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:20190927T181733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Microaggressions DESCRIPTION:Microaggressions—the subtle everyday verbal and nonverbal slights and insults which communicate hostile\, derogatory\, or negative messages. Microaggressions can effect anyone! This course is recommended as a follow up to Change it Up! Bystander Intervention.\nThis workshop will\n\nProvide a brief review and history of microaggressions\nIdentify how our background influences how we perceive and experience other people\nDiscuss the ways we can build strong relationships\nIdentify ways to apply this information to your work environment\n\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/mn9gg.\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 (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative. UID:67763-16928724@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191024T115555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T132000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Quid pro quo in children: The origins of reciprocity DESCRIPTION:While the importance of reciprocity has been shown in theoretical models and extensively studied in adults\, little is known about the developmental trajectory of reciprocity in children. In the first part\, I will provide a theoretical framework about the developmental trajectory of cooperative behaviors. In the second part\, I will show a series of studies in which we adapted paradigms from adult research for studies with children\, exploring when they begin to engage in tit-for-tat reciprocity\, learn how to invest in a trust game\, and bribe others. UID:67144-16805221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67144 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190910T155133 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Code Switching DESCRIPTION:Do you change the way you speak at work? Do you feel you have to modify your behavior\, appearance\, etc.\, to adapt to different sociocultural norms of the workplace? Learn more about the roots of Code Switching. Non-ITS staff are welcome! UID:66835-16779029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66835 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Summit LOCATION:Boyer Building - Room 111 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-16770150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190830T090654 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Hannah Myers Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Got questions about Semester in Detroit? Stop by Hannah's office hours! Hannah is a Junior in the Residential College. She was a part of the Spring/Summer 2018 Semester in Detroit cohort\, and interned with Detroit Audubon. Hannah enjoys eating clementines\, making collages\, and pretending to know a lot about birds. UID:66031-16684559@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Applications,Detroit,Recruiting,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1720 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191017T115916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T150000 SUMMARY:Meeting:International Institute Open Co-Advising DESCRIPTION:Join CGIS and II undergraduate advisors for two open advising opportunities!\n\nOn the 29th\, we will be advising on CGIS French\, Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian studies programs. \n\nOn the 30th\, we will be advising on CGIS Middle Eastern & North African \nstudies\; Latin American & Caribbean studies\, and Spanish.\n \nAs questions about how to fit study abroad into your academic plan as well as financial aid and scholarship questions\, and more! UID:64888-16485062@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64888 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,International Studies,Study Abroad,Travel LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Suite 300 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190905T111415 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Construction Seminar DESCRIPTION:TBD\n\nChelsea serves as Assistant Director at the University Career Center\, providing strategic oversight and management for our career coaching and advising team. In addition\, Chelsea coaches and counsels undergraduate and graduate students from a wide spectrum of career interests in individual counseling and advising appointments. UID:66412-16734212@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66412 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Energy,Engineering,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2029 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191021T135302 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Post-Show Discussion of Sense and Sensibility DESCRIPTION:Those of us who were able to attend the UM Theatre & Drama Department's production of Sense and Sensibility (a play adapted by Kate Hamill based on the novel by Jane Austen) earlier this month are planning to get together to discuss our reactions to the show (which was amazing!) and think through some larger questions about performance and adaptation.\n\nWe're meeting on Wednesday\, October 30 from 1:30-2:30pm in 3184 Angell Hall. A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to RSVP if you'd like to join us. Even if you didn't get a chance to see the show\, all are welcome to the discussion! Come to listen\, eat\, and hang out :) UID:68659-17130526@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68659 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Discussion,Drama,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,literary,Literature,Performance,Rackham,Theater LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3184 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191016T152139 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Poetry\, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. DESCRIPTION:Join us in a dialogue with the mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo. She will talk about indigeneity\, feminism and mapuche poetry in the social and political context of Chile and Argentina. Her work combines mapuche traditions\, politics and knowledge with contemporary discourses of radical feminism and poetic and artistic experimentation practices. The talk will be in Spanish and English. Translations will be provided.\n\nDaniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018)\, El territorio del viaje (2017)\, and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work\, La Guerra Florida\, were recently translated into English. UID:68125-17011965@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture,Poetry,Politics LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (4th Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190906T141748 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T153000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Speaking American English DESCRIPTION:Are you looking to increase confidence in your use of American English? The University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL) at U-M offers a special workshop designed for non-native English speakers who want to expand their communication skills. Our program provides the perfect environment for you to reach your personal goals and we’re registering now!\n\nOur certified Speech and Language Pathologists use techniques technically known as accent reduction to help non-native speakers feel more at home in their communications — whether that’s giving a presentation or taking notes in a class with a native speaker with a fast cadence. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the accents of our clients\, but to enhance communication skills for greater confidence in all settings. Participants will set their own individual objectives at the start of the workshop and will work to reach those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction\, facilitated by a Speech and Language Pathologist.\n\nThe workshop will run from October 16 to December 18\, 2019. Participants will meet weekly on Wednesdays. The time is TBD. There will be no meeting on November 27. The program cost is $275.00\, plus the purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.\n\nIf you have questions\, need assistance\, or want more information\, please call (734) 764-8440 or visit https://mari.umich.edu/ucll UID:66521-16744962@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,English As A Second Language,Graduate,International,Language,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Workshop LOCATION:V. Vaughan CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190725T074536 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T163000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Orson Welles’ \"War of the Worlds\" DESCRIPTION:The Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the University of Michigan Library’s Special Collections Research Center consists of the personal and professional papers of a number of noted film directors including Robert Altman\, Jonathan Demme\, and John Sayles. In this course for those 50 and over\, Instructor Phil Hallman will help us explore a variety of material pertaining to the life and career of Orson Welles -- letters\, diaries\, photographs\, drawings\, and production documents\, including the hundreds of letters sent to him following his Mercury Theater on the Air’s infamous broadcast of \"War of the Worlds\" on October 30\, 1938. UID:64583-16388953@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64583 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:history,Library,lifelong learning,movie producing,retirement,war LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190923T093916 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy DESCRIPTION:Registration is now open for the 13th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center.\n\nThis year\, CHEAR welcomes Robert Gordon\, JD\, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Director Gordon will speak on the topic of food insecurity and child health.\n\nAn open reception and poster session will follow the lecture from 5:30-6:30pm.\nThis lecture is free and open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the general public\, but registration is required. UID:67523-16890090@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67523 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Food,Lecture,Medicine,Public Health,Public Policy,Talk LOCATION:Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building - Kahn Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190912T153846 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity\, Ultrashort Optical Pulses DESCRIPTION:With the invention of lasers\, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed\, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification\, also known as CPA\, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1\,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions\, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.\n\nYou may find more details: lsa.umich.edu/physics/special-lecture UID:64676-16426883@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64676 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Culture,Diversity Equity And Inclusion,Faculty,Graduate,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics,Postdoctoral Research Fellows,Research,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Rackham Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190723T074619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:29th Annual Davis\, Markert\, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture DESCRIPTION:“Do Adjuncts Have Academic Freedom?\, or Why Tenure Matters” UID:63302-15634620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63302 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:academic freedom,Discussion,Faculty,Faculty Governance,lecture,Social Impact,social justice LOCATION:Hutchins Hall - Room 100 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191026T131615 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Author's Forum Presents: \"Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity\" DESCRIPTION:Ellen Muehlberger (history\, classical studies\, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies\, history) discuss Muehlberger's latest book\, followed by Q & A. \n\nLate antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying—not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge’s court but as an individual\, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons\, letters\, and ascetic traditions\, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces how\, in late ancient Christianity\, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one’s actions by angels and demons and\, after that\, fitting punishment. This emphasis on the experience of death ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians\, in which one’s death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was initially meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one’s life tends to sharpen one’s scruples. But\, as this book argues\, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Death imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas within late ancient Christian culture about just what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian adoption of power in late antiquity\, especially in the case of power’s heaviest baggage: the capacity to authorize violence against others. UID:66149-16709267@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66149 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,classical studies,History,Religion LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room, #1022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191114T123023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:FRBNY 'Spotlight Webinar' - Overview of Early Career Programs DESCRIPTION: UID:68399-17073758@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68399 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T133707 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Heberle Lecture (Saidiya Hartman\, Columbia University) DESCRIPTION:Saidiya Hartman is a scholar of African American literature and cultural history whose works explore the afterlife of slavery in modern American society and bear witness to lives\, traumas\, and fleeting moments of beauty that historical archives have omitted or obscured. She weaves findings from her meticulous historical research into narratives that retrieve from oblivion stories of nameless and sparsely documented historical actors\, such as female captives on slave ships and the inhabitants of slums at the turn of the twentieth century. UID:67740-16926551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67740 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English,English Department,English Language & Literataure,English Language & Literature,English Language And Literature,English Languange & Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T181513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Leveraging Electrophilicity and Polarizability in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions DESCRIPTION: A general approach by our group for the development of new catalytic synthetic methods that occur with higher efficiency and selectivity\, use simpler reagents\, and proceed with lower energy demand involves new ancillary ligand design coupled with fundamental studies of how metal-ligand bonding dictates catalytic reactivity. In this context\, the presentation will focus on our recent efforts to discover new phosphorus- and sulfur-based ligands and associated metal catalysts that manifest special properties from seemingly \"weak\" interactions\, for instance dispersion. In one case\, low-coordinate Pd complexes possessing polarizable diamondoid substituents are shown to enable a new transmetalation mechanism under exceptionally mild conditions\, facilitate the first ever characterization and reactivity studies of monoligated Pd(0) – the true active catalyst in modern cross-coupling reactions\, and enable direct visible light-induced bond weakening. Studies of oxidative dehydrogenative coupling reactions will also showcase evidence for a distinct C−H bond activation mechanism that we describe as electrophilic CMD or \"eCMD\"\, which has characteristics distinct from established pathways for C−H functionalization. Transition state analyses suggest this reaction pathway could be a general class of C−H activation that to date has been convoluted with the classic concerted metalation-deprotonation (CMD) model\, and selection rules have been identified for predicting what catalyst structures manifest either CMD or eCMD\, each of which occurs with characteristic substrate preferences and selectivity. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nBradley Carrow (Princeton University) UID:67457-16857831@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67457 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191025T123013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Macroeconomics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68840-17163791@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68840 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190927T155056 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:WCED Lecture. The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Lessons from India DESCRIPTION:What explains the electoral dominance of a single party over a prolonged period of time in a democracy? Focusing on the case of the Indian National Congress in India\, Ziegfeld argues that authoritarian-era politics can influence the likelihood of single-party dominance after democratization. More specifically\, when the authoritarian era's primary socio-political division becomes irrelevant because the democratization process roundly discredits one side of the division\, the resulting party system in the democratic period is likely to feature a single major party and a host of small\, disorganized\, and inexperienced parties. Such asymmetric party competition is likely to produce a dominant party. This explanation accounts for the main features of Congress dominance in India\, where the decolonization process discredited most of Congress' colonial-era competitors\, leaving it to face a highly fragmented and disorganized opposition against which it could easily win elections. Ziegfeld concludes by reflecting on whether India is\, today\, on the cusp of a new dominant-party system under the BJP.\n \nAdam Ziegfeld is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of “Why Regional Parties? Clientelism\, Elites\, and the Indian Party System\,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2016\, as well as numerous articles on a range of topics related to political parties and elections.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks 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. UID:66331-16727909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66331 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,India,Politics LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191009T114227 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T190000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:ChE Open House for Undergraduate Students DESCRIPTION:Considering declaring chemical engineering as your major? Or\, curious how a chemical engineering degree could accelerate your career across diverse industries?\n\nExplore ChE during Michigan Chemical Engineering's open house from 5-7 pm on Wednesday\, Oct. 30 in Chrysler Building 2nd floor lobby on North Campus. \n\nMeet with chemical engineering students and faculty\, connect with our undergraduate advisor and see live demos by ChE student design teams. Dinner will be provided. \n\nTo learn more about Michigan Chemical Engineering undergraduate program\, please visit: https://che.engin.umich.edu/undergraduate/program/ \n\nOr visit Michigan Engineering's Majors website: https://majors.engin.umich.edu/program/chemical-engineering/ UID:67945-16969035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67945 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:chemical engineering,Engineering,Food,Free,North campus,Prospective Undergraduate Students LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191114T123016 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:Just 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: that’s ok!\n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting\, learn how to build great bullet points\, and get feedback on your resume.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.\n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326046 UID:64413-16342385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64413 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:20191114T123025 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T183000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Ace Your ResStaff Interview! DESCRIPTION:Workshop for ResStaff applicants who are interested in tips and tricks on interviewing and practice some interview questions. UID:68720-17140906@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68720 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:1931 Duffield St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191114T123029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Copy of UCC @ Transfer Turf DESCRIPTION:If you're a transfer student\, come to Transfer Turf on Oct. 30th for free food\, to meet other transfer students\, and learn about career resources from the University Career Center. UID:69156-17254951@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69156 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T163102 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T190000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Getting a Letter of Recommendation: Politely Making a Big Ask DESCRIPTION:Newnan-ELI Fall 2019 Undergraduate Sessions\n\nAny interested international undergraduate students are invited to this free session\, a conversation with Newnan and ELI about effectively procuring great letters of reference from faculty members. In this session\, we will look together at what a solid letter of recommendation contributes to your application for grad school\, an internship program\, a scholarship\, or other future endeavors you may be considering. We will identify what information to supply to your recommenders\, and how to ask most politely (with a higher likelihood of \"yes\"). If time allows\, we can practice making the ask with one another.\n\nRegistration Required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/20505 UID:68894-17188754@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68894 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Graduate School,International,Undergraduate LOCATION:Angell Hall - G243 Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191016T094028 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T200000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IISS Workshop. Divine Revelation and Mystical Philosophy in al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī's Epistemology DESCRIPTION:The Ṣafavid twelver shiʿi polymath by the name of Mulla Muḥsin-Muḥammad (1007/15991090/1679)\, nicknamed al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī\, was known as an exegete\, a traditionist\, a theologian\, a philosopher and a mystic. This article will argue that al-Kāshānī’s epistemological framework in ʿAyn al-yaqīn (Certainty Itself)\, written in 1627\, is founded upon the simultaneous distinction and integration of three epistemological paradigms: 1. demonstrative reason\, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation. Al-Kāshānī’s epistemological position is particularly intriguing because the three epistemic resources are true on two levels. First\, each is true in itself despite its relationship with the other two epistemic resources. Second\, the interaction of all three are deemed to yield higher harmonies of epistemic verity. Hence\, the distinction between the spheres of 1. demonstrative reason\, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation does not entail their lack of correlation from al-Kāshānī’s epistemic stance. UID:68474-17086375@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Islamic Studies,Philosophy LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191114T123022 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UCC @ Transfer Turf DESCRIPTION:If you're a transfer student\, come to Transfer Turf on Oct. 30th for free food\, to meet other transfer students\, and learn about career resources from the University Career Center. UID:66063-16686683@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66063 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190913T114747 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing DESCRIPTION:The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart\, that is unique\, well-crafted\, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project\, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.\n\nIf you would like to volunteer\, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible\, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.\n\nMeetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807\, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review. UID:67128-16803034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Social Justice,Writing LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1807 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T180018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T200000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Secular Student Alliance Weekly Meeting DESCRIPTION:Here we discuss all the big questions from morality to politics to religion. We discuss things like\, What is the meaning of life? Do we have free will? We are primarily a group of secular / atheist students\, but anyone is welcome to join regarless of their religion\, worldview\, or anything else for that matter.As always\, every week we have FREE PIZZA and free friends\, so come hang out! UID:68726-17147095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68726 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:G449 Mason Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190905T141533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191030T220000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Kaffeestunde DESCRIPTION:\"Kaffeestunde\" at the Max Kade Haus takes place once a week in the Max Kade House in North Quad. The regular time and place is Thursday evenings at 9 p.m. in the lounge on the 3rd floor of North Quad. This is located in the residential portion of North Quad\, which is only open to residents. When you go\, please email Reid (gordreid@umich.edu)\, so that someone can come to the front door and let you in. UID:66421-16736376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66421 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,Language,Max Kade LOCATION:North Quad - 3rd Floor Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T153628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Applications Open for Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program DESCRIPTION:UROP's Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program ( DCERP) will be accepting applications for Summer 2020 through December 3rd! DCERP students will gain valuable experience while helping community organizations with their research needs. They'll also become part of a dynamic learning community that will get to know about Detroit history\, have fun together\, and share their passion for social justice. Students will receive a stipend and housing for this 9-week program.\n\nApply today! http://myumi.ch/erK95 UID:68084-17009779@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,AEM Featured,Dcbrp,Dcerp,Detroit,Environment,Free,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T150633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages DESCRIPTION:*The juxtaposition of fragments creates original\, unexpected\, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe.*\n\nStasys Eidrigevičius\, often referred to simply as “Stasys\,” was born in Mediniskiai\, Lithuania in 1949. He studied at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Warsaw in 1980 where he established a reputation as a world-renowned artist. A master of many techniques as an illustrator\, book cover designer\, sculptor\, painter\, and photographer\, Stasys is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. He has exhibited in the United States\, Switzerland\, Japan\, Great Britain\, Spain\, France\, Germany and many other countries. \n\nStasys is the recipient of numerous international prizes and medals in various fields of artistic activity including: the Grand Prize at the International Book Illustration Contest in Barcelona (1986)\; Gold Medal at the International Poster Festival in Chicago (1987)\; Silver Medal at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art in New York (1988)\; Grand Prize at the 1st International Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustration in Belgrade (1990) and Bratislava (1991)\; Grand Prize at the International Salon of Poster in Paris (1993)\; Gold Medal at the 4th International Triennial of Poster in Toyama (Japan\, 1994)\; and at the Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (1999). In 2019\, he was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this exhibition\, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks 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. UID:65699-16629933@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Poland,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190809T101919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World DESCRIPTION:Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World)\, the first standardized city atlas\, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)\, Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg\, one of the most prolific engravers of the time\, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates\, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam\, London\, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries. UID:65088-16515458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T122638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture DESCRIPTION:This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action\, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry\, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy\, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for\, and they take shape in his Goetzville\, Michigan studio.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67407-16849033@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics - Football,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191003T162054 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T210000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Halloween DESCRIPTION:Trick-or-Treat!! Our Dining Halls have a multitude of treats for you at many of our locations. \n\nSouth Quad: Decorative Cuisine\nNorth Quad: Candy and Treats\nMarkley: Decorations and Treats\nBursley: Candy Display\nTwigs: Themed Dinner\nEast Quad: Themed Dinner\nMojo: All Day Candy UID:67990-16977592@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67990 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Halloween,Holiday,Meal,Well-being LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T120819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category\, Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67398-16848781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T123728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Brighton\, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts\, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M\, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits\, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail\, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete\, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center\, Level 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67410-16849117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics - Baseball,Athletics - Football,Athletics - Ice Hockey,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T121219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Oil on Water: Painting on Linen DESCRIPTION:Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns\, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms\, such as water ripples\, oil slicks\, and refuse\, combined with the memories that water evokes\, makes her work eye-opening\, yet soothing and sensual. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1 \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67400-16848864@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T121906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pen & Ink Queens DESCRIPTION:Introverted and shy by nature\, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens\, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky\, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate\, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander\, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan\, attended U-M\, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state\, and when she is not in her studio\, you can find her cooking\, practicing yoga or playing with her cat\, Benji.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67401-16848947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T115358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities\, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community\, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester\, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67393-16846473@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T120302 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels DESCRIPTION:Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine\, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994\, and for the next 22 years\, New York became her home. In 2016\, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries\, whether tangible or not. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67395-16846556@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,International,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T155153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:BME Seminar: Raj Kothapalli\, Ph.D. DESCRIPTION:Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) gained significant attention of biomedical community as it provides optical\nabsorption contrast based functional and molecular information of very deep biological tissue at ultrasonic\nresolution. In the last two decades\, PAI evolved as a multi-scale imaging technology\, enabling in vivo imaging from organelles to organs\, and translated to several clinical applications such as breast and thyroid imaging. Nevertheless\, the development of PAI systems for internal organs (e.g.\, prostate and ovaries) in the clinic has its challenges. In the first part of my talk\, I will present the development of a transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic (TRUSPA) human prostate imaging system\, and its validation in various phantoms\, surgically removed human prostates\, in vivo mouse models of prostate cancer\, all the way to the first-in-human multispectral photoacoustic human prostate imaging results. In the second part of my talk\, I will introduce some new research developments in my lab. This includes results from a multimodal thermoacoustic simulation platform\, novel ultrasound transducers for high throughput and wearable\nphotoacoustic imaging\, and low-cost portable photoacoustic imaging systems. UID:68891-17188750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68891 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,bme,Science,seminar LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 133 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191025T125454 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T163000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:ELI Halloween Open House DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wanted to learn more about Halloween? Come by the English Language Institutes (ELI) main office to see some decorations\, grab treats and candy\, and learn fun facts about Halloween symbols and traditions! UID:68842-17163793@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Holiday LOCATION:Weiser Hall - English Language Institute Main Office, 9th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T100616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru\, Sudan DESCRIPTION:Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan)\, involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples\, pyramids\, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush\, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts\, values\, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos\, text\, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.\n\nCurators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis\n\nView the online exhibition:\nhttp://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/ UID:63992-16059391@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Africa,Archaeology,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190808T162032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Other Crusoes\, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy DESCRIPTION:On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\, of York\, Mariner\, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist\, hyper-masculine\, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency\, otherness\, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.\n\nThis novel of shipwreck\, survival\, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today\, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements\, Robinson Crusoe\, and Friday. Yet\, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions\, translations\, adaptations\, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes\, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.\n\nContent Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games\, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children. UID:65071-16509382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T121721 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Ph.D. Dissertation Write-In DESCRIPTION:Spend some time getting a jump start on your writing. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgKyK. UID:68114-17011954@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190919T160413 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Yo Tengo Nombre DESCRIPTION:This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.\n\n\"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization\, vulnerability\, fear\, loss\, and criminalization\, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood.\" -Ruth Leonela Buentello\n\nThis project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund. UID:64978-16499293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:american culture,Art,Exhibition,Immigration,International,Latin America,Media,Multicultural,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery, #1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190830T090927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Allyssa Garza Office Hours DESCRIPTION:Got questions about Semester in Detroit? Stop by Allyssa's office hours! Allyssa Garza is a senior studying Political Science and Social Theory and Practice. She was a member of the Spring/Summer 2017 Semester in Detroit cohort\, interning with Southwest Detroit Environmental Vision. One of Allyssa's favorite parts of her summer in Detroit was riding her bike around the city with friends. Allyssa enjoys gardening\, talking about love languages\, doing the New York Times crossword online\, and dancing in her living room. You can find Allyssa trying her hardest to study in a coffee shop\, but usually making a playlist instead. UID:66032-16684574@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66032 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Applications,Detroit,Internship,Office Hours,Recruiting,Social Justice,Study Abroad LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1720 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191013T075215 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:From Vote to Government: A Short Guide to the Complexity of the American Electoral System DESCRIPTION:Dr. Bednar will provide an overview of the American electoral system\, paying particular attention to the way that federalism shapes the rules and the effects of the rules. We’ll consider how the system varies between states\, with topics to include voting eligibility\, candidate qualifications\, the districting process\, electoral rules\, campaign finance\, and direct democracy.\n\nDr. Jenna Bednar is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan\, the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of the Michigan in Washington program\, and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of an award-winning book\, “The Robust Federation: Principles of Design”\, as well as over three dozen articles on topics ranging from campaign contributions\, to Medicaid reform\, to institutional performance. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University.\n\nThis is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is Voting in America: Perennial Issues\, Current Developments. The next lecture will be November 7\, 2019. The subject is Election and Voting Security in the United States. UID:68340-17052342@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68340 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:elections,lifelong learning,retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191015T120341 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T150000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:International Studies Horror Film Fest DESCRIPTION:It’s our annual Halloween spectacular\, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world! All films are subtitled in English. Drop in for one or all of the movies\; it's free and snacks are provided.\n\n10:00–11:30 a.m. — Face (2004\, Korean)\n11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — The Lure (2005\, Polish)\n1:15–3:00 p.m. — Dogtooth (2000\, Greek) UID:68410-17080041@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Free,Halloween,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery, 1st floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191103T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Kennedy Cup DESCRIPTION:National Championship hosted by the Navy. We will be sailing in Navy 44s. UID:66721-17236469@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T160727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan DESCRIPTION:This exhibit presents a selection of such fragmentary literary texts from the University of Michigan’s Papyrology Collection. Although literary papyri represent a small fraction of surviving papyrus texts\, they nonetheless enable scholars both to improve their readings of known literary texts and to illuminate the rich diversity of ancient Greek literature\, the overwhelming majority of which has been lost to time.\n\nThe Greek literature that survives complete in the present day largely represents the texts that were the most popular in antiquity\, works like Homer’s Iliad and Euripides’ Medea. These texts were repeatedly copied throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages\, ensuring their continued transmission. Literary texts on papyri\, however\, provide a rare opportunity to glimpse fragments of ancient literature in their original form and to discover works that were read in antiquity but did not otherwise survive into the medieval and modern periods. This includes lesser-known works by such famous authors as Aristophanes and the Greek tragedians\, as well as fragments of texts whose authors remain unknown.\n\nThe exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen\, UMSI student\, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:\nhttps://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center UID:66701-16770249@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66701 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Free,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190920T130853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists DESCRIPTION:Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut\, painting on canvas\, and mixed media\, Linda Hyong\, Sung Eun Hong\, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers\, gardens\, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.\n\nLinda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers\, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like\, nearly abstract paintings\, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”\n\nExhibit runs September 14 through November 15\, 2019 at the\n\nUniversity of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd.\, Ann Arbor. Free. UID:67493-16866580@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,matthaei botanical gardens LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T181533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WiAn: White Garden With White Noise DESCRIPTION:October 5 - November 2\, 2019\nOpening Reception: Friday\, October 4\, 6-8 pm\nCenter Galleries at the College for Creative Studies\, Detroit\n\nWiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.\n\nThrough visually and auditorily immersive installation\, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes\, illuminates\, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.\n\nIt is estimated over 200\,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period\, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women\, often from rural villages\, were enslaved in a variety of ways\, including kidnapping\, coercion\, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization\, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history\, their story has remained untold.\n\nThrough WiAn\, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry\, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis\, and sculptural objects\, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored\, to be comforted\, to let go of the past\, and to move forward. \n\nVisitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora\, comprised of many different plant specimens. White\, the traditional color for Korean funerals\, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden\, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty\, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis\, also engraved with original poetry\, invites souls to move lightly\, unburdened\, to the next chapter of being.\n\nIn a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning\, Kim’s work also provides comfort\, strength\, and a space of contemplation for the living\, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.\n\nJuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. \n\n  UID:67261-16831210@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,History LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-15002297@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190611T121531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics: DESCRIPTION:In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s\, artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. During these decades\, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form\, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present\, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:63803-15884101@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190809T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice DESCRIPTION:In September 2019\, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition\, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).\n\nExhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10\, 2019\nSymposium Dates: September 19 - 22\, 2019\nGuest Curator: Allison Collins\, Media Arts Curator\, Western Front\n\nCurated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.\nIn partnership with the New Media Caucus \n\nHuman migration is a defining issue of the 21st century\, often calling into question the relevance\, role\, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces\, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed\, defensive and receptive\, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question\, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries\, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities\, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality\, the winds\, currents\, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.\n\nDrawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media\, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts\, patterns of migration\, displacement\, and statelessness. Collectively\, they offer projects with subterfuge\, refusal\, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.\n\n \n\n  UID:63627-15820773@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Media LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191011T090542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Coffee and Bagels DESCRIPTION:Take root and flourish cosmic ocean realm of the galaxies explorations tendrils of gossamer clouds something incredible is waiting to be known? Across the centuries concept of the number one network of wormholes Euclid stirred by starlight dream of the mind's eye? A still more glorious dawn awaits descended from astronomers Cambrian explosion dispassionate extraterrestrial observer vastness is bearable only through love a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions. UID:68290-17043840@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68290 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Culture LOCATION:School of Information North CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Collection Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American\, European\, African\, and Asian art from across media\, sampling the Museum's remarkable\, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists\, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston\, Christo\, Theaster Gates\, Jenny Holzer\, Roni Horn\, Do-Ho Suh\, Kara Walker\, and others\, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed\, but instead as an active\, creative\, sometimes startling source of material and ideas\, open for debate and interpretation.\n\n UID:68063-16988408@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Alumni,Art,European,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190806T121549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Copies and Invention in East Asia DESCRIPTION:Far from being frowned upon as uncreative\, in China\, Korea\, and Japan\, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times\, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality\, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased\; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning\; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self\; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.\n\nLead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Center for Japanese Studies\, Nam Center for Korean Studies\, School of Information\, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center\, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers. UID:63517-15769776@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Museum,Religious,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190910T145113 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Diversity Thumball Session DESCRIPTION:The Diversity Thumball is a fun training tool that tackles DEI topics with smarts and sensitivity. We toss it around in a group and ask participants to share their reaction to whatever prompt lies under their thumb. UID:66815-16779016@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66815 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity Summit LOCATION:Arbor Lakes - Building 1, Room 2701 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190930T181751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mari Katayama DESCRIPTION:Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography\, sculpture\, and textile. Born with a developmental condition\, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality\, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations\, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas\, dressed in revealing lingerie in private\, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Center for Japanese Studies\, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation\, the Japan Cultural Development\, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund\, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and Women's Studies Department.  UID:63837-15901137@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190620T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann DESCRIPTION:Infant Skull II\, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire\, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions\, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces\, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is\, in a South African context\, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg\, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.\n \nThe work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.\n\nThis acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee\, 2016. UID:63283-15612020@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190909T113308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Schokoladenstunde DESCRIPTION:All students at all levels are welcome to come and chat and play games in German (e.g. Tabu etc.). \"Schokoladenstunde\" will be facilitated on Tuesdays by Silvia Grzeskowiak\, and on Thursdays by Mary Gell or sometimes Veronica Williamson.\n\n\"Schokoladenstunde\" will take place in the comfortable seating area between the two computer classrooms in the Language Resource Center. You will be able to get some German chocolate and speak German with language instructors. UID:66630-16767996@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:German,Language LOCATION:North Quad - Language Resource Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181803 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs DESCRIPTION:Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.\n \nTake Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection\, and why? Who and what should be represented\, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1\,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen\, who has gathered more than 60\,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age\, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  \n \nVote for your favorite pictures: Saturday\, September 21\, 2019 – Sunday\, January 12\, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday\, January 14 – Sunday\, February 23\, 2020\n\nSupport for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film\, Television\, and Media.\n  UID:63842-15931457@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - ArtGym CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T123838 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:International Economics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68608-17105368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68608 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T151003 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T133000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:#FirstGenStrong DESCRIPTION:We want to celebrate you and the ways first-generation students trailblaze! First-gens often show strength in the face of adversity. Stop by the Diag to show how you've been #FirstGenStrong. We will be taking pictures for social media and sharing some neat SWAG. \n\n#FirstGenStrong is part of First Generation Week\, which promotes the many ways first-generation students innovate\, blaze new trails\, and take risks. \n\nCAPS is committed to creating an environment based on our values of multicultural\, multi-disciplinary and multi-theoretical practices that allow our diverse student body to access care\, receive high quality services and take positive pathways to mental health. We also strive to find creative ways of reaching out to students and the UM community to nurture and develop a proactive\, renewed sense of engagement throughout the campus. UID:68561-17096961@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:First-gen-week LOCATION:Diag - Central Campus CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190906T131940 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS\, Japan and Sexual Citizenship DESCRIPTION:Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016\, Treat explores recent work on abjection by LGBT scholars and its intersection with recent critiques of the concept of sexual\, or \"intimate\,\" citizenship and social activism based on it. Literary works to be discussed include HIV+ poet Hasegawa Takeshi’s Confessions of Bearine de Pink (2005) and Japan’s first cell phone novel\, Yoshi Yū's Ayu no monogatari (2002). \n \nJohn Whittier Treat is Emeritus Professor in the Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb\; Great Mirrors Shattered: Orientalism\, Japan and Homosexuality\; and The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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\nImage credit: Masami Teraoka\, Geisha and Fox (1988) UID:64524-16386875@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64524 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190920T093120 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Classical Violin & Piano DESCRIPTION:This performance is a part of the U-M Community Outreach Performance Series\, an engaged-learning initiative of the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance (SMTD). Student performers prepare repertoire and high quality cultural experiences for the surrounding community with assistance from SMTD faculty and staff. U-M Professor Danielle Belen’s violin studio is comprised of some of the top young players in the country. Under her tutelage\, they have won major prizes in national and international competitions including the Menuhin\, Stulberg and Klein competitions\, as well as being accepted into major conservatories and universities across the country. Abigel Szilagyi is a featured performer for Disability Community Month. Look for live stream video on Gifts of Art Facebook.\n\nUniversity Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67416-16849159@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67416 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability,Family,Music,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190919T085242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T133000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) DESCRIPTION:The primary function of this workshop is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for students and faculty to present their current projects and to receive feedback on either the methodological component of their project or a methodology under development. UID:65880-16736446@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65880 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Walker Room (5664) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190912T123216 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag DESCRIPTION:Race and Gender Differences in Benevolent Sexism UID:66210-16719589@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66210 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T135548 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Power of Mentorship DESCRIPTION:Mentorship is a key intervention for supporting first-generation student success. As a part of First Generation Week\, faculty and staff as well as allies of first-generation students are invited to learn directly from first-generation students about the value and impact mentorship has had on their experience at the University of Michigan. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by the First Generation Gateway and the University Mentorship Program. \n\nThe First Generation Student Gateway serves as a launching point to get connected to resources and to the first-generation community. Housed in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI)\, the Gateway is for all first-generation undergraduate and graduate students and their allies\n\nThe University Mentorship Program provides an opportunity for new first-year students to connect with volunteer mentors who are knowledgeable about the University in order to ease the transition from high school to college. Mentorship helps to make the University a smaller place\, and builds relationships between students\, faculty and staff. UID:68544-17096960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68544 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:First-gen-week LOCATION:Student Activities Building - Maize and Blue Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190923T153829 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SMRL Talk DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nFacial recognition systems are increasingly common components of smartphones and other consumer digital devices. These technologies enable animated video-sharing applications\, such as Apple’s animoji and memoji\, Facebook Messenger’s masks and filters and Samsung’s AR Emoji. Such animations serve as technical phenomena translating moments of affective and emotional expression into mediated\, trackable\, and socially legible forms across a variety of social media platforms. \n\nThrough technical and historical analysis of these digital artifacts\, the talk will explore the ways facial recognition systems classify and categorize racial identities in human faces in relation to emotional expression. Drawing on the longer history of discredited pseudosciences such as phrenology\, the paper considers the dangers of both racializing logics as part of these systems of classification\, and of how social media data regarding emotional expression gathered through these systems can be used to reinforce systems of oppression and discrimination.\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\nLuke Stark is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fairness\, Accountability\, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) Group at Microsoft Research Montreal. His scholarship examines the history and contemporary effects of digital media used for social and emotional interaction\; his work has been published in venues including Social Studies of Science\, Media Culture and Society\, History of the Human Sciences\, and The International Journal of Communication. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College\, a Fellow and Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University\, and an inaugural Fellow with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Technology\, Society\, and Policy. He holds a PhD from the Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University\, and an Honours BA and MA in History from the University of Toronto.\n\nThis talk is hosted by The Social Media Research Lab (SMRL) UID:67561-16892250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ethics,Information and Technology,Social Justice LOCATION:North Quad - 3100 Ehrlicher Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191011T124235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Tech Talk DESCRIPTION:Join us for our regular series of 20-minute drop-in sessions designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.\n\nEach week\, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware\, software\, apps\, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.\n\nBring your own device if you want\, but that’s not required either\; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence. UID:68150-17045985@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68150 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:computer showcase,Free,technology,workshop LOCATION:Shapiro Library - First Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191001T113209 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Expect Respect Workshop DESCRIPTION:This workshop will utilize the CLARA method of effective listening and communication in order to practice and reinforce respect for individuals on a daily basis. \nBenefits of a respectful environment include:\n• Building and sustaining high quality relationships\n• A safe space leading to elevated levels of trust\n• Enhanced creativity\, output and community-building UID:67837-16958337@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Diversity Summit,Expect Respect,Workshop LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 - Dining Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:German Lab DESCRIPTION:The German Lab is open Monday-Thursday 1-4 every week. It's in Alcove B in the LRC (which is on the ground level of North Quad\, Room 1500). You can go to the German Lab anytime for any kind of help (except we can't proofread your essays for you): if you need help with homework or a test review sheet (we can proofread your test essays for German 101-103)\, if you need grammar topics explained or reviewed or need more practice\, if you just want to speak some German for fun and/or for your AMD etc. If you have time in the afternoons from 1-4 you could do your homework in the LRC - it's a great facility! Then if you get stuck on something\, you can just stop by the German Lab alcove so we can get you unstuck. Mehr Info: https://resources.german.lsa.umich.edu/miscellaneous/deutschlabor/ UID:48604-16770164@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Undergraduate LOCATION:North Quad - Alcove B in the Language Resource Center (ground level of North Quad, Room 1500) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T233129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Constraint and Possibility in Contemporary African American Literature DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nPanel #1: Constraint and Possibility in Contemporary African American Literature \n\nMargo Natalie Crawford\n“Scenes of Loosening the Thick Time of Black Body/Slave Body”\n\nIn “The Slavebody and the Blackbody\,” in The Source of Self-Regard\, Toni Morrison wonders how the “black body” can be separated from the “slave body.” I argue that the work of freeing the black body from this afterlife of slavery is the work of denaturalizing that which Bakhtin describes as the “thickening of time.” Bakhtin writes\, “time\, as it were\, thickens\, takes on flesh.” I propose that the thickening of time and time’s “taking on of flesh\,” in terms of the afterlife of slavery\, gain new dimensions when we rethink Fanon’s theory of epidermalization—“the slow composition of my self as a body in the middle of a spatial and temporal world.” The slow decomposition of the black body as a slave body demands a loosening of the thickness of that melancholic historicism that keeps collapsing black past and black present. I argue that the practice of that loosening is a core tension in 21st century African American literature. I bring together scenes of loosening in Toni Morrison’s flow from Paradise to her last novel God Help the Child.\n\nKevin Quashie\n“Poetic Inclination\, Black Subjunctivity”\n\nI want to make a case about ethics that requires first that I make a case for aliveness. But just to establish a marker for the ethical—the urgency of the ethical—I want to be clear that there is no question more vital than the question “how to be\,” and no doing more vital than to imagine that this question belongs to ones who are black (and to black literature). That is\, because the question of the ethical is a question of relation\, it seems to elide blackness: in an antiblack imagination\, there is no “how to be” since antiblackness presumes to answer or overwhelm or even render inept this query. I want to get to the question “how to be” without reifying it as one of respectability or worthiness that is sutured to behavior\; I want to get to the question as if we\, black people\, are not exempt from its daily reckoning. This thinking through both aliveness and ethics will lean on black poetics.\n\n\nMargo Natalie Crawford is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar of 20th and 21st century African American literature and visual culture and global black studies. Crossing boundaries between literature\, visual art\, and cultural movements\, her scholarship opens up new ways of understanding black radical imaginations. Her other research interests include performance studies\, queer theory\, comparative ethnic studies\, radical feminism\, and transnational modernism. Her most recent book is Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Black Aesthetics (2017). Her earlier work includes Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008) and New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (co-edited with Lisa Gail Collins\, 2006). She is now completing What is African American Literature? Through a focus on textual production\, diasporic tensions\, and the ongoing\, repetitive production of the contemporary\, What is African American Literature? shows how tensions between the material and ephemeral make the textual production of African American literature become the textual production of black affect.\n\nKevin Quashie is a professor in the English Department of Brown University\, where he teaches black cultural and literary studies. He is the author of Black Women\, Identity\, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject (Rutgers University Press\, 2004) and The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Rutgers University Press\, 2012). He is co-editor of the landmark anthology New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America. His essays have appeared in differences\, CLA Journal\, The Massachusetts Review\, African American Review\, and Meridians. His forthcoming new book is titled “Black Aliveness\, or a Poetics of Being.” UID:68773-17147183@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68773 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literataure LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T233057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nHeld over two days\, the symposium features a keynote lecture\, \"The End of Black Studies\,\" from Stephen Best (Berkeley)\, three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents\, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs\, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium\, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora\; political activism\; historicity\; gender/sexuality\; and cross-media cultural production.\n\nIn addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best\, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn)\, Madhu Dubey (UIC)\, Erica Edwards (Rutgers)\, Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt)\, Kevin Quashie (Brown)\, and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon). UID:60739-14961639@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,american culture,Film,Literature,Women's Studies LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190819T153500 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Copyright and Your Dissertation: Don’t Get Spooked! DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wondered what is the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism? Do you know when it’s okay to use copyrighted works without permission or how to get permission when you need it? Explore these and other questions about copyright and dissertations in a workshop facilitated by Melissa Levine\, Director of the U-M Library Copyright Office. This workshop is primarily designed for students in the Rackham Graduate School\, but all are welcome.\n\nPlease register via TeachTech or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu. UID:65441-16597583@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65441 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191115T123024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Join the PEAK Team- Chicago IL DESCRIPTION:Info Session \n\nIt's an exciting time here at PEAK Technical Staffing USA\, we are looking to grow our Chicago team! Are you Career Driven and seeking an Entry Level Opportunity?\n\nJoin us Thursday October 31\, 2019 at 2pm CST for an Info Session about our Management Trainee Program and why we want you to Join our team!\n\nWhen: Thursday October 31\, 2019 at 2pm\n\nWe will be covering:\n· Who is Peak Technical Staffing USA?\n· Why work in the staffing industry?\n· What is the Management Training Program?\n· Accelerated Career Path\n· Q & A with graduates of Peak’s Management Training Program\n\nFor immediate consideration please send resume to josephinerichards@peaktechnical.com \n\nSee you there! UID:68689-17138812@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68689 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191219T114634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger DESCRIPTION:Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science\, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing\, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes\, triangulating multiple databases\, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations\, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming\, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R\, Python\, Markdown\, Make\, bash\, LaTeX and version control\, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable\, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace\, the primary focus is on the Python programming language\, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend. UID:67432-16849221@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Data Science,Discussion,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Graduate,Interdisciplinary,Learning Center,Multidisciplinary Design,Office Hours,Social Sciences,Undergraduate LOCATION:Institute For Social Research - Room 1450/Atrium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T143052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Safe Shared Mobility Through Game Based Learning DESCRIPTION:Overview of an experiment to help vulnerable road users understand their safety critical roles in shared mobility scenarios.\n\nDr. Aditi Misra is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s CMISST group. UID:68885-17188744@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68885 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Energy,Engineering,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2029 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191008T130737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Departmental Seminar (899): Santanu Dey\, Georgia Tech — *Convexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program* DESCRIPTION:The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.\n\nThe seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.\n\nTitle:\nConvexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program\n\nAbstract:\nAn important approach to solving non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) to global optimality is to use convex relaxations and branch-and-bound algorithms. In our first result\, we show that the exact convex hull of the solutions of a general quadratic equation intersected with any polytope is second-order cone representable. The proof is constructive and relies on the discovery of an interesting property of quadratic functions\, which may be of independent interest: A set defined by a single quadratic equation is either (1) the boundary of a convex set\, or (2) the boundary of union of two convex sets or (3) it has the property that through every point on the surface\, there exists a straight line that is entirely contained in the surface. We next study sets defined for matrix variables that satisfy rank-1 constraint together with different choices of linear side constraints. We identify different conditions on the linear side constraints\, under which the convex hull of the rank-1 set is polyhedral or second-order cone representable. Finally\, we present results from comprehensive set of computational experiments and show that our convexification results together with discretization significantly help in improving dual bounds for the generalized pooling problem. (This is joint work with Asteroide Santana and Burak Kocuk.)\n\nBio:\nSantanu S. Dey is A. Russell Chandler III Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dey's research interests are in the area of non convex optimization\, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex optimization arising in areas such as electrical power engineering\, process engineering\, civil engineering\, logistics\, and statistics. Dr. Dey has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for INFORMS Optimization Society (2011-2013) and has served on the program committees of Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017. He currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications\, MOS-SIAM book series on Optimization\, is an area editor for Mathematical Programming C and is an associate editor for Mathematical Programming A\, Mathematics of Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization. UID:66536-16744985@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66536 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:899 Seminar Series,Industrial And Operations Engineering LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191015T181739 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Rackham North: Knowing Your Strengths DESCRIPTION:Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Research shows that knowing and focusing on your strengths helps to increase your engagement and satisfaction at work. Learn how using a strengths-based approach will help you to achieve higher levels of overall personal well-being\, productivity\, and professional success. As a pre-requisite of this workshop\, you will take the Gallup Strengths assessment to learn your top five strengths. The registration deadline for this session is October 24 to allow time for you to take the Gallup Strengths assessment. During the workshop\, you will engage in a series of activities that will enhance your self-awareness of your top strengths and help you to identify how to apply your strengths in your professional life.\nThis workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff\, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKKzn.\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 (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative. UID:65456-16599595@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65456 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191002T172930 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CLASP Seminar Series: Qusai Al Shidi DESCRIPTION:We are very pleased to welcome CLASP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Qusai Al Shidi. \n\nMr. Al Shidi will give a presentation titled: \"Modeling and Simulating the Solar Chromosphere.\"\n\nAbstract: The Sun’s chromosphere is a highly dynamic\, partially ionized region where spicules (hot jets of plasma) form. I will go over why the chromosphere is an important but understudied region of the Sun\, then I will present a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic model to study the chromosphere\, which includes ion–neutral interaction and frictional heating. The simulation produces a shock self-consistently\, where the jet is driven by the frictional heating\, which is much greater than the ohmic heating. UID:67949-16969037@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67949 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:astrophysics,Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering LOCATION:Climate and Space Research Building - CSRB Auditorium, room 2246 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T134740 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: \"Smart Additive Manufacturing\" DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nThere is a lot of excitement about the potential of smart manufacturing (aka Industry 4.0)\, with its associated technologies like cloud computing\, big data analytics\, artificial intelligence and IoT\, to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. An excellent application for such “smart” technologies is the additive manufacturing\, another area of Manufacturing that is gaining a lot of traction. In this talk\, I will share some of my early work on smart additive manufacturing using a few case studies. I will also share an initiative I am leading on establishing a smart additive manufacturing education program at U-M. My goal is to excite you with our vision\, get your feedback\, and maybe bring some of you along on the journey.\n\nAbout the Speaker...\n\nChinedum Okwudire received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2009 and joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to joining Michigan\, he was the mechatronic systems optimization team leader at DMG Mori USA\, based in Davis\, CA. His research is focused on exploiting knowledge at the intersection of machine design\, control and\, more-recently\, computer science\, to boost the performance of manufacturing automation systems at low cost. Chinedum has received a number of awards including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation\; the Young Investigator Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation\; the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers\; the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from SAE International\; and the Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professorship from UC Berkeley. He has co-authored a number best paper award winning papers including the 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division’s Best Paper in Mechatronics Award. His recent work on boosting the speed of 3D printers at low cost through feedforward vibration compensation has been featured internationally in popular news media\, including NASA Tech Briefs and Discovery Channel Canada. UID:68882-17188742@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68882 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:aerospace engineering,Free,Lecture,Undergraduate LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190830T164043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Crafting a Compelling Cover Letter DESCRIPTION:Do cover letters have you at loss for words? Not sure where to start? Come work alongside peers and Hub coaches to practice a step-by-step process for writing compelling cover letters. Participants are encouraged to identify a job description of interest before the workshop and are invited to bring copies of drafted letters. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students. UID:66110-16686734@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66110 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Professional Development,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - 2001 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200410T141623 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar: Unraveling the tangled web: the evolutionary impact of hybridization DESCRIPTION:How distinct species persist in the face of gene flow is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology\, reinvigorated by the recent realization that hybridization is surprisingly common. Though it is now appreciated that gene flow often occurs before\, during\, and after speciation\, little about the evolutionary impact of hybridization is understood\, from the ecological and behavioral forces driving hybridization to the ways in which selection acts on hybrid genomes. Our research addresses these questions using replicate\, recently formed hybrid populations of swordtail fish. I will discuss work mapping the locations of hybrid incompatibilities and investigating the role of selection on these regions in hybrid genome evolution. I will also discuss our work investigating how selection on incompatibilities interacts with other genetic processes such as recombination. Together\, this work highlights a set of mechanisms that shape hybridization on a population and genetic level.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/NX1wEe5CCzk UID:65475-16605609@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Earth Day At 50,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T115233 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Hopwood Halloween Tea DESCRIPTION:-Trick or treating noon to 4:00 p.m.\n-Spooky (and delicious) treats\n-Costume contest\n-Book raffle for \"Ghost Writers\"\n-Exquisite Corpses\, cooperative ghost stories\, and other creepy stuff! UID:68871-17186670@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68871 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Creative Writing,Department Of English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate Students,Literary Arts,Storytelling,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T145535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Public Lecture Series | The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States? DESCRIPTION:Dr. Duara seeks to grasp the genealogy of China’s Belt and Road (BRI) in relation both to the imperial Chinese world order and the historical sequence of forms of global domination\, i.e.\, modern imperialism\, the ‘imperialism of nation-states’ during the inter-war and Cold War period as well as the post-Cold War notion of ‘soft power’. While we may think of BRI as poised uncertainly between the logics of the older imperial Chinese order and the more recent logic impelled by capitalist nation-states\, there are significant novelties in the new Chinese order\, mostly in relation to debt\, the environment and digital technology which constitute new realms of power not easily dominated by a hegemon.\n\nPrasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was Professor and chair of History and East Asian Studies at University of Chicago (1991-2008) and Raffles Professor and Director of Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2008-2015). His latest book is \"The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future\" (Cambridge 2014). He was awarded the doctor philosophiae honoris causa from the University of Oslo in 2017 and he is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies.\n\nThis presentation is co-sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies. UID:67953-16975338@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67953 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Chinese Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 1010 | 10th Floor Event Space CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191024T130137 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:MedChem Seminar DESCRIPTION:Visualizing Microbial and Cellular Chemistry in Situ UID:68814-17155483@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68814 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Lecture,medicinal chemistry LOCATION:Pharmacy College - 2548 NUB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T063031 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:THIS IS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM\n\nJust 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: that’s ok!\n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when youcan during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting\, learn how to build great bullet points\, and get feedback on your resume.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.\n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326046 UID:67574-16894380@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67574 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191115T123023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab for First Year Students! DESCRIPTION:THIS IS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM!\n\nJust gettingstarted building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Whereveryou’re at: that’s ok!\n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!\n\nChat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resumeformatting\, learn how to build great bullet points\, and get feedback onyour resume.\n\nIf you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.\n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will beseen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326039 UID:67630-16909296@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67630 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T130810 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Rethinking the University: On Discipline\, Excellence\, and Solidarity DESCRIPTION:We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year\, with our theme for this year being \"On the Failed and Marginal\,\" focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think\, write\, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking\, our second event will be a workshop on \"Rethinking the University: On Discipline\, Excellence\, and Solidarity\" with Professor Reginald Jackson\, to be held on Thursday\, Oct. 31st\, 4-6 pm\, room 1014 Tisch Hall\, dinner included.\n\nProfessor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten\, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such\, ahead of this event\, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article\, titled \"Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy\,\" along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here\, and we recommend reading them in this order: \n\nReadings\, “The Idea of Excellence”\nJackson\, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy” \nMoten and Harney\, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional) \n\nAdditionally\, if you plan on attending this event\, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student\, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event. \n\nThis event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions. UID:68925-17197030@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Asia,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Food,Free,Global And Transnational,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate School,Graduate Students,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,International,Japanese Studies,Multicultural,Multidisciplinary Design,Scholarship,Southeast Asia,The College Of Literature\, Science\, And The Arts,Transcultural Studies LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190913T092824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:UROP - Creating Effective Presentations using PowerPoint or Google Slides Workshop DESCRIPTION:UROP students probably already know how to make slides in PowerPoint or Google Slides\, but do you know how to create a presentation that will keep your audience's attention\, as well as clearly communicate your message? This workshop will examine principles that support more effective communication\, regardless of the software you use. We'll talk about visual design guidelines\, how to ensure better audience comprehension\, and other things to keep in mind when putting together a presentation. We'll also talk about a few lesser-known features of presentation software that will make it easier to build a useful and consistent presentation. UID:67114-16803014@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67114 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:free,Interdisciplinary,Research,Training,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,university library,Urop,Workshop LOCATION:Shapiro Library - 4041 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T135653 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Keynote Lecture: Stephen Best DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nProf. Stephen Best (Berkeley)\, author of None Like Us: Blackness\, Belonging\, Aesthetic Life (Duke\, 2018) and The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (U of Chicago Pree\, 2004)\, will deliver the keynote lecture of the symposium\, titled \"The End of Black Studies.\"\n\nThe End of Black Studies\n\nThis talk will address the dual ends of black studies—that is\, the way the field's conditions of origin (think of Richard Wright’s White Man\, Listen!) are always bound up with a sense of the field's imminent exhaustion\, if not inutility (What project remains once he does?). These conflicting ends are a kind of Gordian knot with which the black scholar of black studies cannot fail to grapple—the question of how far “to define Black people as reactions to White presence\,” as Toni Morrison once put it\, never completely beyond the horizon of debate. And where Morrison redefined black studies\, freeing black writing from the imperative of having to address a white reader\, those changes could never quite accommodate James Baldwin\, whose work fell into some disfavor upon his death in 1987. This talk will frame the recent resurgent interest in Baldwin in terms of an aesthetic turn within black studies\, arguing that his invocations of the category of “beauty\,” while not a clean cutting of the Gordian knot\, offer a means of grappling with origins\, both one's own and that of the field. UID:64103-16147472@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64103 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191011T152014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Law and Economics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68323-17046000@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68323 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Law,seminar LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1020 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190912T095111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T171000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Joe Caslin: Is Street art Capable of Advancing a Society? DESCRIPTION:Designboom Magazine has Described the work of Joe Caslin as “towering works of art [that] appear like massive sketch books across the architecture of Ireland’s cities.” Caslin is the recipient of the 2013 Association of Illustrators award for New Talent in Public Realm Illustration. He creates highly accessible work that engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland. Caslin confronts the subjects of suicide\, drug addiction\, economic marginalization\, marriage equality\, stigma in mental health\, the Irish asylum system\, institutional power\, and most recently\, sexual consent. The monochrome drawings Caslin creates live with us and against many of us for some time before washing away. They hold a mirror up to the kind of society that we are\, while asking us individually what kind of society we want to be a part of. In 2018\, Caslin worked with the National Gallery of Ireland to create Finding Power\, a huge mural of the writer and activist Stephen Moloney installed in the gallery’s courtyard. His current project\, Our Nation’s Sons\, aims to persuade entire communities to address the very real problem of young male’s apathy and their mental well-being.\n\n Supported by the Institute for the Humanities. UID:65261-16559491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Lecture LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T183000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:Star talks will examine the night sky with its slowly changing constellations\, bright planets\, and a short journey to visit far-away objects.\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:67976-17037437@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:1027 E. Huron Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191002T093605 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T190000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete DESCRIPTION:From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing\, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries\, scaling up to address construction level challenges\, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future\, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build\, our ethos and aspirations. Yet\, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations\, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players\, institutions\, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.\n\nWhat approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing\, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry\, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?\n\nThis symposium\, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture\, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory\, engineering\, construction technology\, material science\, design\, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.\n\nCo-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday\, October 31\, followed by a full day symposium on Friday\, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research\, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery\, highlighting some of the work produced by participants\, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex. \n\nThe symposium is free and open to the public\, and will also be available via live stream.\n\nKeynote Lectures:\nThursday\, October 31: Mark Burry\, Swinburne University of Technology\nFriday\, November 1: Sarah Billington\, Stanford University\n\nParticipants:\nLucia Allais\, Princeton University\nBrandon Clifford\, MIT\nBrian Ellis\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nMike Fiske\, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)\nMaría González Pendás\, Columbia University\nVineet Kamat\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nAndrew Kudless\, CCA\nWanda Lau\, Architect Magazine\nVictor Li\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nJerry Lynch\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nJonathan Massey\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nWes McGee\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nForrest Meggers\, Princeton University\, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment\nShadi Nazarin\, Penn State University\nTsz Yan Ng\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nSarah Nichols\, Rice University\nDavide Zampini\, Cemex\nSasa Zivkovic\, Cornell AAP UID:65602-16966892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning,Civil and Environmental Engineering,concrete,Earth Day At 50,Energy,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T132212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T193000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Sky Tonight DESCRIPTION:Star talks will examine the night sky with its slowly changing constellations\, bright planets\, and a short journey to visit far-away objects.\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:67976-17037424@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67976 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191016T094601 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Event. Beyond Faith-based Humanitarianism: What Everyday Responses to Iraqi and Syrian Displacement Tell Us About Encountering Difference DESCRIPTION:Drawing on research conducted with Iraqi refugees in Damascus and Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border\, Dr. Zaman considers how displaced people re-imagine understandings of religious traditions to produce a distinctive geography of belonging. In so doing\, a window opens for us to reflect on what decolonial readings of refuge and the sacred can offer. UID:68475-17086376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68475 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:center for middle eastern and north african studies,cmenas,Diaspora,Humanities,Middle East Studies,religious LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191031T180024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Weekly Bible Study - \"Supremacy of Christ\" DESCRIPTION:Join us for prayer\, worship\, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Supremacy of Christ from Colossians 1:15-23. UID:66645-16770091@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66645 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191031T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T220000 SUMMARY:Exercise / Fitness:Beginner Brazilian Zouk Dance Lesson DESCRIPTION:A 6-week course that covers the fundamental movements in Brazilian Zouk Dance. You do not need a partner to take this class\, but we always encourage you to bring your friends! No dance experience required\; walk-ins welcome.If you miss a class\, don't worry\, we have teachers to help you out :) Timing8:00 PM Registration\n8:10 PM Beginner Class\n9:00 PM Teacher-Guided PracticaWe can't wait to meet you! See our facebook events for more details: https://www.facebook.com/pg/aaZoukMi/events/ UID:68458-17086343@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68458 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:openfloor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191022T121530 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191031T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Faculty Theatre Performance: Malcolm Tulip *CANCELED* DESCRIPTION:*These performances have been canceled*\n\nWritten and performed by Malcolm Tulip\nSound design and performance by Cy Tulip\nVideo design by Jeromy Hopgood\nSet design by Vincent Mountain\nCostume design by Christianne Myers\n\nIn 2017 Prof. Malcolm Tulip came across a book of anagrammatic poetry by the German Surrealist artist Unica Zürn (1916-1970) and a journey into her writings\, art works\, and life followed. As he became hypnotized by the vivid life force of her work memories\, real and imagined\, from his own life were released. Encouraged by Zürn’s creative strategies as well as playwright Charles L. Mee’s intuitive text/image assemblage approach\, Tulip brings together seemingly disparate fragments of text and imagery to conjure a new hybrid autobiography. Texts from multiple and contrary sources live side by side. The friction between apparent non-sequiturs fire the imagination\; more closely resembling our brain activity with collisions of past\, present\, tangible\, and subconscious events that constantly fight to be seen and heard. \n\nMade possible with the generous support of the U-M Office of Research\, the Center for World Performance Studies\, SMTD\, the Department of Theatre & Drama\, and Trinosophes\, Detroit. UID:67364-16842071@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67364 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Video Studio CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191103T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T235959 SUMMARY:Sporting Event:Kennedy Cup DESCRIPTION:National Championship hosted by the Navy. We will be sailing in Navy 44s. UID:66721-17236470@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191104T000026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T060000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Missouri Loves Company DESCRIPTION:This is the perfect time to get to know your teammates!!!!  UID:66474-17240551@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66474 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191103T120014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T061500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Bald Eagle Collegiate Invitational DESCRIPTION:Race UID:68068-17236487@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68068 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Indianapolis, IN CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191031T155251 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T210000 SUMMARY:Well-being:World Vegan Day DESCRIPTION:Come in to any of our dining halls to enjoy some vegan selections from our World Class Chefs. UID:69020-17213815@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69020 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Food,Meal,Nutrition,Sustainability LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T153628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T230000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Applications Open for Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program DESCRIPTION:UROP's Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program ( DCERP) will be accepting applications for Summer 2020 through December 3rd! DCERP students will gain valuable experience while helping community organizations with their research needs. They'll also become part of a dynamic learning community that will get to know about Detroit history\, have fun together\, and share their passion for social justice. Students will receive a stipend and housing for this 9-week program.\n\nApply today! http://myumi.ch/erK95 UID:68084-17009780@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68084 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,AEM Featured,Dcbrp,Dcerp,Detroit,Environment,Free,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Public Health,Public Policy,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T150633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages DESCRIPTION:*The juxtaposition of fragments creates original\, unexpected\, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe.*\n\nStasys Eidrigevičius\, often referred to simply as “Stasys\,” was born in Mediniskiai\, Lithuania in 1949. He studied at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Warsaw in 1980 where he established a reputation as a world-renowned artist. A master of many techniques as an illustrator\, book cover designer\, sculptor\, painter\, and photographer\, Stasys is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. He has exhibited in the United States\, Switzerland\, Japan\, Great Britain\, Spain\, France\, Germany and many other countries. \n\nStasys is the recipient of numerous international prizes and medals in various fields of artistic activity including: the Grand Prize at the International Book Illustration Contest in Barcelona (1986)\; Gold Medal at the International Poster Festival in Chicago (1987)\; Silver Medal at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art in New York (1988)\; Grand Prize at the 1st International Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustration in Belgrade (1990) and Bratislava (1991)\; Grand Prize at the International Salon of Poster in Paris (1993)\; Gold Medal at the 4th International Triennial of Poster in Toyama (Japan\, 1994)\; and at the Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (1999). In 2019\, he was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this exhibition\, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks 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. UID:65699-16629934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,European,International,Poland,Visual Arts LOCATION:Weiser Hall - International Institute Gallery, 547 Weiser Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190809T101919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World DESCRIPTION:Civitates Orbis Terrarum (Cities of the World)\, the first standardized city atlas\, contains over 540 maps and views between its six volumes. First published in 1572 by Georg Braun (1541-1622) and Frans Hogenberg (1535-1590)\, Civitates was first intended as a companion to Ortelius’s Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. New editions of the city atlas continued to be printed through 1617. Hogenberg\, one of the most prolific engravers of the time\, was joined by many other engravers in creating the Civitates. Braun edited the work and provided the descriptions of the cities on the verso of each plate. This exhibit contains 18 works from the Civitates\, including many from the Clark Library’s holdings. Also included are reproductions of large panoramas Amsterdam\, London\, and St. Petersburg that reflect the evolution of city mapping through the 17th and 18th centuries. UID:65088-16515459@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Clark Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T122638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture DESCRIPTION:This exhibit of Steve Wirtz’ sculptures features a selection of his Dynamic Football series and animal works. The Dynamic Football laminated paper works explore compositions of action\, allowing the artist to exploit the properties of the medium. The pieces are constructed by gluing many layers of paper over wire armatures. When dry\, the sculptures are painted in an often splashy\, sketchy style. Wirtz’ silly animal works are what the artist is best known for\, and they take shape in his Goetzville\, Michigan studio.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67407-16849034@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics - Football,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T120819 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition DESCRIPTION:Each year Gifts of Art presents an exhibition of artwork by Michigan Medicine faculty\, staff\, students\, volunteers and family members. It showcases the exceptional talent\, creativity and accomplishments of artists in the extensive (~26\,000) Michigan Medicine community. There are artist juried ribbon awards for Best in Category\, Best in Show\, and a People's Choice award determined by ballots in the on-site voting box. Winners will be announced at the Award Ceremony & Reception held in the exhibit gallery\, date TBA. For more information\, please visit: www.med.umich.edu/goa/employee.htm.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67398-16848782@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T123728 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas DESCRIPTION:Brighton\, Michigan artist Jeff Joseph’s introduction to art making was drawing pencil sketches of his junior high classmates. His specialty is sports arts\, and he has a license to create art for several universities including U-M\, Ohio State and Michigan State. His work is about the quiet moments of sports as well as the shifting and complex panorama of all sports. This exhibit will include portraits\, stadium landscapes and images from Michigan sports teams. Focusing on accuracy and detail\, his originals can take anywhere from four months to a year to complete\, but he is always updating collectors around the country with new pieces.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center\, Level 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67410-16849118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Athletics - Baseball,Athletics - Football,Athletics - Ice Hockey,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Cancer Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T121219 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Oil on Water: Painting on Linen DESCRIPTION:Danielle Eubank is an award-winning artist who has been on four international sailing expeditions and painted every ocean on the planet to raise awareness about the oceans and climate change. Her large paintings are emotive abstract portraits of specific bodies of water. The Oil on Water exhibition features Eubank’s oil on linen paintings of the Arctic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. She creates patterns within patterns\, representing vertical stacks of rhythms. The undulating forms\, such as water ripples\, oil slicks\, and refuse\, combined with the memories that water evokes\, makes her work eye-opening\, yet soothing and sensual. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1 \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67400-16848865@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Environment,Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T121906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Pen & Ink Queens DESCRIPTION:Introverted and shy by nature\, Laura Cavanagh uses her art as an outlet to create humorous larger than life personalities. In Pen & Ink Queens\, Cavanagh draws inspiration from medieval and renaissance-era garments to adorn quirky\, queenly figures. Cavanagh works in a style that is hyper-detailed and intricate\, so she remains present during the creative process. A true Michigander\, Cavanagh was born and raised in Southeast Michigan\, attended U-M\, and currently works in Detroit. Cavanagh makes a concerted effort to exhibit as much as possible in her home state\, and when she is not in her studio\, you can find her cooking\, practicing yoga or playing with her cat\, Benji.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor\, Floor 2\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67401-16848948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T115358 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media DESCRIPTION:Unruly Arts is a professional art studio that serves adults with disabilities\, located within the Artist Village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. In this supportive community\, each artist is encouraged to find and develop their authentic voice through art and the creative process. The Un-Quarium exhibit is a series of three large canvases of stretched silk polyester\, along with a collection of smaller aquatic themed glass and silk abstracts showcasing a wondrous world beneath the sea. The works reflect a collaborative effort by eighteen artists from Unruly Arts studio. Their art celebrates the joyful and vibrant expression of color and texture as well as their unique vision.\n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1. \n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67393-16846474@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Disability,Family,Free,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T120302 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels DESCRIPTION:Victoria (Vika) Bulgakova grew up in Ukraine\, a part of the former Soviet Union. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1994\, and for the next 22 years\, New York became her home. In 2016\, she moved to Michigan to pursue an MFA at Cranbrook Academy of Art. She found the raw beauty of Detroit inspiring and kept her metalsmithing studio practice in the city. The copper and brass vessels in her Ваза series and other included works are a meditation on fluidity of memories: their ability to shift from reflection to re-invention over time. Each vessel potentially holds something within its boundaries\, whether tangible or not. \n\nGifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:67395-16846557@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,International,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:Taubman Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T100616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru\, Sudan DESCRIPTION:Ancient graffiti provide a unique glimpse into the lives of individuals in antiquity. Religious devotion in ancient Kush (a region located in modern-day northern Sudan)\, involved pilgrimage and leaving informal marks on temples\, pyramids\, and other monumental structures. These graffiti are found in temples throughout the later (“Meroitic”) period of Kush\, when it bordered Roman Egypt. They represent one of the few direct traces of the devotional practices of private people in Kush and hint at individuals’ thoughts\, values\, and daily lives. This exhibition explores the times and places in which Kushite graffiti were inscribed through photos\, text\, and interactive media presentations. At the heart of the show are the hundreds of Meroitic graffiti recently discovered in a rock-cut temple by the Kelsey expedition to El-Kurru in northern Sudan.\n\nCurators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis\n\nView the online exhibition:\nhttp://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/ UID:63992-16059392@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Africa,Archaeology,Exhibition,Museum LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191002T093605 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete DESCRIPTION:From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing\, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries\, scaling up to address construction level challenges\, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future\, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build\, our ethos and aspirations. Yet\, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations\, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players\, institutions\, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.\n\nWhat approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing\, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry\, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?\n\nThis symposium\, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture\, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory\, engineering\, construction technology\, material science\, design\, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.\n\nCo-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering\, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday\, October 31\, followed by a full day symposium on Friday\, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research\, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery\, highlighting some of the work produced by participants\, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex. \n\nThe symposium is free and open to the public\, and will also be available via live stream.\n\nKeynote Lectures:\nThursday\, October 31: Mark Burry\, Swinburne University of Technology\nFriday\, November 1: Sarah Billington\, Stanford University\n\nParticipants:\nLucia Allais\, Princeton University\nBrandon Clifford\, MIT\nBrian Ellis\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nMike Fiske\, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)\nMaría González Pendás\, Columbia University\nVineet Kamat\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nAndrew Kudless\, CCA\nWanda Lau\, Architect Magazine\nVictor Li\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nJerry Lynch\, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering\nJonathan Massey\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nWes McGee\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nForrest Meggers\, Princeton University\, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment\nShadi Nazarin\, Penn State University\nTsz Yan Ng\, University of Michigan Taubman College\nSarah Nichols\, Rice University\nDavide Zampini\, Cemex\nSasa Zivkovic\, Cornell AAP UID:65602-16966893@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:architecture,Architecture\, Urban Planning,Civil and Environmental Engineering,concrete,Earth Day At 50,Energy,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Art and Architecture Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190808T162032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Other Crusoes\, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy DESCRIPTION:On the 300th anniversary of the publication of The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe\, of York\, Mariner\, this exhibit interrogates the troubled legacy of Daniel Defoe’s seminal English novel. It also explores how creators have pushed back against the colonialist\, hyper-masculine\, and racist ethos of the text by using the castaway narrative to explore self-sufficiency\, otherness\, and the role of gendered and racialized ideas in constructing the self.\n\nThis novel of shipwreck\, survival\, and rescue has become a cultural touchstone. Today\, many people who haven’t read the novel still feel familiar with key plot elements\, Robinson Crusoe\, and Friday. Yet\, there is less familiarity with how both the original text and many of the adaptations of Robinson Crusoe have fed into and reinforced narratives of imperialism and racism. Drawing on the Hubbard Collection of Imaginary Voyages - one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of editions\, translations\, adaptations\, and spin-offs of Robinson Crusoe - Other Crusoes\, Other Islands seeks to understand how readers and writers have engaged with the story since its initial publication in 1719.\n\nContent Advisory: Please be aware that some items in this exhibit feature racist imagery and potentially painful content. Although Robinson Crusoe is often treated as children’s literature and this exhibit includes children’s books and board games\, it is not an exhibit geared towards children and reflects the significant shifts over time in ideas about what is appropriate for children. UID:65071-16509383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Library,Literature LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Audubon Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T181537 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T090000 SUMMARY:Performance:WGTE “On the Road with Brad Cresswell” at SMTD DESCRIPTION:WGTE FM 91 is taking it on the road with host Brad Cresswell. \n\nWGTE (91.3 FM) will be broadcasting live from the Earl V. Moore Building from 9-11 a.m. and 1-4 p.m.\n\nTune in to hear SMTD professors talk with WGTE all throughout the day. \n\nListen live here: http://myumi.ch/mnqQl UID:68903-17190821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68903 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T121737 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Write-Together sessions provide structure\, space\, and time for graduate writers working on writing at any stage\, from papers to theses to journal articles to dissertations and more. Write-Together sessions bring graduate writers into a common quiet space to work. We will periodically offer helpful handouts on a range of writing and work productivity topics\, and a Sweetland representative will also be on-site to answer any brief writing questions you may have. Breakfast refreshments will be provided. UID:66016-16680440@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66016 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191116T063024 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T103000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk with yMusic DESCRIPTION:Join EXCEL for a Q&A with members of yMusic\, as part of theirUMS residency\, that will explore their work and professional trajectories. Heralded as \"six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres\,” (The New Yorker) yMusic performs in concert halls\, arenas and clubs around the world. Founded in New York City in 2008\, they believe in presenting excellent\, emotionally communicative music\, regardless of style or idiom. Their virtuosic execution and unique configuration (string trio\, flute\, clarinet\, and trumpet) has attracted the attention of high profile collaborators—from Paul Simon to Bill T. Jones to Ben Folds—and inspired original works by some of today’s foremost composers\, including Nico Muhly\, Missy Mazzoli and Andrew Norman. Refreshments will be provided. This event is made possible by University Musical Society. ARTSADMN 410/510: 1 credit\n UID:66977-16789926@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66977 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:20191029T162015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Evidence from Near-Miss Accidents DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nWe present evidence consistent with time-varying risk preferences among automobile drivers. Exploiting a unique dataset of agents’ high-frequency driving behavior collected by a mobile phone application\, we show that driving behavior changes after driving mishaps. Following “near-miss” accidents (measured by hard brakes or hard turns)\, drivers drive more conservatively\, which is consistent with increased risk aversion following such mishaps. In a preferred specification\, a near-miss triggers a reduction in driving distance of 8.12 kilometers\, in-car cellphone use by 88.80%\, and highway use by 34.88%. Calibration results indicate that such changes in behavior are consistent with an increase in risk aversion of [???]% and a reduction in annual insurance cost amounting to about 0.05–1.54% of the average car insurance premium.\n\nPaper joint with Yi Xin\, Caltech UID:68382-17071652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68382 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191022T090100 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Guest speaker Martin Kohlberger will speak on \"The importance of variation in understanding language change: lessons from Shiwiar (Chicham\, Ecuador).\" UID:68670-17136729@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68670 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Lecture,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T160727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan DESCRIPTION:This exhibit presents a selection of such fragmentary literary texts from the University of Michigan’s Papyrology Collection. Although literary papyri represent a small fraction of surviving papyrus texts\, they nonetheless enable scholars both to improve their readings of known literary texts and to illuminate the rich diversity of ancient Greek literature\, the overwhelming majority of which has been lost to time.\n\nThe Greek literature that survives complete in the present day largely represents the texts that were the most popular in antiquity\, works like Homer’s Iliad and Euripides’ Medea. These texts were repeatedly copied throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages\, ensuring their continued transmission. Literary texts on papyri\, however\, provide a rare opportunity to glimpse fragments of ancient literature in their original form and to discover works that were read in antiquity but did not otherwise survive into the medieval and modern periods. This includes lesser-known works by such famous authors as Aristophanes and the Greek tragedians\, as well as fragments of texts whose authors remain unknown.\n\nThe exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen\, UMSI student\, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:\nhttps://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center UID:66701-16770250@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66701 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Free,History,Library LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Special Collections Research Center, 6th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190802T181538 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Mentoring Plan Workshop DESCRIPTION:This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor. Faculty and students will work independently to identify their own objectives and styles initially\, and then faculty-student pairs have time to work together to develop a mentoring plan: a two-way document to codify goals\, needs\, and shared expectations. Our mentoring committee places high value on this exercise because we know that of Rackham students who have written mentoring plans\, 86% report that they find them useful. \nRegistration is required of both the faculty member and the student. Lunch is provided. UID:64851-16462990@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64851 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190920T130853 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists DESCRIPTION:Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut\, painting on canvas\, and mixed media\, Linda Hyong\, Sung Eun Hong\, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers\, gardens\, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.\n\nLinda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers\, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like\, nearly abstract paintings\, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”\n\nExhibit runs September 14 through November 15\, 2019 at the\n\nUniversity of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens\, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd.\, Ann Arbor. Free. UID:67493-16866581@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,matthaei botanical gardens LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T124356 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Heping Zhang\, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics\, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science\, Yale University DESCRIPTION:Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice\, and we often rely on regression models to make inference. A long-standing problem with such regression analyses is the lack of effective diagnostic tools for validating model assumptions. The difficulty arises from the fact that an ordinal variable has discrete values that are labeled with\, but not\, numerical values. The values merely represent ordered categories. In this paper\, we propose a surrogate approach to defining residuals for an ordinal outcome Y. The idea is to define a continuous variable S as a ``surrogate'' of Y and then obtain residuals based on S. For the general class of cumulative link regression models\, we study the residual's theoretical and graphical properties. We show that the residual has null properties similar to those of the common residuals for continuous outcomes. Our numerical studies demonstrate that the residual has power to detect misspecification with respect to 1) mean structures\; 2) link functions\; 3) heteroscedasticity\; 4) proportionality\; and 5) mixed populations. The proposed residual also enables us to develop numeric measures for goodness-of-fit using classical distance notions. Our results suggest that compared to a previously defined residual\, our residual can reveal deeper insights into model diagnostics. We stress that this work focuses on residual analysis\, rather than hypothesis testing. The latter has limited utility as it only provides a single p-value\, whereas our residual can reveal what components of the model are misspecified and advise how to make improvements. \n\nThis is a joint work with Dungang Liu\, University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business. UID:63887-15977789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63887 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T181533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WiAn: White Garden With White Noise DESCRIPTION:October 5 - November 2\, 2019\nOpening Reception: Friday\, October 4\, 6-8 pm\nCenter Galleries at the College for Creative Studies\, Detroit\n\nWiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.\n\nThrough visually and auditorily immersive installation\, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes\, illuminates\, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.\n\nIt is estimated over 200\,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period\, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women\, often from rural villages\, were enslaved in a variety of ways\, including kidnapping\, coercion\, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization\, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history\, their story has remained untold.\n\nThrough WiAn\, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry\, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis\, and sculptural objects\, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored\, to be comforted\, to let go of the past\, and to move forward. \n\nVisitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora\, comprised of many different plant specimens. White\, the traditional color for Korean funerals\, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden\, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty\, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis\, also engraved with original poetry\, invites souls to move lightly\, unburdened\, to the next chapter of being.\n\nIn a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning\, Kim’s work also provides comfort\, strength\, and a space of contemplation for the living\, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.\n\nJuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. \n\n  UID:67261-16831211@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,History LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191105T122541 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ISD Manufacturing Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, November 8\, 2019 from 11:00am-12:00pm in Chrysler Center\, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker\, with Xun Huan\, Ph.D. Professor Huan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.\n\nIn this presentation\, Dr. Huan will talk about finding the most useful data and how using a careful design of limited data acquisition opportunities can lead to substantial resource savings.\nRSVP here: https://forms.gle/b94JCeg23jJwu3Li9 UID:68798-17153401@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68798 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biomedical Engineering,Biosciences,Engineering,Graduate,Graduate Students,Integrative Systems,Interdisciplinary,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,seminar LOCATION:Chrysler Center - Chrysler 165 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190826T134603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:U-M Structure Seminar: LRRK2\, Rab GTPases\, and Parkinson’s disease DESCRIPTION:Associate Professor\, Biochemistry\nTrinity College\, The University of Dublin UID:65766-16654001@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65766 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Lecture,Structural Biology LOCATION:Life Sciences Institute - Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s DESCRIPTION:Can abstract art be about politics? In the early 1970s\, that question was hotly debated as artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. Many of those debates centered on bringing to light the roles that gender and race played in how “great modern art” was defined and assessed\, and on employing art to advance civil rights. Within this discourse\, abstraction had an especially fraught role. To many\, the decision by women artists and artists of color  to make abstract art seemed to represent a retreat from politics and protest: an abnegation of a commitment to civil rights and feminism. Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics in the Early 1970s presents large-scale work by four leading American artists—Helen Frankenthaler\, Sam Gilliam\, Al Loving\, and Louise Nevelson—who chose abstraction as a means of expression within the intense political climate of the early 1970s.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:58562-15002298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190611T121531 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics: DESCRIPTION:In the midst of the political and cultural upheavals of the 60s and 70s\, artists\, critics\, and the public grappled with the relationship between art\, politics\, race\, and feminism. During these decades\, the notion that abstraction was a purely formal and American art form\, concerned only with timeless themes disconnected from the present\, was met with increased skepticism. Women artists and artists of color began to actively and assertively explore abstraction’s possibilities. The artworks in Abstraction\, Color\, and Politics: The 1960s and 1970s demonstrate both radical and disarming changes in how artists worked and what they thought their art was about. Their new formal and intellectual strategies—seen here across large-scale and miniature work—dramatically transformed the practice of abstraction in the 1960s and 1970s in a politically shifting American landscape.\n\nUMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:\n\nLead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, and College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\n\nExhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund\, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment\, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund\n\nUniversity of Michigan Funding Partners: Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, School of Social Work\, Department of Political Science\, and Department of Women's Studies UID:63803-15884102@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,Politics,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T232945 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Black Feminisms in the Archive DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nPanel #2: Black Feminisms in the Archive \n\nCourtney Thorsson\n\"The Sisterhood\, Literary Organizing\, and The Archive\"\n\nA 1977 photo of \"The Sisterhood\,” a writers' group in New York in the late 1970s that included June Jordan\, Toni Morrison\, Ntozake Shange\, and Alice Walker has circulated as a source of inspiration since it was first published in 2004. This paper tells the story of a research journey from that photo to my book manuscript\, The Sisterhood and Black Women's Literary Organizing. Taking my project as a case study\, I consider the possibilities and challenges of engaging archives of contemporary African American literature. This paper describes a number of Black Feminist research methods including simultaneously constructing and using archives\, engaging Black women writers across genres as theorists\, rendering women's work visible\, and grappling with loss.\n\nErica Edwards\n“Extraliterature and the Black Feminist Imperative”\n\nThis paper begins with the assumption that post-1968 Black feminist writing is a field through which to approach the questions of periodicity\, history\, and materiality that have animated recent studies of African American literature. I begin by juxtaposing two well known textual moments that expand literary capacity and\, at the same time\, destabilize the relationship between literature and knowledge at the very moment that Black writing finds its institutional home in the American academy: Shange’s “bring her out/to know herself/to know you” (c. 1974) and Morrison’s “Sth. I know that woman” (1992). Offering these two\nsentences/confessions/pleas/ songs as extratextual\, extraliterary actings (actings-out?) that perform a certain outwardness or extra-ness\, I move on to discuss the extraliterary imperative that guides June Jordan’s 1979 play\, The Issue\, and Gloria Naylor’s 2005 fictionalized memoir 1996. The extraliterary forms that crowd around the play\, on one hand\, and the memoir\, on the other hand\, demand what I want to call\, after Greg Thomas\, a “literacy of outlaws\,” a reading practice that indicts the contemporary critic's position within literary institutions and\, at the same time\, generates occult forms of knowledge that the critic can access\, although not unprobematically\, not exclusively\, and not without risk.\n\n\nCourtney Thorsson is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon\, where she teaches\, studies\, and writes about African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Her book\, Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels (Virginia 2013) argues that Toni Cade Bambara\, Paule Marshall\, Gloria Naylor\, Ntozake Shange\, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism in their novels of the 1980s and 90s. Her essays have appeared in Callaloo\; African American Review\; MELUS\; Gastronomica\; Foodscapes: Food\, Space\, and Place in a Global Society\; Contemporary Literature\; and Public Books. With the support of a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, Professor Thorsson is completing a book on Black Women's literary organizing in the 1970s.\n\n\nErica R. Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick\, where she holds the Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature. She is the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership\, which was awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. She is the co-editor of Keywords for African American Studies\, published in 2018 by NYU Press. Edwards is the recipient of many prestigious fellowships and grants\, most recently having completed a residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her work on African American literature\, politics\, and gender critique has appeared in journals such as differences\, Callaloo\, American Quarterly\, American Literary History\, and Black Camera. UID:68781-17147187@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68781 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T233057 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nHeld over two days\, the symposium features a keynote lecture\, \"The End of Black Studies\,\" from Stephen Best (Berkeley)\, three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents\, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs\, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium\, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora\; political activism\; historicity\; gender/sexuality\; and cross-media cultural production.\n\nIn addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best\, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn)\, Madhu Dubey (UIC)\, Erica Edwards (Rutgers)\, Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt)\, Kevin Quashie (Brown)\, and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon). UID:60739-14961640@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,american culture,Film,Literature,Women's Studies LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190820T114324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:Join us for a tour to learn more about the Clements Library and its collections. Tours begin with a presentation behind-the-scenes to share the story of our collections and our renovated 1923 building. Tours conclude with a visit to the Avenir Foundation Reading Room to view the current exhibits. UID:61827-16629892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,History,Humanities,Library,Museum,Research,Scholarship,Tour LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190809T121521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice DESCRIPTION:In September 2019\, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition\, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).\n\nExhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10\, 2019\nSymposium Dates: September 19 - 22\, 2019\nGuest Curator: Allison Collins\, Media Arts Curator\, Western Front\n\nCurated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.\nIn partnership with the New Media Caucus \n\nHuman migration is a defining issue of the 21st century\, often calling into question the relevance\, role\, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces\, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed\, defensive and receptive\, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question\, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries\, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities\, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality\, the winds\, currents\, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.\n\nDrawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media\, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts\, patterns of migration\, displacement\, and statelessness. Collectively\, they offer projects with subterfuge\, refusal\, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.\n\n \n\n  UID:63627-15820774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Media LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Collection Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Collection Ensemble presents the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade. It exchanges Alumni Memorial Hall's previous focus on European and American painting for a broad mix of American\, European\, African\, and Asian art from across media\, sampling the Museum's remarkable\, disparate holdings. The installation is organized into thematic and formal vignettes that respond to the concepts and ideas resonating from an extraordinary large-scale photograph of a vacant cathedral by contemporary German artist Candida Höfer. Featuring works of art by numerous famous and not-so-famous artists\, many of them artists of color and women—including Charles Alston\, Christo\, Theaster Gates\, Jenny Holzer\, Roni Horn\, Do-Ho Suh\, Kara Walker\, and others\, Collection Ensemble reimagines the collection not as a fixed entity with one set of meanings to be unearthed\, but instead as an active\, creative\, sometimes startling source of material and ideas\, open for debate and interpretation.\n\n UID:68063-16988409@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Alumni,Art,European,Exhibition,Media,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190806T121549 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Copies and Invention in East Asia DESCRIPTION:Far from being frowned upon as uncreative\, in China\, Korea\, and Japan\, copying has long been considered a valuable practice. Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times\, Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality\, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. The exhibition includes burial goods that conjure a world for the deceased\; Buddhist sculptures produced in multiples to amplify religious experience and meaning\; paintings in which a master’s brushstrokes are faithfully duplicated as a way of shaping the self\; and contemporary works that address multiplicity and duplication in the modern world.\n\nLead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Michigan Medicine\, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies\, Center for Japanese Studies\, Nam Center for Korean Studies\, School of Information\, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center\, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers. UID:63517-15769777@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Exhibition,Museum,Religious,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - A. Alfred Taubman Gallery I CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T100258 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Donuts in the Dude DESCRIPTION:Join ESG for free cider & donuts\, coffee\, hot chocolate\, and tea in the Dude Connector! Let us help you get through midterm season with some free food and tell us what to fix on North campus. UID:68912-17194950@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68912 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Food,Graduate,Interdisciplinary,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Dude Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190930T181751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Mari Katayama DESCRIPTION:Japanese artist Mari Katayama (born 1987) features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography\, sculpture\, and textile. Born with a developmental condition\, the artist had both her legs amputated at the age of nine and has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and physicality\, and contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations\, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art. In photographs she assumes different personas\, dressed in revealing lingerie in private\, domestic spaces or in dramatic waterscapes. The unflinching display of the vulnerabilities and limits of Katayama’s body opens up a broader conversation about anxieties and wounds for all of us—disabled or nondisabled—living in an age obsessed with body image. UMMA’s installation will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in the U.S.\n\nLead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost\, Center for Japanese Studies\, the Japan Business Society of Detroit Foundation\, the Japan Cultural Development\, and Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment. Additional generous support is provided by the Susan and Richard Gutow Endowed Fund\, the University of Michigan CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund\, Institute for Research on Women and Gender\, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures\, and Women's Studies Department.  UID:63837-15901138@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190620T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann DESCRIPTION:Infant Skull II\, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire\, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions\, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces\, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is\, in a South African context\, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg\, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.\n \nThe work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.\n\nThis acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee\, 2016. UID:63283-15612021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,Art,Exhibition,History,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T181803 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs DESCRIPTION:Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.\n \nTake Your Pick invites you—the Museum’s visitors—to select photographs for our permanent collection. What belongs in a permanent collection\, and why? Who and what should be represented\, and how should we decide? This exhibition considers these questions in regard to 1\,000 amateur photographs on loan from the private collection of Peter J. Cohen\, who has gathered more than 60\,000 snapshots while exploring flea markets in the United States and Europe over two decades. The images he has collected depict all aspects of daily life and reveal the dynamic histories of amateur photography. Such pictures have particular significance in the current digital age\, when it is much less common to make physical copies of personal photographs. They constitute important artifacts of twentieth-century visual culture and precedents for the photographs we still make today. You are invited to make your voice heard in the selection process by voting for the photographs that resonate most with you!  \n \nVote for your favorite pictures: Saturday\, September 21\, 2019 – Sunday\, January 12\, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday\, January 14 – Sunday\, February 23\, 2020\n\nSupport for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and Department of Film\, Television\, and Media.\n  UID:63842-15931458@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Culture,Exhibition,Museum,UMMA LOCATION:Museum of Art - ArtGym CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200313T150734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library DESCRIPTION:\"The Best of the West\" is an exhibition of 45 printed rarities in early western Americana from the Clements Library collection. The exhibit is a tribute to antiquarian bookseller and outstanding Americanist William S. Reese (1955-2018)\, drawing upon Reese's 2017 book \"The Best of the West\" for its descriptions of the titles on display. \n\nThe books and pamphlets in the exhibition range chronologically from Miguel Venegas' 1757 \"Noticia de la California\" to Thomas F. Dawson & F. J. V. Skiff's 1879 \"The Ute War.\" In between are dozens of the rarest examples of western Americana primary sources\, in Spanish\, French\, English\, and German. They include discovery and exploration narratives\, 19th-century overland narratives\, prints and views of Native Americans\, color-plate books\, gold and silver mining reports\, and other glimpses of the trans-Mississippi West. UID:68495-17088514@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Exhibition,Free,History,Humanities,immigration,Library,Literature,Museum,Native American LOCATION:William Clements Library CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191024T140715 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Academic Innovation at Michigan (AIM) for DEI DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 1 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Ehrlicher Room at North Quad for AIM for DEI. The team for the Academic Innovation software tool\, Tandem\, will give a presentation. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event if you plan to attend. \n\nAbstract:\n\nTeam-based learning is an effective pedagogy that has the potential to increase student learning and motivation\, but it can also sometimes lead to inequitable or even toxic experiences.  We know that working well on diverse teams is an important skill\, but generic messages addressing cultural humility and pro-teamwork behaviors often fall short. \n\nTandem is a web-based\, customizable tool that provides research-based instruction and support for student teams at scale. Messages informed by an assessment of individuals’ and teams’ needs allow for brief “coaching” that can encourage students to (re)consider teammates’ perspectives and redirect maladaptive team patterns. Short lessons including opportunities for applying ideas to current teamwork experiences via reflection are pushed out regularly throughout the semester. Example lesson topics include: imposter syndrome\, equality in group conversation\, and tools for supporting collaboration.\n\nTandem can identify problematic DEI-related team issues and call them out for faculty. For example\, in the first year engineering course we co-teach\, women sometimes complete more of the project management and communication work\, and men sometimes do more of the physical building. That pattern is not meaningful if it only happens with a single team: many characteristics of the individuals on the team affect who does which tasks\, and gender is certainly not the sole determinant. However\, an instructor might wish to know about such patterns at the class level\, or even in the discipline more generally\, and Tandem includes algorithms to identify such information. \n\nTandem Team Bios:\n\nLaura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator in the Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department in the College of Engineering. She researches ways to use data-informed analysis of students' performance and perceptions of classroom environment to support DEI-based curricula improvements.\n\nRobin Fowler is a Lecturer in the Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. She enjoys serving as a \"communication coach\" to students throughout the curriculum\, and she's especially excited to work with first year and senior students\, as well as engineering project teams\, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She researches student experiences in team-based pedagogy.\n\nStephanie Sheffield is a Lecturer in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. She currently teaches senior-level courses in Biomedical Engineering\, Chemical Engineering\, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Her research interests are focused on better understanding and improving the learning experiences of the students in her courses\, with current emphasis on the ways in which students engage with online resources and student attitudes towards working in teams in DBTC courses.\n\nAIM for DEI is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how technology and innovation impact the inclusivity and equity of the learning experiences we create for our residential\, online and global learners. UID:68804-17155489@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68804 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Free LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T165128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM for DEI DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, November 1 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Ehrlicher Room at North Quad for AIM for DEI. More details to come. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event if you plan to attend. \n\nAIM for DEI is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how technology and innovation impact the inclusivity and equity of the learning experiences we create for our residential\, online and global learners. UID:67295-16831272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67295 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education LOCATION:North Quad - Ehrlicher Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190710T093920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Biophysics Talk Title: TBD DESCRIPTION:Abstract: TBD UID:64274-16274484@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64274 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biophysics,Biophysics Program,Biosciences,Chemistry,Physics LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1400 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190925T103738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Building a Dialogic Community: Skills for Faculty and Staff DESCRIPTION:A series of lunch and learn workshops led by the Program on Intergroup Relations as part of the U-M DEI Summit. Workshops will focus on dialogic skill-building for faculty and staff. This series is generously supported by the U-M Office of Diversity\, Equity & Inclusion.\n\nAll sessions have a maximum capacity. Please click the Registration link below to reserve your spot. \n\n-\n\nWhat Is Intergroup Dialogue: This Is How We Do It\nOctober 18\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nMonita Thompson & Shana Schoem\nLevel: Introductory\nLearn about the Program on Intergroup Relations' approach and pedagogical underpinnings to the work rooted in dialogue\, power\, privilege and oppression.\n\n-\n\nWho I am and why it matters: Understanding your social group identities and how it impacts your work\nOctober 25\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nDonna Rich Kaplowitz & Cesar Vargas-Leon\nLevel: Introductory through Advanced\nUsing tools for exploring social group identity and their relations to power and privilege\, this workshop has participants examine and reflect on how their social group identities impact their work. Self reflection and sharing is expected.\n\n-\n\nSuccessfully Navigating Power Dynamics with Generative Listening\nNovember 1\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nRoger Fisher & Hamida Bhagirathy\nLevel: Introductory through Advanced\nUsing the tool of generative listening\, participants will learn about their strengths\, skills\, and capacities to create change\, while focused on surfacing the power dilemmas in the workplace and navigating those dynamics to productively move DEI agendas forward in their context. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon and answer questions such as “When have I had success in dealing with the power structure? Where have I experienced roadblocks\, and what were they? How can collective and coalitional action fuel the power I need to remove roadblocks?”\n\n-\n\n(Good) Sh*t Happens: Conflict\, Identity and Power\nNovember 8\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nMonita Thompson & Shana Schoem\nLevel: Intermediate to Advanced\nThis interactive session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn strategies for navigating conflict that specifically focus on balancing power\, noticing and surfacing dynamics and attending to how social identities and positionality impact conflict and conflict resolution. Participants will also consider how to reframe conflict as positive\, productive and natural.\n\n-\n\nDominant Narratives\nNovember 15\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nStephanie Hicks\nLevel: Intermediate to Advanced\nIn this workshop we will explore the influence of social power\, hegemony and dominant (meta\, grand or master) narratives in classrooms and other dialogic settings. Participants will learn about an approach called Multipartiality and the technique of counter narratives.\n\n-\n\nAdvanced Strategies and Techniques for Multipartial Facilitation\nNovember 22\, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm\nRoger Fisher\nLevel: Advanced\nThis session is for participants already familiar with dominant narratives and multipartiality as a facilitation technique\, to explore a deeper dive into the nuances of these skills. UID:67576-16898620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67576 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity,Diversity Summit,Free,igr,Inclusion,Workshop LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191101T181521 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Other:CALCIUM - Panel: Industry to Academia DESCRIPTION:ChemEd\n UID:67850-16960491@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67850 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1706 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190923T181723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Demystifying Work-Life Balance DESCRIPTION:Research on the concept of dual-centric provides helpful guidance on strategies for balance. Studies show that people with a dual focus on work and personal life are less stressed and more successful than those whose primary focus is on just work\, or just personal life. In this interactive workshop we will review the strategies these dual focused people follow to achieve balance\, and engage in related exercises.\nThis workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff\, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.\nRegistration is required at https://myumi.ch/Boo87.\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 (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative. UID:65482-16605628@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65482 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T130807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Seminar Series: Leveraging the power of place to explore\, educate and predict how the natural world works now and in the future DESCRIPTION:Field stations provide platforms for transformative long-term and placed-based research as well as extraordinary opportunities for education and outreach. Dr. Classen will discuss her field station vision using some examples from her own work exploring ecosystem and global change ecology. Broadly\, the Classen group explores how ecosystems function and how biotic and abiotic interactions influence patterns and processes within and among communities and ecosystems. Working across scales from the micro (soil food webs) to the macro (regional carbon fluxes) as well as across diverse terrestrial ecosystems (forests\, meadows\, bogs\; tropics\, arctic\, temperate) the Classen lab uses a combination of observations\, experiments\, and models to answer ecological and global change questions UID:68571-17103237@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Earth Day At 50,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191101T132713 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh\, U-M IOE DESCRIPTION:This event is open to all IOE PhD students\, faculty\, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food\, please RSVP by Wednesday\, October 30\, 2019. \n\nTitle:\nContextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization: Theory and Applications to Chronic Diseases\n\nAbstract:\nChronic diseases are the leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide\, requiring the surveillance and monitoring of patients to assess disease progression and determine if a treatment is warranted. Even when a suitable treatment is prescribed\, dosing it correctly remains a significant challenge because proper dosage is highly volatile among patients. This involves adaptively learning a personalized disease progression control model conditional on patient-specific contextual information. We formulate this as a new contextual multi-armed bandit under a two-dimensional patient-specific control with a nested structure\, which sequentially selects both treatment and corresponding dosage based on contextual information of patients\, with the goal of minimizing disease progression risk. We develop contextual learning and optimization algorithms that integrate the strength of contextual bandit learning with online convex optimization. Comparing with the clairvoyant optimal policy\, we prove a T-period regret\, which is provably tight up to a logarithmic factor. We illustrate the effectiveness of our methodology by using case data on patients with type 2 diabetes. We believe that our contextual learning and optimization framework could be widely used in many other service systems. \n\nBio:\nEsmaeil Keyvanshokooh is a PhD candidate in Operations Research at the Industrial and Operations Engineering department of the University of Michigan. His main research interests have broadly focused on developing efficient and effective data-driven algorithms with theoretical performance guarantees for several core problems in healthcare operations and medical decision making. Methodologically\, he focuses on statistical machine learning algorithms such as contextual multi armed bandits\, online convex optimization\, and reinforcement learning. For applications\, he focuses on online resource allocation for healthcare operations\, readmission problem\, managing chronic disease progression\, and personalized medicine. UID:68543-17096938@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68543 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Lunch learn LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 2717 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190917T152311 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar: UTI Pathogenesis\, Host-Pathogen Interface\, Antibiotic-sparing therapeutics DESCRIPTION:Host: Matt Chapman UID:67348-16839904@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Research,Science,seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T142021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:**Fall 2019 KICK-OFF WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 23RD**\n\nSandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations marks the third run of the professional development event hosted by Tau Beta Pi aimed at providing Michigan Engineering graduate students the opportunity to enhance their scientific communication skills. The series will be co-hosted/sponsored by TBP and the graduate societies of MSE\, ECE\, ChE\, and MACRO and also sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs! As \"learning-by-practice\" event\, it aims to help students learn how to effectively convey the \"big picture\" value of their research to a diverse audience\, while also engaging a dialog of science and engineering research among graduate students across the entire College of Engineering. The event is aimed primarily at graduate students planning to take their candidacy exam\, but anyone is welcome to participate! We will host 7-10 events each term\, and event dates/times will be announced on a rolling basis. \n\nEach session is structured to have student speakers (2-3 per session) make a timed (15-20 min) presentation on their graduate research to a broad engineering audience and a communications expert panel (3-4 panelists). Our expert panelists will provide constructive feedback to the speakers (and the audience)\, highlighting the positive aspects of each presentation and also indicating opportunities for improvement. This structure will allow for the speakers to receive specific feedback on their communication skills\, while also providing the audience with generalized guidelines for good scientific communication.\n\nIf you would like to participate as a speaker/audience\, please fill out the links below. We will follow-up with you with scheduling details. NOTE: The event is open to ALL CoE students\, regardless of TBP membership status. UID:59651-16898652@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Professional Development,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION:Herbert H. Dow Building - North campus (TBD) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190830T093030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy DESCRIPTION:Dorian Warren\, president of the Center for Community Change Action\, will give a talk about his book\, titled \"The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy\,\" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series. UID:66037-16684585@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66037 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Diversity,Economics,Free,Lecture,Poverty LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - 1840 (ECC) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191021T141513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Time Management DESCRIPTION:How do you manage your time? Time is a form of currency: you want to spend it well in order to grow and achieve your goals! Bring your schedule and learn how to effectively manage your academics to be successful inside and outside the classroom! UID:68662-17130529@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Academics,First Year Experience,first year students,nursing,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:School of Nursing - Room 2000 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190903T164349 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ASCE Seminar Series: GHD DESCRIPTION:Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people\, GHD operates across five continents - Asia\, Australia\, Europe\, North and South America - and the Pacific region. GHD employs more than 10\,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety\, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture\, GHD connects the knowledge\, skill and experience of their people with innovative practices\, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits.\n\nCommitted to sustainable development\, GHD improves the physical\, natural and social environments of the many communities in which they operate. GHD are guided by their workplace health\, safety\, quality and environmental management systems\, which are certified to the relevant international standards (ISO and OHSAS). UID:66245-16719620@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66245 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,Energy,Engineering,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:GG Brown Laboratory - 2147 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191031T115739 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T132000 SUMMARY:Presentation:E-Hour Speaker Series - eLab Ventures DESCRIPTION:The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year\, free and open to the public to attend.\n\nPaul W Brown is a managing partner of eLab Ventures\, a venture capital firm headquartered in Michigan with offices in Silicon Valley. Formerly the Vice President of Capital Markets at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC)\, and before that practiced law in the Manhattan office of Skadden\, Arps\, Slate\, Meagher & Flom LLP. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge John O’Meara in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.\n\nRegent Brown is a past board member and observer of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters\, the Michigan Venture Capital Association\, the Venture Michigan Fund\, and several early stage IT and life-science companies. Regent Brown cofounded and was board chair of Front Door Insights. He has also taught courses on finance and entrepreneurship as a lecturer in the College of Engineering. UID:69004-17211738@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69004 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Discussion,Economics,Entrepreneurship,Graduate,Law,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Politics,Pre-Law,Startup,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190913T124426 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:ECRC Group Chats with Peer Advisors DESCRIPTION:Fridays 12:30pm-1:30pm in 265 Chrysler Center\n\nNeed advice on your job search? Got a quick question? Stop in to ask our Career Peer Advisors. Stay to join the group discussion and learn additional tips for a successful job search.\n\nThe ECRC Peer Advisors have experienced the job search. They know what it’s like out there and they know how to navigate interactions with recruiters and hiring managers to get the interview and land the job! And\, they are excited to assist you in your search.\n\nQuestions about this recurring event? Email ecrc-info@umich.edu.\n\nThis is a College of Engineering Event UID:67145-16805216@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67145 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 265 Chrysler CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200316T120816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 SUMMARY:Other:Mid-Day Morsel Drop-In Tour DESCRIPTION:Looking for something to feed your brain on your lunch hour? The Mid-Day Morsel tour at the Kelsey Museum is a 30-minute taste of ancient Mediterranean history and artifact highlights in the Kelsey collection. Mid-Day Morsel tours begin at 12:30 p.m. No registration is needed. Tour participants should gather at our Maynard Street entrance a few minutes before the tour is scheduled to start.\n\nWhile we do not allow food at the Kelsey Museum\, there are numerous lunch options near us on campus. Check out the UMMA Café at the Museum of Art and Darwin’s Café at the Museum of Natural History before or after your tour of the Kelsey.\n\nMid-Day Morsel tours are free and open to all visitors. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour\, please call the Kelsey at 734-764-9304 at least two weeks in advance. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. UID:64510-16380892@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64510 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Classical Studies,Museum,Tour LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T082233 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T183000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Robotics Symposium DESCRIPTION:Together with the Association for Advancing Automation and the University of Michigan Robotics Institute\, Littler is proud to be hosting the AI and Robotics Symposium.\n\nAdvanced technologies are at the forefront of nearly every major industry and thought leaders worldwide are discussing their impact on our enterprises and workforces. At this symposium\, executives from some of the world’s leading robotics manufacturers\, system integrators\, end users\, technologists\, corporate leaders\, and academics will engage in panel discussions covering the latest innovations in robotics and AI\, as well as the most pressing questions their adoption poses.\n\nAttendees can engage in thought-provoking discourse on how emerging technologies are reshaping business and the world of work. A review of the most current issues includes:\n • The most important and immediate ethical challenges of AI and AI-empowered robotics in the workplace\n • How to harness your competitive edge through collaborative robots\n • Practical reskilling steps that are required now for successfully preparing your workforce for the implementation of robotics\, augmented and virtual reality\, and various forms of AI\n • Expert tips on successfully automating from some of the world's leading robotics manufacturers\, system integrators\, and end users\n\nRegistration: 12:30 - 1:00 pm\nProgram: 1:00 - 5:00 pm\nNetworking Reception: 5:00 - 6:30 pm\n\nRegister here: \nhttps://www.littler.com/events/ai-and-robotics-symposium-sharing-thought-leadership-shaping-future-work UID:67379-16846416@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67379 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Michigan Robotics LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 18 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T091018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Rachel is currently the Head of Business Development at One Rockwell\, a full-service ecommerce agency. \nHer career is powered by a passion for helping brands grow their business\, and in a belief that an exceptional brand story and the right technology are the foundational elements to sustained success. At One Rockwell she leads a team to generate leads\, expand agency verticals\, and collaborate with product to constantly evolve their offerings. Previously\, over three years at Lyst\, she co-led US partnerships generating industry buy-in for their proprietary technology and helping the site to amass over 2.5 million live products in their largest market. \nStrengths include creative problem solving\, industry alignment\, a deep understanding of the ecommerce ecosystem\, and creating a superior retail experience. Rachel has worked with brands including Dior\, COTY\, Vera Bradley\, Schiaparelli Haute Couture\, Farm Rio\, American Eagle/aerie\, and more. She carries an Economics degree from the University of Michigan and is on the Board of Advisors for the Michigan Fashion Media Summit (MFMS). \n\n\nEconomics@Work is intended for any student who is interested in learning about a variety of career opportunities for economics majors. Early students of economics may use this class to explore whether an economics major best suits their interests and goals. Advanced students in economics will benefit from the information and networking opportunities. UID:68594-17105353@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68594 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T063029 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:EXCEL Talk with Matt Letscher DESCRIPTION:Join EXCEL for a Q&A with SMTD alumnus\, Matt Letscher\, on his career and professional trajectory. Mr. Letscher attended the Universityof Michigan and received a BA in Theatre\, but it was a pair of workshopswith the legendary Uta Hagen that cemented his love of the craft. His career since has ranged from stage to screen. Film credits include 13 Hours\,Her\, Teacher of the Year\, Devil’s Knot\, Towelhead\, Identity\, and The Mask of Zorro. Television credits include The Flash\, Scandal\, Carrie Diaries\, Boardwalk Empire\, Brothers and Sisters\, Entourage\, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Theater credits include Broadway productions of Neil Simon’s Proposals\, The Rivals\, and Julia Cho’s The Language Archive. He’s also appeared in the world premieres of Howard Korder’s In a Garden\, Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud\, Kate Robin’s What they Have and Lanford Wilson’s Raindance (at the Purple Rose Theatre.)\nAs a writer\, his play Sea Of Fools received a production at The Purple Rose in 2007. His pilot\, Gentrification (co-written with Nipper Knapp and Andrew Newberg) won the award for Best Writing at the 2010 New York TelevisionFestival and their series One and Done can now be seen at oneanddoneshow.com. His visit is hosted by the Department of Theatre & Drama. ARTSADMN 410/510: 1 credit\n UID:66979-16789928@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:B222 Walgreen Drama Center CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190912T110313 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:63912-15987739@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63912 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science,Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191116T063020 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Internship Lab DESCRIPTION:Are you ready to start searching for a great internship? Do you have a few ideas\, but you’re not sure where to get started? Wherever you’re at: that's ok! \n\nGet real time\, personalized support by checking out the Internship Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour\, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to search for and find a great internship experience!\n\nChat 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.\n\n**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.\n\n**If you're a Graduate Student\, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates. \n\nNote: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening@ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326484 UID:64464-16351036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64464 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191030T163030 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Reusable Launch Systems\, Space Sustainability and Economic Growth\, and the Development of Green Spaceports DESCRIPTION:Charles J. Lauer\nCo-founder & VP Business Development\, Rocketplane Global Inc.\n\nThis presentation will review the fundamental economic drivers that will create a robust and diverse cis-lunar space economy over the next 30 years and how these forces support the UN Sustainability Goals. New space industries such as lunar and asteroid resource development\, in-space assembly and satellite servicing\, and active debris removal will be discussed. Reusable launch vehicle developments will be discussed including the Rocketplane Global program here in Michigan and the development of a Green Spaceport under the Michigan Launch Initiative.\n\nMr. Lauer is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He is a successful real estate planning consultant and developer\, and the President of Peregrine Properties\, Ltd. in Lansing\, Michigan. Mr. Lauer has been responsible for negotiating\, obtaining regulatory approvals and arranging financing for over $350 million in numerous successful real estate development projects\; as well as having served as the Planning Commission Chairman in his local community for more than 10 years. He is also a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Rocketplane Global\, Inc. He has been researching and developing potential business opportunities in space since 1991\, and has published many general interest articles and technical papers on commercial space development. Mr. Lauer has been a consultant to Boeing\, NASA and several space start-ups on commercial space projects. He is now actively involved in the planning and development of several new spaceport projects around the world\; and is an Advocate and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Space Frontier Foundation. He is a member of the IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee\; a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Space Safety Foundation\; and a member of the Suborbital Spaceflight Safety Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is also a Guest Lecturer and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Commercial Space Operations Program Advisory Board\, and a member of the FastForward Working Group studying point-to-point suborbital space transportation policy and technology issues. \n\nMr. Lauer has also been involved in the development and commercialization of several next-generation renewable energy technologies including advanced wind turbines for land as well as offshore wind farm applications\; hybrid wind/solar energy farms\; wave energy development\, manufacturing and deployment\, and new algae-based biofuels production. His focus in this business sector is in creating public-private partnerships in key geographic markets around the world and creating joint venture project teams to implement the technology development and manufacturing capacity necessary to commercialize these Green Technology programs. UID:68981-17205330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68981 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:aerospace engineering,Environment,Space,Undergraduate LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - Boeing Lecture Hall, 1109 FXB CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T145346 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nPlease join us for a discussion of pre-circulated papers by University of Michigan graduate and postdoctoral students. \n\nFaculty Respondents: Michael Awkward\, Madhu Dubey\, Emily Lordi\, Kevin Quashie\, Xiomara Santamarina\, Megan Sweeney\, Courtney Thorsson\, Jason Young\n\nParticipating PhD students and Postdocs: Samantha Adams\, Alexander Aguayo\, Lauren Benjamin\, Kyle Frisina\, Jeremy Glover\, David Hutchinson\, Valentina Montero-Roman\, Emily Na\, Hayley O'Malley\, Yeshua Tolle\, Sydney Tunstall\, and Jessica Walker\n\nWe very much welcome auditors\, but please email Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) and Yeshua Tolle (ygtolle@umich.edu) by Wednesday\, October 30th to receive access to the papers. UID:68782-17147188@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68782 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literature LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191001T165848 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Evaluating the Effectiveness of Team and Leadership Training Interventions in Emergency Medical Teams DESCRIPTION:Teamwork failures have been directly linked with medical errors and adverse patient events. As a result\, multiple efforts have been made to improve the leadership and performance of healthcare teams. Two studies will be presented that assess team training effects on teamwork behaviors and patient outcomes for emergency medical teams. In the first study\, a computer-based team training program was designed to familiarize emergency medical residents on eight teamwork processes. Results showed teams that received this training were significantly better than placebo training teams on both teamwork and patient care outcomes in high-fidelity simulated patient resuscitation scenarios. In the second study\, a simulated-based team leadership training program was designed to train trauma team leaders on behaviors important to action team leadership. In a randomized controlled trial\, trauma team leaders were video recorded in actual trauma resuscitations\, before and after training. Results showed a significant difference in post-training leadership behaviors between the training and control conditions. Furthermore\, leadership behaviors were found to mediate an effect of training on patient care with a significant indirect effect. UID:67886-16960561@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Medicine,Organizational Studies LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240906T085450 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 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:53322-16452987@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 Chrysler CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T103224 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Linguistics Open House DESCRIPTION:The open house is an opportunity for prospective students to meet with Linguistics faculty\, staff\, and LSA advisors\; tour Linguistics labs\; learn about research and pre-speech and hearing opportunities\; and hear from undergraduate clubs. Free burrito lunch provided. UID:65569-16613768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65569 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Linguistics,Transfer Students,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 4th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190829T100855 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Political Theory Workshop DESCRIPTION:TBA UID:65951-16676310@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65951 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Library Room (5639) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191002T143419 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Alumni Connections: International Journalist Patti Waldmeir DESCRIPTION:Patti Waldmeir majored in English and math in the LSA Honors college and went on to win a Marshall scholarship to study English at Clare College\, University of Cambridge\, in the U.K.\, where she obtained a master’s degree.\n\nPatti has worked as a foreign correspondent for 40 years\, almost all of it for the Financial Times. She has been a correspondent for the FT since 1980\, based in London\, Washington\, Johannesburg/Cape Town\, Shanghai\, and most recently Chicago.\nPatti started her career covering the continent of Africa\, including a decade covering the transition from white to black rule in South Africa\, after which she wrote a prize-winning book about the transition. Patti went on to become U.S. editor of the Financial Times\, and then spent a decade as FT’s U.S. legal columnist before moving to Shanghai to cover China for the publication for 8 years.\nPatti is now a columnist and feature writer for the Financial Times writing about the U.S. Midwest.\n\nPatti will speak to students about her path from the liberal arts to journalism\, what it’s like to have a global career and navigate different cultural environments\, and balancing life and career goals.\n\nThis event is intended for undergraduate LSA students. UID:67937-16969027@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67937 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Alumni,Networking,Professional Development,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:LSA Building - LSA 2228 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T151539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CMENAS Colloquium Series. Rights of Neighbourliness: Decolonising Responses to Mass Displacement. DESCRIPTION:The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is \"Migration in the Islamicate World.\"\n \nFollowing postcolonial debates on the decentering of knowledge production\, and relational understandings of agency\, I explore hitherto unremarked upon popular socio-cultural memories of jiwār or a right of neighborliness as a means to (a) furrow other geographies beyond the humanitarian and (b) to interrogate the sacred/profane binary inherent to the concept of ‘religion’. In articulating a right of neighborliness\, refugee and migrant others in fact demand a right to the neighborhood. In so doing\, they interrogate both the poetics and politics of so-called sacred space. This reveals conviviality and neighborliness to be a fluid everyday strategy of encountering difference to help mitigate the possibility of conflict and bolster positive relations as refugees negotiate their new geography of exile. Attention is drawn not only to the limits built-in to thinking about the movement of refugees from the global South through European inflected ontologies\, but also understandings of where the sacred can be located. Based on ethnographic and interview data gathered during fieldwork in Damascus (2010-11)\, Gaziantep (2013) and Athens (2016)\, this paper examines the struggle for displaced people to claim a right of neighborliness. It considers the constraints on home-making for displaced populations. In the absence of a definitive legal status for forced migrants in the region\, relationships at the everyday local neighborhood level take on added significance in negotiating a geography of exile.\n \nTahir Zaman is lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex and the Deputy Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR). Tahir is primarily interested in matters pertaining to refugee agency and alternative socio-cultural understandings of refuge during times of mass displacement. Tahir’s work explores the social and cultural life-worlds of Iraqi refugees in Damascus\, where he undertook fieldwork in 2010 and 2011. His work also critically engages with the limits and opportunities of faith-based humanitarianism. Palgrave Macmillan published his monograph in 2016 under the title of ‘Islamic traditions of refuge in the crises of Iraq and Syria’. His current research interest focuses on the intersections of displacement\, humanitarianism and social economy. UID:68136-17011976@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68136 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Area Studies,cmenas,Middle East Studies,Social Sciences LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Weiser Hall 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190926T145937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Russian Speaking Group DESCRIPTION:If you have any questions about the upper-level Russian speaking group\, please feel free to contact Michael Martin at martinmd@umich.edu. UID:67694-16918016@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67694 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Language,Russian,Slavic LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - 3304 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191028T154736 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T153000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture DESCRIPTION:Gérard Mourou is Professor Haut-Collège at the École polytechnique. He is also the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Grenoble (1967) and his Ph.D. from University Paris VI in 1973. He has made numerous contributions to the field of ultrafast lasers\, high-speed electronics\, and medicine. But\, his most important invention\, demonstrated with his student Donna Strickland while at the University of Rochester (N.Y.)\, is the laser amplification technique known as Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA)\, universally used today. CPA revolutionized the field of optics\, opening new branches like attosecond pulse generation\, Nonlinear QED\, compact particle accelerators. It extended the field of optics to nuclear and particle physics. In 2005\, Prof. Mourou proposed a new infrastructure\; the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI)\, which is distributed over three pillars located in Czech Republic\, Romania\, and Hungary. Prof. Mourou also pioneered the field of femtosecond ophthalmology that relies on a CPA femtosecond laser for precise myopia corrections and corneal transplants. Over a million such procedures are now performed annually. Prof. Mourou is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering\, and a foreign member of the Russian Science Academy\, the Austrian Sciences Academy\, and the Lombardy Academy for Sciences and Letters. He is Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur and was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Donna Strickland. UID:68886-17188747@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68886 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:biomedical,biomedical engineering,Biotechnology,bme,engineering,Lecture,Michigan Engineering LOCATION:Gerald Ford Library - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T181540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T143000 SUMMARY:Performance:Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Michelle Moog-Koussa DESCRIPTION:Michelle Moog-Koussa has been the executive director of the Bob Moog Foundation for the 12 years since its inception. She has guided the organization through the creation and growth of its hallmark educational project\, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool\, which inspires thousands of teachers and young children every year through a 10-week experiential science of sound curriculum. She has also maintained her vision for a Moogseum\, a historical and educational center that will house all of the Foundation’s projects while encouraging people of all ages to embrace the process of scientific and creative discovery. UID:68452-17082175@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68452 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Glenn E. Watkins Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T141730 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68619-17105385@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68619 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T153724 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century DESCRIPTION:In the midst of Red and Black\, one of Stendhal's characters makes a declaration\, which can serve as an emblem of the 19th century: “All prudence must be renounced! This century was born to overwhelm everything! We are marching into chaos.” Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century\, endeavors to contribute to our understanding of this era\, through the work of Profs. Tilottama Rajan and Lucy Hartley\, who will present two papers: “Elements of Life: Organizing the Work of John Hunter\,” and “Poverty\, Progress\, and Practicable Socialism: Henrietta Barnett\, 1851-1936\,” respectively.\nFor more information\, please visit our website: https://ccctworkshop.wordpress.com/ \; or email us at: srdjan@umich.edu UID:68948-17197051@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68948 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Books,Economics,European,Graduate School,History,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Life Science,Literature,Philosophy,Politics,Rackham LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Osterman Common Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191024T090306 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | Constraining higher-order gravities with subregion duality DESCRIPTION:In higher derivative theories\, gravity can propagate faster or slower than light. This fact has consequences for holographic constructs in AdS/CFT. In this talk\, I will focus on the causal and entanglement wedges. I will argue that\, in higher derivative theories\, these wedges should be constructed using the fastest mode instead of null rays. I will show that using this proposal\, the property of causal wedge inclusion\, i.e. the fact that the causal wedge must be contained in the entanglement wedge\, leads to more stringent constraints on the couplings than those imposed by hyperbolicity and boundary causality. I will elaborate on the implications of these results. UID:68796-17153399@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68796 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fall 2019,High Energy Theory Seminar,physics,science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191022T114348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination DESCRIPTION:What is the alt-right? What do they believe\, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?\n\nFrom a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s\, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly throughout America’s cultural\, political\, and digital landscapes. Racist\, sexist\, and homophobic beliefs that were previously unspeakable have become commonplace\, normalized\, and accepted—endangering American democracy and society as a whole. Yet in order to dismantle the destructive movement that has invaded our public consciousness\, we must first understand the core beliefs that drive the alt-right.\n\nTo help guide us through the contemporary moment\, historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes and tropes that have erupted online and explores the alt-right’s central texts\, narratives\, constructs\, and insider language. She digs to the root of the alt-right’s motivations: their deep-seated fear of an oncoming “white genocide” that can only be remedied through swift and aggressive action to reclaim white power. As the group makes concerted efforts to cast off the vestiges of neo-Nazism and normalize their appearance and their beliefs\, the alt-right and their ideas can be hard to recognize. Through careful analysis\, Stern brings awareness to the underlying concepts that guide the alt-right and animate its overlapping forms of racism\, xenophobia\, transphobia\, and anti-egalitarianism. She explains the key ideas of “red-pilling\,” strategic trolling\, gender essentialism\, and the alt-right’s ultimate fantasy: a future where minorities have been removed and “cleansed” from the body politic and a white ethnostate is established in the United States. By unearthing the hidden mechanisms that power white nationalism\, Stern reveals just how pervasive this movement truly is.\n\n5 copies of the book will be given away at the begining of the event! Must be present to win.\n\nThis event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works\, New Questions series\, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty. UID:67254-16829028@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67254 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Books,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 Lane Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191015T111421 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Sanjay Govindjee: The NSF Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Computation and Simulation Center (SimCenter) at Berkeley: An Overview DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In October 2016\, the National Science Foundation award the NHERI SimCenter to Berkeley. The SimCenter is the computational satellite to the eight experimental sites of the NHERI constellation. Its primary goal is to advance natural hazards engineering through the use of simulation. The center develops and stands-up open-source software to simulate the effects of seismic\, wind\, and water loads on structures with a focus on regional assessments of damage at high resolution under uncertainty. The SimCenter’s work includes both research and educational components. \n\nThe SimCenter has just completed Year 3 or its original mandate and now offers a wide selection of user friendly front end applications that permit local as well as HPC cloud based execution of simulations. Simulations can be of single detailed structural models subjected to a variety of harzards using state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice loading methodologies. They can also be of a larger regional nature using simpler models and further coupled to forward uncertainty propogation with Monte Carlo methods with or without surrogating. Engineering demands can be further propogated into damage and loss\, downtime and recovery\, using Hazus methodologies\, FEMA P58 methods\, or user provided techniques with our hazard-blind framework. All elements of the SimCenter’s software are desgined in a plug-n-play fashion to promote detailed research into natural hazard effects with the ability to see impacts on a larger scale.\n\nIn this presentation\, I will give an overview of the SimCenter’s recent activities and discuss research needs and how researchers can participate in the SimCenter’s activities\, along with a preview of upcoming developments anticipated in Year 4.\n\nBio: Sanjay Govindjee is the Horace\, Dorothy\, and Katherine Johnson Professor in Engineering. His main interests are in theoretical and computational mechanics with an emphasis on micro-mechanics of nonlinear phenomena in solid materials. UID:68406-17077949@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68406 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Civil and Environmental Engineering,computing,Engineering,Graduate LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - RM 1680 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T233005 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Representing the Racial Imagination DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nPanel #3: Representing the Racial Imagination \n\nEmily Lordi\n“‘You Are the Second Person’: Uses of Direct Address in Contemporary African American Literature”\n\nThis talk builds on and departs from my own recent work on African American epistolary nonfiction. I have recently analyzed Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015)\, Kiese Laymon’s How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013)\, and Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s Dear Continuum (2015)\, among other texts\, as James Baldwin-inspired in-group gestures toward black love that are especially urgent in the context of anti-black violence and hyper-(cyber)surveillance. This talk will shift the analysis and diagnosis of black writers’ use of the second person by examining Coates’s Between the World alongside two other\, yet more recent memoirs: Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir (2018)\, which is addressed to his mother\, and Imani Perry’s Breathe\, which is subtitled A Letter to My Sons (2019). I want to put more pressure than I did previously on the relationship between the second-person mode of address and writers’ visions of political organizing and sense of historical change. There is something fatalistic as well as aspirational\, I will suggest\, in all three writers’ decision to channel Baldwin\, in particular\, now\, and to frame their stories and secrets as being of specific use to\, if not exclusively designed for\, their family members. What do we make of this move toward the domestic and the personal\, and how do things change when Laymon frames his text not as a letter but as a book\, and addresses his mother\, where Perry and Coates write to their sons? In short\, thinking critically about these three major writers’ second-person memoirs can illuminate the relationship between African American literature and the political imaginary now.\n\nMadhu Dubey\n“Racecraft in Contemporary African American Fiction”\n\nThis paper will look at the unique representational strategies through which contemporary African American novelists\, including Paul Beatty\, Percival Everett\, Jesmyn Ward\, Colson Whitehead\, and John Edgar Wideman\, are taking on the epistemic confusion surrounding public debates about race in the post-Civil Rights decades. Taking my cue from the term racecraft\, coined by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields to model a new kind of race critique suited to the exigencies of this moment\, I will argue that contemporary African American fiction yokes together questions of race and of craft in a manner distinct from earlier literary projects of demystification and corrective mimesis. Instead\, these novelists employ formal devices such as anachronism and parataxis\, literal-metaphorical conflation\, and inflation of the fictive realm\, in an effort to parse the contradictory truth claims constituting race as a false yet salient\, obsolete yet undead category in the post–Civil Rights decades.\n\n\nEmily Lordi is a writer\, professor\, and cultural critic whose focus is African American literature and black popular music. She is an associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of three books: Black Resonance (2013)\, Donny Hathaway Live (2016)\, and\, forthcoming in 2020\, The Meaning of Soul. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on topics ranging from literary modernism to Beyoncé\, she contributes freelance essays to such venues as New Yorker.com\, The Atlantic\, Billboard\, NPR\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.\n\nMadhu Dubey is professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the author of Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (1994) and Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism (2003) and has published essays on African American literary and cultural studies\, postmodernism\, and race and speculative fiction in journals such as African American Review\, American Literary History\, American Literature\, The Black Scholar\, differences\, Signs\, and Social Text. She is currently working on a study examining the shifts in American literary ‘racecraft’ since the 1970s. UID:68778-17147185@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68778 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literataure LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T103637 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) DESCRIPTION:The Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (IWAP) is a forum for the presentation of ongoing interdisciplinary research in American politics. Most of our presentations are given by graduate students. Each graduate student presenter is assigned a faculty and student discussant. IWAP circulates the work beforehand and the student presents it briefly at the start of the meeting. After discussant feedback\, the bulk of the time is reserved for group discussion among all workshop participants. This format leads to informal yet highly interactive and productive conversations. UID:67242-16829003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67242 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science,Politics LOCATION:Haven Hall - Prefunction Room (5769) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190923T120903 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: The Chinese Cave Record: 640\,000 years of Climate History DESCRIPTION:I will present a 640\,000-year oxygen isotope record of the Asian Monsoon\, spliced together from analyses of stalagmites from Hulu\, Dongge\, and Sanbao Caves\, all situated in that portion of China currently affected by summer monsoon rainfall. I will discuss how these records were constructed\, including the dating of the records\, the basic characteristics of the records\, and interpretation of the variability observed in the records. I will then discuss how the monsoon records correlate with ice core and marine records and the resulting implications for understanding ice-age terminations (the ends of ice-age cycles) and abrupt climate change. I will also discuss how analysis of Hulu Cave stalagmites has led to the completion (at fairly high precision) of the calibration of the radiocarbon timescale\, with the Hulu analyses covering the older half of the timescale. UID:63122-15576730@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63122 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T140725 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills\, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In this talk\, Sarah will highlight findings from her recent research examining the disparate community responses to wind energy projects to extrapolate lessons that might apply to the nuclear industry. She'll talk about the importance of procedural justice in the planning process and the dangers of project proponents over-promising and under-delivering. She'll also discuss her research finding that there are some communities where wind energy is likely to be opposed\, even when developers do everything right. And she'll discuss how public policy - including tax policy and siting authority - can alter a community's willingness to accept a wind project. \n\nBio: Sarah Mills is a Senior Project Manager at the Graham Sustainability Institute and at the Ford School's Center for Local\, State\, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). Her Ford School research focuses on how renewable energy development impacts rural communities (positively and negatively) and how state and local policies facilitate or hinder renewable energy deployment. At Graham\, she leads a grant from the Michigan Office of Climate and Energy to help communities across the state incorporate energy in their land use planning\, zoning\, and other policymaking. Sarah has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan\, an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from Cambridge University\, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University. UID:68940-17197042@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68940 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Energy,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences,Public Policy LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Auditorium, G906 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T132040 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Poetry\, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. DESCRIPTION:The mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo will lead a workshop about mapuche poetry\, with the reading of selected poems and the display of performances that exhibit the political tensions in the context of violence and displacement of mapuche people living in urban areas of what we call today Chile. The conversation will be in Spanish with translations into English.\n\nDaniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018)\, El territorio del viaje (2017)\, and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work\, La Guerra Florida\, were recently translated into English. UID:68126-17011966@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68126 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Poetry,Politics,Workshop LOCATION:Modern Languages Building - RLL Commons (4th Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191116T123015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T160000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:SkyHack (Design Challenge) DESCRIPTION:SkyHack is a weekend long event in which students will come together to provide a solution to a challenge or “pain point” relating to the aviation industry. The solution may be a procedure\, an idea\, an app\, a “widget\,” an article of clothing\, etc.\nThe event will take place in the Aeronautics and Technology Building (ATB) on the Kent State University-Kent campus. Activities throughout the weekend (e.g. opening and closing ceremonies) may take place in other buildings on campus.\nStudents from any college or university with any major may participate.\nStudents may come with a team or form a team when they arrive.\nThe idea is to have at least five challenges that teams may choose from.\nEach team will choose which ONE challenge it will be working on during the weekend.\nThere will be a $1\,000 prize for each challenge stream. There will be a $10\,000 grand prize.\nStudents will have access to supplies and labs within ATB although bringing your own laptop or tablet is highly recommended.\nMentors and industry experts will be on hand to offer assistance.\nThere will be spaces in ATB designated as quiet areas for students who wish to sleep\, butno other sleeping accommodations will be provided. Students are encouraged to bring sleeping bags.\nThere may be some travel reimbursement funds available for those attending who are not from the local area.\nThe event isFREE to participants.\nFood is provided throughout the weekend.\nIt is strongly recommended that students provide a resume\, because a resume book will be given to all of the top sponsors.\nApply at Kent.edu/SkyHackApplication closes on Oct. 25\, 2019\n UID:62269-15339689@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/62269 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Aeronautics and Technology Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191003T103101 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T171500 SUMMARY:Meeting:4-Week Mindfulness Course DESCRIPTION:Koru Mindfulness is a 4 session course that will teach you the skill of mindfulness. It will also help you build the habit of using it in your life on a regular basis. We’ve found that folks get a lot more out of Koru if they stick with it from beginning to end\, therefore attendance at all 4 sessions is required. So double check your calendar and then sign up here: https://dashboard.korumindfulness.org/web/index.php?r=course%2Fsignup&id=2563\nIf you have any questions\, you can contact the instructor at jeselzer@umich.edu UID:67960-16975346@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67960 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate,Mindfulness,Psychology,Undergraduate,Well-being LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191019T173128 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T174500 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:4-Week Mindfulness Course DESCRIPTION:Koru Mindfulness is a 4 session course that will teach you the skill of mindfulness. It will also help you build the habit of using it in your life on a regular basis. We’ve found that folks get a lot more out of Koru if they stick with it from beginning to end\, therefore attendance at all 4 sessions is required. So double check your calendar and then sign up here: https://dashboard.korumindfulness.org/web/index.php?r=course%2Fsignup&id=2563\nIf you have any questions\, you can contact the instructor at jeselzer@umich.edu UID:68634-17113789@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68634 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate,Health & Wellness,Mindfulness,Psychology,Undergraduate,Well-being LOCATION:School of Education - 2320 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T090824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature\, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds DESCRIPTION:World Literature has emerged as a vital field in twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies\, one that reflects on the place and function of literatures in our global era. Straddling the established fields of English and Comparative literatures\, area studies\, postcolonial studies and globalization studies\, world literature urges new approaches across a comparative\, multi-scalar\, translational and inter-cultural space-time continuum\; a continuum that poses a serious challenge to a one-world and totalizing model of literary production in our capitalist era. In this regard\, both the ‘oceanic’ and the global south have emerged as powerful analytical frames. Oceans straddle traditional boundaries of nations\, races\, languages\, literatures and cultures. The millennial-long history of the Indian Ocean\, in particular\, encompasses scales of contact that radically transform our grasp of the history of global capitalism entwining Euro-American and Afro-Asian worlds. This talk will focus on the resonance of Indian Ocean worlds to imagining the Global South as a cartographic frame in the post-Cold War era\, and argue that the idea of world literature is unthinkable without this longue durée perspective.\n \nDebjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She works in the areas of world literature\, postcolonial studies\, the global Anglophone novel\, Indian caste and dalit studies\, Indian Ocean literary worlds\, war and human rights\, and technologies of violence. Her books include This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke 2016)\, Caste\, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge 2005)\, Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (ed. 2007) and Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality (ed.2007). She is currently working on two projects: a two-volume Cambridge History of World Literature (forthcoming 2020)\, and a monograph provisionally called Catastrophic Form: Drones\, Toxins\, Climate. Debjani is the General Editor of a new CUP book series\, Cambridge Studies in World Literature and serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Institute for World Literature (IWL)\, the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)\, the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)\, and the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (University of the Bologna). She has held visiting positions &\; fellowships at the University of Chicago (2010)\, University of Oxford (2012)\, University of Cambridge (2013)\, and University of Wisconsin Madison (2015). \n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event\, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks 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. UID:65095-16517507@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65095 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English,India,Literature LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T150023 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T183000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Teaching Panel and Symposium Reflection DESCRIPTION:The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.\n\nPlease join us for a concluding panel discussion of pedagogical practices within the discipline of Black Studies. All are warmly welcome. UID:68783-17147189@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68783 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:English Language & Literataure LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191102T120013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191102T160000 SUMMARY:Other:NIRCA Great Lakes Regional DESCRIPTION:Time for Regionals! UID:65930-17194923@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65930 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Blue River Cross Country Course CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191011T161719 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T193000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Dia De La Muertos DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to this year’s “Dia de Los Muertos” event taking place on November 1st from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM in the School of Public Health’s Community Room 1680. MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) Public Health\, La Salud\, and PHSAD (Public Health Students of African Descent) have partnered to present a Dia de Los Muertos event which is meant to commemorate all the lives lost to any discrimination or racism in the U.S. and internationally. \n\nDia de Los Muertos stems from Mexican traditions and originates from Aztec practices. We use this day to celebrate\, not mourn\, the lives of our beloved departed and rejoice by sharing ofrendas that remember the individual as they were in life. Although this festive occasion is meant to welcome our loved ones\, there are many lives that were forgotten both in life and death. These lives were victimized\, racialized\, and prosecuted during life as a result of structural racism and exclusion. This year\, we hope to raise awareness for the lives that were silenced and empower future practitioners to advocate for these communities and prevent future injustices.\nWe celebrate in community to provide space for the living and dead\, and invite you to join us for an evening of activities\, dialogue\, food and performances! Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. UID:68327-17046007@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68327 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Africa,African American,Arab Heritage Month,Art,Arts of Islam,Culture,Dinner,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Exhibition,Festival,Food,Free,Graduate School,immigration,Inclusion,International,Latin America,Latine Heritage Month,Leadership,MESA,Middle East Studies,Multicultural,Music,Poetry,Public Health,Public Policy,Rackham,Social,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Spanish Studies,Storytelling,Student Org,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 1680 - Community Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191029T114207 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T190000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Iran Beyond the Headlines DESCRIPTION:Iran is one of the key elements in shaping America’s foreign policy..... yet it remains one of the most misrepresented countries in the American media. As Anthony Bourdain put it\, “The Iran you see from the inside—once you walk the streets of Tehran\; once you meet Iranians—is a very different place than the Iran you know from the news.” \n\nCome join us for a presentation to debunk stereotypes\, and get a better glimpse of Iranians and Iranian life. \n\n****Free Persian dinner provided!****\n\nPlease RSVP at the following link: https://forms.gle/NX33EWj5YmtDTgcF8 UID:68917-17194956@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68917 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International,Iran,Journalism,Media,Middle East Studies,Sociology,Women's Studies LOCATION:East Hall - 1360 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191023T141844 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Opening Reception of Art Exhibition: Blood Underwater DESCRIPTION:Water\, as a natural resource\, has been weaponized or made treacherous against people seeking safety and security. Some have been tortured or killed through waterboarding\, others have been forced into oceans to die or disappear. Refugees across world regions have drowned crossing bodies of water in hopes for a better life.\n\nMillions of people all over the world are being tortured\, disappeared\, and forcibly displaced by repressive regimes and wars while governments of other countries are denying them a safe place to live. There are now as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically motivated torture survivors living in the U.S. And over 70 million refugees in the world according to the United Nations Refugee Agency\, the highest number in the almost 70 years since the refugee agency was founded.\n\nDuring this time of rapid political change worldwide\, the Blood Underwater Workshop and Exhibition offers an opportunity for students\, activists\, members of civil society organizations\, and NGOs to come together as change agents to protect human rights\, freedom and dignity\, and to spread peace\, justice and love.\n\nBlood Underwater is a collaborative work\, which encourages deep thinking and creative expression. It provides a voice for community members and activists\, especially from political\, national\, racial\, religious and other minorities\, to express their concerns about global suffering through art. Participants gather around a large canvas with paints and music and are guided through a series of artistic expressions by “artivist” Elshafei Dafalla. The purpose is to use art to protest against violence\, torture\, enforced disappearances and other forms of brutality.\n\nBlood Underwater is a demand for “freedom\, peace and justice” -- from San Salvador to Khartoum to Sindh -- and throughout the world. This visual narrative will recognize men and women who have been murdered because they wanted to live in freedom\, political prisoners\, people forced from their homes\, and those who have been tortured for standing up to dictatorships.\n\nThe Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another\, and to refugees\, asylum seekers\, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering\, and what can be done about it.\n\n-------\nEishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at the University for Science and Technology in Khartoum\, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Dafalla has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide\, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa\, Asia\, the Middle East\, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work\, holding artist residencies\, participating in community building activities\, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally. An extended interview with Dafalla was created by the Washington DC-based\, nonprofit\, Center for Concern.\n\nThe exhibition will be on display November 4-22\, M-F\, 10am-5pm\, at the Residential College Art Gallery at 701 East University Ave.\, Ann Arbor MI 48109. Free and open to the public.\n\nThere will be an opening reception for Blood Underwater with Elshafei Dafalla in attendance on November 1 from 6-8pm\, and refreshments will be served. UID:68775-17147181@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68775 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,artists and curators,Culture,Exhibition,Food,Free,Social,Visual Arts,Well-being LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191021T181542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T210000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:John Cameron Mitchell: In Conversation DESCRIPTION:Special Event: Friday\, November 1\, 7:00pm / Bethlehem United Church\, 423 S. 4th Ave.\, Ann Arbor\, MI\n\nBest known for his double Tony Award-winning rock opera and 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch\, Mitchell is an actor\, playwright\, screenwriter\, and director. Off the stage\, Mitchell works in the realm of feature film\, documentaries\, and advertising for Dior and Agent Provocateur. He has appeared in numerous acting roles in film and television\, including a recurring character on the HBO series Girls\, as Andy Warhol in the 2016 season of HBO’s Vinyl\, and recently as a series cast member in Hulu’s Shrill. At a special UMS performance on Saturday\, November 2 at Hill Auditorium\, Mitchell will revisit songs from Hedwig and preview songs from his upcoming musical podcast Anthem presented by the Luminary podcast network and starring himself\, Glenn Close\, Patti Lupone\, Cynthia Erivo\, Denis O’Hare\, Laurie Anderson\, and Marion Cotillard. Mitchell’s creative work proudly focuses on explorations of sexuality and gender\, celebrating nuance and individuality in all of its many forms.\n\nKeep the Halloween spirit alive and arrive in costume to this special speaker series event. As part of the evening’s programming\, John Cameron Mitchell will decide on the best costumes of the evening and two lucky winners will receive a pair of complimentary tickets each to “The Origin of Love Tour” on Saturday November 2 at Hill Auditorium. \n\nCo-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).\n\n Photo by Michael Muser. UID:65262-16559492@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65262 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,Lecture,Music,Theater LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191101T100542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191101T200000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students DESCRIPTION:The Webster Reading Series\, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster\, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer. \n\nWebster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting. \n\nFor any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs\, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building\, event space\, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum\, accessible via the stairs\, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3\, 4\, 5\, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks)\, and a lactation room (Room 13W\, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom\, or Room 108B\, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request\; please email asbates@umich.edu two weeks prior to the event whenever possible\, to allow time to arrange services. \n\nU-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St.\, Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St.\, Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave.\, Ann Arbor) is five blocks away\, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities. UID:69029-17220002@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Literature,Storytelling,UMMA,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - Stern Auditorium (Basement) CONTACT: END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR