race People Tell Us\" is an exploration into the library's collections about the diversity of mixed race heritage. Through research\, narratives\, demographic data\, and a variety of visual and published materials\, explore multifaceted aspects of mixed race heritage with insights from many perspectives.\n\nThe 2020 U.S. Census illuminated a 276 percent increase in individuals who identify as \"two or more races\" since 2010. In recognition of the growing numbers of mixed race-identifying people at the University of Michigan\, throughout the country\, and across the globe\, we're excited to unveil this new exhibit — a unique exploration of changing demographics and intersectional identities. UID:129721-21869080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T131508 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity\, an installation by Gluklya DESCRIPTION:Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender\, class\, and cultural identity. By focusing on experiences of female textile workers in Kyrgyzstan\, the artist explores the often-overlooked stories of women affected by Soviet and post-Soviet colonialism. \"Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity\" retells their stories using a diverse range of media — film\, sculpture\, watercolors\, and felt tapestries. Unfolding the implications of economic and societal pressures on women\, Gluklya explores issues of poverty\, isolation\, and exploitation among the garment workers.\n \n Personal stories are woven into a broader social context — such as the legacy of the \"Likbez\" (liquidation of illiteracy) campaign among women in Central Asia during Soviet rule and entrenched patriarchal traditions\, like \"Ala Kachuu\" (bride-kidnapping). This dynamic — where colonization and modernization intertwine the individual lives they touch — raises questions about cultural identity and the ethical borders of decolonized research.\n\nThis exhibition was curated by CREES alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79). See more of her work here: https://www.diannebeal.com/curatorial.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132161-21870459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132161 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,eastern europe LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240910T113929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka DESCRIPTION:The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky)\, ritual cloths (rushnyky)\, and household textiles accompany a person from birth until death\, punctuating important life events in between. A variety of embroidery patterns are used throughout Ukraine\; some stitches are universally known\, while others are region-specific. Ukrainian embroidered clothing is now officially celebrated with an annual Vyshyvanka Day observed throughout the world in May.\n\nTo see photos and read more about exhibited items\, visit https://myumi.ch/AZedA\n \n The embroideries and textiles exhibited are from the private collections of Arnie Klein\, Solomia Soroka\, Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova\, and from the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum located in Hamtramck\, Michigan.\n \n The exhibit opens on September 5\, 2024\, in 1010 Weiser Hall\, 500 Church Street\, Ann Arbor. Contact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\n*The exhibition is cosponsored by the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum*.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:123893-21855038@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123893 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,visual arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250219T082619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Andy Ross Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The pieces here are from a large series of works made over the last several years. In them\, Ross explores humor and personal meaning through absurd juxtapositions of pairs of wildly varied images. Each single image is stripped of its original context (be it\, for example\, a history book\, an instruction manual\, or a magazine advertisement)\, placed on a white background like some kind of specimen\, and presented afresh with a new “companion image.” These companion images confront\, contrast and converse with each other\, and thereby build new relationships\, narratives\, jokes\, and contexts.\n\nAndy Ross grew up in Macomb County\, and has been making art in various mediums since the 1970s. He received a BFA degree from College for Creative Studies\, and an MFA degree from University of Michigan. He has taught photography\, art\, and web design at colleges in California and Michigan. His photographs and collages have been exhibited in schools\, galleries\, and museums across the United States. UID:130827-21867069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connection Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T124154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breaking with Tradition DESCRIPTION:Artist John Rizzo is exhibiting individual mixed-media sculptures that bridge across art\, design\, and craft. Using a combination of materials that are historically perceived as precious John's work distorts\, disrupts\, and re-contextualizes perceptions of materials and their values. His work is at once \, colorful \, playful \, layered and deeply self-reflective in its personal narrative. UID:131384-21868380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131384 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Exhibition,free,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250109T113426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Elizabeth Boyd-Hartmann Dizik Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This body of work represents a playful exploration of form\, color\, and scale through the lens of cellular shapes. Inspired by the complex patterns of biological life\, the pieces are a celebration of growth\, transformation\, and the joy of experimentation. The use of non-precious materials\, such as wood balls and paint\, allowed for a liberating approach to composition and color\, while the spherical forms and circular panels evoke the look of petri dishes—symbolizing both scientific curiosity and organic development.\nBorn in Detroit\, Elizabeth is a multidisciplinary artist and mother based in the metro Detroit area\, where she works from a studio in her home. With a background in bench jewelry\, her earlier work focused on studio jewelry and was represented by Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h in Montreal.\nElizabeth’s work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. She holds a BA in Jewelry Design\, with First Class Honours\, from Central Saint Martins in London\, a BFA from the University of Michigan\, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art\, where she specialized in Metalsmithing and Architecture. Her diverse practice spans jewelry\, sculpture\, and installation\, blending materials and techniques to explore themes of production\, growth\, transformation\, and organic form. UID:130825-21866978@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T135402 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T103000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Introduction to Payroll DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:133541-21873220@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133541 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Leadership,Professional Development LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T104926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:RAW Exhibit DESCRIPTION:“RAW” is a 2024 printmaking portfolio featuring 25 15”x20” works on paper by a diverse group of primarily student artists\, organized by Professor Endi Poskovic of the Stamps Printmedia program. The hand-pulled prints in the set\, which has never been exhibited before\, span media from colorful laser cut woodblock prints\, to lithography\, to copper plate etching. The newly formed Stamps Student-led Exhibitions Committee (SEC) will curate and rotate selections of these prints in alignment with the portfolio’s theme—where time and effort transform raw potential. UID:133001-21872198@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133001 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Michigan Union - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864069@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241203T104657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Bibliophile and the Library: Private-Press Books from the Collection of Bill Heidrich DESCRIPTION:View beautifully illustrated books that stand as remarkable testaments to the work of twentieth-century small private presses\, which\, in contrast to the trend of mass commercialization\, produced limited editions that celebrated the uniqueness of manual craftsmanship. Features such as exquisite typeface design\, letterpress printing\, handmade paper\, traditional illustration techniques like woodcut and engraving\, and the inclusion of original art by renowned artists highlight the presses' dedication to artistry and detail.\n\nThe display opens with an edition of \"The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer\,\" published in 1896 by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press\, a pivotal press that greatly influenced the development of the private press movement as a means of preserving and revitalizing the fine printing and art traditions of the past. Additionally\, the exhibit includes some examples of artist’s proofs\, offering a glimpse into the intricate creative process behind these exceptional works.\n\nThese books are on loan from the collection of Bill Heidrich\, a long-time supporter of the University of Michigan Library. UID:129585-21863761@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250123T143946 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Zumba Gold DESCRIPTION:Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults\, however\, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free\, however\, please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are funded strictly through donations. No registration is necessary\, simply attend when it fits your schedule. This class is open to everyone. Come dance to a fusion of Latin and international music at a modified intensity. It's a fun experience and great workout for all the elements of fitness: cardiovascular\, muscular conditioning\, flexibility\, and balance. No experience necessary! Please check in with the instructor to discuss modifications if needed. UID:131679-21869008@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location - JCPenney Wing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818063@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063146 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T103000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Info Session: Smith - Electronic Component Distributor DESCRIPTION:In more than 20 cities\, our 1\,000 employees are distributing electronic components with 24 hour coverage around the globe. With sales in excess of $12.9 billion over the last five years\, we’re always onthe move. We've recently opened our Detroit office as our sixth North America location. We're excited to meet you and share what we love about Smith through this introduction.Since our founding in 1984\, Smith has grown exponentially to source\, inspect and distribute electronic components for an array of industries (automotive\, solar\, medical devices\, oil and gas\, etc). We’re hiring for Account Representatives to conduct the full sales cycle of semiconductors. This position offers commission in addition to a base salary. For training\, new hires will be immersed in our custom training platform called Smith University. This will introduce our components\, product families\, additional services\, etc that are vital toSmith’s global business. Account Representatives are not limited by territories or specific industries. The opportunities are endless at Smith! Meeting info: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/join-a-meeting   Meeting ID: 237 970 167 585      Passcode: fr3Xi3t5  www.smithweb.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/smith-&\;-associates/ 2000 Town Center\, Suite 1900Southfield\, MI\, US 48075 UID:130881-21867219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130881 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T170530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Leaves Under the Lens DESCRIPTION:The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny\, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects\, absorb (or repel!) water\, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again! \n\nThis project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos. UID:130943-21867467@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130943 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,eeb,Family,Free,In Person,science LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621542@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063244 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Data & Research Methods Project: Office Hours DESCRIPTION:All students are invited to join this free and open data science research project which can be used to supplement your digital research portfolio! On Thursday\, March 13th\, we will meet for our next open Office Hours session to troubleshoot participant projects. Register and learn more: https://nebigdatahub.org/drm-project/ The Data &\; Research Methods project is perfect for beginners who have never worked with a dataset before. This project will also be helpful for advanced data science students who have little experience working with data cleaning or survey building\, desk research\, or data visualizations. The focus of this project is the research process as a whole.It is the first day of your new job as the Junior Data Scientist for the Office of the Mayor in the fictional town of Data Lake\, West Dakota. The population of Data Lake (314\,159) has grown rapidly since 2020 as a number of remote workers have relocated to the mid-size city. Mayor “Tess Ellation” hastasked your office with a project – to learn more about the specific needs of the town’s new remote work population. She asks you to review data on remote workers provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and come back to her with at least two data-driven policy recommendations which will support these new Data Lake families (for example\, a policy recommendationmight be: build new coworking spaces downtown). Your policy recommendations must be informed by data analysis or Mayor Ellation will not adopt them. Participants will clean a dataset\, learn about the ethics of data science research\, do some preliminary analysis\, and develop a workinghypothesis about the impact of remote work policies. You'll build some simple data visualizations\, test your hypotheses\, write up a short conclusion\, and prepare a final report for Mayor Ellation. There are 9 Milestones in this project. There are several Tasks you need to complete within each Milestone. This project should take you no more than 30 hours tofinish. Depending on your skill level\, it may take you less time.In this project\, you will learn using a combination of videos\, articles\, and external data work in spreadsheets. Our team has provided you with several external links and resources which will supplement your learning.Project participants who complete Milestones 1-9 in accordance with these instructions will receive a Certificate of Completion from the NSDC Project Team.  UID:133230-21872622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133230 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T143810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Quantum Research Institute | Quantum gas of molecules DESCRIPTION:Zoom >>>> https://umich.zoom.us/j/98980765496\nIn-Person Location >>> Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project\, PML2000\n\nAbstract:\nIncreasingly sophisticated quantum state engineering and high-fidelity observation of molecules are providing new opportunities to study complex structure and emergent quantum properties and to set new bounds for fundamental symmetry. In particular\, quantum gases of molecules constitute a new experimental platform for precise control of molecular interactions and collective dynamics. External electric fields are used to tune elastic collision\, suppress reactive loss\, produce sharp interaction resonance\, and control evaporative cooling. Confining molecules in optical traps with tunable spatial geometries allows realization of stereo chemistry and tunable many-body spins for quantum magnetism. Hamiltonian engineering is paving the way for production of entangled molecules that will benefit precision measurement. \n\nBio:\nJun Ye is a Fellow of JILA\, a Fellow of NIST\, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the development of new tools for light-matter interactions and their scientific applications for precision measurement\, quantum science\, and frequency metrology. He is known for developing highly precise and accurate atomic clocks\, first realization of quantum gas of polar molecules\, and pioneering work on frequency combs and spectroscopy. He is a highly cited researcher for every year since 2014. He has received numerous honors include five Gold Medals from the US Department of Commerce\, Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics\, Micius Prize\, Herbert Walther Award\, Vannevar Bush Fellowship\, N.F. Ramsey Prize\, and I.I. Rabi Prize. The group web page is http://jila.colorado.edu/YeLabs/. UID:133539-21873219@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133539 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Electrical Engineering And Computer Science,Materials Science,Physics,Quantum LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - PML2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T102044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Women's Empowerment Brunch DESCRIPTION:OGPS Presents: Women's Empowerment Brunch. March is Women's History Month. Please join us for roundtable discussions around womanhood and particularly\, being a woman in stem. It will be a casual afternoon of conversation and community. We will have a brunch meal catered. This event will take place Thursday\, March 13th\, from 11am-12:30pm in the OGPS Lounge. It is sure to be a great time. Please be sure to RSVP and gather with us.\n UID:133053-21872321@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133053 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:2960 Taubman Health Sciences Library (OGPS Lounge) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240620T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T110200 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). UID:122384-21848855@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122384 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250108T151540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Commuting Infrastructure in Fragmented Cities DESCRIPTION:Cities are often divided into local governments\, each responsible for their local commuting infrastructure used by local residents\, workers\, and outsiders. This paper examines how metropolitan fragmentation impacts the provision of commuting infrastructure and the spatial distribution of economic activity. I develop a quantitative spatial model in which municipalities compete for residents and workers by investing in commuting infrastructure to maximize net land value within their jurisdictions. In equilibrium\, relative to a metropolitan planner\, municipalities underinvest in areas near their boundaries and overinvest in areas away from the boundary. Central municipalities tend to underinvest more\, as higher commuting costs encourage households to move closer to where they work\, thereby increasing land values in central areas. Decentralized investment results in higher cross-jurisdiction commuting costs\, more dispersed employment\, and more polycentric patterns of economic activity. I estimate the model using data from Santiago\, Chile\, and find substantial gains from centralizing investment decisions. Centralization allocates infrastructure more efficiently and increases aggregate expenditure on infrastructure. UID:129869-21864711@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129869 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,International,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250128T150130 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Inequality and Social Demography (ISD) Workshop DESCRIPTION:Winter 2025 Line-up:\n\n2/13: Joe LaBriola\, \"The Mortgage Interest Deduction and the White-Black Wealth Gap\, 1984-2021\"\n\n2/20: Catalina Anampa Castro\, \"Kin-inequality: Education debt in middle to later adulthood\"\n\n3/13: Emma Banchoff\, \"Growing Up Together: The Linked Lives of Siblings During the Transition to Adulthood\"\n\n3/20: Sarah Patterson\, \"The enduring gender gap in care expectations for daughters and sons\"\n\n4/3: Yinger Yang\, \"Can Expanding STEM Quota Narrow Gender Disparity in College Majors?: Evidence from China\"\n\n4/17: Kristina Fullerton Rico UID:132012-21869783@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132012 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students LOCATION:LSA Building - 4154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T163512 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Influence of Professors and Peers on Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Mental Health DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The mental health of undergraduate engineering students has become a growing concern in recent years\, with increasing research drawing connections between the culture of engineering education and student well-being. Despite initiatives aimed at addressing these issues\, many students face significant mental health challenges that impact their academic performance and overall well-being. This study explores the intersection of mental health and engineering education\, specifically focusing on the role that professors and peers play in influencing the mental health of undergraduate engineering students. This seminar will present on qualitative interview data collected through a single-institution study. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to identify how professors and peers influence undergraduate engineering students’ self-reported mental health.\n\nBiography: Nosakhare Idiaghe is a third-year doctoral candidate of Engineering Education Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln\, where he is also pursuing a master’s in engineering management. His research focuses on bridging the gap between academic training and workplace expectations\, exploring how students’ educational experiences shape their transition and experiences in professional engineering roles. His work spans multiple areas\, including engineering students’ well-being\, undergraduate research experiences\, and the intercultural competence development of graduate students. Before moving to the United States\, he earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering and a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Benin in Nigeria. Beyond research\, Nosa is deeply committed to leadership and service. He currently serves as the President of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at UNL\, Vice President of the International Students Fellowship\, and Co-Chair of the Quality-of-Life Committee for the Graduate Student Assembly. UID:133257-21872658@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133257 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Civil and Environmental Engineering,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Graduate,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Materials Science,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Research,Stem LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063228 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs: Interlochen Arts Camp - Camp Counselor Info Session DESCRIPTION:Join us for a live webinar to learn all about the exciting opportunity to work as a Camp Counselor at Interlochen Arts Camp this summer! We’ll cover the role\, the experience of working with campers\, and answer any questions you may have. Don’t miss your chance to discover how you can be a part of our creative community this summer! UID:132862-21871969@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132862 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T094020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Donia Human Rights Roundtable | Gender and Sexual Rights as Human Rights in Contemporary Turkey: Diverse Feminist Perspectives DESCRIPTION:Seda Saluk\, PhD Assistant Professor\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, University of Michigan\; Özlem Göner\, PhD Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, College of Staten Island\, and Middle Eastern Studies\, Graduate Center of the City University of New York\; Aslı Zengin\, PhD Assistant Professor\, Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Rutgers University\; Özge Savaş\, PhD. Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\n \nAttend in person or via Zoom. Zoom registration at https://myumi.ch/EreDx\n\nThis interdisciplinary roundtable will discuss ongoing efforts to defend gender and sexual rights as human rights in Turkey. Speakers will address how scholars and activists document structural and everyday forms of violence directed towards historically marginalized groups\, as well as the emergent justice-seeking struggles to challenge and dismantle this violence.\n \n CHAIR:\n\n Seda Saluk\, PhD\n Assistant Professor\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, University of Michigan\n \n Seda Saluk is a feminist anthropologist working at the intersection of medical anthropology\, science and technology studies\, and Middle East studies. Her research focuses on the politics and ethics of medical technologies through the lenses of gender\, race\, and ethnicity. Her current book project\, Monitoring Reproduction: Surveillance\, Labor\, and Care in Turkey\, investigates the complexities of reproductive surveillance against the backdrop of demographic changes.\n \n PANELISTS:\n \n Özlem Göner\, PhD\n Associate Professor\, Sociology and Anthropology\, College of Staten Island\, and Middle\n Eastern Studies\, Graduate Center of the City University of New York\n \nÖzlem Göner is a sociologist specializing in social movements\, with attention to inter-sectional movements of the oppressed\, feminist theory and movements\, racial and ethnic relations\, and global capitalism. Her book\, Turkish National Identity and its Outsiders: Memories of State Violence in Dersim\, was published in 2017 by Routledge. She has written academic and popular journal articles on the themes of state violence\, social movements\, gender and intersectionality\, and anti-colonial self-determination.\n \n Aslı Zengin\, PhD\n Assistant Professor\, Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies\, Rutgers University\n \n Aslı Zengin is an anthropologist whose research lies at the intersection of ethnography of trans\, queer\, sex worker and sex/gender transgressive lives\; scientific and legal regimes of sex\, gender and sexuality\; critical studies of violence and sovereignty\; and death\, funerals\, cemeteries and afterlives. Her most recent book\, Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the (Un)Making of an Urban World\, was published in 2023 by Duke University Press. The book traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.\n \n DISCUSSANT:\n Özge Savaş\, PhD.\n Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, College of the Holy Cross\n \n Özge Savaş is a critical and applied social psychologist. She works with historically and systemically disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities\, combining decolonial and intersectional feminist theories in explaining how systems of oppression are maintained. She examines the role of stigma\, stereotypes\, and prejudice in intergroup conflict.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at wesleywr@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:128469-21860940@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128469 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Gender,Turkey LOCATION:Lane Hall - Room 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T112044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:How to Book a Flight on a Budget DESCRIPTION: UID:130077-21865278@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130077 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:virtual CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T130940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:More than Gray: Reimagining Early America in Full Color DESCRIPTION:The American past was lived in full color\, but this vibrant history can be easily missed in surviving evidence. You can’t deny that there’s something about a black-and-white photograph that feels… stuffy. With portraits showing people with their shirts buttoned right to the neck and everything in shades of gray and brown\, our imaginations can incline to thinking of the past as a bit staid\, if not downright dull. But look a little closer\, and you’ll see signs that the fashion choices available to those who came before us were more colorful than you might first think. From the fabrics they wore\, to the games they played\, or the books they read\, their world was alive with bright hues. This exhibit invites you to reimagine history with a fuller color palette and picture the vibrancy and joy that just might be hidden behind the unsmiling photographs.\n\nExhibition opening weekdays from 12-4. UID:130748-21866772@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250221T102533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The intersection of the social\, natural\, and built environments DESCRIPTION:Environmental influences on many facets of our lives are profound. Recent research on this topic has shed light on the unique impact of diverse environmental types (e.g.\, social\, natural\, and built environments) that we encounter on a daily basis. Less understood are the implications of multiple intersecting environments as well as the potential of these occurrences to address pressing societal challenges. This presentation will review my recent work funded by NIH\, NSF\, and the Erb Family Foundation focused on the intersection of multiple environmental contexts. This includes research on social networks in lower income senior housing communities and projects examining links between social engagement and green infrastructure (e.g.\, rain gardens) designed to address urban flooding. UID:123555-21851073@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123555 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Insights Speaker Series,Social Sciences LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - 1430 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T181731 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng & Joe Antrim\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng & Joe Antrim perform on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:132186-21870562@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132186 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250218T181735 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T124500 SUMMARY:Performance:Division Street Pipes DESCRIPTION:Join us as Logan Rees\, master's student in early keyboards\, performs a 30-minute recital on organ and harpsichord.\n\nThe University of Michigan Organ Department presents Division Street Pipes\, a new pipe organ recital series\, in collaboration with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church\, located just blocks from the heart of Kerrytown.\n\nDivision Street Pipes concerts will take place on Thursdays at 12:15 pm. Each recital will feature talented students and faculty of the U-M Organ Department. These 30-minute performances are free and open to the public\, and audience members are invited to enjoy their lunch while listening. The series is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Organ Department and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in an effort to bring organ music to local audiences while connecting U-M organ students with the wider community. Concerts offer attendees the opportunity to hear the versatility of the pipe organ beyond a worship setting. \n\nPerformances begin on January 16\, 2025\, and will occur every Thursday until April 24 (with the exception of April 17\, Maundy Thursday). UID:132887-21872030@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Concert,Free,Music LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250206T131049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Deciphering Host-Pathogen Interactions Governing Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) Lifecycle and Disease Pathogenesis DESCRIPTION:Dissertation Defense\n\nWe are pleased to announce that Karen Wang\, Ph.D. Candidate (Chelsey Spriggs Ph.D.\, Mentor) will present her Dissertation Defense titled \"Deciphering Host-Pathogen Interactions Governing Merkel Cell Polyomavirus (MCPyV) Lifecycle and Disease Pathogenesis\,\" on Thursday\, March 13\, 2025 at 1:00 p.m.\, at Kahn Auditorium and via live stream: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96452358298?pwd=ZWPn2TIDJG1yhhk4GIDw3gmCbHDAL7.1 PC CDB.\n\nDissertation Committee members:\n\n- Chelsey Spriggs\, Ph.D.\, Mentor \n- Kristen Verhey\, Ph.D.\, Chair \n- Andrew Tai\, M.D. Ph.D.\, Committee Member \n- Benjamin Allen Ph.D\, Committee Member UID:132446-21870967@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biointerfaces,Biology,Biomedical Engineering,Science LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T122049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Dissertation Chapter Workshop (EHW) DESCRIPTION: UID:130483-21866101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130483 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Angell Hall 3241 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250113T104211 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Environmental Humanities Workshop: Dissertation Chapter Discussion DESCRIPTION:We will discuss a chapter from Samantha Adams' (English and Women's and Gender Studies PhD) dissertation\, \"A Body of Water Inside Me: Water Shaping African American Life and Literature Beyond the Atlantic Ocean\". Please register to receive a copy of the chapter for reading and review before the conversation. We hope you will join us in supporting Sam and her phenomenal work! UID:131048-21867650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131048 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Environmental Humanities LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3241 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T133229 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Keeping Seniors on the Road DESCRIPTION:TBD UID:131937-21869554@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063148 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Major Insights Virtual Panel Series - Applying to ASML DESCRIPTION:Curious about how to stand out in the competitive tech industry? Join ASML recruiters for an interactive session designed to help younavigate the application and interview process. Learn valuable tips on tailoring your application\, strategies for showcasing your unique skills\, and insider advice on acing your interviews. This is your chance to gain practical guidance and ask questions to set yourself apart. Don't miss thisopportunity to kickstart your journey with ASML!  UID:131819-21869286@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131819 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T181732 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:132187-21870563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132187 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T151032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Well-being:\"Let's Talk\": Informal\, Drop-In Mental Health Counseling DESCRIPTION:Trained mental health counselors are now available for drop-in conversations at different times and locations across campus\, including at Trotter\, the Spectrum Center\, South Quad\, the International Center\, and Bursley.\n\nThis informal\, confidential “office hours” style can be a great fit for students unsure about formal counseling\; for those with a specific\, time-limited concern they’d like to talk through\; or those seeking information on campus resources. Please note: this is not meant for crisis or emergency support.\n\n\"Let's Talk\" will run from January 20th 2025 to April 25th 2025. There will be no drop-ins the week of Spring Break (March 3rd - 7th). \n\nMonday: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm with Markie Silverman\, Ph.D.\, LP\, Room 2035 in Trotter Multicultural Center\nTuesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Marcella A. Beaumont\, Ph.D.\, Room 3032 in The Spectrum Center (Michigan Union)\nWednesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Emily Malinowski\, LMSW\, Room 1721A in South Quad Housing\nThursday: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm with Ling Liu\, Ph.D. & Chunyu Xu\, M.Ed.\, M.S.Ed.\, Conference Room in the International Center\nFriday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm with Kayla Douglas\, LMSW\, and Emily Powers\, LLMSW\, Room 2329B in Bursley Housing UID:131469-21868556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131469 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessible,Casual,Confidential,Drop-in,free,Health & Wellness,health and wellness,health communication,Inclusion,mental health,Mindfulness,relationship,relationships,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,university health service,Well-being LOCATION:International Center - Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T132044 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Creating Accessible Workplace Environments DESCRIPTION:A disability-inclusive workplace is an accessible workplace! Join us as we explore how to create and maintain inclusive\, accessible environments for all\, especially for individuals with disabilities. We'll cover practical support strategies\, essential resources\, and topics like disclosure\, self-advocacy\, and accommodations. Ideal for diversity\, equity\, and inclusion certificate participants\, this session will help you champion accessibility and inclusivity in diverse professional spaces by developing an \"Accessibility is Everyone's Responsibility \" mindset\, which\, in turn\, can be modeled to others.This workshop is designed for University of Michigan master's students\, doctoral students\, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance. UID:130200-21865586@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130200 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Virtual via Zoom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250511T155705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Creating Accessible Workplace Environments DESCRIPTION:A disability-inclusive workplace is an accessible workplace! Join us as we explore how to create and maintain inclusive\, accessible environments for all\, especially for individuals with disabilities. We’ll cover practical support strategies\, essential resources\, and topics like disclosure\, self-advocacy\, and accommodations. Ideal for diversity\, equity\, and inclusion certificate participants\, this session will help you champion accessibility and inclusivity in diverse professional spaces by developing an “Accessibility is Everyone’s Responsibility ” mindset\, which\, in turn\, can be modeled to others.\nThis workshop is designed for University of Michigan master’s students\, doctoral students\, and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff\, please contact rackhampdeworkshops@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/bEWNW.\nWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time\, preferably one week\, to arrange for your requested accommodations or an effective alternative. UID:130218-21865606@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130218 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Graduate Students,Rgs-events LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063249 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:International Students Career Series: How to Build Your Network DESCRIPTION:You can’t start networking unless you know where to begin! As an international student\, it can be intimidating when thinking aboutthe idea of having to interact with people in the U.S. That’s totally okay because we got you covered! This workshop will give you the tools to identify and connect with contacts in addition to conducting informational interviews - opportunities that will help you expand your knowledge of what a career or company is like by learning from an employee's daily activities. Remember: Networking is about building relationships. These meetings can occur without the pressure so often present in a typical job interviewbut many times lead to opportunities down the road.This session isan interactive workshop\, so you are expected to prepare by carefully reviewing our networking website to learn the basics:Review NetworkingResources:https://careercenter.umich.edu/content/networking-resourcesREGISTER HERE: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/1718087/share_previewWe want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event\, please indicate your accommodation requirements in this form\, preferably at least 14 days prior to the program. If you have any questions regarding access to our programs\, please don't hesitate to reach out to Cierra Sutherland at cierrasu@umich.edu. To ensure sufficient time for arranging your requested accommodation(s) or exploring suitable alternatives\, we kindly request that you inform us as soon as possible. UID:133324-21872757@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133324 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:PwC: Pathways to Accounting for Liberal Arts majors DESCRIPTION:Are you curious about a career in Accounting but come from a non-accounting background? Join our Chief Compliance Officer Kathryn Kaminsky as she dives into conversations with professionals at PwC who have successfully transitioned into accounting from diverse fields.Duringthis event\, you'll discover what inspired them to pursue this path\, howthey found their way into the profession\, and how their careers have evolved. Whether you're considering a future in accounting or just exploring your options\, this is a great opportunity to gain valuable insights\, ask questions\, and imagine the possibilities!Event Date: March 13\, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm ETRegister using this link: https://pwc.recsolu.com/app/collect/event/0eMcOsplAXjikwYtL5C8wA UID:132767-21871790@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132767 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T100011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Dissertation Defense: Log-Determinant of the Laguerre Beta Ensembles and Free Energy of the Bipartite Spherical Sherrington–Kirkpatrick Model DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nThis thesis consists of two parts\, each addressing a distinct problem concerning the asymptotic behavior of large disordered systems. The first part studies random matrices from the Laguerre beta ensembles. We prove that when a Laguerre matrix is shifted by a scalar multiple of the identity—where the scalar is near the edge of the Mar\v{c}enko–Pastur law—the logarithm of its determinant exhibits Gaussian fluctuations. Additionally\, we establish that this result extends to the Laguerre Orthogonal and Laguerre Unitary Ensembles under a relaxed assumption on the shift. This edge central limit theorem has applications in statistical testing of critically spiked sample covariance matrices\, and in analyzing free energy fluctuations of bipartite spherical spin glasses at critical temperature. The second part examines the free energy fluctuations of the bipartite spherical Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model\, an extension of the spherical Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model by incorporating heterogeneity. Previous work by Baik and Lee shows that at non-critical temperatures\, the free energy exhibits Gaussian fluctuations at high temperatures and Tracy–Widom fluctuations at low temperatures. We focus on the critical temperature case and demonstrate that within a vanishing window around criticality\, the fluctuations are given by the sum of independent Gaussian and Tracy–Widom random variables. A key component of our analysis is the central limit theorem for Laguerre matrices established in the first part of the thesis. UID:132741-21871669@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132741 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Graduate,Graduate Students,Mathematics LOCATION:School of Education - 2310 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T081707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | Quantum active solids: Photoinduced non-reciprocal magnetism DESCRIPTION:Out of equilibrium\, the action-reaction symmetry of the interactions is often broken\, leading to the emergence of various collective phenomena with no equilibrium counterparts. Although ubiquitous in classical active systems\, implementing such non-reciprocal interactions in solid-state systems has remained challenging\, as the known quantum schemes require precise control over the system on a single-site level. Here\, we propose a novel dissipation-engineering protocol to induce non-reciprocal interactions in solid-state platforms with light\, which we expect to be achievable with state-of the-art experimental techniques. Focusing on magnetic metals for concreteness\, we show microscopically that a light injection that introduces the decay channel to a virtually excited state gives rise to non-reciprocal interactions between localized spins. One can even realize a situation where spin A tries to align with spin B but the B tries the opposite\, resulting in chase-and-runaway dynamics. Applying our scheme to layered ferromagnets\, we show that a non-reciprocal phase transition from a static to a many-body time-dependent chiral phase emerges. Our work paves the way to bring solid-state systems to the realm of non-reciprocal science\, providing yet another possibility to control quantum matter with light. UID:133439-21873101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133439 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250404T120133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:ClariTEA: Informal Advising Event DESCRIPTION:ClariTEA is a weekly informal\, drop-in advising event where Robotics and Interested Undergraduate students meet with Robotics Undergraduate Academic Advisors. Refreshments and TEA are offered at each meeting.\n\nJoin us in having a conversation with the Robotics Undergraduate community. UID:132138-21870371@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132138 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Robotics LOCATION:Ford Robotics Building - 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T160736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Hopwood Mad Hatter Tea DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to the second annual celebration of the world's most famous literary tea party. Compete for prizes in an Alice in Wonderland costume contest and trivia quiz or simply enjoy tea\, coffee\, and confections in good company. UID:133356-21872807@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133356 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor,Books,celebration,Children's Literature,Department Of English Language And Literature,fiction,Food,Free,Games,Graduate Students,Hopwood Program,Literary Arts,Undergraduate Students,World Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - Hopwood Room, 1176 Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T083836 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE 899 Seminar: John Urschel\, MIT DESCRIPTION:Join us on March 13 as our guest\, John Urschel\, gives his talk titled \"Numerical Stability in Gaussian Elimination.\"\n\nAbstract: The solution of a linear system\, i.e.\, given a matrix A and vector b\, finding a vector x satisfying Ax = b\, is one of the oldest problems in mathematics. Gaussian elimination is one of the most fundamental and well-known techniques for solving linear systems\, by factoring a matrix into the product of a lower and upper triangular matrix. Surprisingly\, a number of questions regarding the numerical stability of this algorithm remains. In this talk\, we will study the history of this subject\, a story that spans over seventy-five years\, and discuss some recent progress.\n\nBio: John Urschel is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at MIT\, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Previously\, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from MIT in 2021 under the supervision of Michel Goemans. His main research interests include matrix analysis\, numerical linear algebra\, and spectral graph theory. He recently received the SIAM DiPrima Prize for the most outstanding thesis in applied mathematics\, and the SIAM Early Career Prize in Linear Algebra.\n\nThis event is part of our 899 seminar series. UID:132725-21871643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132725 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,seminar LOCATION:Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr - Johnson rooms (3rd floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250224T124306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LSA@Play: Book Wall DESCRIPTION:Take a chance and choose a wrapped book based on only 4 description words. Yours to read and keep! Featuring all female authors to celebrate Women’s History Month.\n\nBooks will be restocked each day and available while supplies last.\n\nIn partnership with LSA Student Government\n\n__________\nFor LSA undergrads only. Join us for LSA@Play\, a series of events to welcome and support LSA students! Gatherings and activities offer an opportunity for students to prioritize well-being\, inclusivity\, and community. Plus\, get free food and LSA swag! Visit the LSA@Play webpage: lsa.umich.edu/play for more details\, subscribe to receive text/email updates\, and check for additional events being added soon! Events are first come\, first served\, and while supplies last. One swag item per student and you must be present with an MCard to receive.\n\nThe University of Michigan College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts (LSA) greatly values inclusion and access for all. We are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations to enable your full participation in this event. Please email lsaatplay@umich.edu if you would like to request disability accommodations or have any questions or concerns. We ask that you provide advance notice to ensure sufficient time to meet the requested accommodations. UID:133100-21872387@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133100 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Undergraduate Students,Well-being LOCATION:LSA Building - 1040 Multipurpose Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T112845 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Manufactured Rage Against DEI as an Affront to Academic Freedom DESCRIPTION:Isaac Kamola\, associate professor of political science at Trinity College\, will give a short lecture on the genesis of current attacks on DEI and their implications on academic freedom\, followed by a panel where panelists will consider why attacks on DEI are an affront to academic freedom\, how such attacks impact critical areas of research\, and the impact on higher education and society at large. Lastly\, the panel will imagine possibilities for collaborative strategies within and outside of the academy to counteract these attacks.\n\nModerator:\n\n Elizabeth R. Cole\, NCID Director and University Diversity Social Transformation Professor of Psychology and Women and Gender Studies\n\nSpeaker:\n\n Isaac Kamola\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, Trinity College\n\nPanel:\n\n Germine Awad\, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor Professor of Psychology\n Additional panelist information coming soon UID:133407-21872872@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Diversity Equity and Inclusion LOCATION:Student Activities Building - Maize and Blue Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250220T103048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:PhD defense: Leena Ghrayeb DESCRIPTION:Join Leena Ghayeb for her PhD defense \nhttps://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/ghrayeb-leena/\n\nDATE:  Thursday\, March 13th\,  2025\nTIME:  3:00 PM\nPLACE: IOE 2717\, and virtually: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99973521964\nChairs:  Amy Cohn and Ruiwei Jiang UID:132950-21872115@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132950 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses,Ioephdstudents,Ioephdtalks,Michigan Engineering,Research LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T151308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T235900 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival DESCRIPTION:The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind\, screening films from all across Africa that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online\, featuring films from Somalia\, Sudan\, Mauritania\, and Tunisia. This year’s festival will offer four films in total throughout the month of March. \n\nThe festival opens on Thursday\, March 13th at 3 pm ET. \n\nAll screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America or the University of Michigan community\; check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.\n\n 2025 Lineup:\n \n March 13-20 | *Muna* + Q&A with the Director Warda Mohamed | UK/Somalia | 2023 | Short Drama\n March 20-27 | *Goodbye Julia* | Sudan | 2023 | Drama/Narrative\n All Month | *Timbuktu* | Mauritania | 2014 | Drama\n All Month | *Four Daughters* | Tunisia | 2023 | Drama\n \n \nThe last two films are free to watch through Kanopy using your U-M credentials. All University of Michigan community members can access this film (and many others) for free through Kanopy! \n\nLog in with your university credentials & visit the U-M collection at https://www.kanopy.com/en/umich\n \n Are you at another university? Check if your academic community or public library has a Kanopy collection! Learn more at https://www.kanopy.com/.\n \n This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum. This festival is curated by Dr. Aliyah Khan and Hana Mattar. Questions? Please reach out to us at islamicstudies@umich.edu\n \nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu UID:133684-21873446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133684 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African Studies,Arab And Muslim American Studies,Festival,Film,Global Islamic Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250123T102310 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Responding to Offensive Jokes and Microaggressions DESCRIPTION:Microaggressions are statements\, actions\, or incidents that involve indirect\, subtle\, intentional or unintentional discrimination against members of a minoritized group (racial\, ethnic or religious minorities\, LGBTQ folks\, older people\, people with disabilities\, etc.). Many studies have found that microaggressions have a significant negative impact on people’s mental and physical health over time and result in a sense of not belonging on campus (this is one of the chief reasons students fail to complete their academic journeys). In this introductory workshop\, you’ll get a chance to learn several strategies for responding to microaggressions (including offensive jokes). This workshop will be facilitated by nationally-recognized dialogue facilitator\, Libby Roderick\, Director of Difficult Dialogues from the University of Alaska\, and member of DDNRC.\n\n- Audience: U-M only (students\, faculty and staff)\n- Level: Introductory\n- Facilitator(s): Libby Roderick\n\nABOUT DIFFICULT DIALOGUES\nDifficult Dialogues Meet the Moment Initiative is made possible though partnership between LSA Undergraduate Education\; Division of Student Life\; U-M Year of Democracy\, Civic Empowerment\, and Global Engagement\; Stephen M. Ross School of Business\; Raoul Wallenberg Institute\; The Program on Intergroup Relations\; and Difficult Dialogues National Resource Center. Find workshops\, coaching\, and more at myumi.ch/difficult-dialogues. UID:131654-21868886@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T114255 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change Lecture DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book\, *Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change* (Vanderbilt Press\, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of environmental harms\, to more “subjunctive” modes that imagine the world as it could be or should be. UID:133446-21873109@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133446 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book discussion,Books,climate,Culture,department of romance languages,Discussion,Diversity,Environment,environmental,humanities,In Person,institute for the humanities,Interdisciplinary,Language,Latin America,literary,literature,Media,Research,Talk,Writing LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T105131 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk: Intro to Digital Accessibility DESCRIPTION:Curious about digital accessibility? Want to learn how you can make your web content more accessible? Join Tech Shop staff member and Student Digital Accessibility Specialist\, Irene\, to learn more and get your questions answered. The presentation will cover:\n- What is digital accessibility?\n- What is assistive technology?\n- General principles for designing and developing for accessibility\n\nBYOD: Encouraged! There are some resources featured in the presentation that you may want to download to your personal devices. Additionally\, bring anything you are designing or developing for accessibility advice.\n\nWho: Open to all\nWhen: Thursdays at 3 p.m. (lasting 20-30 minutes\, with option for Q&A and personal consulting to follow)\nWhere: Michigan Union | Ground Floor\n\nIt would be great if you registered to let us know you’re coming\, but drop-ins are also welcome! UID:133163-21872485@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133163 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Tech Shop,technology,workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union - G-312 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250209T172814 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Algebraic Geometry Learning Seminar: Stacky resolution of singularities DESCRIPTION:. UID:131772-21869221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131772 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T152038 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nCurrent cancer research is impeded by the limitations of traditional experimental systems\, which often do not align with human clinical findings. To address this\, our focus is on developing models that elucidate the mechanisms initiating and driving carcinogenesis\, initially concentrating on lung carcinoma. My laboratory has developed lung cell culture models using directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). These models have helped uncover how specific genetic alterations promote carcinogenesis in specialized human cell lineages and identified potential factors contributing to lung cell malignancy. Another significant aspect of our research investigates the impact of microbiomes on cancer development\, particularly the understudied role of fungal communities (mycobiomes). We have crafted a novel 3D organotypic lung model (iLung) from differentiated hPSCs that more accurately mimics real-life fungal exposure through the use of live fungal spores. Employing advanced technologies such as mutational signature identification\, single-cell transcriptomics\, and quantum mechanics calculations\, we have demonstrated that mycobiomes can drive cancer development through specific mycotoxin-induced mutations.\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/94337625486 UID:133418-21873082@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133418 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,seminar LOCATION:Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) - 1130 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T135942 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Mending Thursdays DESCRIPTION:Back by popular demand! SEAS Trash Club's mending events have returned. Bring your clothing and textile items that need to be repaired. We will mend them for you\, or teach you some simple and effective stitches so you can mend your own clothes in the future. Contact Jason Krick at masonbee@umich.edu with any questions. UID:132968-21872140@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132968 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mending,Repair LOCATION:Dana Building - 2315 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T093756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Spencer Lecture DESCRIPTION:Join us as we present the annual Spencer Lecturer Award to Dr. Stamatios M. (Tom) Krimigis. The Spencer Lecture will be held from 3:30-4:30pm\, Thursday\, March 13\, 2025 in the CSRB Auditorium\, with a reception to follow in the new Leinweber Innovation Laboratory on the first floor.\n\n\"In Search for the Exit from the Heliosphere: The Odyssey of Voyagers 1 & 2\, 1977-2025\"\nThe two Voyager spacecraft are\, arguably\, the most important space science missions of the last century. Designed for a 4-year mission to Jupiter and Saturn\, they not only explored all four giant planets but also proceeded to cross the boundary between the Heliosphere and the local interstellar medium. Now on their 48th. year in space\, they continue to explore uncharted waters as their mission is winding down due to diminished power from the Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator power source. The speaker has been principal investigator for the Low Energy Charger Particle (LECP) instrument since the program’s inception in 1972\, and will narrate the journey and discoveries of this remarkable mission through the solar system and beyond. UID:132104-21869963@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering LOCATION:Climate and Space Research Building - 2246 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T135536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T162000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Department of Astronomy 2024-2025 Colloquium Series Presents: DESCRIPTION:\"ESO’ Extremely Large Telescope\"\n\nDuring this talk\, the European Southern Observatory Extremely Large Telescope Programme will be described\, from the scientific motivations for this 38-m telescope to the status of the construction in Chile. Special attention will be given to the scientific instrumentation planned to meet the science goals of astronomers when the telescope comes in to operation before the end of the decade. Three instruments and a facility adaptive optics system are in construction with the early design phases of the next generation well underway. UID:133456-21873119@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astronomy,astrophysics LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250224T152602 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Differential Equations Seminar: Strong solutions to the inhomogeneous kinetic wave equation DESCRIPTION:We will talk about global dispersive solutions to the space inhomogeneous kinetic wave equation (KWE) which propagate $L^1_{xv}$ -- moments and conserve mass\, momentum and energy. We prove that they scatter\, and that the wave operators mapping the initial data to the scattering states are 1-1\, onto and continuous in a suitable topology.\n\nThis is the first global existence result for strong solutions for KWE. This contrasts with prior global existence results for mild solutions\, which satisfy a transported version of the equation but do not solve the equation itself. \n\nOur proof is carried out entirely in physical space and combines dispersive estimates for the free transport with new trilinear bounds for the gain and loss operators of the KWE on weighted Lebesgue spaces. The main difficulty is the fast growth of the hard-sphere kernel. Our fundamental tool to handle it is a novel collisional averaging estimate.\n\nWe also show that the nonlinear evolution preserves positivity forward in time. For this\, we use the Kaniel-Shinbrot iteration scheme\, properly initialized to ensure successive approximations are dispersive. UID:131497-21868633@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T153202 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Duality of interphases in batteries and catalysts revealed by cryo-EM DESCRIPTION:Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) won the Chemistry Nobel Prize in 2017 for its ability to elucidate the molecular-scale structure of important biomolecules (e.g.\, the spike protein of COVID-19)\, which has had a transformative impact on structural biology and medicine. The Li group at UCLA is leading efforts to leverage this powerful technique to have a similar impact in the field of materials science and renewable energy. These efforts have led to significant breakthroughs in our understanding of batteries (Science 358\, 506\, 2017\; Science 375\, 66\, 2022) and electrocatalysts (Nature Energy 8\, 138\, 2023)\, which represent important clean energy technologies necessary for mitigating climate change. New insights then inform parallel efforts in materials innovations (Nature 620\, 86\, 2023) that will enable transformative technologies. UID:125078-21854341@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125078 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry,Materials Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T112915 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - The genomic basis of environmental adaptation in house mice DESCRIPTION:This event is part of our ongoing Thursday Seminar Series.\n\nConnecting genotype with phenotype for complex\, adaptive traits is a central goal of evolutionary biology. House mice (Mus musculus domesticus) have recently been introduced into new environments where they have adapted through changes in morphology\, physiology\, and behavior. We collected wild house mice across North and South America\, from 55° S latitude to 54° N latitude\, and sequenced their genomes. We also established inbred strains of mice from diverse environments\, allowing us to study traits in a controlled laboratory environment and to conduct crosses between strains differing in traits of interest. House mice in the Americas conform to Bergmann’s rule (larger body size farther from the equator) and Allen’s rule (shorter extremities farther from the equator). These differences are genetically based\, although differences in the length of extremities also show considerable phenotypic plasticity when mice are reared at different temperatures. Through a combination of genome scans for selection\, studies of gene expression in the wild and in the lab\, association studies in natural populations\, and genetic crosses in the lab\, we have begun to identify genes and genomic patterns associated with adaptation to new environments. UID:131675-21868984@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131675 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,environmental,evolution,evolutionary biology LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T113214 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Ghanaian Independence Day Celebration in Mosher Jordan DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Ghanaian Independence Day with the Mosher Jordan DPE\, MLCA\, and the African Students Association! Stop by for a snack and to make bracelets using African beads. All are welcome! UID:133468-21873138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133468 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Culture,Food,free LOCATION:Mosher-Jordan Hall - Cesar Chavez Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250210T142909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Improving Sleep: Cognitive Behavior Therapy Group for Insomnia DESCRIPTION:Do you struggle with insomnia\, chronic sleep disturbances\, daytime fatigue\, and/or difficulties managing stress? Is it hard to prioritize quality sleep every night? Is maintaining a consistent sleep schedule challenging?\n\nTo address these concerns\, the Psychological Clinic at the Mary A. Rackham Institute will be offering a 6-week virtual Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) group for Insomnia\, starting on Thursday\, March 6\, 2025. This group will incorporate evidence-based CBT techniques\, psychoeducation\, group discussions\, and practical exercises aimed at improving sleep quality and addressing the underlying factors contributing to insomnia.\n\nThe goal of the group is to empower participants with strategies to re-establish healthy sleep patterns\, manage racing thoughts\, and reduce the frustration and stress that often accompany sleep difficulties.\n\nWorkshop Details\n+ Who is this for: Individuals that struggle with falling or staying asleep\, feel unsatisfied with their sleep quality\, experience stress or worry about sleep and/or wish to learn practical\, sustainable techniques to improve their sleep.\n+ When: 4-5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays\, beginning on March 6.\n+ How long: Each weekly session lasts 90 minutes\, for 6 weeks.\n+ Where: Virtually\, on Zoom.\n+ How to Register: Each participant must complete a 30-minute screening appointment to ensure the group is a good fit for their needs. Contact the MARI Call Center at (734) 615-7853 or complete our secure\, online registration form to get started. Current MARI clients may not need to complete a screening.\n+ Cost: Each weekly session is billed at $45\, plus a one-time cost for the screening session ($20). Some insurances accepted. UID:132590-21871317@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132590 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Graduate,Mental Health,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063135 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Miami-Dade County Public Schools Connect Cafe\, March 13th\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:Take your coffee break with our recruitment team via live chat to learn about our positions at Miami-Dade County Public Schools!Join us every 2nd &\; 4th Thursday of the month from 4-6pm! Be sure to register here:https://app.brazenconnect.com/a/miami_dade_county_public_schools/s/Xdbb3/jPO5w UID:130595-21866426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130595 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250217T181921 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The DAAS Zora Neale Hurston Lecture of the Humanities DESCRIPTION:Reception following\nProfessor Evie Shockley is the author of Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry (U Iowa P\, 2011) and six collections of poetry\, most recently suddenly we (Wesleyan UP\, 2023). Among her earlier books\, the new black (Wesleyan UP\, 2011) received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award\; semiautomatic (Wesleyan UP\, 2017) received the same award in 2018\, and was also a finalist that year for the LA Times Book Review Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.\n\nShockley's intellectual and creative work takes a variety of forms. Her current research on \"Black Graphics\" concerns the strategies Black poets and other artists (literary and visual) have employed during the recent period characterized by the dominance of \"colorblindness\" ideology. Articles related to this project have appeared in New Literary History\, The Black Scholar\, and Contemporary Literature. Other scholarly and teaching interests include 20th and 21st century African American and African Diaspora literatures\, Black feminist thought\, and contemporary poetry and poetics in the US and beyond. She has placed numerous essays on these subjects in academic journals\, edited volumes\, and broader audience publications\, such as How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft\, Practice\, and Skill\; Furious Flower: Seeding the Future\; The New Emily Dickinson Studies\; Harriet\; The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time\; LARB\; Literary Hub\; The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry\; Jacket2\; and Boston Review\, among others. Since 2021\, she has served as Editor for Poetry (scholarship) at Contemporary Literature. Her poetry has appeared nationally -- in publications like Kenyon Review\, Obsidian\, Poem-a-Day\, The 1619 Project\, The New Yorker\, The New Republic\, Adi\, Lana Turner\, Ploughshares\, The Best American Poetry\, The Paris Review\, Torch Literary Arts\, and Poetry Daily -- and internationally\, with pieces translated into French\, Spanish\, Polish\, and Slovenian. Honors for the body of her poetry include the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award\, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry\, the Stephen Henderson Award\, and the Holmes National Poetry Prize.\n\nFrom her teaching philosophy:\n\n\"In my classroom\, I make every effort to show students clearly how passionate I am about the texts and ideas I'm teaching—how much a poem\, a novel\, or a literary movement can mean to me and many others. They appreciate this\, I think\, in part because it gives them permission to feel passionate about their own relationships to texts\, in turn. When that sense of the power of literature is circulating in the room\, it makes it much easier for me to make palpable for them the historical and cultural significance of the works\, on one hand\, or to convince them of the importance of a line break or an element of plot\, on the other. What I appreciate most is that this becomes a feedback loop\, wherein my own experience of texts that have become too familiar from frequent teaching is reenergized by the enthusiasms (or engaged resistance) my students express.\" UID:132848-21871956@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132848 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,african and african american studies,african and afroamerican studies,African Diaspora,Afroamerican,Black America,Blackness,Feminism,Literature,Poetry,Writing LOCATION:Michigan League - Hussey CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T123949 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Last Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson in the American Century DESCRIPTION:Norman Holmes Pearson’s life embodied the Cold War alliance among US artists\, scholars\, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor and editor\, he helped create the field of American Studies and shaped the public’s understanding of literary modernism—significantly\, the work of women poets such as Hilda Doolittle and Gertrude Stein. At the same time\, as a high-ranking spy\, recruiter\, and cultural diplomat\, he connected the academy\, the State Department\, and even the CIA. For Pearson\, this seemingly unlikely combination of the avant-garde and the patriotic was entirely in keeping with his “Vital Center” understanding of American civilization. In this talk\, Greg Barnhisel will give an overview of Pearson’s unique career as scholar\, literary fixer\, secret agent\, and cultural diplomat\, focusing on Pearson’s hidden role in shaping a new understanding of America in the 1950s.\nPlease RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyxyKFZL1GKSq7htrxhPjzfeu4h7ZbARC_T3FvLxqSOsolrw/viewform UID:131923-21869545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131923 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,Rackham LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 - Robert Hayden Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T195701 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:World Languages Teacher Certification Information Session DESCRIPTION:Thank you for your interest in the World Languages Information Session with Marsal Education. Please fill out the categories below to join us on Thursday\, March 13th\, 2025. If you have questions regarding the event please reach out to Rylei McAllister (rylei@umich.edu). UID:133678-21873396@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133678 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,Language LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T120858 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Bring Your Own Book Event DESCRIPTION:Come read your favorite book at this event with your fellow MLCA\, Lamisa\, and other Stockwell friends. Enjoy some snacks while celebrating National Reading Month! UID:132537-21871212@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132537 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Education,Food,free,Free Food,Social,Well-being LOCATION:Stockwell Hall - Rosa Parks Minority Culture Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T102958 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:2025 Women Who Win DESCRIPTION:The Undergraduate Michigan Business Women is excited to announce their annual Women Who Win event! \n\nEmpowering and inspiring the next generation of women in business\, entrepreneurship\, and tech -- with Jenny Just\, one of the few self-made female billionaires in the United States\, business transformer\, investor\, poker player\, and U-M alum.\n\nSecure your spot at bit.ly/womenwhowin2025 by February 28th.\n\n♟️♥️Be a Boss at Any Table♥️♟️\n\nAcquire confidence\, sharpen strategic thinking skills\, and practice taking calculated risks all through poker play.\n\n💪♠️Build A Winning Hand♠️💪\n\nConnect with like-minded women\, build your network\, and meet some of the most powerful women in their industry. \n\n🎉♦️Low Stakes\, High Fun♦️🎉\n\nThis isn’t your typical campus networking event. Expect an event flush with food\, prizes\, swag\, and valuable lessons and connections. \n\n--------------------------------------------\n\nPowered by Ross Business+Tech\, Center for Entrepreneurship\, and Poker Power UID:132620-21871418@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132620 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Center For Entrepreneurship,Entrepreneurship,Graduate Students,Leadership,Michigan Engineering,Networking,Startup,technology,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Ross School of Business CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241206T095405 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:WISE Advice DESCRIPTION:Need some advice about your classes? Hoping to connect with other students in STEM? Looking for a new place to study or the meaning of life? Join our student mentors at WISE Advice\, open to all students in the WISE Office (3236 USB). We will have snacks\, coffee\, tea\, puzzles\, and you can even relax in our massage chair! Come to get trusted advice from new friends or just hang out or study in our designated quiet space if you just want to get things done. UID:129723-21864463@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129723 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,Sessions,Undergraduate Students,Women In Engineering,Women In Science LOCATION:WISE Office, 3236 Undergraduate Science Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T111603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:BINDx Meeting DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our BIndx Meeting with a special guest: Dr. John Urschel\, Assistant Professor at the MIT Math department.  Dr. Urschel's research focuses on matrix factorizations and moment-based algorithms. In 2017\, he retired from playing as an offensive lineman for the NFL Baltimore Ravens and completed his PhD in 2021. He wrote a memoir called Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football\, which was selected for MIT Reads in spring 2023. Join us for dinner and a great conversation with our guest speaker.\n\nThe Black Industrial Engineers (BIndx\, pronounced BIND-ex) group is composed of IOE students and faculty who come together informally for meaningful conversations and fellowship to promote learning\, mentoring\, and networking. The BIndx program was initiated to promote a learning space where students feel comfortable engaging with faculty. BIndx meetings occur as informal monthly discussions to help form relationships between faculty and minoritized students.  BIndx hosts a diverse group of guest speakers throughout the semester with a specific focus to facilitate conversations\, build connections\, and empower self-reflection.\n\nDinner will be served ONLY to those who RSVP. \n\nPlease RSVP HERE if you plan to attend by Wednesday\, March 11 at 4pm: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSebdin_QbDJEeINtbHQnXa5Wc9JEF7rGuGwMxHws9C_FCWHew/viewform UID:133166-21872489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133166 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Community Suite (1700 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250210T104558 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T183000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Minor in Writing Info Session DESCRIPTION:The Sweetland Minor in Writing is designed for undergraduate students who are interested in developing their disciplinary and professional writing abilities while pursuing their majors. It gives you the freedom to write about what matters to you while helping you develop as a writer and thinker.\n\nStudents currently in the Minor program come from all over the university bringing a wealth of diverse interests to the classroom. You might find a screenwriter sitting between a scientist and a musician or Kinesiology\, Business\, and Communications majors giving each other feedback on their writing.\n\nWith a Sweetland Minor in Writing you will earn a credential that certifies your writing expertise to prospective employers and graduate programs. You will also pick up new media skills designing and creating content for your electronic writing portfolios.\n\nIf you are interested in learning more about the Sweetland Minor in Writing from current students and faculty\, or have questions about the application process\, you can attend a Minor in Writing Virtual Information Session hosted on Zoom.\n\nThe deadline to apply for the Fall 2025 cohort is Monday\, March 17th at noon. UID:129749-21864510@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129749 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:academics,Applications,Interdisciplinary,Undergraduate,Writing LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T181511 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Gary Tyler DESCRIPTION:For over four decades\, Gary Tyler has worked at the intersection of art and social justice. After enduring nearly 42 years wrongfully imprisoned at Angola State Penitentiary\, Tyler uses his textile-based practice to highlight issues of mass incarceration\, instilling messages of hope and resilience.\n\nTyler first learned to quilt to support the Angola Prison Hospice program\, where he was a volunteer. Notably\, Tyler was the President of the Angola Prison drama program for almost three decades\, using the position to promote a culture of community\, civic responsibility and introspection.\nMaterial\, symbolism\, and quilting traditions are central to Tyler’s work. Since his release in 2016\, Tyler’s applique quilts feature motifs of transformation\, self-portraits and intricate allegorical landscapes\, depicting memories of his time incarcerated\, including the legendary Angola Rodeo and his time as president of the drama program. Through his work\, Tyler honors the lives of those depicted and creates a dialogue around the lasting impact of mass incarceration and its roots in slavery\, with the hope of inspiring meaningful change.\n\nGary Tyler is a 2019 and 2020 Art Matters Awardee\, and in 2024 he received an honorary Doctorate Degree in Art and Design from the Massachusetts College of Art &\; Design. Tyler was awarded the 2024 Right of Return Fellowship by the Center for Art and Advocacy\, as well as the Frieze Los Angeles Impact Prize\, which recognizes an artist who has made a significant impact on society with their work. His work can be seen at the Historical New Orleans Collective Museum in New Orleans\, and is in the collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington\, D.C. as well as the City of Santa Monica’s Art Bank.\nPresented in partnership with the Library Street Collective\, with support from the Prison Creative Arts Project. The Annual Exhibition of Artists in Michigan Prisons is the largest curated exhibition of art by incarcerated artists in the world and features art from every prison in the state of Michigan. The 29th Annual Exhibition will run from March 18 through April 1 in the Duderstadt Gallery on the University of Michigan campus. All of the art is for sale and the proceeds of the sales go to the artists themselves.\nThis project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public. UID:130006-21865048@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130006 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T132640 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Fireside Poetry Workshop DESCRIPTION:At the Crofoot Room\, Michigan Union from 6 to 8pm.\n\nCome together around the fireplace to share a poem you’ve written and gain feedback from other writers. Poet and U-M Anthropology graduate student Caroline New will lead small groups in which each person will read their poem and have a conversation with other writers about their work. This will be a safe space to share\, ask questions\, and uplift fellow writers in our poetry community. New writers are welcome!\n\nRSVP needed: https://poetryworkshop.rsvpify.com \nMaximum number of participants: 15\n\n•••\n\nThe Arts Initiative\, in collaboration with Wolverine Wellness\, is excited to announce Part II of its free art-making workshop series as part of the Take Care AY 2024-25 initiative. These workshops offer a chance to explore creative expression\, refresh dance skills\, and try out other artistic forms. No prior experience is needed. Led by local and regional artists\, the workshops are open to both the U-M and local community. All materials will be provided.\n\nFor questions or to request accessibility accommodations\, contact Félix Zamora-Gómez at felixzg@umich.edu. UID:131365-21868293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131365 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Arts Initiative,Poetry,Take Care,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:Michigan Union - Crofoot Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T193000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:John S. McCain Strategic Defense Fellowship - Virtual Information Session #4 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Defense will be hosting a virtual information session on the John S. McCain Strategic Defense Fellowship Program onThursday\, March 13th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm EST (3:00 pm PT). R.S.V.P. to participate by utilizing the following link - https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/h04QSXftS1. Upon receipt of your request\, you’ll receive an invitation to the engagement on MS Teams. Join us to learn aboutthe unique opportunity to potential begin your career in the Federal Government!  UID:132705-21871622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132705 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250108T123020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T193000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Mentorship Program: Self-Care Workshop DESCRIPTION:The Self Care workshop is open to any LSA student. This is an optional session for all students participating in the LSA Mentorship Program.\n \nDuring the workshop\, we will be discussing how to practice self-care as a college student and designing your own self-care plans. Food\, games\, and a mental health advocate will be available.\n\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\n\n Practical tools and insights for prioritizing mental health and self-care in your daily life.\n\n Guidance from a mental health advocate to help you navigate stress and maintain balance.\n\n A personalized self-care plan tailored to your needs and an opportunity to unwind with fun activities.\n\nRSVP now to be a part of the conversation. Lunch will be provide\n\nRSVP today to reserve your spot for this upcoming workshop. Once your RSVP is complete\, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the event details.\n\nThe Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor as well\, and places to sit or stand during the event. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements. UID:129948-21864927@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lsa Opportunity Hub,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - MPR 1040 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T152421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Arts and Anti-Racism DESCRIPTION:The Arts and Anti-Racism will bring all three UM campuses together for an evening of impactful theater\, deep discussion about race and racism on our campuses\, and inspiration for making meaningful efforts to advance Anti-Racism at UM in celebration of the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. \n\nThis special event will feature:\nDinner on the Ann Arbor campus for participants\nA performance from CTRL Players crafted to illuminate anti-racism issues that exist in our communities and inform productive dialogue.\nA facilitated conversation led by students in small groups\n\nThis event is in partnership with The SMTD DEI Office\, The Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, The Anti-Racism Collaborative\, U-M Dearborn\, U-M Flint\, The Arts Initiative\, The SMTD EXCEL Lab\, and The CRLT Players. UID:132979-21872152@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anti-racism,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Social Impact,theater LOCATION:Michigan League - Ballroom CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250126T171733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Other:Tutoring Sponsored by Pi Tau Sigma DESCRIPTION:Free tutoring sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering society\, Pi Tau Sigma. Every Thursday from 6:00-8:00 pm come find us in Findley C. We will help with any Mechanical Engineering class\, so be sure to check us out! UID:131805-21869262@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131805 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Engineering LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - Findley C (2518) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250129T123134 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T194500 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Evolve: Equity-Oriented Leadership Live Workshop DESCRIPTION:Ready to level up your leadership skills? Join us for this interactive event where you’ll complete the \"My Equity-Oriented Leadership\" microcredential and earn a digital badge to showcase your achievement. \;Reflect on what leadership means to youLearn how to align your intentions and actions to practice equitable leadership every day.This is your chance to build meaningful skills that make an impact—personally and professionally. UID:128639-21861398@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128639 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250205T115218 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T213000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:CJS Winter 2025 Film Series | *Bad Lands* DESCRIPTION:Tickets may be purchased at: https://myumi.ch/8rmg5\n \n *Bad Lands* is a wild caper film directed with typical Harada flair. Director Harada depicts a grifter and her loose-cannon brother as they get their hands on a massive amount of money. But their ill-gotten gains put a huge target on their backs. Ando Sakura delivers a magnificent performance in glorious Osaka-ben (Osaka dialect).\n \n Presented in Japanese with English subtitles. Read more about the film\, including ratings\, at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29344984/\n \n Learn more about the CJS Winter 2025 Film Series at: https://myumi.ch/AZ8Ep\n \n The CJS Winter 2025 Film Series is co-sponsored by the Department of Film\, Television\, and Media.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132358-21870796@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132358 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Film,Film Series,japan LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T112106 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Community Leadership Fellows Program Information Sessions DESCRIPTION:The Community Leadership Fellows program staff will share information about the program and answer your questions. You can learn more about CLF here: https://ginsberg.umich.edu/fellows UID:132834-21871941@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132834 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civic Engagement,Community Service,Internship,Sessions LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250103T153052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Connector Thursday Movie Night DESCRIPTION:Come take a break in the Connector for Movie Night! There will be fresh popped popcorn and snacks! UID:129996-21865019@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Food,free,Free Food,Movie Night,West Quad LOCATION:West Quadrangle - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250206T143338 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Battle of the Bands DESCRIPTION:MUSIC Matters hosts their annual Battle of The Bands competition at The Ark. Join us for a night of great local music from the incredible student bands of our community! UID:132362-21870800@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132362 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ark,Music,Mutotix LOCATION:GA - The Ark CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250228T123225 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T210000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:IOE on ice DESCRIPTION:IOE is hosting a free ice skating event at the Yost Ice Arena. Hot chocolate will also be provided!\n\nIf you would like to bring your family members\, please include them as guests when you RSVP. UID:133300-21872708@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering LOCATION:Yost Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T210000 SUMMARY:Other:Revive DESCRIPTION:Come and discover hidden gems in the Bible!  Every Thursday night\, 7:30-9:00PM\, we will have Revive at 2210 ABC in the Michigan Union.  Our usual agenda for this event includes singing\, hearing a spoken message\, and having breakout discussion.  This is a great opportunity to meet others who love the Lord Jesus and to learn more about His Word!  See you there!! 🙂\"Your word is a lamp to my feet / And a light to my path.\" (Psalm 119:105) UID:130350-21865791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130350 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan Union, 2210 ABC (Second Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T160224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T100000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:An Evening With Hillary Seitz DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 13th at 8 PM in the Rackham Amphitheater on the 4th Floor of the Rackham Graduate School\, attend a talk led by esteemed screenwriter\, Hillary Seitz! UID:133556-21873246@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,film,Talk,Television LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - 4th Floor Amphitheater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250313T181657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250313T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Max Winningham\, double bass DESCRIPTION:Graduate student Max Winningham performs a specialist in music degree recital. UID:132855-21871962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132855 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T151308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T235900 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Presented by GISC. The Second Annual African Muslim Film Festival DESCRIPTION:The African Muslim Film Festival is the first of its kind\, screening films from all across Africa that were made by\, for\, or about Muslims. All films will be streamable & online\, featuring films from Somalia\, Sudan\, Mauritania\, and Tunisia. This year’s festival will offer four films in total throughout the month of March. \n\nThe festival opens on Thursday\, March 13th at 3 pm ET. \n\nAll screenings are free. Some films will only be available in North America or the University of Michigan community\; check each film’s information for more details. All films will include English subtitles.\n\n 2025 Lineup:\n \n March 13-20 | *Muna* + Q&A with the Director Warda Mohamed | UK/Somalia | 2023 | Short Drama\n March 20-27 | *Goodbye Julia* | Sudan | 2023 | Drama/Narrative\n All Month | *Timbuktu* | Mauritania | 2014 | Drama\n All Month | *Four Daughters* | Tunisia | 2023 | Drama\n \n \nThe last two films are free to watch through Kanopy using your U-M credentials. All University of Michigan community members can access this film (and many others) for free through Kanopy! \n\nLog in with your university credentials & visit the U-M collection at https://www.kanopy.com/en/umich\n \n Are you at another university? Check if your academic community or public library has a Kanopy collection! Learn more at https://www.kanopy.com/.\n \n This African Muslim Film Festival is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and co-sponsored by the Arab American National Museum. This festival is curated by Dr. Aliyah Khan and Hana Mattar. Questions? Please reach out to us at islamicstudies@umich.edu\n \nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.\n Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu UID:133684-21873447@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133684 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African Studies,Arab And Muslim American Studies,Festival,Film,Global Islamic Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T115736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Summer Session in Epidemiology DESCRIPTION:Join us for the longest-running summer program in epidemiology! Choose from engaging 1-week or 3-week online courses designed to provide skills-based training in applied epidemiology.\n\nFor 60 years\, the University of Michigan's Summer Session in Epidemiology (SSE) has been one of the nation's longest-running and premier summer epidemiology programs. In just one to three intensive weeks\, gain valuable knowledge and skills to enhance your academic and professional journey. SSE is designed for public health and healthcare professionals\, researchers\, and anyone eager to build a foundation in epidemiologic science. We welcome participants from diverse backgrounds\, including undergraduate students\, public health professionals\, clinical and biomedical researchers\, and scholars in related fields such as psychology\, sociology\, and earth sciences. \n\nWhile experience in public health\, epidemiology\, or biostatistics is beneficial\, it is not required. By the end of our program\, you will have developed a solid understanding of key research principles in clinical populations\, covering areas such as: Study Design\, Biostatistical Analysis\, and Causal Inference These essential skills will help you advance in epidemiology\, public health\, and related fields. UID:133411-21872892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133411 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,biostatistics,Complex Systems,data,Dentistry,Education,Epidemiology,Graduate,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Pre Med,Professional Development,Public Health,Rackham,Research,Staff,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:St. Mary's Women's Fleet Race DESCRIPTION:Regatta UID:130966-21867532@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130966 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:St. Mary's College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:WAC Team Race DESCRIPTION:Regatta UID:130993-21867563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130993 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Washington College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T133729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T220000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pierpont Poetry Project DESCRIPTION:Check out the Pierpont Poetry Project! 50 student-written poems are on display throughout Pierpont Commons. The poems were all inspired by the theme “seeking” but interpreted in many different ways - they explore themes of love\, justice\, family\, loss\, hope\, identity\, and more. Explore the building and find all the poems - for every poem you log\, you’ll be entered into a drawing for a Literati Bookstore gift card! UID:132261-21871714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Poetry LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T170337 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Prison\, a Prisoner\, and a Prison Guard DESCRIPTION:Join us for a multimedia exploration of the impact of prisons on countries and communities across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through the lens of “prison art.” The exhibit delves into the dynamic interplay between incarceration and creative expression to make sense of carceral systems.\n\nBy presenting prison art from various countries in the MENA region\, including Algeria\, Egypt\, Iran\, Iraq\, Lebanon\, Palestine\, Sudan\, Syria\, and Yemen\, this exhibit unfolds as a “journey” into the prison system and demonstrates the ways in which art can be a tool of expression and reconciliation for survivors\, detainees’ families\, and society at large. It promotes drawing parallels between the prison experience in the region and worldwide\, highlights the intentionality of carceral systems\, and expands the conversation to include prison-impacted communities. Viewers are invited to navigate the cross-generational\, human experiences of imprisonment often obscured behind prison walls and within individuals.\n\nCurated by Sumaya Tabbah and Susan Aboeid of The Ḥafathah Collective\, this traveling exhibit was organized by U-M Students Organize for Syria (SOS) in partnership with U-M Library and with support from the U-M Arts Initiative.\n\nPlan to attend the related discussion\, \"Art\, Justice\, and Carcerality: The Role of Creative Expression in the Pursuit of Justice\,\" on February 6. UID:130114-21865419@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - North Lobby CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250124T095019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T230000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World DESCRIPTION:The exhibit \"Being Mixed Race in a Mono-racially Organized World: Interracial Identity in the U.S. and Around the World — What Research and Mixed Race People Tell Us\" is an exploration into the library's collections about the diversity of mixed race heritage. Through research\, narratives\, demographic data\, and a variety of visual and published materials\, explore multifaceted aspects of mixed race heritage with insights from many perspectives.\n\nThe 2020 U.S. Census illuminated a 276 percent increase in individuals who identify as \"two or more races\" since 2010. In recognition of the growing numbers of mixed race-identifying people at the University of Michigan\, throughout the country\, and across the globe\, we're excited to unveil this new exhibit — a unique exploration of changing demographics and intersectional identities. UID:129721-21869081@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library, 2nd Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T131508 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CREES Exhibition. Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity\, an installation by Gluklya DESCRIPTION:Gluklya’s work is a powerful example of socially engaged art at the intersections of gender\, class\, and cultural identity. By focusing on experiences of female textile workers in Kyrgyzstan\, the artist explores the often-overlooked stories of women affected by Soviet and post-Soviet colonialism. \"Threading the Needle: Vestiges of Colonialism and Femininity\" retells their stories using a diverse range of media — film\, sculpture\, watercolors\, and felt tapestries. Unfolding the implications of economic and societal pressures on women\, Gluklya explores issues of poverty\, isolation\, and exploitation among the garment workers.\n \n Personal stories are woven into a broader social context — such as the legacy of the \"Likbez\" (liquidation of illiteracy) campaign among women in Central Asia during Soviet rule and entrenched patriarchal traditions\, like \"Ala Kachuu\" (bride-kidnapping). This dynamic — where colonization and modernization intertwine the individual lives they touch — raises questions about cultural identity and the ethical borders of decolonized research.\n\nThis exhibition was curated by CREES alumna Dianne Beal (BA REES '79). See more of her work here: https://www.diannebeal.com/curatorial.\n \nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:132161-21870460@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132161 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,eastern europe LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Gallery, Room 547 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250328T143513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership and Culture: Strategies to Prevent Workplace Issues and Retaliation DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website. UID:125919-21856292@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125919 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Communication,Leadership LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240910T113929 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WCEE Exhibition. Threads of Tradition: The Art of Ukrainian Vyshyvanka DESCRIPTION:The act of embroidering and weaving designs onto cloth is deeply rooted in Ukrainian traditions. Embellished clothing (sorochky)\, ritual cloths (rushnyky)\, and household textiles accompany a person from birth until death\, punctuating important life events in between. A variety of embroidery patterns are used throughout Ukraine\; some stitches are universally known\, while others are region-specific. Ukrainian embroidered clothing is now officially celebrated with an annual Vyshyvanka Day observed throughout the world in May.\n\nTo see photos and read more about exhibited items\, visit https://myumi.ch/AZedA\n \n The embroideries and textiles exhibited are from the private collections of Arnie Klein\, Solomia Soroka\, Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova\, and from the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum located in Hamtramck\, Michigan.\n \n The exhibit opens on September 5\, 2024\, in 1010 Weiser Hall\, 500 Church Street\, Ann Arbor. Contact weisercenter@umich.edu to schedule a viewing.\n\n*The exhibition is cosponsored by the Ukrainian American Archives & Museum*.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:123893-21855039@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123893 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,visual arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250207T161425 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:STS 25th Anniversary Conference\, March 14 DESCRIPTION:The U-M Science\, Technology\, and Society Program is excited to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a conference featuring distinguished graduate student alumni and former program directors in conversation with current faculty members. Join us to help inspire the next quarter century of U-M STS!\n\nComplete details on the STS webpage. UID:132524-21871157@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132524 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Science Technology And Society LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250219T082619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Andy Ross Exhibition DESCRIPTION:The pieces here are from a large series of works made over the last several years. In them\, Ross explores humor and personal meaning through absurd juxtapositions of pairs of wildly varied images. Each single image is stripped of its original context (be it\, for example\, a history book\, an instruction manual\, or a magazine advertisement)\, placed on a white background like some kind of specimen\, and presented afresh with a new “companion image.” These companion images confront\, contrast and converse with each other\, and thereby build new relationships\, narratives\, jokes\, and contexts.\n\nAndy Ross grew up in Macomb County\, and has been making art in various mediums since the 1970s. He received a BFA degree from College for Creative Studies\, and an MFA degree from University of Michigan. He has taught photography\, art\, and web design at colleges in California and Michigan. His photographs and collages have been exhibited in schools\, galleries\, and museums across the United States. UID:130827-21867070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Connection Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T124154 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Breaking with Tradition DESCRIPTION:Artist John Rizzo is exhibiting individual mixed-media sculptures that bridge across art\, design\, and craft. Using a combination of materials that are historically perceived as precious John's work distorts\, disrupts\, and re-contextualizes perceptions of materials and their values. His work is at once \, colorful \, playful \, layered and deeply self-reflective in its personal narrative. UID:131384-21868381@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131384 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,artists,artists and curators,arts,arts at michigan,Exhibition,free,Visual Arts LOCATION:East Quadrangle - RC Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250123T124159 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Chair Aerobics DESCRIPTION:Lifetime Fitness classes are offered at Briarwood Mall in the JCPenney wing. No experience necessary. Classes are specifically designed for older adults\, however\, everyone is welcome. LTF classes are free\, however\, please consider making a $2/person per class donation as our classes are funded strictly through donations. No registration is necessary\, simply attend when it fits your schedule. Chair Aerobics classes are carefully structured to include a warm-up\, a pre-aerobic stretch\, sitting and standing aerobics\, strength training\, a cooldown\, and a final stretch. UID:131663-21868917@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131663 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:fitness,Health & Wellness LOCATION:Off Campus Location - JCPenney Wing CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250109T113426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Elizabeth Boyd-Hartmann Dizik Exhibition DESCRIPTION:This body of work represents a playful exploration of form\, color\, and scale through the lens of cellular shapes. Inspired by the complex patterns of biological life\, the pieces are a celebration of growth\, transformation\, and the joy of experimentation. The use of non-precious materials\, such as wood balls and paint\, allowed for a liberating approach to composition and color\, while the spherical forms and circular panels evoke the look of petri dishes—symbolizing both scientific curiosity and organic development.\nBorn in Detroit\, Elizabeth is a multidisciplinary artist and mother based in the metro Detroit area\, where she works from a studio in her home. With a background in bench jewelry\, her earlier work focused on studio jewelry and was represented by Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h in Montreal.\nElizabeth’s work has been exhibited both locally and internationally. She holds a BA in Jewelry Design\, with First Class Honours\, from Central Saint Martins in London\, a BFA from the University of Michigan\, and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art\, where she specialized in Metalsmithing and Architecture. Her diverse practice spans jewelry\, sculpture\, and installation\, blending materials and techniques to explore themes of production\, growth\, transformation\, and organic form. UID:130825-21866979@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130825 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,North Campus,Visual Arts LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Rotunda Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T160709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T164500 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Inaugural Conference on Community Archaeology and Heritage DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the importance of collaboration with local communities in archaeological research and heritage practice\, the University of Michigan is launching a new Center for Community Archaeology and Heritage. In this inaugural conference\, we will highlight the work of teams based at U-M and in southeast Michigan\, along with their local and international colleagues\, to show how this collaborative approach energizes our fields.\n\nRead more\, find the schedule of talks\, and register for online or in-person attendance: https://myumi.ch/e3k33\n\nThis conference is generously sponsored by the University of Michigan’s Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, Museum of Anthropological Archaeology\, Department of Anthropology\, Department of Classical Studies\, Department of the History of Art\, Department of Middle East Studies\, Office of Research\, LSA Research Office\, and Museum Studies Program. Founding support was graciously provided by Sharon Herbert. UID:133649-21873345@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133649 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,conference LOCATION:Michigan League - Michigan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T104926 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:RAW Exhibit DESCRIPTION:“RAW” is a 2024 printmaking portfolio featuring 25 15”x20” works on paper by a diverse group of primarily student artists\, organized by Professor Endi Poskovic of the Stamps Printmedia program. The hand-pulled prints in the set\, which has never been exhibited before\, span media from colorful laser cut woodblock prints\, to lithography\, to copper plate etching. The newly formed Stamps Student-led Exhibitions Committee (SEC) will curate and rotate selections of these prints in alignment with the portfolio’s theme—where time and effort transform raw potential. UID:133001-21872199@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133001 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition LOCATION:Michigan Union - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250211T122734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Redefining the Crown DESCRIPTION:In Winter 2025\, the Lane Hall exhibit space will feature a portraiture series titled Redefining the Crown showcasing the powerful stories of six Black breast cancer survivors.\n\nBased on a photo essay by U-M Faculty Versha Pleasant (MD/MPH) and Ava Purkiss (PhD) in Medicine at Michigan\, this exhibition examines the cultural and personal significance of hair within Black communities\, particularly through the lens of breast cancer treatment and recovery. The term \"crown\" is deeply symbolic in Black culture\, signifying beauty\, strength\, and identity. The featured photo essay by photographer Tafari Stevenson-Howard captures the intimate journeys of Ann Chatman\, Tanisha Kennedy\, Felecia McDaniel\, Shantell Elaine McCoy\, Tamara Lynn Myles\, and Veleria Banks.\n\nThrough their narratives and portraits\, the exhibit examines how these women have navigated the profound impact of hair loss caused by chemotherapy\, inviting the audience to witness their stories with radical empathy. It explores the cultural pride and personal identity intricately tied to their hair\, and how these elements are redefined amidst their battles with breast cancer.\n\nThe exhibit will be on view from January 21\, 2025 to August 8\, 2025. This exhibition is presented with support from IRWG\, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies\, and Michigan Medicine. \n\nLocated on the first floor of Lane Hall (204 S. State Street)\, the Exhibit Space is free and open to the public\, M-F\, 9am-4pm. UID:129602-21864070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:african american,Art,institute for research on women and gender,women,Women's And Gender Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T063843 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Special Interdisciplinary QC-CM Seminar | What are altermagnets and why are they special? DESCRIPTION:Altermagnetic materials are characterized by collinear magnetic order with a vanishing net magnetic moment\, but nevertheless have a spin-splitting in their non-relativistic electronic band structure. From ab initio calculations we have identified around 60 altermagnetic materials. From a theoretical point of view several physical properties that render altermagnets different from canonical antiferro-\, ferro- and ferri-magnets will be discussed. These include certain spin and heat transport features and piezomagnetic responses. By symmetry in principle also an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) may be allowed and we introduce an altermagnetic model in which the emergence of an AHE is driven by interactions. Quantum Monte Carlo simulations show that the system undergoes a finite temperature phase transition governed by a primary antiferromagnetic order parameter accompanied by a secondary altermagnetic one. The emergence of both orders turns the metallic state of the system\, away from half-filling\, into an altermagnet with zero net moment but finite AHE.\n\nReferences:\n— Y. Guo\, H. Liu\, O. Janson\, I.C. Fulga\, J. van den Brink\, and J.I. Facio\, Spin-split collinear antiferromagnets: A large-scale ab-initio study\, Materials Today Physics\, 32\, 100991 (2023)\n— T. Sato\, S. Haddad\, I.C. Fulga\, F.F. Assaad\, and J. van den Brink\, Altermagnetic anomalous Hall effect emerging from electronic correlations\, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133\, 086503 (2024)\n— O. Gomonay\, V. P. Kravchuk\, R. Jaeschke-Ubiergo\, K. V. Yershov\, T. Jungwirth\, L. Šmejkal\, J. van den Brink\, J. Sinova\, Structure\, control\, and dynamics of altermagnetic textures\, npj Spintronics 2\, 35 (2024)\n— C. Li\, M. Hu\, Z. Li\, Y. Wang\, W. Chen\, B. Thiagarajan\, M. Leandersson\, C. Polley\, T. Kim\, H. Liu\, C. Fulga\, M.G. Vergniory\, O. Janson\, O. Tjernberg\, and J. van den Brink\, Topological Weyl Altermagnetism in CrSb\, arXiv:2405.14777 (2024)\n\nJeroen van den Brink is a Dutch theoretical condensed matter physicist renowned for his contributions to the understanding of strongly correlated quantum materials. Since 2009\, he has served as the Director of the Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics at the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW) in Dresden\, Germany. He also holds a professorship in solid-state theory at the Dresden University of Technology.\n\nVan den Brink earned his PhD from the University of Groningen and was a professor of theoretical condensed matter physics\, working at Leiden University and Radboud University Nijmegen\, The Netherlands. In 2009\, he was a visiting professor at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science.\n\nHis research focuses on theoretical condensed matter physics\, particularly electronic structure theory\, correlated electron systems\, topological states of matter\, and the theory of quantum matter. His work has earned him several accolades\, including the Humboldt Research Prize in 2018 and the Van der Waals Professorial Chair at the University of Amsterdam in 2020. UID:130073-21865214@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130073 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:Randall Laboratory - 2464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250221T154833 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Stay in the Blue Pop-Up DESCRIPTION:Join Wolverine Wellness to talk about how you plan ahead for social gatherings! Share your tips while you grab free well packs and snacks. Chat with us a bit longer and enter to win $10 Blue Bucks.\n\nhttps://wolverinewellness.umich.edu/ \nhttps://wolverinewellness.umich.edu/stay-in-the-blue UID:114140-21872253@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/114140 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:St Patrick's Day,Well-being,Wellness LOCATION:Haven Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241203T104657 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Bibliophile and the Library: Private-Press Books from the Collection of Bill Heidrich DESCRIPTION:View beautifully illustrated books that stand as remarkable testaments to the work of twentieth-century small private presses\, which\, in contrast to the trend of mass commercialization\, produced limited editions that celebrated the uniqueness of manual craftsmanship. Features such as exquisite typeface design\, letterpress printing\, handmade paper\, traditional illustration techniques like woodcut and engraving\, and the inclusion of original art by renowned artists highlight the presses' dedication to artistry and detail.\n\nThe display opens with an edition of \"The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer\,\" published in 1896 by William Morris at his Kelmscott Press\, a pivotal press that greatly influenced the development of the private press movement as a means of preserving and revitalizing the fine printing and art traditions of the past. Additionally\, the exhibit includes some examples of artist’s proofs\, offering a glimpse into the intricate creative process behind these exceptional works.\n\nThese books are on loan from the collection of Bill Heidrich\, a long-time supporter of the University of Michigan Library. UID:129585-21863762@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T092048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The New McCarthyism: The Future of DEI and Academic Freedom in Higher Education (Two Events Addressing Current Sociopolitical Pressures on Higher Education) DESCRIPTION:EVENT 1: Manufactured Rage Against DEI as an Affront to Academic FreedomThe principles and practices of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion (DEI) have material\, individual and societal benefits as evidenced by years of interdisciplinary research and scholarship. Despite gains due to these efforts\, higher education and other social institutions are being targeted for their commitment to and investments in DEI\, in favor of race\, identity\, or characteristic specific evasive approaches that do not account for historical and contemporary discriminatory and exclusionary practices that make DEI necessary. Though DEI initiatives are the current target\, DEI only serves as an entry point into higher education with the intent of disrupting and dismantling the institution with academic freedom being another major target. Many scholars across a wide range of fields and disciplines interrogate inequities and disparities within and across groups and are now at risk of their research and scholarship being politicized and demonized due to an intensifying culture war that devalues the merit of such research\, scholarship\, and praxis. During this lecture and panel\, Isaac Kamola\, Associate Professor of Political Science at Trinity College\, will give a speak on the genesis of current attacks on Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and their implications on academic freedom\, followed by a panel where panelists will consider why attacks on DEI are an affront to academic freedom\, how such attacks impact critical areas of research\, and the impact on higher education and society at large. Lastly\, the panel will imagine possibilities for collaborative strategies within and outside of the academy to counteract these attacks.  \nAfter the event\, a reception will be held in Victors Hall. Boxed food will be available for anyone observing Ramadan to take home. \nNOTE: To attend this session remotely\, please register via this link.  \nEVENT 2: The New McCarthyism: Authoritarianism and the Future of Academic Freedom\nAcademic freedom has continuously been subject to political and governmental pressures operating to censor subjects deemed controversial. Historically and now\, political and governmental pressures have led to McCarthy-esque crusades intent on rooting out alleged idealogues bent on indoctrinating students with “dangerous” ideas. Today\, these attacks on higher education have been turbo-charged\, with a well-funded and well-organized barrage of governmental and political forces operating collectively to undermine academic freedom. Faculty are facing pressures to avoid a multitude of subjects\, including DEI\, gender studies\, climate science\, women’s healthcare\, the Middle East\, critical race theory\, and vaccines. The combined impact of these pressures threatens the vigorous inquiry necessary for advancing human understanding. This panel discussion will consider historic and contemporary political and governmental attacks on higher education\, campus speech\, and institutional responses\, and it will offer suggestions toward counteracting such authoritarian efforts to limit academic freedom.Breakfast refreshments and snacks will be provided during the event. To-go boxes will be available for anyone observing Ramadan to take home. Watch the livestream here: https://youtube.com/live/5RgwMbb7TVM?feature=share\n UID:133146-21872440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133146 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T151032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Well-being:\"Let's Talk\": Informal\, Drop-In Mental Health Counseling DESCRIPTION:Trained mental health counselors are now available for drop-in conversations at different times and locations across campus\, including at Trotter\, the Spectrum Center\, South Quad\, the International Center\, and Bursley.\n\nThis informal\, confidential “office hours” style can be a great fit for students unsure about formal counseling\; for those with a specific\, time-limited concern they’d like to talk through\; or those seeking information on campus resources. Please note: this is not meant for crisis or emergency support.\n\n\"Let's Talk\" will run from January 20th 2025 to April 25th 2025. There will be no drop-ins the week of Spring Break (March 3rd - 7th). \n\nMonday: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm with Markie Silverman\, Ph.D.\, LP\, Room 2035 in Trotter Multicultural Center\nTuesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Marcella A. Beaumont\, Ph.D.\, Room 3032 in The Spectrum Center (Michigan Union)\nWednesday: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm with Emily Malinowski\, LMSW\, Room 1721A in South Quad Housing\nThursday: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm with Ling Liu\, Ph.D. & Chunyu Xu\, M.Ed.\, M.S.Ed.\, Conference Room in the International Center\nFriday: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm with Kayla Douglas\, LMSW\, and Emily Powers\, LLMSW\, Room 2329B in Bursley Housing UID:131469-21868570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131469 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessible,Casual,Confidential,Drop-in,free,Health & Wellness,health and wellness,health communication,Inclusion,mental health,Mindfulness,relationship,relationships,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,university health service,Well-being LOCATION:Bursley Hall - 2329B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T113808 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:7th Annual Likert Symposium Generating and Classifying Text: Challenges and Benefits of Using Language Models in Social Research DESCRIPTION:7th Annual Likert Symposium\nGenerating and Classifying Text: Challenges and Benefits of Using Language Models in Social Research\n\nMarch 14\, 2025\n10:00 am - 1:00pm EDT\nOnline registration is required. It is a free live symposium. Zoom information forthcoming after registration. \n\nWelcome: Fred Conrad\, University of Michigan\, Survey Research Center\n\nTrent Buskirk\, Old Dominion University\, School of Data Science\nLLMs are Large\, but should they be in Charge? Exploring the Possibility and Implausibility of Large Language Models in Survey Science\n\nHaomiao Jin\, University of Surrey\, School of Health Sciences\nExploring an AI-Powered Survey Interviewing Agent for Individuals Who Are Blind or Severely Visually Impaired\n\nJoelle Abramowitz\, University of Michigan\, Institute for Social Research\nUsing Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Health and Retirement Study \n\nJames Bisbee\, Vanderbilt University\, Data Science Institute\n\"What To Do When Your Language Model is Not State of the Art: When (not) to Worry About Misclassification and How to Correct for It in Social Science Applications\" UID:132883-21872022@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132883 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Anthropology,Artificial Intelligence,Basic Science,Bias,Biomedical,Biosciences,brown bag,conference,Data,Data Analysis,Data Collection,Data Curation,Data Linkage,Data Management,Data Science,Digital Media,Free,Health,Health & Wellness,Health And Retirement Study,Health Data,Health Equity,Lecture,Livestream,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Science,Selection Bias,Social,Social Sciences,Sociology,Statistics,Survey Methodology,Survey Research,symposium,Talk,Virtual,Webcast,Webinar,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:A Gathering DESCRIPTION:Welcome. Make Yourself At Home.\n \nA Gathering brings together the newest works of art to enter UMMA’s collection — many on display here for the first time. \n \nAs a free\, public museum\, UMMA staff takes care of art for the benefit of the community and society at large. The works on view in this exhibition\, all brought into the Museum between 2019 and the present\, shows how institutions like UMMA are becoming more permeable to societal challenges\, and more nimble in responding to them in service to all in their communities. In this exhibition you will find works that reflect on how global migrations\, race\, gender\, and ecological change shape the way we engage with the world and inform our visions for the future.\n \nThis collection of artistic engagements with issues give us tools to envision who we want to be as individuals\, as a museum\, and as a society\, connected to one another across space and experience.\n \nSo gather here to take in these latest works of art brought here for you. Gather here to be engulfed in their forms and meanings\, to discuss their takes\, to learn\, to disagree. Gather to relax\, make a friend\, drink a coffee\, finish the daily Wordle. Gather to feel full\, to be moved and inspired by all the possible imaginations of what is yet to come.\n \nCurated by Félix Zamora Gómez Irving Stenn\, Jr. Fellow in Public Humanities & Museum Pedagogy\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch\, the Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment\, and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost.\n  UID:107870-21818064@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/107870 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Humanities,Museum,Staff,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T092048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:CE & A/PIA Studies RIW Guest Speaker: Eunice Sang Eun Lee\, \"Digesting the Empire\" DESCRIPTION:Eunice Sang Eun Lee from the University of Indiana will give a talk hosted by the CE & A/PIA Studies RIW on Friday\, March 14th from 10 to 11:30 AM in Angell Hall 3184. Please attend! Coffee and bagels will be provided. She will discuss her recent research\, and then there will be time for Q&A about her research and advice on the academic job market. Eunice Lee's bio: Her current book project\, Digesting the Empire: Embodying Life beyond Militarized Circulations across the Pacific Ocean\, [focuses] on three matters—meatpacking byproducts\, radioactive materials and microplastics—she traces the ideological foundation for imperial expansion and its incommensurability with indigenous and diasporic communities’ worldviews and ways of life. UID:133688-21873408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133688 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Angell Hall 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T153226 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Meeting:La Tertulia: Spanish Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:Spanish Coffee & Conversation Hours\n\nALL LEVELS AND STUDENTS WELCOME!\n- Practice your Spanish speaking skills with students and instructors in a welcoming and relaxed setting\n- Free coffee\, tea\, light snacks\, and baked goods\n- Get advice on courses and discuss study abroad\n\nEvery Friday\, Winter 2025\nJanuary 10 to April 18\n10:00am - 11:00 am\n4th Floor\, MLB Commons UID:130925-21867403@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Coffee,Community,Culture,Discussion,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Food,Free,Humanities,In Person,Inclusion,Interactive,intercultural,Interdisciplinary,Language,multicultural,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social,Spanish,Talk LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T170530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Other:Leaves Under the Lens DESCRIPTION:The leaf surface is a dynamic landscape where tiny\, specialized structures help plants interact with the world around them. Let’s bring this world into view! Join us for an exhibit that highlights the complex and often beautiful anatomy of leaves from the Matthaei collection. Plants throughout the conservatory will be paired with microscope photographs and micro-CT scans that illustrate the otherwise invisible structures that protect leaves from chewing insects\, absorb (or repel!) water\, and even recruit “bodyguards”. You won’t look at leaves the same way again! \n\nThis project is a collaboration between MBGNA and the Weber and Vasconcelos labs in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology\, led by PhD student Rosemary Glos. UID:130943-21867468@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130943 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,eeb,Family,Free,In Person,science LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250228T093004 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:PhD defense: Geyu Liang DESCRIPTION:Join Geyu Liang on March 14 for their dissertation defense titled \"Efficient Sparse Representation Learning with Applications in Personalized and Explainable AI.\" \n\nLearn more about Geyu: https://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/liang-geyu/\n\nChair: Salar Fattahi UID:133288-21872695@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133288 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - Room G610/G618 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250114T073306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T200000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Pi Day DESCRIPTION:Pi day is almost here! On 3/14\, assorted pies will be served at dining halls throughout the day as a way to celebrate this iconic number.\n\nThis event is included with your residential meal plan. Those with block plans can use a meal swipe to enter. All other guests will pay the door rate to dine in the dining halls. UID:131104-21867749@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131104 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dessert,Food,Free,In Person,Meal,Michigan Dining,Undergraduate Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250205T144158 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Annie Qu\, Chancellor’s Professor\, Department of Statistics\, University of California\, Irvine. DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Recent advances in dynamic treatment regimes (DTRs) provide powerful optimal treatment searching algorithms\, which are tailored to individuals’ specific needs and able to maximize their expected clinical benefits. However\, existing algorithms could suffer from insufficient sample size under optimal treatments\, especially for chronic diseases involving long stages of decision-making. To address these challenges\, we propose a novel individualized learning method which estimates the DTR with a focus on prioritizing alignment between the observed treatment trajectory and the one obtained by the optimal regime across decision stages. By relaxing the restriction that the observed trajectory must be fully aligned with the optimal treatments\, our approach substantially improves the sample efficiency and stability of inverse probability weighted based methods. In particular\, the proposed learning scheme builds a more general framework which includes the popular outcome weighted learning framework as a special case of ours. Moreover\, we introduce the notion of stage importance scores along with an attention mechanism to explicitly account for heterogeneity among decision stages. We establish the theoretical properties of the proposed approach\, including the Fisher consistency and finite-sample performance bound. Empirically\, we evaluate the proposed method in extensive simulated environments and a real case study for COVID-19 pandemic.\n\n\nhttps://faculty.sites.uci.edu/qulab/ UID:132382-21870849@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132382 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240130T121551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism DESCRIPTION:Organized as a response to the Museum’s recent acquisition of Titus Kaphar’s Flay (James Madison)\, this upcoming reinstallation of one of our most prominent gallery spaces forces us to grapple with our collection of European and American art\, 1650-1850.\n \nIn recent times\, growing public awareness of the continued reverberations of the legacy of slavery and colonization has challenged museums to examine the uncomfortable histories contained in our collections\, and challenged the public to probe the choices we make about those stories. Choices about which artists you see in our galleries\, choices about what relevant facts we share about the works\, and choices about what - out of an infinite number of options - we don’t say about them.\n \nPieces in this exhibition were made at a time when the world came to be shaped by the ideologies of colonial expansion and Western domination. And yet\, that history and the stories of those marginalized do not readily appear in the still lives and portraits on display here. By grappling with what is visible and what remains hidden\, we are forced to examine whose stories and histories are prioritized and why.  \n \nIn this online exhibition\, you can explore our efforts to deeply question the Museum’s collection and our own past complicity in favoring colonial voices. In the Museum gallery\, which will open in early 2021\, you’ll be able to experience the changes we’re making to the physical space to highlight a more honest version of European and American history. \n \nBy challenging our own practice\, and continuing to add to what we know and what we write about the works we display\, UMMA tells a more complex and more complete story of this nation - one that unsettles\, and fails to settle for\, simple narratives. \n \n“Invisible things are not necessarily ‘not there’.... Certain absences are so stressed\, so ornate\, so planned\, they call attention to themselves\; arrest us with intentionality and purpose\, like neighborhoods that are defined by the population held away from them.” \n \n— Toni Morrison\n\nLead support for Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, the U-M Arts Initiative\, and the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund.\n  UID:84303-21621543@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/84303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - European and American Decorative Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250307T123550 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:19700101T000000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Celebrate Pi Day with Michigan IOE! DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars—Pi Day is coming up on March 14 (3.14)! Join us in celebrating this mathematically significant day with delicious pies of all sorts\, and great company.\n\nCome by to enjoy a slice of pie\, test your Pi-related knowledge\, and connect with fellow students\, faculty\, and staff. Stay tuned for more details!\n\nWe hope to see you there—because nothing brings the IOE community together like π! 🥧💙💛 UID:133537-21873215@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133537 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - IOE Community Suite (1700 IOE) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250311T130235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Museums Seminar - Michael Nachman\, University of California\, Berkeley DESCRIPTION:This is a hybrid event. \nJoin remotely: https://umich.zoom.us/j/93181320543?pwd=v6lbUK3JFkzEUjl0LWlVu59d8kaW1A.1\nMeeting ID: 931 8132 0543\nPasscode: 192743 UID:133707-21873425@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133707 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biological science,Biology,department of ecology and evolutionary biology,ecology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,eeb,evolutionary biology,Free,Herbarium,Museum - Herbarium,Museum - Zoology,Museum Of Zoology,zoology LOCATION:Research Museums Center - Demo Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063237 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here:https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1714006Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Let's talk about search strategy!! Get real-time\, personalized support by checking out the in person Internship Lab. You’ll be guided by one of our Career Coaches who hasdesigned this experience to provide you strategies\, tools\, and motivation to get on the right track with searching for internships. Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake\,the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy. **If you're not sure what you're interested in\, consider making an \"Exploring Major/Career Option\" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting. Recent Grads: If you are an alumni\, you will not be able to access the link due the University’s policy of discontinuing alumni Zoom accounts 30 days after graduation. Please contact careercenter@umich.edu with the subject line“Recent Grad Help” to receive either a recording of the session or tobe set up with a 1:1. Include the name of the workshop/event in your email. UID:133037-21872306@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133037 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063220 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:John S. McCain Strategic Defense Fellowship - Virtual Information Session #5 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Defense will be hosting a virtual information session on the John S. McCain Strategic Defense Fellowship Program onFriday\, March 14th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST (8:00 am PT). R.S.V.P. to participate by utilizing the following link - https://forms.osi.apps.mil/r/h04QSXftS1. Upon receipt of your request\, you’ll receive aninvitation to the engagement on MS Teams. Join us to learn about the unique opportunity to potential begin your career in the Federal Government!  UID:132706-21871623@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132706 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250225T091537 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Josh Hazelnis - Dissertation Defense DESCRIPTION:Please join Josh Hazelnis for their dissertation defense titled \"Understanding Liquid Metal Electrode Interfaces for Intermetallic\, Metallic\, and Semiconductor Growth\".\n\n*Date:* Friday\, March 14th\, 2025\n*Time:* 11:00 a.m.\n*Where:* Room 1706\, Chemistry Building\n\nZoom Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96591827762 UID:133124-21872412@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133124 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chemistry LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250212T120014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:LSA Internship Scholarship Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Do you have questions about the LSA Internship Scholarship? Drop in during our virtual office hours! Whether you need help with your application or have any other questions\, we’re here to help. Pop into our Zoom session at a time that works for you. These drop-in style office hours are designed for students who have questions regarding the LSA Internship Scholarship Application or internship eligibility requirements. \n\n\n\nClick Here to Sign Up for your timeslot today!\n\n\n\nThe priority deadline for the scholarship is April 1!\n\n\n\nCant make it? Check out our other dates below:\n\nFebruary 28\, 11am-2pm\n\nMarch 14\, 11am-2pm\n\nMarch 28\, 12-3pm\n\nApril 4\, 11am-2pm\n\nApril 11\, 11am-2pm\n\nApril 25\, 11am-2pm\n\nMay 9\, 12-3pm UID:132632-21871545@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132632 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250127T124921 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Publication Methods Workshop: From Draft to Print DESCRIPTION:Learn more about the academic book publication process\, from the first draft to the printed\, published monograph! We will pre-circulate a chapter from Greg Barnhisel's Code Name Puritan (2024) in advance. \nPlease RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyxyKFZL1GKSq7htrxhPjzfeu4h7ZbARC_T3FvLxqSOsolrw/viewform UID:131928-21869548@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131928 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature,Free,Workshop LOCATION:Angell Hall - 1168 - Hopwood Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063130 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Student Portfolio & Network Building Group Session DESCRIPTION:The NEBDHub invites undergraduate and graduate students from around the world with an interest in data science to the StudentPortfolio &\; Network Building (PNB) Group! Together\, we’ll explore collaboration opportunities for future data science projects andlearn how to build our data science portfolios.Undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in data science are welcome to join PNB meetings\, held three times per academic year. The next PNB networking session will be on Friday\, March 14th\, 2025 at 11:00 AM (ET). March 14\, 2025 at 11:00 AM (ET): Leadership Style Development (Session E) May 16\, 2025 at 11:00 AM (ET): Peer Networking (Session A) Learn more: https://nebigdatahub.org/pnb-group/ UID:129400-21862650@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240620T181506 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T110200 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michelle Hinojosa: Logcabins DESCRIPTION:Stamps Gallery commissioned Michelle Hinojosa (MFA\, 2023) to reimagine the pillars on Division Street that flank the Gallery. Hinojosa has created log cabin quilts to adorn the columns in front of Stamps Gallery. The log cabin quilts traditionally represent the warm hearth at the center of a home. This installation reflects on the interplay between home\, placemaking\, labor\, and intergenerational memories of migration. Rather than quilting cotton designed to softly embrace the body\, these quilts are sewn from outdoor grade\, UV-resistant polyester. The quilt is an ode to Hinojosa’s grandmother who illegally crossed the US/Mexico border holding her babies and her quilts. As she and her family drove across the United States to work in the fields of the Salinas Valley\, the quilts offered a safe space for her and her family. Hinojosa celebrates their resilience to her grandmother and elders while also drawing attention to precarity and violence experienced by refugees and migrants crossing the US-Mexico border in our present today.\nArtist’s bio:\nMichelle Inez Hinojosa is an artist\, educator\, and researcher whose work is informed by Indigenous and Latine/x/a/o studies. Born and raised in Texas\, she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in both drawing and painting and art education with a minor in art history at the University of North Texas. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Michigan. She works with quilting\, bead weaving\, embroidery\, jewelry\, transparent film installations\, painting\, ceramics\, and sculpture to honor and explore the history of migration in her family and humanize the current discourse around migration still occurring at the southern border. Alongside her artwork she maintains a writing practice to re-story\, re-make\, and re-claim the often subordinated narratives of Latinx\, Chicanx\, Mexican\, and Texican peoples. \n\nRecently\, Hinojosa was named an inaugural Creative Careers Artist in Residence at the University of Michigan\, she has also attended residencies at Mildred's Lane (Pennsylvania)\, Anderson Ranch Art Center (Aspen\, CO) and The Cedars Union (Dallas\, TX). UID:122384-21848856@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/122384 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T090623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SMART Manufacturing Seminar Series - Should-Cost: Industry Approach on Design for X DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nShifting mindset from academic exercises of design to industrial application of design strategy is a challenge every engineer faces. The concepts and focus of industrial applications evolve with each Management team\, customer request\, or evolution in the technical strategy so how should we approach thinking about concepts\nof design?\n\nUtilizing experience from someone in industry\, we are going to explore the mindset and concepts taught in a Fortune 500 Automotive supplier for approaching Should-Cost engineering. The goal is to provide insight on how the real-world application of product design can move beyond theoretical concept.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\nUtilizing 10+ years of experience within Dana Inc.\, Amanda oversees the strategic product portfolio for activities driving value through VA/VE\, Complexity Reduction\, and Should-Cost methodology. With education focused in Accounting and Computer Information Systems\, practical experience has been spread across progressive Financial roles and 7 years with strategic responsibility within the engineering community. UID:133752-21873511@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133752 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate Students,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 151 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T112043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:A Carnival Built in H&!!: Responding to the Climate Crisis DESCRIPTION:What happens when the carnival comes to campus--right in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave? Welcome to “A Carnival Built in H&!!: Responding to the Climate Crisis”\, an immersive event where we can practice interdependence and power-building - while playing games and eating cotton candy! Along the way\, connect with Ann-Arbor-based and U-M student orgs to learn more about what they are doing now to build resilience in the face of the climate crisis.Part spectacle\, part survival drill\; the shared goal for this fair is to contribute our efforts toward building just climate futures. Together\, we will celebrate and connect historical and contemporary U-M and Ann-Arbor-based social movement work that sits at the intersection of climate adaptation\, mutual aid\, and the arts. UID:133868-21873628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133868 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250207T135352 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Fair / Festival:A Carnival Built in H&!!: Responding to the Climate Crisis DESCRIPTION:What happens when the carnival comes to campus--right in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave? Welcome to “A Carnival Built in H&!!: Responding to the Climate Crisis”\, an immersive event where we can practice interdependence and power-building - while playing games and eating cotton candy! Along the way\, connect with Ann-Arbor-based and U-M student orgs to learn more about what they are doing now to build resilience in the face of the climate crisis.\n\nPart spectacle\, part survival drill\; the shared goal for this fair is to contribute our efforts toward building just climate futures. Together\, we will celebrate and connect historical and contemporary U-M and Ann-Arbor-based social movement work that sits at the intersection of climate adaptation\, mutual aid\, and the arts. UID:132517-21871070@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Art,climate,Climate Change,Education,Environment,Food,Free,planet blue,Student Org,Sustainability,Well-being LOCATION:Palmer Commons - Windows Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T145221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Community Kickback: Come n Go Series DESCRIPTION:Event will take place from 12-1:30pm & 3-4:30pm\n\nJoin us to celebrate the intriguing world of Pi and the art of storytelling. This special event on Pi Day invites students to indulge in a variety of delicious pies and empanadas\, all paired with steaming coffee and hot cocoa to keep you warm and inspired. While also embracing your creative side as we also honor National Write Your Story Day. You'll have the chance to pen your own narrative and share your experiences with the North Campus community.\n\nUpcoming Events:\nMarch 26 - Women’s History Month\nApril 9 - Robotics Week\nApril 21 - Exam Week UID:133657-21873356@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133657 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Community,Diversity,Engineering,Free,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Multicultural,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Engineering Research Building (ERB - formerly IST) - Student Culture Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250516T153130 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Foundations of Community Engagement DESCRIPTION:Foundations of Community Engagement is an interactive workshop that introduces principles and practices of equitable\, ethical community engagement. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of what the term “community engagement” means\, as well as the many forms it might take - from research and course-based projects to philanthropy\, activism\, policy\, and direct service. Across all these forms of engagement\, participants will learn concepts and actions that promote equitable partnerships\, center community-defined priorities\, and disrupt entrenched power dynamics between universities and community members. Participants will also discuss real-world community engagement scenarios that ask them to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to various situations.\n\n**This workshop is an updated version of Ginsberg’s long-standing Entering\, Engaging\, and Exiting (E3) session. If you’ve attended that session in the past\, you’ll gain additional knowledge from this session.**\n\nRegister for a Session Here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/16509 UID:123162-21862566@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123162 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Free,Ginsberg Center,Graduate Students,Leadership,Student Org,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T115513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Frontiers in Scientific Machine Learning (FSML) Seminar: Alexander Tong (Post-doctoral Fellow\, Mila - Quebec AI Institute) DESCRIPTION:Meeting Link:\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/97823527756?pwd=H01BbvtuG5q02Wzb8LJvhUnvijlAIe.1\n\nAbstract:\nGenerative flow models learn a (possibly stochastic) mapping between source and target distributions. Common paradigms include diffusion models\, score matching models\, and continuous normalizing flows. In this talk I will first present methods for improved training of flow models using flow matching objectives using ideas from optimal transport. I will then show how these improved methods can be applied to the tasks of (1) modelling cell dynamics\, which allow us to better understand disease programs –leading to a new potential therapeutic pathway for triple-negative breast cancer and (2) generative protein design\, with applications to biologic drug discovery.\n\nBio:\nAlexander Tong is a postdoctoral fellow at Mila with Yoshua Bengio\, visiting researcher at Oxford with Michael Bronstein\, cofounder of Dreamfold—a protein design startup\, and incoming assistant professor at Duke University starting July 2025. Alex completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Yale University in 2021 with Smita Krishnaswamy. His research interests span generative modeling\, graph signal processing\, and optimal transport to understand biological systems with a focus on cells and proteins. UID:133679-21873397@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133679 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ai In Science And Engineering,Artificial Intelligence,Micde LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 1642 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T144046 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Heartfulness Guided Meditation DESCRIPTION:Heartfulness Guided Meditation is a weekly\, drop-in program designed to help you Mental well-being. \n\nAll U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to participate in guided meditation practice with a trainer every Friday at noon over Zoom (details to join are provided below). No prior experience with meditation is required. \n\n*What will you learn?*\n\nThe guided meditation practice involves three simple steps: relaxation\, rejuvenation\, and meditation.\n\nRelaxation brings your body to a calm\, steady posture creating a stillness at the physical level\, and prepares the mind for meditation. We follow this with a rejuvenation method to detox the mind to let go of stress and complex emotions\, and will leave you feeling light and refreshed. Lastly\, learning to meditate by being mindful of your heart will connect you with yourself by listening to your heart’s voice. \n\n*Why Meditate?*\n\nWhile physical fitness keeps our bodies in shape\, meditation is an exercise for the mind and mental wellness. In addition to the measurable benefits mentally and physically\, many people benefit from an unquantifiable inner poise and harmony. \n\n*Please take Learn to Meditate session if you are new to the practice. These sessions are offered Monthly.* https://events.umich.edu/event/128708\n\n*Event Details*\n\nHeartfulness Guided Meditation \nFridays from 12-12:30 p.m. ET (except during university season days / holidays)\nJoin Via Zoom Meeting\nRegister to receive Passcode (see “Related links”\n\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by ITS Teaching & Learning and provided at no cost by heartfulness.org. UID:88544-21865080@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/88544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Health & Wellness,Well-being LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T181733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jenna Moon\, carillon DESCRIPTION:SMTD doctoral alumna Jenna Moon performs on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. The largest bell\, which strikes the hour\, weighs 12 tons\, while the smallest bell\, 4½ octaves above\, weighs just 15 pounds.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are provided for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon. UID:132188-21870564@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132188 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Free,Music,Talk LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250108T122959 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:LSA Mentorship Program: Self-Care Therapy Dog Event DESCRIPTION:The Self-Care Community Hour is open to any student. This is an optional session for all students participating in the LSA Mentorship Program.\n\nThis is a drop-in event designed for relaxing and unwinding\, so feel free to join us whenever you can! There will be a therapy dog onsite from TBD. Snacks and other activities will also be available.\n\nWhat you’ll gain by attending:\n\n An opportunity to unwind and prioritize your well-being in a supportive community setting.\n\n The chance to interact with a therapy dog for a unique and calming experience.\n\n A personalized self-care plan tailored to your needs and an opportunity to unwind with fun activities.\n\nRSVP now to be a part of the conversation. Lunch will be provided\n\nRSVP today to reserve your spot for this upcoming workshop. Once your RSVP is complete\, you’ll receive a confirmation email with the event details.\n\nThe Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. This event is on the first floor of a wheelchair accessible building which includes wheelchair-accessible restrooms on the first floor\, a gender-inclusive and accessible restroom on the first floor as well\, and places to sit or stand during the event. To request other accommodations please contact LSA Hub Events at lsa.hubevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4674 so we can make arrangements. UID:129949-21864928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129949 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lsa Opportunity Hub,Networking,Therapeutic,Undergraduate Students,Well-being,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 1250 Weiser Collaborative Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T174948 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar> Searching for messages carried by messenger RNAs DESCRIPTION:Host: Ping He UID:131631-21868853@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131631 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Natural Sciences,Research,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250110T130940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:More than Gray: Reimagining Early America in Full Color DESCRIPTION:The American past was lived in full color\, but this vibrant history can be easily missed in surviving evidence. You can’t deny that there’s something about a black-and-white photograph that feels… stuffy. With portraits showing people with their shirts buttoned right to the neck and everything in shades of gray and brown\, our imaginations can incline to thinking of the past as a bit staid\, if not downright dull. But look a little closer\, and you’ll see signs that the fashion choices available to those who came before us were more colorful than you might first think. From the fabrics they wore\, to the games they played\, or the books they read\, their world was alive with bright hues. This exhibit invites you to reimagine history with a fuller color palette and picture the vibrancy and joy that just might be hidden behind the unsmiling photographs.\n\nExhibition opening weekdays from 12-4. UID:130748-21866773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130748 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,american history,Exhibit,Exhibition,Free,history,libraries,Library LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250806T162329 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Sea Monsters DESCRIPTION:The film follows a curious and adventurous Dolichorhynchops – familiarly known as a ‘dolly’ – as she travels through the most dangerous oceans in history. Along the way\, she encounters long-necked plesiosaurs\, giant turtles\, enormous fish\, fierce sharks\, and the most dangerous sea monster of all– the mosasaur. UID:121866-21871079@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/121866 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,museums,natural history museum LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063248 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Students & Grads Virtual Event: Tech Case Workshop DESCRIPTION:Join us for a comprehensive review of the Capital One Tech Interview Process in this replay event.In this workshop\, Capital One professionals will guide participants through two key parts of the interview process\; the Technical Interview and the technical case interviewFirst\, you’ll follow along for a practice Technical Interview\, unveiling insights into expectations and offering valuable preparation tips.Next\, a Capital One Case Interviewer will walk you through a sample Technical Case Interview.While the content is prerecorded\, there will be a recruiter present to address your questions live in a Q&\;A BoothThis replay event is designed to enhance your readiness for Capital One Students and Grads Tech Case Interview experiences. This session will support your preparation for the Technology Internship Program and full- time Technology Development Program.Join us for an engaging experience designed to support your career journey into the tech industry!To view a list of other upcoming events\, check out our landing page. If you’d like to learn more about us\, feel free to browse our blog homepage and get a snapshot of #LifeAtCapitalOne. UID:133319-21872752@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133319 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T120031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Training at Washington Jefferson DESCRIPTION:Training at Washington Jefferson UID:132872-21871983@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132872 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Washington Jefferson College CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T140042 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Units and scales in the bioarchaeology of the Middle Period San Pedro oases\, northern Chile DESCRIPTION:The San Pedro oases\, one of the few habitable locales in northern Chile’s Atacama Desert\, have been a focus of human occupation for some 4000 years. During the Middle Period (AD 500–1000)\, populations in the oases grew\, perhaps as a result of the incorporation of local communities in the Tiwanaku sphere of influence. Intensive bioarchaeological\, radiometric\, and isotopic analysis of hundreds of well-preserved skeletons from the oases’ numerous cemeteries has revealed a marked diversity of lifeways\, some that conform to expectations and others that defy homogenizing narratives. This work also raises questions about the scales and units of bioarchaeological analysis\, encouraging certain reconsideration but also opening new possibilities for future research. UID:133654-21873349@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133654 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology LOCATION:West Hall - 111 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250207T161055 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 SUMMARY:Tours:Coral Reef Tank Visit DESCRIPTION:Join Professor Jim Bardwell for a peek behind the scenes at his large coral reef tank featuring many species of coral\, anemone\, and fish. Explore reef ecology and\, if you're lucky\, get a glimpse of a reclusive octopus! 30 minutes\, limit 12 people. This program takes place in the research area of the Biological Sciences Building and is recommended for ages 6 and up.\nSpace is available first come\, first served. Sign up and meet at the Welcome desk. UID:125537-21871154@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/125537 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,natural history museum LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Welcome Desk CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250305T114201 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Extractivism Workshop DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, we will discuss the emergence of extractivism as a key concept in the environmental humanities. We will review the history of extractivism in Latin America as well as various aesthetic forms of its representation. In advance of the workshop\, please read Carolyn Fornoff’s keyword essay “Extractivism\,” from the Handbook of Latin American Environmental Aesthetics. UID:133447-21873110@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133447 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,book discussion,Books,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Environment,free,Global,humanities,In Person,Inclusion,institute for the humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Latin America,literary,literature,multicultural,Research,Romance Languages And Literatures,Social Impact,social justice,Talk,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (MLB 4314) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250304T161049 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:FA(AI)Q: Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning Presents a Panel Discussion about AI DESCRIPTION:The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning invites you to a discussion on artificial intelligence and its impact on spatial practices and pedagogy. This event brings together guests from both within and beyond the university\, representing a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives on AI. Speakers will engage with questions gathered from students\, faculty\, and staff\, fostering a dialogue shaped by the concerns and curiosities of our academic community.\n\nThe discussion will explore key themes\, including the future of AI in higher education and learning\, issues of transparency\, bias\, and ethical use\, its evolving role in design and creative professions\, and the broader political economy of AI and institutional response. We look forward to a critical conversation as we grapple with the real-time complexities of AI and what it means for the world we’re shaping.\n\n(Note: The symposium’s parenthetical title is a playful mashup of AI and the Internet Age’s focus on posting concise lists of questions in FAQs.)\n\nSchedule:\n1:00 PM – Opening Remarks\n1:10 PM – 2:30 PM – Panel 1\n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM – Panel 2\n4:00 PM – 5:00 PM – Reflection\n\nThis event is supported by the Guido A. Binda Exhibit and Lecture fund. For seven decades\, Guido Binda\, B.Arch.’31\, practiced architecture in Western Michigan\, specializing in school design. Guido\, with his wife Elizabeth\, created this fund to provide for an exhibit program and annual lecture by visiting professionals. UID:133420-21873084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133420 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,architecture fellows,architecture lecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building - A. Alfred Taubman Wing Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250117T103736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race\, Ethnicity and Politics DESCRIPTION:Racial and ethnic identities play a key role in shaping behaviors\, attitudes\, institutions and social structures. As such\, scholars across disciplines have been devoted to investigating how race and ethnicity feature in every aspect of social and political life. The purpose of I-REP (Interdisciplinary Workshop in Race\, Ethnicity and Politics) is to provide a space for scholars whose research centers race\, ethnicity and politics across a number of fields to receive critical feedback on the early stages of their work (especially graduate students)\, build community with other researchers who share similar interests and offer an opportunity for participants to collaborate on a joint research project within the working group. UID:112497-21868257@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/112497 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Department Of Political Science,Political Science LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Room 104 in South Kedzie building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T084503 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kreativwerkstatt DESCRIPTION:Chat in German and express yourself creatively. Crafting\, coloring\, painting\, drawing\, knitting\, sewing\, crochet\, embroidery\, origami? You will combine speaking German\, any level welcome\, beginners included\, and creatively expressing yourself. You are encouraged to bring your own materials or (ongoing) projects\, but we will also provide some materials and prompts each week. Contact Laura Okkema (lokkema@umich.edu) or Iris Zapf-Garcia (iriszaga@umich.edu.) with questions. UID:131293-21868143@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,German Studies,Germanic Languages And Literatures LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3030 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T181734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T132000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T135000 SUMMARY:Performance:Tiffany Ng\, carillon DESCRIPTION:University Carillonist Tiffany Ng performs on the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Carillon\, an instrument of 60 bells with the lowest bell (bourdon) weighing 6 tons.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Lurie Carillon every weekday that classes are in session. During these recitals\, visitors may take the elevator to level 2 to view the largest bells\, or to level 3 to see the carillonist performing. (Visitors subject to acrophobia are recommended to visit level 2 only.) An optional spiral stairway between levels 2 and 3 allows for up-close views of some of the largest bells. UID:132189-21870565@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132189 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Music,North Campus,Talk LOCATION:Lurie Ann & Robert H. Tower CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260112T132416 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Digital Accessibility Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Got questions about digital accessibility\, Title II compliance\, or how to make digital content accessible? \n\n-Come to virtual drop-in office hours!\n-Every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month\n-1:30 - 3:00pm \n-Zoom Meeting ID 935 9909 5960\n-Digital accessibility experts available to help you\n\nOpen to everyone from all U-M campuses (Ann Arbor\, Dearborn\, Flint\, Michigan Medicine).\n\nCan’t make it to Office Hours but have a question? Contact us (https://accessibility.umich.edu/contact-services)!\n\nIf you need accommodations to participate in office hours\, let us know by emailing ADAcoordinator@umich.edu. UID:132601-21871360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Accessibility,Communication,Digital Accessibility,Disability,Faculty,Graduate Students,Office Hours,Staff,Undergraduate Students,Virtual LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240906T085450 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T153000 SUMMARY:Other:IPE Friday Free Passport Photos for Engineering Students DESCRIPTION:Need a passport photo for a passport or visa application? International Programs in Engineering (IPE) has got you covered! \n\n-Fall & Winter Semester Only\n-Fridays 1:30-3:30pm at the IPE Office (245 Chrysler Center)\n-No Appointment Needed\n-Not During Exam Week or Holidays\n\nThis service is for CoE undergraduate and graduate students. \nFor best results\, wear darker colored\, solid (non patterned) shirt/top UID:53322-21850436@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/53322 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,International,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 245 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250120T133553 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:People’s Talk Makes Things Happen: Member Interactions Energize Structural Changes in a Growing Organization DESCRIPTION:There is a longstanding interest in the development of new ventures\, but little is known about how the design and structure of young firms grow and change as the firm grows. We propose and explore that various changes in patterns and content of member interactions correspond with changes in the structure of a growing firm. We examine this idea with quantitative inductive analyses of nearly 700\,000 messages\, sent on the Slack platform\, by members of a hi-tech firm as it grew from 40 to 402 employees over 5 years. We use big data quantitative tools to analyze and identify trends in the data and use inductive analyses to suggest theory about the interface of leader behaviors\, employee interaction behaviors and structural changes. Our theory suggests three core arguments: First\, as leaders add new members to the organization\, we show gradual growth in member responding to other people\, which we infer to be an increase in interactions (rather than “mere” statements) that serve to an integration of member efforts. Second\, as leaders assign people to various areas\, we show a lagging but clear uptick in tendency of members to select interaction partners from within their functional area\, which we suggest shows members’ interactions as gradual drivers of the structural grouping of members. Third\, as leaders allocate the organization’s work among functional areas\, we see a (partial\, incomplete\, yet clear) distinction between different functional areas in the content of interactions\, suggesting an emerging division of labor\, or a focus in the types of work different areas perform. Taken together\, our theory suggests a process of convergent structural elaboration of growing firms\, wherein design decisions of leaders and the interactions of members converge over time constructing the structures through which organizational work is accomplished. UID:131471-21868505@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131471 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,Capitalism,Career,Collective Behavior,Communication,Communication Studies,Corporate,Discussion,Entrepreneurship,Free,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Lecture,Organizational Studies,Presentation,Psychology,seminar,Speaker,Talk LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250325T201430 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T143000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Black Holes DESCRIPTION:This cutting-edge production works with data generated by supercomputer simulations to bring the current science of black holes to the dome screen. It includes immersive animations of the formation of the early universe\, star birth and death\, the collision of giant galaxies\, and a simulated flight to a super-massive black hole lurking at the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Preceded by brief star talk.\n\nThe new Planetarium & Dome Theater has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour prior to show. UID:69345-21871121@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69345 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Museum of Natural History - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063207 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Lab Arts Career Fair DESCRIPTION:The EXCEL Lab will host an Arts Career Fair at the School of Music\, Theatre &\; Dance (SMTD) on Friday\, March 14th\, from 2 PM to 5 PM. The event will take place in the Student Commons of the Earl V. Moore Building. This career fair will feature opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs\, internships\, training programs\, networking\, and more!  Confirmed organizations include: Interlochen Center for The Arts MPulse (E&\;O)Ross Business CultureSource Ann Arbor Summer FestivalDetroit OperaAnn Arbor Symphony OrchestraUniversity Musical SocietyArts Initiative UM SMTD HR ArtsEngineCity of Farmington Hills Cultural Arts DivisionThe ArkMichigan TheatreArt Ops - Great Lakes Chamber Music FestivalCollege of Engineering Office of Culture\, Community\, and Equity Detroit Symphony Orchestra  UID:132613-21871394@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250214T105852 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Lab Arts Career Fair DESCRIPTION:The EXCEL Lab will host an Arts Career Fair at the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance (SMTD) on Friday\, March 14th\, from 2 PM to 5 PM. The event will take place in the Student Commons of the Earl V. Moore Building. This career fair will feature opportunities for full-time and part-time jobs\, internships\, training programs\, networking\, and more! \n\nConfirmed organizations include: \n\nInterlochen Center for The Arts \nMPulse (E&O)\nRoss Business \nCultureSource \nAnn Arbor Summer Festival\nDetroit Opera\nAnn Arbor Symphony Orchestra\nUniversity Musical Society\nArts Initiative \nUM SMTD HR \nArtsEngine\nCity of Farmington Hills Cultural Arts Division\nThe Ark\nMichigan Theatre\nArt Ops - Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival\nCollege of Engineering Office of Culture\, Community\, and Equity UID:132777-21871805@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132777 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Career,Dance,Entrepreneurship,Museum,Music,Networking,Professional Development,Recruiting,Theater,UMS,Visual Arts LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Student Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250116T102001 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:LGBTea DESCRIPTION:Sip\, spill\, or just chill—we're taking a break! Bookmark your spot\, close that laptop\, and join us at Spectrum Center for some LGBTea. Relax with some tabletop and Switch games\, activities\, community\, and more. Then leave recharged and ready to take on the rest of your day. Your body and mind will thank you later.\n\n- January 17\, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.\n- February 10\, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.\n- March 14\, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.\n- April 22\, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.\n\nMORE SPECTRUM CENTER EVENTS\nspectrumcenter.umich.edu/events UID:130045-21865177@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130045 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Equity and Inclusion,LGBT,Queer Trans Indigenous People of Color-QTIPOC LOCATION:Michigan Union - Spectrum Center (3020) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250204T090133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Student Sustainability Coalition Coffee Chats DESCRIPTION:Navigating the variety of avenues to engage in sustainability work on campus can be daunting and confusing! Come talk with the Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) to learn more about sustainability initiatives on campus and WE WILL BUY YOU A DRINK!\n\n\n\nCoffee chats happen every Friday from 2-3p at Maizes in The League from 2-3p. Look for the \"SSC: Coffee Chats\" sign!\nCoffee chats also happening on select Mondays at Palmer Commons from 11-12p!\n\nSEE YOU THERE! UID:118258-21862044@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/118258 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Discussion,Ecology,Environment,Graduate and Professional Students,In Person,Interdisciplinary,Prospective Graduate Students,Prospective Undergraduate Students,Social Impact,Sustainability,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250131T144057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T155000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Turning the Ratchet: Dynamic Screening with Multiple Agents DESCRIPTION:We study a dynamic contracting problem with multiple agents and limited commitment. A principal seeks to screen efficient agents using one-period contracts\, but is tempted to revise contract terms upon knowing an agent’s type. Alterations of contracts are observable and\, hence\, whenever past promises are broken future information revelation stops. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions under which information revelation can be fostered. For sufficiently patient players\, private information is either never revealed or fully revealed in a sequential manner. Optimal contracts provide high-powered incentives upon initial disclosure of an agent’s type\, and rewards for information revelation vanish over time. UID:132162-21870520@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132162 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Microeconomics,seminar,Theory LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250306T184711 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM Seminar: Wave Turbulence of Multi-mode Dispersive Systems DESCRIPTION:Abstract: The evolution of infragravity edgewaves in the nearshore provides an interesting wave turbulence problem with multimode dispersion. We develop several facts about the dynamics and kinetics of this system based on the structure of the resonance manifold. We find the Komogorov-Zakharov spectrum for the example of a simple cross shore depth profile. Time permitting\, we will explore recent work on the nonlinear resonance and the dynamical turbulence of edge waves and related problems with multimode dispersion. \n\nContact: Peter Miller UID:130190-21865577@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T154031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:March International Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:International Coffee Hour is a great opportunity to meet new people from around the world! The event is open to all members of the U-M community\, including international and U.S. students\, scholars\, faculty\, staff and their partners.\n\nOur March International Coffee Hour will be held in partnership with the Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center. Snacks and activities will be Saint Patrick’s Day themed! UID:133369-21872851@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133369 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Multicultural,St Patrick's Day LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Design Lab 2 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T144221 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Pipe dream\, pattern\, and polytope perspectives on alternating sign matrices and totally symmetric self-complementary plane partitions (Combinatorics Seminar) DESCRIPTION:Alternating sign matrices are certain {0\,1\,-1}-matrices known to be equinumerous with plane partitions in the totally symmetric self-complementary symmetry class (TSSCPP)\, but no meaningful bijection is known. In joint work with Daoji Huang\, we give such a bijection in the reduced\, 1432-avoiding case\, using the bijection of Gao and Huang between reduced bumpless pipe dreams and reduced pipe dreams. In joint work with Mathilde Bouvel and Rebecca Smith\, we discuss the related notion of key-avoidance in alternating sign matrices. In joint work with Vincent Holmlund\, we transform TSSCPPs to {0\,1\,-1}-matrices we call magog matrices\, and investigate their enumerative and geometric properties. UID:131809-21869276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131809 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250303T063234 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:*RSVP required to attend. Click \"Join Event\" here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/edu/events/1713967Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at Resume Lab is a great next step for you. Get real-time\, personalized support in a small group setting by checking out the Resume Lab. We will discuss and educate you on…- Design and format- Writing a great bullet point- Targeting your resume for specific internships/jobs If you're a Graduate Student or Recent Grad\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on theHappening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. UID:133025-21872294@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133025 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T112612 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “Rape Culture or The Problem of Lived Experience that Recurs” DESCRIPTION:A turn to the discourse of sexual violence in post-apartheid South Africa turns out to be a (re)turn to classical anthropology and leads to a consideration of the structural contradictions that organize nationalist discourse in the “postcolony” that remains a settler colony. This paper takes as its point of departure a conceptual dependency on a universal category of “woman” that cannot not account for the un-rapeability of Black women. Thus\, brought into focus is a methodological problematic of attending to sexual violence against Black women under colonial capitalist modernity in terms other than its erasure. The pursuit of this methodological problem leads to a pursuit of the ethnographic implications therein.\n\nThe ethnographic gesture\, a Kantian inheritance\, which shuttles between the particular – so-called “lived experience” – and a generalizable\, transcendental principle – is in pursuit of a mediating third term: culture. And it is in pursuit of a mediating third term that I interrogate the concept of “rape culture” as a figuration of the limit of the anthropological axiom that culture is premised on the legitimation of some forms of violent access to women and the foreclosure of others via the incest taboo – that unlocatable process and fantasized moment of rupture from nature that culture was “born.” While rape confuses this boundary\, I argue that opposing rape through recourse to the rights of women is coextensive with the system that permits both the legalization and the confusion of the law of violence against Black women – in capitalist colonial modernity.\n\nIn the idiom of the ethnographic\, the paper weaves together intimate and public discourses around sexual violence in contemporary South Africa\, scenes of coming-of-age under apartheid\, and Fanon’s elaboration of the psychosexual arrangement of colonial society. In turn\, it scrutinizes the fantasies of racial hatred and racial reconciliation that the concept of “rape culture” engenders in order to bring into focus the endurance of the axiom that organizes the false universalism of woman: “Whoever says rape says Black man.” Moving between the paradigm of “rape culture” and its impossible application for Black women\, the paper traces connections between the (im)possibility of attending to the lived experience of anti-Blackness and the psychical structuring of the social field\, enabled by and echoed in anthropological discourse. In the final instance\, the Black woman about whom Fanon knows “nothing” marks the point of departure for an (im)possible ethnography in the zone of non-being.\n\nChloé Samala Faux is the Provost’s Postdoctoral Equity Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Wesleyan University. She creates social theory by bringing anthropological inquiry into conversation with interventions from Black critical theory\, Marxism and psychoanalysis\, and feminist theory\, to investigate the conditions of Black life and death under capitalist modernity. By way of the conjoined and redoubling discourses of psychoanalysis and anthropology\, her current book project interrogates the psychosexual and sociopolitical (re)-structuring of the family\, to understand both the failures of “transition” in South Africa and the insufficiencies of the culturalism that animates much Black radical criticism. UID:132952-21872116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132952 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,colloquium LOCATION:West Hall - 411 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T210420 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Student Algebraic Geometry: Birational rigidity and rationality DESCRIPTION:A fundamental problem in algebraic geometry is to determine which varieties are rational\, that is\, birational to the projective space. The Noether-Fano method for proving non-rationality is based on the idea that a Fano variety birationally equivalent to another in a nontrivial way must admit a “very singular” linear system. In this talk\, we will introduce this method and prove that no smooth quartic threefold is rational. UID:133661-21873360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133661 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 2866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250226T075924 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Ceremony / Service:Li Ka Shing Endowed Professorship DESCRIPTION:We invite faculty\, staff\, and students to attend the Zhen Xu Li Ka Shing Endowed Professorship Event on Friday\, March 14\, 2025\, from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Please note that the Lecture and Ceremony will take place from 3:30 to 4:15 p.m.\, with the reception to follow from 4:15 to 5:00 p.m. UID:133159-21872481@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133159 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme,engineer,engineering,Medicine,Michigan Engineering,Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250213T103936 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture - Patricia Persaud\, University of Arizona DESCRIPTION:Globally\, many densely populated urban areas with high seismic risk are located on top of sedimentary basins that can amplify earthquake ground motions. Sedimentary basins also offer important energy\, water\, and mineral resources\, and underground storage capacity for fuels including hydrogen. However\, in urban settings\, the complex structures of sedimentary basins combined with the limitations of the built environment present some of the biggest challenges for recording high quality seismic data\, imaging the basin structure\, and monitoring subsurface changes. We have demonstrated that installing dense seismic nodal arrays can address such critical observational gaps and at the same time\, broaden geoscience inclusivity\, and engage local communities. I will discuss the scientific findings from nodal arrays installed in Yangon\, Myanmar and in the San Fernando Valley\, California. I will also discuss resilience and recovery considerations that motivated hazard-related monitoring in these regions. UID:123505-21851009@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/123505 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T181540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Baseball vs USC DESCRIPTION:Baseball vs USC UID:132814-21871907@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics,Athletics - Baseball LOCATION:Ray Fisher Baseball Stadium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250218T155847 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | Afghan Women’s Human Rights in the Age of the Taliban DESCRIPTION:In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8th\, the Center for South Asian Studies is pleased to present a conversation focused on Afghanistan.\n \n How might the lessons of decades of Afghan feminist advocacy help us imagine a just and equitable future for the country? What can we learn from considering the Taliban in the wider context of a worldwide battle against extremism? What does the situation of women in Afghanistan tell us about women’s rights globally and about feminist solidarity?\n \n Speakers:\n \n Zahra Nader is a 2025 Knight Wallace Fellow and the founding editor-in-chief of Zan Times\, an award-winning newsroom in exile that covers human rights violations in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Zahra has worked with local and international media\, including the New York Times in Kabul. She has been bylined in publications ranging from Time and Foreign Policy to the Guardian\, Globe and Mail\, and DW. She has a master's in Communication and Culture and is a Ph.D. student in Gender\, Feminist & Women’s Studies at York University in Canada.\n \n Professor Karima Bennoune is the Lewis M. Simes Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. She served as the UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights from 2015 to 2021. Bennoune was also appointed as an expert for the International Criminal Court in 2017 during the reparations phase of the groundbreaking case The Prosecutor v. Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi\, concerning the intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites by extremists in Mali. A former legal advisor for Amnesty International\, she has carried out human rights missions in most regions of the world. She has been on three missions to Afghanistan\, visiting different regions of the country: in 1995\, 2005\, and 2011\, and has worked closely with Afghan women human rights defenders for many years\, including during the 2021 evacuations.\n \n Karima is the author of “The International Obligation to Counter Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan\,” which appeared in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review in December 2022 and has been translated into Farsi by the Afghanistan Institute for Strategic Studies. In September 2023\, she spoke at the UN Security Council about gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Subsequently\, she traveled to South Africa with Malala Yousafzai to participate in a panel on gender apartheid with the Nobel laureate after her December 2023 Nelson Mandela lecture.\n \n Her book\, “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here” recounts the stories of people of Muslim heritage around the world who have battled extremism\, and won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. The Women in International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law gave her its “Prominent Woman in International Law” Award in 2024.\n \n Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education. UID:132879-21872007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132879 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Human Right,Women's Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250227T121638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T210000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:enemies + entities DESCRIPTION:enemies + entities\; one of the most ironic sentences in life. With that irony in mind\, enemies + entities is an exhibition built to propose a question to the current generation regarding how media and interactive experiences are having both positive and negative impacts on each other\; in other words\, becoming each others’ enemies and entities. This exhibition discusses the question of whether or not enemies and entities can co-exist within a single concept or object through the lens of media\, ranging from film\, music\, video\, installations\, and digital media.\n\nOpen Hours:\nMarch 14\, 4 - 9pm\nMarch 15\, 11am - 5pm\nMarch 16\, 11am - 4pm\n\nPresented by Eva Choi (@drmnchld)\, BFA student in Performing Arts Technology\, with support from U-M ArtsEngine. UID:133215-21872606@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133215 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Interdisciplinary,Media,Music,North Campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Chip Davis Technology Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T152041 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:F.A.M. Fridays DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Women's History Month\, this F.A.M Friday is called \"Letter to my Sista\,\" where participants can write\, create\, and decorate letters to influential Women in their lives while enjoying music from Women artists. UID:127298-21858827@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/127298 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:Trotter Multicultural Center - Multipurpose Rooms and Sankofa Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T072253 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Geometry seminar: Geometry of extensions of free groups DESCRIPTION:The interest in the geometry of group extensions started with the geometrization theorem of Thurston for compact irreducible atoroidal 3-manifolds. We will talk about the geometry extensions of (free) groups and the motivations behind such studies. More specifically\, we will give necessary and sufficient conditions for a free extension of a (non-Abelian) free group given by a subgroup of Out(F_n) to be hyperbolic and relatively hyperbolic\, in the most general case for the subgroup. We will also talk about hierarchical hyperbolicity of certain free-by cyclic groups. Based on joint works with Ghosh\, and Bongiovanni\, Ghosh and Hagen. UID:131996-21869621@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 3866 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250310T115709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium DESCRIPTION:At the University of Michigan\, Andries Coetzee is a Professor of Linguistics\, Senior Advisor (African Engagement)\, and Director of International Partnerships for the College of Literature\, Sciences\, and the Arts. Dr. Coetzee had perviously served as Director of the African Studies Center (2018-2022) at Michigan\, as well as editor of Language\, flagship journal of the Linguistic Society of America (2017-2022). He is also an honorary professor at the North-West University\, his South African alma mater.\n\nThis event is HYBRID on Zoom and in East Hall 4448.\nZoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98160522966\n\nTITLE: \nLanguage\, Place and Identity in Post-Colonial Societies: Three Case Studies from Afrikaans\n\nABSTRACT: \nLanguage happens in time and place. This historical and geographical situatedness of language impacts in substantive ways the grammatical features that a language has\, and also how users of the language define their identities relative to their language (or languages). Although this is true in all contexts where language is used\, post-colonial societies provide particularly rich and complex case studies of how language\, history\, place and identity are intricately related. In this presentation\, I will give an overview of colonial context in which Afrikaans originated\, and then investigate how Afrikaans grammar and the Afrikaans speech community continue to be shaped by the complexities of modern\, post-colonial South African society. I will investigate three case studies\, each demonstrating a different aspect of the complex linguistic landscape in which Afrikaans and its speakers exist: (i) Nasal coarticulation in different socio-ethnic varieties of Afrikaans\; (ii) the phonetic properties of filled pauses in Patagonian Afrikaans\; and (iii) regional and socio-ethnic variation in the front vowel space of Afrikaans. UID:130332-21865764@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/130332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Talk LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250124T164110 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Preprint Algebraic Geometry Seminar: Flat pushforwards of Chern classes and the smoothability of cycles below the middle dimension\, after Kollár and Voisin DESCRIPTION:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04714 UID:131761-21869211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131761 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - 4096 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250122T103028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T190000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi DESCRIPTION:Come join History of Art 265.001 - Arts and Cultures of Star Wars in watching Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi UID:131561-21868759@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/131561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art history,history of art LOCATION:Angell Hall - Aud B CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250210T103555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T180000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde im Max Kade Haus DESCRIPTION:Kaffeestunde is a weekly opportunity to mingle and unwind \"auf Deutsch\". It is a place to connect with other Max Kade residents\, chat informally in German and participate in activities prepared by facilitators. The Kaffeestunde is open to the wider German-speaking community at UofM. UID:132571-21871284@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - 3rd Floor West Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250314T162043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:OAMI Pride Night DESCRIPTION:Join OAMI on Friday\, March 14th\, from 5:00 - 6:30 pm for a fun night of OAMI Pride on featuring slime-making\, tote bag painting\, friendship bracelet making\, LGBTQ+ trivia\, photo booth\, free Pride swag\, food\, and connection to a supportive community and affirming campus resources! \n UID:132644-21871495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/132644 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Sessions LOCATION:OAMI Office, third floor, 3009 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250312T121129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250314T183000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Women's History Month Discussions and Tote Bag Decorating DESCRIPTION:Join us for a fun and creative DIY tote bag decorating event celebrating Women’s History Month! Express yourself by designing a tote bag with empowering quotes and engaging in meaningful discussions about influential women. UID:133508-21873185@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133508 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Community Engagement,Crafts,Women's History Month LOCATION:Baits House II - Grace Lee Boggs Multicultural Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR