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:20190916T170212 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 SUMMARY:Meeting:AIM Community DESCRIPTION:Every other month\, individuals designing\, producing\, launching and administering online degrees at the university are invited to an informal conversation to explore common challenges\, best practices\, and new ideas for supporting online degrees and their learners. UID:67298-16831275@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67298 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Education,Graduate School LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Academic Innovation CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T100616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 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:63992-16059426@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:20191205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 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:65071-16509417@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:20191111T105153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 DESCRIPTION:Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art\, Sawyer exposes truths\, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history. \n\nInspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape\, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded\, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly\, can this thread then be unraveled? \n\nAdditionally\, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir\, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.\n\nAs part of his residency\, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson\, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.\n\nAbout the artist:\n\nTylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist\, educator\, and curator living and working in Detroit\, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity\, both individual and collective\, politics\, race\, history and pop culture. In 2013\, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York\, where he served as an art director\, teacher\, curriculum specialist\, and more. Most recently\, in early 2014\, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019\, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art. UID:66153-16711334@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190830T090927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 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:66032-16684579@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:20191127T133648 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T113000 SUMMARY:Meeting:Detroit resident opinion survey meeting DESCRIPTION:The Detroit Metro Area Communities Study regularly surveys a broad\, representative group of Detroit residents about their communities. \n\nTopics covered by the survey range from crime and policing to blight\, economic opportunity\, access to transportation\, health\, and who benefits most from investments in Downtown and Midtown Detroit. \n\nAt this meeting\, the DMACS team will review how to access and use DMACS survey data for policy and programmatic decisions.\n\nFree parking and refreshments will be provided. RSVP to economicmobilitydetroit@umich.edu UID:69830-17433858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69830 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Detroit,Poverty LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Ann Arbor room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191013T115452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T113000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Dragon-Slaying Takes Time: The Complex Process of Ending Gerrymandering After the Passage of Proposition 2 DESCRIPTION:In 2018 Michigan made history with its 61% vote for an Independent Redistricting Commission to end the gerrymandering that caused legislative district boundaries to serve partisan interests. But much remains to be done. The speaker will review the problem of gerrymandering and the amendment in Proposition 2 designed to stop it. He will also discuss the implementation of the provisions in Proposition 2\, including the impact of recent lawsuits challenging them\, how the new citizen redistricting commission will operate and why every OLLI member should apply to be in the pool of citizens from which its membership will be drawn.\n\nKevin Deegan-Krause is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wayne State University in Detroit. His research focuses on political parties\, and he is currently completing a book on new political parties in Europe. His community engagement focuses on local governance\, and he has served on Ferndale’s library and school boards. His professional and civic interests intersect in his active volunteering for Voters Not Politicians which in 2018 ensured the passage of Proposition 2 against gerrymandering.\n\nThis is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Voting in America: Perennial Issues\, Current Developments. The next lecture will be December 12\, 2019. The title is: Race\, the Party System\, and Elite Incentives in American Elections UID:68347-17060777@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68347 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:elections,Gerrymandering,lifelong learning,research LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T160727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:66701-16770284@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:20191126T151447 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T110000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ph. D. Defense: Caymen Novak DESCRIPTION:Cells within the body experience a wide range of dynamic mechanical stimuli. These stimuli are exacerbated in cancers and can alter the progression of the disease. As the tumor grows and expands it displaces the surrounding matrix and cell environment creating internal compressive forces and altering interstitial and vascular blood flow thereby enhancing shear stress exposure. How the cells translate this mechano-environment into downstream signaling is known as mechanotransduction. Though preliminary research has touched on the influence physiological mechanical stimulus can have on cancer progression\, the work remains erratic and lacks understanding of cell metastasis\, gene expression\, proliferation\, and chemotherapeutic response. In order to address this unknown effect on cellular phenotypes and treatment response\, two bioreactors capable of tunable three-dimensional stimulus with either shear stress or compressive forces were developed. Breast and ovarian cancer cells were exposed to physiological stimuli and studied for invasive potential\, altered gene expression\, proliferation\, and chemotherapeutic response. Overall\, findings suggest that this dynamic mechanical environment aids in the advancement of cancer migration\, proliferation\, and chemoresistance which may be mitigated by targeting of various mechanotransduction pathways. The bioreactors constructed and utilized for this study provide 3D platforms ideal for understanding the influence of compressive and shear stress stimulus on cellular behavior\, a critical component to our understanding and improvement of cancer patient treatments. UID:69802-17425674@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69802 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biointerfaces,Biology,biomedical,biomedical engineering,Bioninterfaces,Biosciences,Biotechnology,bme LOCATION:North Campus Research Complex Building 10 - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T151035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 SUMMARY:Other:Psychology Walk-In Advising DESCRIPTION:Peer Advising Walk-Ins are great for declaring\, registration and waitlist questions\, major progress and course selection\, finding research\, careers/grad school\, and general questions. \n\nStaff Advising Walk-Ins are reserved for senior major releases\, transfer credit\, course selection and major progress. UID:69363-17310309@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bcn,Psychology,Undergraduate Students,Walk-in Advising LOCATION:East Hall - 1343 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:58562-15784129@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:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:63803-15884131@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:20191004T181807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:68063-16988438@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:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:63517-15769806@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:20190930T181751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:63837-15901167@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:20190909T113308 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 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:66630-16768001@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:20191205T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 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:63842-15931487@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:20191126T130446 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Complex adaptive systems and human-wildlife coexistence DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nIn landscapes around the world\, humans and wildlife are mutually adapting to each other\, creating dynamic feedbacks that\, if overlooked\, limit the effectiveness of conservation policies. Mechanistic social-ecological systems (SES) modeling has a high potential to overcome this limitation. To illustrate the utility of mechanistic SES modeling to wildlife conservation\, I present findings from two interrelated agent-based models of human-wildlife interactions. The first model investigates the effects of human disturbance (prey depletion\, road infrastructure) on the globally endangered tiger (Panthera tigris) in an isolated protected area in Nepal. The second model investigates human-wildlife conflict\, such as crop raiding and livestock depredation\, along a simulated interface of wild and agricultural lands. Unanticipated model outcomes provide crucial insights on ways to improve conservation strategies in shared landscapes. By simulating both ecological processes and human decision making\, multi-model approaches foster transferability of gained insights to other contexts and case studies that prevail in the Anthropocene. UID:69716-17390846@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69716 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biology,Biosciences,Natural Sciences,research LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 747 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191018T125409 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:International Economics DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68612-17105372@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68612 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T150920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks DESCRIPTION:This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how two illustrator-auteurs\, Miroco Machiko (b. 1981) and Arai Ryōji (b. 1956)\, de-center the human to picture forth a fecund\, transhuman multiverse. Both artists operate within a strong postwar tradition of picturebook art\, which derives a sense of freedom from its association with youth and play. Here style\, far from being merely decorative\, shapes our worlds and the possibilities we see in them.\n \nHeather Blair is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on lay religiosity and questions of how visual culture and religion intersect in Japan. Her publications include Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan (2015) and articles in venues such as Monumenta Nipponica\, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies\, and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. She is currently working on a monograph with the provisional title The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Japanese Picturebooks.\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:67284-16831258@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67284 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,Japanese Studies,Religion LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 110 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191118T132826 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 SUMMARY:Performance:Holiday Harmonies DESCRIPTION:Come enjoy some of your holiday favorites with the local band Counterpoint. Their blended vocal harmonies and refreshing arrangements of seasonal music are a Michigan Medicine tradition. With Debbie Colesa\, Deborah McKenzie\, and Laurie Williams on vocals\, Jenna Devare on violin\, Peter Tchoryk on trumpet and vocals\, guitarist Dave Karl\, and bass player Daniel McConnell\, their full bodied yet easy listening sound is enlivening. Guest performers often make appearances\, and the band brings song lyrics\, extra percussion instruments and bells for audience members to join in on the fun. Look for live stream video on Gifts of Art Facebook.\n\nThursday\, Dec. 5\, 2019\, 12:00-1:00 pm\nUniversity Hospital Main Lobby\, Floor 1\n1500 E. Medical Center Drive\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48109 UID:69549-17360108@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Family,Free,Music,Well-being LOCATION:University Hospitals CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190919T085242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 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:65880-16736451@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:20191016T120027 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Michigan Engineering Design Expo DESCRIPTION:See how Michigan Engineering students are designing solutions to our world's challenges.\n\nThe College of Engineering Design Expo is held twice a year to provide a public forum for engineering students to demonstrate applications of their studies to real-life needs. Students gain valuable experience by presenting their work.\n\nThrough this venue\, the greater University community and general public has the opportunity to learn how Michigan's students are contributing in significant ways to solving major technology challenges across various disciplines.\n\nThese student projects consist of internal University of Michigan projects\, non-profit community projects\, and industry-sponsored projects. Many of these projects are part of Senior Design Project Courses\, but other project groups are welcome and encouraged to participate. Student groups that would like to present must register for a first-come\, first-served spot by November 1st.\n\nThis event is held in multiple North Campus locations including the Duderstadt Center\, Bob & Betty Beyster Building\, Pierpont Commons\, EECS Building\, G.G. Brown Building\, and Chrysler Center.\n\nFor more information\, contact Josh Sheppard in the Multidisciplinary Design Program office at jlshepp@umich.edu or (734) 763-0818. UID:61463-17037502@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61463 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Multidisciplinary Design,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T080310 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag: #ArmMeWith: Analyzing Teacher Resource Needs Through Twitter DESCRIPTION:Introduced by Esra Ascigil and Lester Sim UID:66219-16719600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66219 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:brown bag LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T123935 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T131500 SUMMARY:Meeting:SUPPORT GROUP for Those Experiencing the Death of a Spouse or Partner DESCRIPTION:The Faculty and Staff Counseling and Consultation Office (FASCCO) is offering an ongoing drop-in style confidential support group for anyone experiencing the death of a spouse or partner.\n\nThis group will address various topics that may include loneliness\, parenting\, social isolation\, new role/identity as widow or widower\, etc. The intent of the group will be driven by topics that are important to the participants. This offering emphasizes group discussion of participants as well as educational components. No one will be required to speak\, but doing so often helps the grieving process.\n\nThere is no charge for faculty or staff to attend. Participants are encouraged to bring a lunch.\n\nRegistration: Contact Tina Weymouth cmwey@umich.edu or Joanne Bernard jmrbernar@umich.edu at 734-936-8660 to register for the group. UID:67267-16831226@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67267 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,Free,Staff LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Exact room to be identified on the day of the group and signage will be present CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191022T184705 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reading the Romantics DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the second discussion of our Fall 2016 reading series called Reading the Romantics.\n\nWe will meet on December 5th from 12:30-1:30pm in Angell Hall 3154 to discuss the first chapter from Tilottama Rajan's *Romantic Narratives: Shelley\, Hays\, Godwin\, and Wollstonecraft* (2010)\, called “The Trauma of Lyric: Shelley’s Missed Encounter with Poetry in Alastor.” \n\nThe chapter focuses on Shelley’s Alastor and some of the Wordsworth poems that influenced it — mostly the Lucy poems and The Ruined Cottage — in order to further Rajan’s larger claim about a Romantic ’narrativity’ that is\, for her\, separate from the novelistic\, chronological plot structure (although not always excluded from it) and characterized by a certain openness\, “worklessness\,” and a “constant process of unmaking” that allows Shelley and other Romantic authors to oscillate between poetry and prose.\n\nA light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please kindly RSVP to Ani Bezirdzhyan (abezirdz@umich.edu) to receive the pre-circulated reading materials. \n\nAll are welcome to attend one or both events in the reading series. UID:68722-17140909@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68722 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Discussion,English Language & Literature,English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate,Graduate School,Graduate Students,Interdisciplinary,Literature,Luncheon,Rackham,Scholarship LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3154 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T181527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T123000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt\, cello DESCRIPTION:Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is one of the most preeminent cellists of his generation. Early on during his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot\, he made his mark at international competitions including the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Prize for Contemporary Music at the Rostropovich Competition. He then went on to win the German Music Competition in Bonn and the International Australian Cello Competition in New Zealand. He is a prize winner of the esteemed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and International Leonard Rose Cello Competition in the U.S. Schmidt has performed as a soloist throughout Europe\, Russia\, and the U.S. with renowned ensembles such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig\, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin\, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin\, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France\, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra\, Radiophilharmonie des NDR\, Sinfonia Varsovia\, Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras\, and the Philharmonia Prague. UID:69584-17368298@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69584 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191209T094000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 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:48604-16770169@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:20191220T123014 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T153000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Menlo Innovations PhD Immersion! DESCRIPTION:APPLICATIONS OPEN ON MONDAY\, NOVEMBER 4TH AND CLOSE ON SUNDAY\, NOVEMBER 17TH! \n\nOn Friday\, December 5th\, the University Career Center in partnership with Rackham will be taking 20 PhD students to spend half a day at Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor\, MI. This Immersion will allow for Ph.D. students to tour their factory floor and hear from software developers\, project managers\, High-Tech Anthropologists®\, and quality advocates. Additionally\, students will get hands-on experience to better understand the software development life-cycle. Participants will leave witha complete understanding of the organization and their opportunities! \n\n\nABOUT MENLO INNOVATIONS:\nMenlo Innovations is a custom software designand development firm in downtown Ann Arbor. We were founded 18 years ago with the aim of bringing Joy and reducing suffering in the building and use of software. Over this time\, we’ve fostered excellent relationships in the community and grown to a team of over 50 software developers\, project managers\, quality advocates\, High-Tech Anthropologists® (HTA)\, and more. Our 2027 vision includes a new building and over 250 employees consulting with clients every day to produce software that delights our users!\n\nWant to learn more about Menlo Innovations? https://menloinnovations.com/\n\n MENLO INNOVATIONS IMMERSION SCHEDULE:\n12:30PM - Students meet at the Student Activities Building to check-in\n12:45PM - Walk to Menlo Innovations\n1:00PM - Immersion begins!\n3:30PM - Immersion ends\n\nAny questions? Email uccexp@umich.edu \n\n***This application will open on Monday\, November 4th and close on Sunday\, November 17th - please click 'RSVP for Event' to fill out your application if you are certain you would be available to attend. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and if there is a large interest in the event and we receive a large number of applications early on\, this application may close early. Students must be able to attend the full program to participate. University Career Center staff will be along with you on the Immersion to guide you through the day\, and more details will be provided to the selected participants. Students are advised to bring a copy of their updated resume to the event and dress is business casual. \n\nIf you are no longer able to attend this Immersion\, you must notify the UCC of the cancellation via email at uccexp@umich.edu by 12/3/19. If you do not formally cancel by 12/3/19\, you will receivea cancellation penalty. For more information on Immersion policies\, please visit: https://careercenter.umich.edu/article/handshake-policy-statement UID:68876-17188736@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68876 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T111359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T140000 SUMMARY:Other:MIW Application Deadline-February 14\, 2020 DESCRIPTION:Regular admission deadline for Fall 2020 and early admission Winter 2021. UID:69547-17360035@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Community Service,Deadlines,first-generation,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Leadership,Majors,Networking,Political Science,Professional Development,Public Policy,Recruiting,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190912T103920 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T140000 SUMMARY:Meeting:PSOC Brown Bag Lunch DESCRIPTION:The purpose of Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) is to provide a network of political scientists interested in creating and maintaining a supportive academic and professional environment in the Department of Political Science regardless of race or ethnic background. UID:66495-16742677@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Library Room (5639) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T094109 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T143000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Translating from Yiddish: New Approaches in Theory and Practice DESCRIPTION:What unique challenges confront the translator from Yiddish into another language? How is Yiddish translation affected by phenomena such as the rise of Zionism\, the Holocaust\, and changing relations between American Jews and the immigrant experience? How do we choose what and for whom to translate? How and why do writers translate their own work? Scholars and translators on this panel will grapple with these issues\, while raising broader questions about the theory and practice of translation from any language. Examples from current translations-in-progress will be offered.\n\nThere is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation\, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047. UID:64986-16499300@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64986 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Jewish Studies,Language,yiddish LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Room 2022 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191025T122324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T153000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Grad Wellness Break DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Munger Graduate Residences (540 Thompson) for the Grad Wellness Break.\n\nAll graduate and professional students are invited to stop by enjoying massage chairs and sun lamps inside of the CAPS Wellness Zone\, Snacks\, Coffee\, Games\, and resources provided by student org as well as departments across campus!!\n\nPre-registration is not necessary UID:68837-17163788@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68837 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Graduate Professional Student Life,Well-being LOCATION:Munger Graduate Residences - Lower Level CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191205T170709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Political Theory: Past\, Present and Future\; Honoring the Career and Work of Arlene Saxonhouse DESCRIPTION:Fifty years ago Political Theory was the neglected step-child in departments of Political Science. Over the last fifty years the field has expanded widely. This symposium will explore first how ancient Greek political theory has come to speak to the modern world\, and then the many ways that the study of political theory has changed (or not) in fifty years. We will ask how it has come to influence the ways in which we think about democracy\, about the discipline of political science\, about the challenges of integrating theory and practice.\n\nReception to follow in the Michigan League's Michigan Room (2nd Floor). UID:63502-15759486@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63502 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science,Politics LOCATION:Michigan League - Henderson Room (3rd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110804 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T140000 SUMMARY:Performance:Composition Class Showing DESCRIPTION:First-year and sophomore dance majors present materials created throughout the semester in composition classes\, led by faculty members Megan Bascom and Jessica Fogel. UID:67570-16894376@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67570 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Free LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T151035 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Psychology Walk-In Advising DESCRIPTION:Peer Advising Walk-Ins are great for declaring\, registration and waitlist questions\, major progress and course selection\, finding research\, careers/grad school\, and general questions. \n\nStaff Advising Walk-Ins are reserved for senior major releases\, transfer credit\, course selection and major progress. UID:69363-17310313@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69363 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bcn,Psychology,Undergraduate Students,Walk-in Advising LOCATION:East Hall - 1343 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T114944 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Energy Rebound Effect of Connected & Automated Vehicles DESCRIPTION:How may travel behavior change and induced travel demand to offset the energy-saving benefits from efficiency improvement enabled by vehicle automation?\n\nMing Xu is an Associate Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability and in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the broad fields of sustainable engineering and industrial ecology. UID:69558-17360118@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69558 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:20191219T114634 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 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:67432-16849226@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:20191119T121524 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt\, cello DESCRIPTION:Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt is one of the most preeminent cellists of his generation. Early on during his studies with David Geringas and Aldo Parisot\, he made his mark at international competitions including the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris and the Prize for Contemporary Music at the Rostropovich Competition. He then went on to win the German Music Competition in Bonn and the International Australian Cello Competition in New Zealand. He is a prize winner of the esteemed International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and International Leonard Rose Cello Competition in the U.S. Schmidt has performed as a soloist throughout Europe\, Russia\, and the U.S. with renowned ensembles such as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig\, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin\, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin\, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France\, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra\, Radiophilharmonie des NDR\, Sinfonia Varsovia\, Baltimore and Houston Symphony Orchestras\, and the Philharmonia Prague. UID:69585-17368299@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69585 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191125T110424 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Arthur Sze Roundtable Q&A DESCRIPTION:Arthur Sze is a poet\, translator\, and editor who recently won the National Book Award. He has published ten books of poetry\, including Sight Lines\, Compass Rose\, The Ginkgo Light\, Quipu\, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998\, and Archipelago\, all from Copper Canyon Press. He has also published The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese and edited Chinese Writers on Writing. A bilingual Chinese/English selected poems\, Pig’s Heaven Inn\, was published in Beijing\, and he has also collaborated with sculptor Susan York to create a book and installation\, The Unfolding Center.\n \nKnown for his difficult\, meticulous poems\, Sze’s work has been described as the “intersection of Taoist contemplation\, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation” by the critic John Tritica. The poet Dana Levin described Sze as “a poet of what I would call Deep Noticing\, a strong lineage in American poetry… Dispassionate presentation of ‘the thing itself’ is its prevailing attribute\, yet Sze’s attention is capacious\; it’s attracted to paradox\; it takes facing opponents and seats them side by side.” In addition\, K. Michel\, a Dutch poet writing for Poetry International says\, “Sze’s work is characterized by its unusual combination of images and ideas\, and by the surprising way in which he makes connections between diverse aspects of the world. In his poetry he combines images from urban life and nature\, ideas from modern astronomy and Chinese philosophy as well as anecdotes from rural and industrial America. In this way\, he creates texts that capture and reflect the complexity of reality.”\n \nSze’s many awards include The Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers\, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Lannan Literary Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. From 2012-2017\, he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and\, in 2017\, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \n \nThe Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers \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. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209)\, reflection room (Haven Hall #1506)\, and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request\; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event. \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:64293-16332363@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64293 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Humanities,Language,Literature,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - Hopwood Room (First Floor, Room #1176) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191004T130756 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:ASC Event. 2019 UMAPS Colloquium Series DESCRIPTION:This series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics\, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.\n\nWawa Nkosi (Moody scholar)\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\nAn Economic Analysis of the Characteristics of Cartels and Cartel Prosecution in South Africa: A Twenty-Year Review\n\nJohn Hena\, Kenyatta University\, Kenya\nEvaluation of Metabolomics Methods for Health-Related Research: Introducing Emerging Life Science Research Techniques at the University of Liberia\n\nChinwe Ikpo (Moody scholar)\, University of the Western Cape\, South Africa\nInvestigating the Electrochemical and Structural Properties of Na2MnSiO4 and Li2MnSiO4 in CNT-Graphene Nanonetworks for Na/Li-ion Batteries UID:68024-16986084@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68024 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:africa,African Studies,African Studies Center,Research,research symposium,Scholars,Umaps Colloquium Series LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Weiser Hall 555 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190923T181726 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Establishing a Positive Relationship with Your Research Advisor DESCRIPTION:The advisor/advisee relationship is critical to graduate student success. Participants in this workshop will reflect on the roles that their advisor plays in their graduate education\, as well as the importance of establishing a broader network of support. We will also discuss a process for developing and agreeing upon shared expectations with your advisor so that you set yourself up for a positive working relationship.\nThis workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Space is limited. For faculty and staff\, please contact UID:65601-16621795@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65601 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Pierpont Commons CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191119T133123 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T163000 SUMMARY:Other:German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Information Session DESCRIPTION:The Deputy Director of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange)\, Peter Kerrigan\, will be holding an information session about opportunities to study\, research\, and intern in Germany through the DAAD (including funding!) UID:69613-17368330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69613 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Funding,Internship,Research,Study Abroad LOCATION:Michigan League - Room 4 (1st Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191125T140528 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Presentation:PhD Defense: Yadrianna Acosta-Sojo DESCRIPTION:TITLE OF DISSERTATION: Adaptation of sensory and motor rehabilitation procedures for stroke patients\n\nCHAIR: Bernard Martin UID:67979-16977563@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67979 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dissertation,Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe Defenses LOCATION:Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project - 2000A CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190724T162927 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:The Love\, Lure\, and Lore of the Clothesline DESCRIPTION:The first session of this course for those 50 and over will help to revive memories of simpler times when laundry was always hung to dry outdoors -- when folks went “online” without the Internet! There will be washday history\, sociological issues of ethnic stereotypes in the laundry industry\, the role of feminism\, industrialization\, culture\, and ecology. Instructor Anne Lawrence will share laundry poetry\, personal stories\, and the opportunity to consider the clothesline in ways never before appreciated. The second session will illustrate how artists and photographers have captured the beauty of the clothesline in a wide variety of ways\, and how the routine of hanging laundry out to dry sets minds free to create. \n\nInstructor Lawrence has been a clothesline historian and hobbyist for over 30 years. UID:64579-16388948@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64579 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,history,lifelong learning,poetry,retirement,Social LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T163119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 SUMMARY:Presentation:AE Chair's Distinguished Lecture Series: Smart Decision-Making for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Autonomous Systems in Space Missions DESCRIPTION:Ran Dai \nNetjets Assistant Professor\nThe Ohio State University\nMechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department\n\nMany autonomous systems in space missions benefit from prolonged operational time and efficient operations in a variety of long-duration missions\, ranging from low-earth orbiting to interplanetary space exploration. Due to limited propellant\, dynamic operating environments\, complex system behaviors\, and strict mission constraints\, it is challenging to realize full autonomy with capabilities of sustained power supply and fuel efficient operations. Without human intervention\, real-time decision-making\, including both motion planning and logic/reasoning decisions\, plays a critical role in assuring the reliability and performance of such a system toward accomplishing the mission objectives.\n\nThis talk will present our work on developing sophisticated modeling approach\, scalable optimization algorithms\, and machine learning based optimal control method that collectively contribute to advanced decision-making strategies for efficient and sustainable autonomous systems in space missions. Applications in two types of autonomous systems will be discussed. One focuses on space vehicles in complex missions involving multiphase or hybrid operations where onboard propellant is limited and timely ground support is unavailable. The other type of application is solar-powered rover that harvests energy from the environment and charges the storage batteries as backup to realize sustainable operations. The overall objective of smart decision-making for both types of autonomous systems is to realize high-level efficiency in fuel utilization or energy harvesting under dynamic environments\, complex operations\, and mission constraints. \n\nAbout the Speaker...\n\nRan Dai is the Netjets Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at The Ohio State University. She received her B.S. degree in Automation Science from Beihang University and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering from Auburn University. After graduation\, she worked as an engineer in an automotive technology company\, Dynamic Research\, Inc.\, and conducted research and consulting in the areas of semi-autonomous vehicle guidance and control. From 2010 to 2012\, Dr. Dai joined the Robotics\, Aerospace\, and Information Networks Lab at University of Washington as a postdoctoral fellow\, where she involved in an energy management project with application to the next generation of Boeing 787 aircraft power systems. Dr. Dai’s research focuses on control and optimization of autonomous systems\, motion planning and estimation of space vehicles\, and networked dynamical systems. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Career Award and NASA Early Faculty Career Award. UID:69702-17384709@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69702 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace,aerospace engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1109 Boeing Lecture Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200316T150243 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:CANCELLED: Hopwood Tea DESCRIPTION:Weekly tea is cancelled until further notice.\n\nFor any questions or to share accommodations needs\, please email hopwoodprogram@umich.edu. UID:64843-16541453@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64843 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Books,Culture,Department Of English Language And Literature,Food,Free,Graduate Students,hopwood awards ceremony,literary,Literary Arts,Literature,Undergraduate Students,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - Hopwood Room, 1176 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191105T101636 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Communication and Media Speaker Series DESCRIPTION:With this presentation\, I explicate the possibilities of synthesizing theories and methods from the disciplines of feminism\, critical race\, media studies\, anthropology\, among others in putting forth a critical study of intersectional technoculture. Through ethnographic examples\, I demarcate a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems—a research program that aims at contributing to a greater understanding of the cultural production and social processes involved in digital and technological culture. Using gaming as the glue that binds this project\, I put forth intersectional tech as a framework to make sense of the visual\, textual\, and oral engagements of marginalized users\, exploring the complexities in which they create\, produce\, and sustain their practices. Gaming\, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis\, is one that is becoming more visible\, viable\, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture. Intersectional tech implores us to make visible the force of discursive practices that position practices within (dis)orderly social hierarchies and arrangements. The explicit formulations of the normative order are sometimes in disagreement with the concrete human condition as well as inconsistent with the consumption and production practices that constitute Black digital labor. It is\, in fact\, these practices that inform the theoretical underpinnings of Black performances\, cultural production\, exploited labor\, and resistance strategies inside oppressive technological structures that Black users reside. \nEngaging intersectionality across transmediated platforms reveals a significant moment of critiquing narratives\, creating content\, and controlling narratives. The aftermath of Mike Brown’s death in 2014\, for instance\, revealed the power of this innovative engagement that the once-invisible could now actively engage\, participate\, and produce content in hypervisible ways. In the context of #BlackLivesMatter\, the combination of the textual and the visual ignited not only a movement\, but a proclamation of reclaiming narratives and identities across media and platforms - from #BlackLivesMatter to Black-ish to “The Breakfast Club.” It is important to examine the everydayness of mediated\, intersectional\, counterpublics to examine Black oral\, visual\, and textual culture in digital spaces and how this manifests within gaming culture. The transmediated nature of contemporary gaming communities affords the possibility of reframing traditional narratives\, controlling and producing content\, sustaining Black cultural production.\n\nDr. Kishonna L. Gray (@kishonnagray) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago. She is also a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. She also previously served as a MLK Scholar and Visiting Professor in Women and Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).\n\nDr. Gray is an interdisciplinary\, intersectional\, digital media scholar and digital herstorian whose areas of research include identity\, performance and online environments\, embodied deviance\, cultural production\, video games\, and Black Cyberfeminism. UID:69059-17222098@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69059 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Critical Race,Feminism,Media Studies LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200402T125825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar: Phenotypic plasticity\, gene expression\, and the biological response to climate change DESCRIPTION:The climate of the earth is becoming hotter and less predictable\, and the fitness of organisms is increasingly linked to traits important for performance in a changing climate. Understanding the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary adaptation as responses to climate change is crucial\, as phenotypic plasticity is more rapid than evolutionary adaptation\, and can either facilitate or constrain evolutionary adaptation. Crucially\, for certain taxa like tropical forest lizards\, previous long-term climate stability of the tropics may have eroded both genetic variation and capacity for phenotypic plasticity necessary for survival under rapid environmental change. We are testing how denizens of tropical forests can respond to climate change by 1) studying physiological and phenotypic plasticity of a thermoconforming forest lizard\, and 2) transplanting these lizards onto islands in the Panama Canal. These islands are hotter and more variable than the mainland rainforests of the source populations. On experimental islands\, we are measuring selection (viability and fecundity) on thermal physiological traits\, measuring plasticity and gene expression in response to thermal change\, and identifying genomic regions that are important for thermal adaptation. Ultimately\, our research can help parse the relative roles of phenotypic plasticity\, genomic adaptation\, and their interaction during the biological response to climate change.\n\nView YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/axBZDqu68EM UID:68351-17069160@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68351 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:20191202T073321 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:EIHS Lecture: The Pen and a Sea of Pearls: Decolonizing Contemporary Historical Storytelling DESCRIPTION:A racist assumption powerfully shapes many history books today: the idea that European knowledge traditions and Enlightenment sciences are superior to the epistemologies of the peoples once colonized by European empires. In this lecture Professor Khatun will explore methodologies of historical storytelling that seek to decolonize contemporary knowledge production about the past. Reading Bengali-language narratives of popular history that have enjoyed oral dissemination throughout the Bengal delta and sometimes across an Indian Ocean realm\, Professor Khatun will show that we can use colonized peoples’ historiographical traditions as keys that offer escape from the prison house of colonial-modern thought.\n\nDr. Samia Khatun is a writer\, filmmaker and cultural historian whose documentaries have screened on national broadcasters SBS-TV and ABC-TV in Australia. She was born in Dhaka\, educated in Sydney and has held research fellowships in Berlin\, Dunedin\, New York and Melbourne. Her first book\, Australianama: The South Asian Odyssey in Australia was published in December 2018 and was shortlisted for the Ernst Scott Prize for History. She is currently embarking on a new project about the spinners and weavers of eighteenth-century Dhaka. In September 2019\, Samia will be taking up the position of Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London.\n\nFree and open to the public. \n\nPresented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg. UID:63591-15808572@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63591 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,History,india LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191220T123012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Help! What's an MMI? DESCRIPTION:You may have heard that MMIs are gaining popularity especiallyamong medical\, dental\, pharmacy\, physician assistant and veterinary schools. But what are MMIs exactly? Come to this session to understand this interviewing format\, familiarize yourself with what to expect\, and practice with your fellow students. Space is limited. Express your plan to attend by \"joining\" the event via your Handshake account at https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326758\n UID:64484-16372913@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64484 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:20191118T150551 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Kelsey Museum Holiday Open House DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2019 Kelsey Museum Holiday Open House\, a convivial start to the holiday season. Come partake of music\, light fare\, and wonderful conversations with Kelsey members\, curators\, staff\, students\, and colleagues. The galleries and gift shop will be open.\n\nRSVP by November 25 to 734-763-8639 or dawnlynn@umich.edu. UID:69557-17360117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69557 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,Reception LOCATION:Kelsey Museum of Archaeology CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T133620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court DESCRIPTION:From Nov 7 to Dec 7\, 2019\, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by\, check out the art from PCAP\, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system. UID:69348-17310292@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Free,Fundraiser,Social,social justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200107T175709 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics DESCRIPTION:Walk-in flu shot clinics are for non-Michigan Medicine faculty and staff and U-M students. Employees' spouses and other qualified adults are also welcome to attend. Must be at least 18 years old. \n\nPresent your health insurance card to avoid paying out-of-pocket. Those not covered under an accepted insurance plan can still receive a flu shot at a rate of $30 per person. Pay by credit card\, check\, or bill to a U-M student account. \n\nMass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy\, Michigan Visiting Nurses\, and University Health Service. UID:65494-16605679@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Faculty,faculty and staff,Free,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Health & Wellness,Undergraduate Students,Well-being LOCATION:Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room (2nd Floor) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191011T152513 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Law and Economics: Tort Liability and Unawareness DESCRIPTION:Details to come. UID:68326-17046003@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68326 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,Law,seminar LOCATION:Jeffries Hall - 1020 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190916T113555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T183000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life of a Doctor (but not that kind!) DESCRIPTION:Learn about what types of career paths are available for those with a PhD in Psychology. Free pizza! RSVP at https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4361 UID:64444-16349029@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64444 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biopsychology\, Cognition\, And Neuroscience (Bcn),Psychology,Research,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Hall - 4448 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191118T143646 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Well-being:Winter Celebration Dinner DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate all of your hard work as the semester comes to a close. Bursley will be having a Gingerbread House Contest along with more fun at all of the Dining Halls. UID:69556-17360116@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69556 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dinner,Food,Holiday,Meal,Social LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191125T093107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:World Soils Day DESCRIPTION:Who doesn't like to play in the dirt?! Join us for a special event on December 5\, 2019 in celebration of World Soils Day. World Soils Day is an annual day of awareness organized by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization.\n\nGet the dirt on dirt from 5:00 - 6:00 PM in the Community Room. In a series of hands-on activities for all ages\, discover the secrets of one of the planet's most important natural resources: Soil!\n\nThen\, join us from 6:00 - 7:00 PM in the Science Forum where you'll have a chance to meet soil scientists and local farmers for a panel discussion on \"Soils Past\, Present\, and Future.\" What do soils have to do with climate change? Why has the United Nations called for urgent action to stop soil erosion? What can soils teach us about Earth's ancient history? This is the place to find out! UID:69744-17415368@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69744 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Museum of Natural History CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191125T110509 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Arthur Sze: In Conversation DESCRIPTION:Arthur Sze is a poet\, translator\, and editor who recently won the National Book Award. He has published ten books of poetry\, including Sight Lines\, Compass Rose\, The Ginkgo Light\, Quipu\, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998\, and Archipelago\, all from Copper Canyon Press. He has also published The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese and edited Chinese Writers on Writing. A bilingual Chinese/English selected poems\, Pig’s Heaven Inn\, was published in Beijing\, and he has also collaborated with sculptor Susan York to create a book and installation\, The Unfolding Center.\n \nKnown for his difficult\, meticulous poems\, Sze’s work has been described as the “intersection of Taoist contemplation\, Zen rock gardens and postmodern experimentation” by the critic John Tritica. The poet Dana Levin described Sze as “a poet of what I would call Deep Noticing\, a strong lineage in American poetry… Dispassionate presentation of ‘the thing itself’ is its prevailing attribute\, yet Sze’s attention is capacious\; it’s attracted to paradox\; it takes facing opponents and seats them side by side.” In addition\, K. Michel\, a Dutch poet writing for Poetry International says\, “Sze’s work is characterized by its unusual combination of images and ideas\, and by the surprising way in which he makes connections between diverse aspects of the world. In his poetry he combines images from urban life and nature\, ideas from modern astronomy and Chinese philosophy as well as anecdotes from rural and industrial America. In this way\, he creates texts that capture and reflect the complexity of reality.”\n \nSze’s many awards include The Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers\, a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award\, a Lannan Literary Award\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing fellowships\, a Howard Foundation Fellowship\, and five grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry. From 2012-2017\, he served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and\, in 2017\, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and lives in Santa Fe\, New Mexico.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore. \n \nThe Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64\, LLDHon ’13). For more information\, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers \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 at least two weeks prior to the event. \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:64295-16282454@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64295 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Humanities,Language,Writing LOCATION:Museum of Art - The Apse CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T130018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T183000 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:69346-17310114@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191126T144951 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:China Ongoing Perspectives Series: Soul of a Banquet DESCRIPTION:The screening of the next entry in the China Ongoing Perspectives (CHOP) film series\, Soul of a Banquet\, will be followed by a Q&A with Sean Chen\, cultural historian of Chinese foodways.\n\nIn his 2014 documentary film Soul of a Banquet\, Director Wayne Wang (The Joy Luck Club) takes us into the world of Cecilia Chiang\, the woman who introduced America to authentic Chinese food. Chiang opened her internationally renowned restaurant The Mandarin in 1961 in San Francisco and went on to change the course of cuisine in America. The film is equal parts a delectable showcase of gastronomy and a touching portrait of Chiang’s journey from a childhood in Beijing before the Cultural Revolution to a career as an accidental restaurateur on the west coast of the United States. Soul of a Banquet features interviews with Alice Waters\, Ruth Reichl\, and Cecilia Chiang herself.\n\nSean Jy-Shyang Chen is the translator and annotator of the seminal Qing Dynasty manual on cookery: Recipes from the Garden of Contentment (Suiyuan Shidan\, 隨緣食單)\, which provides technical details on ingredients and culinary techniques crucial for understanding the 18th century work. Sean holds a doctorate in biomedical engineering from McGill University and is a senior research engineer for computer vision and machine learning in medicine.\n\nCHOP is a curated series of documentary films that view greater China through the eyes of overseas Chinese\, immigrants and travelers\, focusing particularly on slices of life related to transitional/transcultural events and memories. The series is co-presented by the Asia Library and the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. UID:69799-17425671@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69799 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,Film,Free,Library LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20250509T143540 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T193000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Business of Becoming Citizens: Chinese Immigrants\, Cuisine\, and Restaurants from Exclusion to Inclusion in the United States\, 1870-1919 DESCRIPTION:Today there are more Chinese restaurants in the United States than the combined total of McDonald’s\, Burger King’s\, Wendy’s\, and KFC chains. This talk tells the history of Chinese restaurants against the backdrop of intense racial discrimination and civic exclusion. Chinese immigrants held the unfortunate distinction of being the first—and for many years only—population of voluntary migrants restricted from entering the country and denied a pathway to citizenship. Between the end of Radical Reconstruction and World War II\, Chinese immigrants seized political power and shifted their economic\, legal\, and cultural positions through food. The talks centers on a handful of Chinese immigrants who strategically and purposefully built bridges of understanding with the wider U.S. population\, and leveraged this acceptance to negotiate an immense legal apparatus. This is a story of the resilience of racialized immigrants who managed to become tastemakers\, despite the weight of state-sanctioned oppression.\n\nRefreshments will be provided. Please RSVP for food: https://forms.gle/jMh25aUFXCLbjUyc9\n\nHeather Ruth Lee is an Assistant Professor of History at NYU Shanghai. As a scholar and educator\, she wrestles with the importance of legal immigration status—the bright line separating citizens from both documented and undocumented migrants—to the history of race and ethnicity in the United States. Her first book\, The Business of Becoming Citizens: Chinese Immigrants\, Cuisine\, and Restaurants from Exclusion to Inclusion in the United States\, 1870-1943 tells the history of Chinese restaurants against the backdrop of intense racial discrimination and civic exclusion. Alongside the book\, Professor Lee has been working on the “Chinese Restaurant Database Project” (www.eatingglobally.com)\, an original data source on historical Chinese business operations\, migration strategies and demographic information. Her research has been featured in NPR’s All Things Considered\, The Salt\, The Atlantic\, Chicago Tribune\, and Gastropod\, a podcast on food science and history. Professor Lee has advised and curated exhibitions at the New York Historical Society\, the National Museum of American History\, the Museum of Chinese in America\, and elsewhere. UID:63436-17307999@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63436 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Anthropology,Asia,Asian/pacific Islander American Studies,Business,Chinese Studies,Culture,Food,Free,History,Interdisciplinary,International,Multicultural LOCATION:Haven Hall - 3512 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191126T155743 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:World AIDS Day - Film Screening & Panel DESCRIPTION:Join Spectrum Center’s Programming Board\, Unified\, and SNPhA as we recognize World AIDS Day on December 5th\, 2019. World AIDS Day takes place on December 1st each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV\, to show support for people living with HIV\, and to commemorate those who have died from an AIDS-related illness. To recognize this day\, we will be hosting an event that includes a screening of “A Day With(out) Art” and after the movie will be a panel with a variety of HIV/AIDS specialists. The event will be held in North University Building in room 1544 from 6-8pm. We will have food\, drinks\, and information on AIDS awareness. We hope to see you there! UID:69763-17417426@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69763 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Film,Food,Free,LGBT,Social Justice LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1544 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T130018 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T193000 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:69346-17310117@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69346 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Museum,Natural Sciences LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190723T150529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T203000 SUMMARY:Film Screening:Arab American National Museum and CMENAS Film Screening. Flesh Out DESCRIPTION:In keeping with the traditions of her Mauritanian home\, the announcement of Verida’s impending arranged marriage brings with it the beginning of gavage—the ritual of over-eating in order to attain a fuller figure more desirable to her future husband. As the obedient daughter of two loving parents\, Verida at first accepts the intense physical strain of gavage with little resistance. But as the ritual’s requirements become increasingly all-consuming\, Verida feels her resistance to the intense expectations of both her mother and culture push toward a breaking point. \n \nDirector Michela Occhipinti’s narrative feature debut\, Flesh Out (2019) is an intensely resonant look at one woman’s struggle to find an identity for herself outside of the suffocating pressure to conform. \n \nDir. Michela Occhipinti \n2019/Mauritania\, Italy/94 minutes \nHassaniya with English Subtitles \n \nLight refreshments will following the screening. \n\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. Contact: Jessica H. Riggs\, jessmhil@umich.edu UID:64513-16380902@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64513 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Film,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191201T181656 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Monuments and Public Art: A Public Conversation with Paul Farber (Monument Lab)\, Tina Olsen (UMMA)\, Srimoyee Mitra (Stamps Gallery) and Kristin Hass (Dept. of American Culture) DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project\, the U-M Center for World Performance Studies presents project co-founder and book co-editor​ Dr. Paul M. Farber​ to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm\, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments\, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today.\n \nPlease note this event takes place at the U-M Hatcher Library Gallery at 913 S. University Avenue in Ann Arbor.  \n \nPaul M. Farber​ is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of ​A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall ​(University of North Carolina Press\, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed\, Angela Davis\, Shinkichi Tajiri\, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of ​Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia​ (Temple University Press\, 2019)\, a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments.\n \nKristin Ann Hass​ is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books\, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall\,​ a study of militarism\, race\, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and ​Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial\,​ an exploration of public memorial practices\, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book\, ​Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously​\, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington\, DC and beyond. She lectures\, teaches\, and writes about nationalism\, memory\, publics\, memorialization\, militarization\, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums\, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of ​Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life​\, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.\n \nChristina Olsen​ is the Director\, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades\, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives\, including ​Shine a Light​\, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland\, Oregon\; ​Object Stories​\, an installation\, audience\, participation\, and outreach initiative in 2010\; ​WALLS​\, a student art loan program at Williams College\, and ​Accession Number\,​ an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts\, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco\; curator of ​Art Access​\, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum\; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation\, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago\, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.\n \nSrimoyee Mitra​ is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation\, migration\, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as ​Time Out Mumbai​ and ​Art India Magazine​. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto\, where her curatorial projects included ​Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue​ at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery\, Brantford. In 2011\, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art\, Art Gallery of Windsor\, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program.\n\nThis program is organized by the U-M Center for World Performance Studies and co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art\, the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design\; and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.\n\nFor more information\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies. UID:69699-17384706@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69699 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Books,Culture,Exhibition,Faculty,Graduate,History,Humanities,India,Library,Museum,Research,UMMA,Visual Arts LOCATION:Museum of Art CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191223T140345 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T203000 SUMMARY:Performance:Performance in Poetry Club DESCRIPTION:Come support LSWA's Performance in Poetry Club on Dec. 5. \n\nThere will be poetry\, an open mic\, and food. \n\n0.5 participation point will be awarded. \n\nAny questions\, email LSWA@umich.edu. UID:70803-17644328@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70803 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:alice lloyd hall,Food,lhsp,Lswa,performance art,Poetry LOCATION:Alice Lloyd Hall - Vicky Barner Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T101142 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Public Conversation: Monuments & Public Art DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 5\n7:00pm-8:30pm\nHatcher Library Gallery | 913 S. University Avenue\nFree & Open to the public\n\nIn celebration of the release of the new book on Philadelphia’s Monument Lab project\, CWPS presents project co-founder and book co-editor Dr. Paul M. Farber to lead a public conversation about monuments and public art. Participants will be asked to interrogate the notion of what constitutes art in the public realm\, address current controversies of public art and the future place of monuments\, and consider the question of what kinds of monuments we need today. \n\nPaul M. Farber is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. Farber earned a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan and is a former graduate resident of the Center for World Performance Studies. He is the author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall (University of North Carolina Press\, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed\, Angela Davis\, Shinkichi Tajiri\, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also the co-editor with Ken Lum of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia (Temple University Press\, 2019)\, a public art and history handbook and catalogue designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments. \n\nKristin Ann Hass is an Associate Professor in the Department of American Culture and the Faculty Coordinator of the Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan. She has written two books\, Sacrificing Soldiers on the National Mall\, a study of militarism\, race\, war memorials and U.S. nationalism and Carried to the Wall: American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial\, an exploration of public memorial practices\, material culture studies and the legacies of the Vietnam War. Her next book\, Taking the Price of Freedom Seriously\, takes up the twentieth century public investment in and narratives about US militarism and nationalism in memorial Washington\, DC and beyond. She lectures\, teaches\, and writes about nationalism\, memory\, publics\, memorialization\, militarization\, visual culture and material culture studies. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies and has worked in a number of historical museums\, including the National Museum of American History. She was also the co-founder and Associate Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life\, a national consortium of educators and activists dedicated to campus-community collaborations.\n\nChristina Olsen is the Director\, University of Michigan Museum of Art. In a career spanning more than two decades\, Christina has curated and produced groundbreaking exhibitions and initiatives\, including Shine a Light\, an acclaimed annual museum-wide exhibition and event in Portland\, Oregon\; Object Stories\, an installation\, audience\, participation\, and outreach initiative in 2010\; WALLS\, a student art loan program at Williams College\, and Accession Number\, an exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. In earlier posts\, she was an associate producer at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco\; curator of Art Access\, one of the first digital museum collections at the J. Paul Getty Museum\; and a program officer at the Getty Foundation\, where she managed the Foundation’s $4M in global grants for museum-based research and interpretation. Christina earned a bachelor’s degree in history of art from the University of Chicago\, and a master’s degree and doctorate in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.\n\nSrimoyee Mitra is the Director of the Stamps Gallery at the Stamps School of Art and Design. She is a curator and writer whose work is invested in building empathy and mutual respect by bringing together meaningful and diverse works of art and design. She develops ambitious and socially relevant projects that mobilize the agency within creative practices and public audiences. Her research interests lie at the intersection of exhibition-making and participation\, migration\, globalization and decolonial aesthetics. Mitra has worked as an Arts Writer for publications in India such as Time Out Mumbai and Art India Magazine. She was the Programming Co-ordinator of the South Asian Visual Arts Centre (2008-2010) in Toronto\, where her curatorial projects included Crossing Lines: An Intercultural Dialogue at the Glenhyrst Art Gallery\, Brantford. In 2011\, she was appointed the Curator of Contemporary Art\, Art Gallery of Windsor\, where she developed an award-winning curatorial and publications program. \n\nThis is event is co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art\, Stamps Gallery at Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and University of Michigan Museum of Art.\n\nIf you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event\, please contact the Center for World Performance Studies\, at 734-936-2777. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange. UID:69573-17366253@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69573 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,american culture,Architecture,Art,Culture,cwps,Discussion,Free,Graduate School,History,Humanities,Lecture,Storytelling,Visual Arts LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Hatcher Library Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191113T142825 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Resume Lab DESCRIPTION:Have you started a draft of your resume but want to get it looked over? Do you want to create one but aren’t sure where to start? Wherever you’re at\, drop-in to get support for all stages of the resume writing process! UID:69407-17318570@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69407 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Business,career,First Year Experience,first year students,first-generation,Professional Development,resume,resume writing,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Workshop LOCATION:Newberry Residence - Audrey Lorde Lounge CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191205T180011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T203000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Weekly Bible Study - \"Final Greetings\" DESCRIPTION:Join us for prayer\, worship\, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Final Greetings from Colossians 4:7-18. UID:66649-16770095@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66649 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:A New Brain DESCRIPTION:By Wm. Finn & James Lapine\nDirected by Mark Madama\nMusic direction by Cynthia Westphal\n\nA New Brain is a 1998 energetic musical about a composer during a medical emergency. After collapsing into his lunch\, composer Gordon wakes up in the hospital to find himself surrounded by friends\, family\, and a large green frog from the children’s show he is meant to be writing for. UID:63552-15784092@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Scott Watson\, tenor trombone DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Rush - Rebellion\; Tomasi - Concerto pour Trombone et Orchestre\; Tchaikovsky - Six Romances\, op. 6\; Barber - Adagio for Strings\, op. 11\; Snowden - Ground Round. UID:69981-17491324@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69981 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T120546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T193000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Grapes of Wrath DESCRIPTION:A sweeping epic of the American experience\nAdapted by Frank Galati\nBased on the novel by John Steinbeck\nDirected by Gillian Eaton\n\nJohn Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath comes to the stage in a brilliant and faithful adaptation by Frank Galati. Forced from their home in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma\, the Joad family piles its few possessions on a battered old truck and heads west for California\, hoping to find work and a better life. Faced instead with intolerance and exploitation\, the Joads suffer death and deprivation as they struggle to find their place in the world. Despite the anguish it depicts\, the play is ultimately a soaring and deeply moving affirmation of the indomitability of the human spirit. \n\nOriginally premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago\, Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath transferred to both the West End and Broadway to critical acclaim. The play was nominated for eight Tony Awards in 1990\, winning for Best Direction and Best Play. Steinbeck’s 1939 novel was based on the author’s own experiences living and traveling with migrants from the Dust Bowl. The fictional Joads represent the tens of thousands of Americans who\, forced into similar circumstances by the confluence of climate change and poverty\, fought to preserve their humanity in the face of the vast inequities of the American experience. UID:63551-15784088@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191205T180012 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T220000 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:68466-17086351@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68466 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:openfloor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110543 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:BFA Senior Dance Concert: v i t a l e y e s DESCRIPTION:Senior BFA students in dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Presenting seniors are Emma Lambert\, Kaitlyn Soloway\, Matthew Standerski\, and Florence Woo. UID:67754-16928713@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67754 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T100037 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Comedy4Cancer (Cancelled) DESCRIPTION:This event has been cancelled. UID:69377-17312382@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69377 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Comedy4cancer LOCATION:Chrysler Center - Chesebrough Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T120642 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Jazz Lab Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble DESCRIPTION:With special guest Ignacio Berroa\, renowned Jazz and Afro-Cuban drummer\, and SMTD Prof.\, arranger\, composer\, and flugelhornist Ed Sarath. UID:68438-17082160@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68438 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T121529 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Master’s Recital: Cecelia Sha\, cello DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Gabrielli - Cello Sonata no. 1\; Poulenc - Cello Sonata\; Say - Dört Sehir. UID:69721-17392889@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69721 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T183610 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Over the Rhine DESCRIPTION:On our 2019 tour\, we will be leaning into three-part harmonies and making an intimate but hopefully holy ruckus. It won’t be all Christmas music: we’ll certainly mix in tunes from many of our records along the way. But hopefully it’s still true\; that you haven’t heard anything quite like it. UID:69378-17312383@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69378 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Folk,Theark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191015T181535 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:String Quartet Recital DESCRIPTION:Come hear some of SMTD’s finest string players perform an evening of string quartets. UID:65509-16607691@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65509 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T103937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Yeomen of the Guard DESCRIPTION:To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents \"The Yeomen of the Guard\, or the Merryman and His Maid\,\" the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax\, under sentence of death on questionable grounds\, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns\, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé\, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel\, the marriage\, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain? \n\nDavid Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois\, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi\, and Makoto Takata\, with music direction by Ezra Donner.\n\nTickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283\n\nStudents can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).\n\nRunning time is 2 hours and 45 minutes. UID:68637-17128430@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Music,Student Org,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191205T180013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T230000 SUMMARY:Other:Figure Meet DESCRIPTION:Intra-team figure meet UID:69779-17419531@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69779 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Canham Natatorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190905T141533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191205T220000 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:66421-16736381@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:20191206T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T235900 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:68084-17489231@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:20190809T101919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 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:65088-16515494@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:20191113T101359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck DESCRIPTION:Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck\, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces\, peoples\, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community\, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths. UID:69123-17250821@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Library,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T122638 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67407-16849069@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:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67398-16848817@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:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:67410-16849153@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:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67400-16848900@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:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67401-16848983@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:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67393-16846509@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:20200113T124906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T115900 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Peer Facilitator Applications Open DESCRIPTION:UROP Peer Facilitators serve as a liaison and program guide for UROP students. In this capacity\, Peer Facilitators support prospective UROP student researchers by helping them find research projects\, sharing information about academic and other campus resources\, serving as a liaison between student researchers and faculty mentors\, and planning programs for and facilitating research seminars for their peer group. Other responsibilities include giving presentations about UROP and helping with program-wide activities such as the Spring Research Symposium. \n\nPeer Facilitators must be third or fourth year students by the fall 2020 and be in good academic standing with a GPA of 3.0 or above. Applicants should have completed one full year in UROP. (Note: Students who plan to be Resident Advisors are ineligible to be a UROP Peer Facilitator because of the time and training demands of both positions.)\n\nApply today! myumi.ch/MEynX UID:69842-17472643@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Education,Engineering,Environment,Free,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Life Science,Professional Development,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1190 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190918T120302 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:67395-16846592@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:20190715T130925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2019 World History and Literature Initiative: Empire\, Decolonization & Independence in Global History & Literature DESCRIPTION:The World History and Literature Initiative (WHaLI) is a unique collaboration between area studies centers in the International Institute and the U-M School of Education\, funded in part by Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education\, with additional funding from the International Institute and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. \n\nAbout the conference:\n\nToday we live in a world of a few hundred nation-states. “Yet\,” historians Burbank and Cooper argue\, “the world of nation-states we take for granted is scarcely sixty years old.\" People lived throughout most of human history in empires\, states that never claimed to represent a single group of people or a nation. Such imperial systems were durable\, ruling over vast territories for long durations of time. The Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire\, for example\, each lasted for almost 700 years\, the Mongols and Comanche Empires for about two centuries\, while some have argued the Chinese Empire endured for well over 4\,000 years. All empires faced resistance and rebellion in some form and to some degree.\n\nImperial systems and those who have opposed\, resisted\, and rebelled against imperial power\, politics\, and culture have played a long and important role in global history. Given how important empires\, decolonization\, and independence movements have been\, it is not surprising that we have a rich historical\, literary and artistic heritage that captures the impact empires and liberation from imperial control has had on individuals\, peoples\, communities\, and the world.\n\nThe World History and Literature Initiative’s (WHaLI) three-day conference for secondary teachers will focus on these issues using examples drawn from different historical times and areas of the world. In addition to helping teachers develop their knowledge and understanding of this Empires\, imperial practices\, independence movements and decolonization in world history and literature\, the conference also illuminates challenges students face in learning such content and explores ways teachers might meet those challenges. WHaLI conference provides participants with relevant resources as well as lunch and refreshments. This year we will meet on December 6 (Friday)\, December 7 (Saturday) and December 14 (Saturday).\n\nRegistration: https://payments.lsa.umich.edu/whali/ UID:64242-16260522@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64242 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T104619 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Forum on Defense and Diplomacy in Afghanistan DESCRIPTION:This forum will engage policymakers\, military officials\, academic experts\, diplomats and other thought leaders to examine challenges and opportunities at the intersection of defense and diplomacy during this crucial transitional period in Afghanistan. It will feature three public panels and a pair of keynote sessions\, as well as a smaller\, closed-door academic workshop in the afternoon. The conversation will be wide- ranging but will focus on a few major themes: \n\n● Recalibrating in defense and diplomacy. How should the roles and responsibilities of U.S. allied military forces and resident diplomats evolve to reflect the changing political conditions in Afghanistan? \n\n● Keeping the peace. What types of diplomatic arrangements will be necessary to help maintain any cease-fire between the Afghan government and the Taliban and help promote a lasting peace? What form of U.S. and/or international military engagement will be appropriate in that context? \n\n● Promoting democracy\, development and the rule of law. What priorities should the international community set for domestic developments in Afghanistan looking forward? How might a political transition in Afghanistan challenge democratic governance\, inclusive development\, human rights and the rule of law? What tools are available to meet these challenges and seize opportunities?\n\nFor the event agenda please visit: https://umich.box.com/s/e637svug67s6ewxu4v9eunm3jp8cm3s6 UID:69715-17390844@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69715 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Afghanistan,Defense,Diplomacy,international policy,international relations,Public Policy,Weiser Diplomacy Center LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190823T100616 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 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:63992-16059427@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:20190724T155824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Group Facilitation Training DESCRIPTION:Do you want to brush up on your facilitation skills so that you can feel comfortable leading one of OLLI’s many fine courses? Topics to be covered in this course for those 50 and over include planning for sessions\, creating a participative atmosphere\, and handling group dynamics. All class material will be provided. No outside study is required. Instructor Stu Simon has facilitated group processes as a manager at Ford Motor Co. and has been a consultant since his retirement. This FREE course is great for prospective instructors! UID:64573-16388942@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64573 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Education,lifelong learning,retirement,training LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191205T113733 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:LRCCS Conference | Global Chinese Food DESCRIPTION:Full conference details available here: https://ii.umich.edu/lrccs/news-events/events/conferences/global-chinese-food---december-6--2019.html\n\nMillions outside of China enjoy Chinese food each day. Even though they might all go out for a “Chinese” meal\, there is little uniformity to what arrives on their plates\, in their bowls\, or at the tips of their chopsticks or forks. In Germany\, “Chinese” food could mean ribs in hoisin sauce\, served with pickled cucumbers\; in India\, deep-fried vegan cauliflower\; and in South Korea\, sweet brown sauce on a plate of beef noodles. What do these diverse examples tell about the nature of Chinese food? How does a global perspective deepen our understanding of culinary authenticity and heritage? These questions will be the focus of Global Chinese Food. The conference will bring scholars of Asian American\, African\, Chinese Studies\, Latin American\, and Japanese into a wide-ranging and exciting conversation. The conference is free and open to the public. \n\nOrganized by Professor Miranda Brown (@Dong_Muda)\, Asian Languages and Cultures.\n\nThis conference is sponsored by Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies with additional support provided by the Departments of History\, American Culture\, Asian Languages and Culture\; the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\; the Institute for Humanities\; the Confucius Institute\; Office of Research\; and the School of Music\, Theatre & Dance. UID:66500-16742863@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66500 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Asia,China,Chinese Studies,Cooking,Culture,Food,History LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190808T162032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 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:65071-16509418@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:20191111T105153 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:WHITE HISTORY MONTH VOL. 1 DESCRIPTION:Mining symbols of power and oppression from the historical strata of western art\, Sawyer exposes truths\, while covering others to gain a clearer picture of concepts that have shaped our current society. Within the context of his figurative drawings and paintings Sawyer presents an alternative to the historical record that often accompanies well known images throughout art history. \n\nInspired by current trends to redact post Civil War Confederate monuments from the American landscape\, Sawyer poses the question: Why are some symbols of oppression lauded\, considered sacred and become canonized while others cause the public to demand their destruction? Is there a logical thread in the tapestry of oppression? Can this thread be observed and considered? Lastly\, can this thread then be unraveled? \n\nAdditionally\, this exhibition features a series of drawings titled Grâce Nóir\, which features Black women whose works have contributed to shaping the landscape of visual culture.\n\nAs part of his residency\, Sawyer also worked with U-M students to create a mural to honor Samuel C. Watson\, the first African American student admitted to the University of Michigan. The mural is on view on the first floor of MLB.\n\nAbout the artist:\n\nTylonn J. Sawyer (b. 1976) is an American figurative artist\, educator\, and curator living and working in Detroit\, Michigan. His work centers around themes of identity\, both individual and collective\, politics\, race\, history and pop culture. In 2013\, Sawyer expanded his studio practice to include large public murals and collaborative projects throughout Detroit. Sawyer is a professor of art at Oakland Community College and teaches drawing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. His passion for arts education lead to his community work with youth including various community arts programs throughout New York\, where he served as an art director\, teacher\, curriculum specialist\, and more. Most recently\, in early 2014\, Sawyer started the first teen arts council in Michigan for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. He earned an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art: Graduate School of Figurative Art and a BFA in drawing & painting from Eastern Michigan University. In 2019\, he was awarded the Alain Locke Recognition Award as well as a Kresge Fellowship for Visual Art. UID:66153-16711335@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66153 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:African American,Art,Exhibition,Visual Arts LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190915T001700 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 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:66996-16792099@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66996 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:North Quad CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T081537 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: The Equilibrium Effects of Public Provision in Education Markets: Evidence from a Public School Expansion Policy DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn a variety of markets with private options\, the optimal level of public provision may require balancing a tradeoff between reducing private options’ market power with the possibility of crowding out potentially high-quality products. These considerations are particularly relevant in many developing countries’ education systems where private schools capture high market shares while public schools are overcrowded. We study the equilibrium effects of public provision in the context of a large expansion of public schools in the Dominican Republic. Over a five-year period\, the government aimed to increase the number of public school classrooms by 78%. Using an event study framework\, we estimate the effect of a new public school on neighborhood outcomes and competing private schools\, where we instrument for how quickly the public school construction project finished with whether the procurement lottery randomly assigned the project to a firm or an unaffiliated individual. We find that a new public increased neighborhood students’ test scores\, both in the public and private sectors. As public enrollment increased\, a large number of private schools closed while the surviving schools lowered prices and increased investment in school quality. To study how the provision of high quality schools varies with the level of public provision\, and to compare the effects to the alternative policy of public financing\, we specify an empirical model of demand (students choosing schools) and supply (schools choosing whether to stay open\, how much to invest in quality\, and what price to charge). UID:68281-17037508@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68281 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T160727 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:66701-16770285@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:20191204T110909 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T100000 SUMMARY:Performance:Second Year MFA Works in Progress Showing DESCRIPTION:In the Fall of their second year\, Master of Fine Arts in Dance candidates translate information and inspiration gained from their summer research trips into choreographed dance works. Join us for this showing of thesis works-in-progress at the culmination of their semester in the Grad Studio course. UID:69794-17425660@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69794 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance,Free LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191120T132235 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Statistics Department Seminar Series: Yuqi Gu\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of Statistics\, University of Michigan DESCRIPTION:In modern psychological and biomedical research with diagnostic purposes\, scientists often formulate the key task as inferring the fine-grained latent information under structural constraints. These structural constraints usually come from the domain experts’ prior knowledge or insight. The emerging family of Structured Latent Attribute Models (SLAMs) accommodate these modeling needs and have received substantial attention in psychology\, education\, and epidemiology. SLAMs bring exciting opportunities and unique challenges. In particular\, with high-dimensional discrete latent attributes and structural constraints encoded by a design matrix\, one needs to balance the gain in the model’s explanatory power and interpretability\, against the difficulty of understanding and handling the complex model structure. \n\nIn the first part of this talk\, I present identifiability results that advance the theoretical knowledge of how the design matrix influences the estimability of SLAMs. The new identifiability conditions guide real-world practices of designing cognitive diagnostic tests and also lay the foundation for drawing valid statistical conclusions. In the second part\, I introduce a statistically consistent penalized likelihood approach to selecting significant latent patterns in the population. I also propose a scalable computational method. These developments explore an exponentially large model space involving many discrete latent variables\, and they address the estimation and computation challenges of high-dimensional SLAMs arising in large-scale scientific measurements. The application of the proposed methodology to the data from an international educational assessment reveals meaningful knowledge structures and latent subgroups of the student populations. UID:69647-17376499@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69647 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:seminar LOCATION:West Hall - 340 WH CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200313T150734 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 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:68495-17088518@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:20191126T114242 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T113000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Materials Science & Engineering and Biomedical Engineering present DESCRIPTION:You are invited to attend on Friday\, December 6\, 10:30 a.m. in 1013 H.H. Dow. UID:69792-17423624@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69792 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Materials Science,Michigan Engineering LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191221T063013 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:2019 Bank of America Fall Diversity & Inclusion Forums - New York DESCRIPTION:Bank of America is committed to diversity and inclusion – all students are welcome to apply.\n\nWhether you are in the early stages ofexploring opportunities or you have decided on a potential career path\, the Bank of America Fall Diversity & Inclusion Forums provide female and ethnically diverse sophomore and junior students with the opportunity to learn about the financial services industry and 2020 and 2021 internship opportunities.\n \nApplication deadlines vary by location. While student applications are limited to one Fall Diversity & Inclusion Forum\, we will consider applicants from all forums based on capacity.\n\nElevating Careers Fall Diversity & Inclusion Forums\n• Boston: Friday\, November 15\n• Charlotte: Monday\, December 2\n• Los Angeles: Wednesday\, December 4\n•New York: Friday\, December 6\n\nIn order to be considered\, please visitthe website below to submit an application:\nhttps://bit.ly/FallDiversityInclusionForums19 UID:69120-17246741@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69120 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:New York City, New York, United States of America CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:58562-15784130@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:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:63803-15884132@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:20190820T114324 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T123000 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:61827-16629894@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:20191004T181807 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:68063-16988439@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:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:63517-15769807@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:20191208T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dr. Richard Porter DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard Porter competition UID:66571-17526303@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ann Arbor Ice Cube CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191016T152824 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:Free Michigan Engineering Alumni T-Shirt for December 2019 Grads! DESCRIPTION:If you will be graduating in December 2019 please complete the Destination Survey online or visit the ECRC's booth on the following dates to fill out the survey and pick up your free Michigan Engineering Alumni t-shirt! Complete the survey by Friday\, December 13 to be entered into a drawing for a chance to win one of 20\, $20 Amazon gift cards!\n\nECRC Destination Survey Booth Information\nTuesday\, December 3: 11 AM – 3 PM\, Duderstadt Connector\nThursday\, December 6: 11 AM – 3 PM\, Duderstadt Connector\nMonday\, December 9: 11 AM – 3 PM\, Duderstadt Connector\nTuesday\, December 10: 11 AM – 3 PM\, Duderstadt Connector\nFriday\, December 11: 11 AM – 3 PM\, Duderstadt Connector\n\nOnline Instructions:\n1. Login to Engineering Careers\, by Symplicity!\n2. Select the Surveys Tab on the left of the page\n3. Select Respond underneath Destination Survey for December 2019 Graduates\n4. Complete and Submit your survey\n\nThe information is kept confidential and is compiled and reported in aggregate in the ECRC Annual Report to help students like you make informed decisions when accepting jobs. Find the UM engineering salary information through the ECRC Annual Reports available at: https://career.engin.umich.edu/about/salary-info/ UID:68493-17088495@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68493 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Career,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Duderstadt Center - Duderstadt Connector CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T110932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:ISD Manufacturing Seminar Series DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, December 6\, 2019 from 11:00am-12:00pm in Chrysler Center\, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd\, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker\, with Anne Marie Habraken Ph.D. Dr. Habraken is Vice Dean of research of the Engineering School of the University of Liège since 2015. She was President of ESAFORM European Scientific Association for material FORMing from 2004 to 2008.\n\nAfter a quick overview of the current state of solid\, fluid or mixed type simulations of additive manufacturing processes\, Dr. Habraken's lecture will be focused on the challenges of finite element predictions through 3 different cases. UID:69423-17480881@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69423 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,Engineering,Graduate Students,Industrial and Operations Engineering,Information and Technology,Integrative Systems,Interdisciplinary,Mechanical Engineering,Michigan Engineering,Rackham,seminar LOCATION:Chrysler Center - 151 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190930T181751 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:63837-15901168@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:20191004T181803 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 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:63842-15931488@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:20191125T122555 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:150 Years of University Hospitals: How U-M Sparked a Revolution DESCRIPTION:In December 1869\, the first patients entered the first university-owned hospital in America: A converted professor's house on North University Avenue in Ann Arbor.\n\nIn the 150 years since then\, U-M's academic medical center has grown into one of the largest and most advanced in the world\, focusing on providing advanced care\, educating biomedical professionals and pursuing research to advance understanding and treatment of human health and disease. \n\nDr. Joel Howell\, co-author of \"Medicine at Michigan: A History of the University of Michigan Medical School at the Bicentennial\"\, will speak on the evolution of U-M's own medical enterprise\, and how it often set the pace for academic medicine nationwide.\n\nThe talk is part of the Grand Rounds series of the Department of Internal Medicine\, but is open to all for in-person and online attendance. Watch online at https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/bfgaveug\n\nThis talk represents the beginning of Michigan Medicine's year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of U-M's academic medical center. UID:69760-17415390@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69760 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Bicentennial,History,Medicine LOCATION:University Hospitals - Ford Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191221T063015 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:60-min Job Search Lab DESCRIPTION:*parts of this event will be based on The 2-Hour Job Search book by Steve Dalton. You can find more info here: https://2hourjobsearch.com/\n\nStill SEARCHING for a JOB?! THIS IS FOR YOU! Feeling like you're down-to-the-wire in your job search? Have you applied to tons of jobs only tohear nothing back?\n\nIt's all about your strategy!\n\nJoin us for a virtual group coaching session with a UCC career coach and strategist. This isnot for recent alums that have 30 companies to target and have a list of and have been doing informational interviews with alumni already. I would schedule a 1:1 appointment with a career coach to talk about additional ideas and help.\n\nRSVP here: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/405068/preview\n\nDuring our 60 MINS working session\, you'll walk away with...\n1. A list of at least 20 employers to target\n2. At least 3 informational interview requests to alumni\n3. A list of at least 10 positions to apply to\n4. Customized advice that is specific to your search. Ask any questions that you have!\n\nWe'll dive in right away\, so you'll need to:\n1. RSVPhere: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/405068/preview\n2. Have yourresume ready-to-go (see our online resources or make an appointment if you need help here)\n3. Have your LinkedIn and UCAN profile set up (umich.peoplegrove.com) UID:69686-17378575@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69686 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:20190916T170522 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:AIM for DEI DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday\, December 6 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the East Conference Room (4th Floor) at Rackham Graduate School 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:67300-16831276@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67300 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - East Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190903T132416 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Meeting:American Institutions Group (AIG) DESCRIPTION:AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet biweekly to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings\, we talk about current events and politics\, and for the second\, we discuss a recently published article or working paper. UID:66198-16719576@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66198 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Chair's Conference Room (6551) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T121348 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:BLI Leadership Lunch: Dialogue on Peace DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion and presentation centered around peace leadership and peace studies at the University of Michigan. Members of the 2019 Japan Peace Leadership cohort and a 2019 Ginsberg Center Davis Peace Project recipient will talk about their program experience and observations about peace studies options on campus. \n\nPlease register:\nhttps://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/21278\n\nOpen to non-BLI members. UID:69930-17483067@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69930 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Asia,Barger Leadership Institute,Bli LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 8th Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T161111 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EIHS Graduate Student Workshop: Colonized Geographies DESCRIPTION:How do history and agency alter geographies and landscapes? Samia Khatun’s research has explored the spaces and scars left behind by colonization\, arguing that “histories remain inscribed on the land itself.” This panel explores the concept of colonized geographies and will examine how the borders of colonized spaces are enforced\, negotiated\, and blurred. Speakers will approach this theme from comparative literature\, political science\, and history\, providing new perspectives on the creation of colonized space\, as well as how history operates both within and outside of its boundaries. \n\nFeaturing:\n\nJamie Clegg\, Graduate Student\, Comparative Literature\, University of Michigan\nArighna Gupta\, Graduate Student\, History\, University of Michigan\nJaideep Pandey\, Graduate Student\, Comparative Literature\, University of Michigan\nDavid Suell\, Graduate Student\, Political Science\, University of Michigan\nSarah Wheat\, Graduate Student\, History of Art\, University of Michigan\nSamia Khatun (respondent)\, Senior Lecturer\, Centre for Gender Studies\, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London\nFarida Begum (chair)\, Graduate Student\, History\, University of Michigan\n\nPresented in partnership with the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is part of the Friday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.\n\nImage: Adam Isacson\, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UID:63602-15808600@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63602 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Graduate Students,History LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T161729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T125000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Human Performance Seminar (836): Chris Wickens\, PhD\, Colorado State University DESCRIPTION:The Human Performance Seminar Series (836) from the Center for Ergonomics is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.\n\nTitle:\n“The Lumberjack Model of Human-Automation Interaction: The Higher the Tree\, the Harder It Falls”\n\nAbstract:\nThe lumberjack model proposes a relation between the degree of automation and 4 human performance measures: Performance when automation works as intended\, performance when automation fails\, workload\, and situation awareness. The degree of automation refers jointly to what stage of human information processing automation supports: selective attention\, diagnosis\, decision making and action execution\, and to the level of automation within a stage. Accordingly\, with a higher degree of automation\, routine performance is improved and workload reduced\, but performance when automation fails is degraded\, a degradation that is caused by a progressively greater loss of situation awareness with a higher degree of automation.\n\nProfessor Wickens will describe the results of a meta-analysis and two experiments that support\, to varying degrees\, the 4 trends underlying the lumberjack model. In the first experiment\, participants (Wolverines!!) perform a robotics task\, that is assisted by either a low or high degree of imperfect automation. In the second experiment\, air traffic controllers employ an imperfect automated decision aid. The second experiment also shows how the costs of automation failure can be cushioned by building transparency into automation operations.\n\nBio:\nChris Wickens received his PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974\, after serving 3 years in the US Navy. He was a Professor in Psychology at University of Illinois from 1974-2005. From 1984-2005 he was also jointly appointed with the Department of Industrial Engineering\, and the Institute of Aviation\, where he was Associate Director and Head of the Aviation Human Factors Division.\n\nHe has published two textbooks in human factors and engineering psychology\, and 6 other professional books\, and has co-authored over 250 articles in refereed publications or book chapters. His research interests are in the human factors of transportation systems\, the study of human attention and its relevance to display design\, and human-automation interaction. He is an avid mountain climber. UID:67034-16796462@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67034 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Industrial And Operations Engineering,Ioe 836 LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - G699 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T093800 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Elnaz Kabir\, 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 Thursday\, December 5\, 2019.\n\nTitle:\nPredictive and Risk Analytics for Weather-Induced Power Outage Management\n\nAbstract:\nA wide variety of weather conditions\, from windstorms to prolonged heat events\, can have substantial impacts on power systems\, posing many risks and inconveniences due to power outages. Being able to accurately estimate the probability distribution of the number of customers without power by using data about the power utility system\, environmental and weather conditions has the potential to help utilities restore power more quickly and efficiently. In this research\, we develop two frameworks to address these issues. In the first framework\, we propose an adaptive two-stage algorithm based on Bayesian model averaging in order to form an ensemble model predicting daily distributions of customer outages. In this algorithm\, weights of the base learners depend on the features and they get updated as new data is observed. In the second framework\, we focus on the zero inflation issue of power outage data in resolutions smaller than county level. To overcome the challenges caused by zero-inflation\, e.g.\, bias and inaccuracy\, we propose a novel approach integrating mixture models with cost-sensitive learning. For both frameworks\, we conduct numerical studies using large\, real datasets of power outages. We show that our approaches offer more accurate point and probabilistic predictions than traditional approaches\, better supporting utility restoration planning.\n\nBio:\nElnaz Kabir is a PhD Candidate in the Industrial and Operations Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. Her research is grounded in predictive analytics\, data-driven decision making\, and risk analysis. In her research\, Elnaz is interested to use statistical learning theories\, and optimization techniques to better understand and solve important problems related to power outages caused by weather events. The results of her studies are used by practitioners of the utility companies in order to make better decisions to reduce the risk of weather-events to the power system. UID:68549-17096945@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68549 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:20191206T181618 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Life After Graduate School Seminar | From Natural Laws to Writing Laws: A Physicist Turned Policymaker DESCRIPTION:The US federal government touches all aspects of our lives through its ~$4.5 trillion annual budget (although less than 4% is for research and development)\, laws\, regulations\, rules\, and policies. Dr. Anna Quider will discuss her experience as a physicist-turned-policymaker working within the federal government at the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Department of State\, and external to the federal government as a higher education and science advocate. Attendees will learn about career paths into federal policymaking and how input from physicists and the public inform the federal policymaking process. Dr. Quider is presently the Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations for Northern Illinois University and the past-president of The Science Coalition\, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing US federal funding for fundamental scientific research. She was a 2011 APS Congressional Science Fellow and 2012 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow.\n\n \n UID:67593-16900781@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67593 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Physics,Science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190917T170859 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MCDB Seminar: In Toto Imaging in Zebrafish Shows How Cells 'Build' Patterns DESCRIPTION:Host: Cunming Duan UID:67363-16839929@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67363 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Basic Science,Biology,Biosciences,Bsbsigns,Research,Science,seminar LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191106T181627 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Racial Microaggressions DESCRIPTION:Racial microaggressions can be uniquely harmful to their targets\, and yet we often times find ourselves skirting around this subset of microaggressions due to discomfort in openly discussing race\, racism\, and white supremacy. In this workshop we hope to foster an intellectually humble environment within which to unpack racial microaggressions\, address common barriers to intervening when a racial microaggression is inflicted\, and provide tools for successfully intervening in the future.\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/pdrVW.\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:69194-17263097@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69194 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Diversity LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T142021 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 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:59651-17483058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Graduate,Michigan Engineering,Professional Development,Research,Undergraduate LOCATION:Industrial and Operations Engineering Building - 1610 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190905T092719 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Semester in Detroit Coffee Hour DESCRIPTION:Join Semester in Detroit for monthly coffee hours with full-time staff and faculty! SiD Associate Director\, Craig Regester\, and Program Coordinator\, Marion Van Dam\, will be available to answer all your questions. Select faculty from the program will also join us\; they will be announced closer to the date. \n\nAlumni are welcome to stop by to reconnect! Coffee (and perhaps some treats) provided :) UID:66388-16734114@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66388 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Activism,Applications,Community Service,Detroit,Food,Free,Internship,Office Hours,Social Impact,Social Justice,Study Abroad,Undergraduate,Urban Studies LOCATION:East Quadrangle - 1730 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191007T123720 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac: The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California DESCRIPTION:The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a rallying point for political issues ranging from abortion to gay liberation to sex education. Yet this notion of privacy originated not only from legal arguments\, nor solely from political movements on the left or the right\, but instead from ambivalent moderates who valued both personal freedom and the preservation of social norms.\n\nIn The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac\, Clayton Howard chronicles the rise of sexual privacy as a fulcrum of American cultural politics. Beginning in the 1940s\, public officials pursued an agenda that both promoted heterosexuality and made sexual privacy one of the state's key promises to its citizens. The 1944 G.I. Bill\, for example\, excluded gay veterans and enfranchised married ones in its dispersal of housing benefits. At the same time\, officials required secluded bedrooms in new suburban homes and created educational campaigns designed to teach children respect for parents' privacy. In the following decades\, measures such as these helped to concentrate middle-class families in the suburbs and gay men and lesbians in cities.\n\nIn the 1960s and 1970s\, the gay rights movement invoked privacy to attack repressive antigay laws\, while social conservatives criticized tolerance for LGBT people as an assault on their own privacy. Many self-identified moderates\, however\, used identical rhetoric to distance themselves from both the discriminatory language of the religious right and the perceived excesses of the gay freedom struggle. Using the Bay Area as a case study\, Howard places these moderates at the center of postwar American politics and shows how the region's burgeoning suburbs reacted to increasing gay activism in San Francisco. The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac offers specific examples of the ways in which government policies shaped many Americans' attitudes about sexuality and privacy and the ways in which citizens mobilized to reshape them.\n\n \nAbout the speaker:\nClayton Howard earned his PhD in history from the University of Michigan in 2010\, and he is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University. He is a specialist in the postwar histories of sexuality\, politics\, cities\, and suburbs. His book The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac was published in March 2019\, and an essay that he wrote on the Log Cabin Republicans will appear in an anthology entitled Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s.\n \nLunch will be provided. Please register so we have an accurate count for ordering: http://myumi.ch/Plx7R UID:68101-17009833@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68101 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:History,LGBT,Women's Studies LOCATION:Lane Hall - 2239 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T113048 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Undergraduate Internship Opportunities at National Laboratories DESCRIPTION:Professor Sara Pozzi with the University of Michigan department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences invites you to participate in a discussion and luncheon to learn how you can benefit from an internship experience at a national labs such as Argonne National Laboratory\, Brookhaven National Laboratory\, Idaho National Laboratory\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, Los Alamos National Laboratory\, Nevada National Security Site\, Oak Ridge National Laboratory\, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory\, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory\, Sandia National Laboratories\, Savannah River National Laboratory\, and Y-12 National Security Complex.\n\nHear from previous undergraduate and graduate students who participated in internships at the national laboratories.\n\nContact Dr. Shaun Clarke for more details about these internship opportunities at clarkesd@umich.edu\n\nConsortium for Monitoring\, Technology\, and Verification: MTV.engin.umich.edu UID:69965-17489269@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69965 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Internship,Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences,Undergraduate LOCATION:Cooley Building - Baer Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191107T091105 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:ASCE Seminar Series: Silman DESCRIPTION:Silman has grown to a staff of more than 160 among its three offices in New York\, Washington DC\, and Boston\, of whom over 50 have professional registrations and more than 20 are LEED Accredited Professionals or Green Associates. To provide the highest quality structural engineering services possible\, the principals have fostered an approach centered on constant collaboration among owners\, architects\, and other consultants. Silman's engineers are trained to be effective listeners\, creative problem solvers\, and knowledgeable about all facets of the construction process. After participating in more than 21\,000 projects\, Silman has earned recognition as one of the leading firms in the country for its innovative spirit in the design of new architectural works and the sensitive modification of existing structures. UID:66247-16719622@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66247 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:20191203T164350 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 SUMMARY:Presentation:E-Hour Speaker Series: Nex Cubed DESCRIPTION:The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year\, free and open to the public to attend.\n\nKelsey Morgan Pasqualichio is a co-Founder and Venture Portfolio Manager of Nex Cubed\, a frontier technology investment firm whose target investment areas include artificial intelligence\, aerospace and defense\, digital healthcare and fintech. \n\nPrior to Nex Cubed\, she was Managing Director for NextGen Venture Partners\, an early-stage venture capital fund with offices in DC\, NYC\, Boston\, Chicago\, and Austin. While at NextGen she launched the NYC office\, helped spearhead their first $22 million fund\, led investments for NYC and the Bay Area\, and built a coalition of 100+ technologists\, capital partners\, and angel investors who act as venture partners.\n\nShe has an extensive background in private equity and M&A\, including experience with The Carlyle Group\, 3i Group\, and Credit Suisse. Over the course of her career\, she has completed transactions totaling more than $20 billion. UID:69865-17474750@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69865 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Center For Entrepreneurship,Cfe,Engineering,Entrepreneurship,Graduate and Professional Students,Graduate Students,Michigan Engineering,North campus,Startup,Talk,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200316T120816 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 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:64510-16380893@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:20191018T122440 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economics at Work DESCRIPTION:Economics@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:68600-17105360@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68600 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 140 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191221T123011 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 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/326495 UID:64473-16351045@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64473 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library, Main Gallery, Room 100, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191121T100943 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Labor Economics: What is a Good School\, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nIs a school’s impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value school impacts on tests\, longer-run outcomes\, or both? To answer the first question\, we exploit quasi-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several short- and longer-run outcomes. Schools’ impacts on high-stakes tests are weakly related to impacts on low-stakes tests\, dropout\, crime\, teen motherhood\, and formal labor market participation. To answer the second question\, we link estimated school\nimpacts to parents’ ranked lists of schools. We propose a modified mulitnomial logit model that allows one to infer preferences for school attributes even in some settings where choices are strategic. Parents of higher-achieving students value schools that improve high-stakes test scores conditional on average outcomes\, proximity\, and even peer quality. Parents also value schools that reduce crime and increase formal labor market participation. Most parents’ preferences for school impacts on labor-market and crime outcomes are\, as strong\, or stronger than those for test scores. These results provide a potential explanation for recent findings that parent preferences are not strongly related to test-score impacts. They also suggest that evaluations based solely on test scores may be very misleading about the welfare effects of school choice. UID:68424-17080057@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68424 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 201 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T111359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 SUMMARY:Other:MIW Application Deadline-February 14\, 2020 DESCRIPTION:Regular admission deadline for Fall 2020 and early admission Winter 2021. UID:69547-17360036@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69547 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Admissions,Applications,Career,Community Service,Deadlines,first-generation,Interdisciplinary,Internship,Leadership,Majors,Networking,Political Science,Professional Development,Public Policy,Recruiting,Research,Scholarship,Scholarships,Social Impact,Social Justice,Social Sciences,Study Abroad,Transfer Students,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Welcome to Michigan LOCATION: CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190904T115738 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Phondi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet weekly during the academic year to present our research\, discuss \"hot\" topics in the field\, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us. UID:66303-16725836@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191121T125611 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:BLI Capstone Showcase DESCRIPTION:Five teams of advanced undergraduates have completed their pursuit of significant collaborative leadership projects whose design\, implementation and evaluation required significant analytic work. These teams have a capstone experience that brings abstract skills learned in the classroom into sustained contact with practical challenges in urban\, environmental\, and socioeconomic arenas.\n\n· Aretē: Philosophy in Prisons\n· Health Promotion at UM (HPUM)\n· Host Your Voice\n· IceVax\n· Project Healthy Schools - Global\n\nJoin us on Friday\, December 6 for the BLI Capstone Showcase where the 2019 cohort will present their work to an esteemed panel of University and community supporters. \n\n· Jerry Davis | Associate Dean\, Business+Impact\, Ross\n· Jeff Hall | President\, Second To None\n· Dorine Lawrence-Hughes | Assistant Dean\, U-M Undergraduate Education\n· Tiffany Marra | Director\, CEW+\n· Danyelle Reynolds | Assistant Director for Student Learning and Leadership\, Ginsberg Center\n\nTeams will then have an opportunity to present their posters to attendees and gain valuable experience explaining their work and networking with community members.\n\nStudents interested in applying for Capstone 2020 are encouraged to attend.\n\nAppetizers served. UID:69631-17374461@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69631 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Entrepreneurship,Leadership,Networking,Reception,Research,Social Impact,Social Justice,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:North Quad - Space 2435 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191113T142052 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Ensuring Safe and Equitable Environments for Women in Academic Medicine DESCRIPTION:Issues of gender equity in the profession of medicine have garnered increased attention in recent years\, especially in the wake of the #metoo movement. Some evidence suggests that medicine is exceptional in some ways in comparison to other fields\, even within the sciences. For example\, a recent report from the US National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering\, and Medicine suggested that female medical students are 220% more likely than students from non-STEM disciplines to experience sexual harassment. Given the tremendous power and influence of the medical profession\, Dr. Jagsi will argue that we must study these issues carefully. Doing so can offer a unique lens with which to understand the broader forces driving inequity in society more generally and help to illuminate possible levers for influencing broader societal attitudes and behaviors. As a scholar whose research has long focused on understanding the mechanisms leading to inequity in the medical profession\, Dr. Jagsi will begin by providing an overview of the patterns of women's participation in the profession of medicine. She will then describe studies led by her team and others that have investigated the drivers of women's persistent under-representation among the leaders of the medical profession\, even in an era when half of all medical students are female. These include myriad complex challenges\, including gendered expectations\, unconscious bias\, and overt discrimination and harassment. She conclude by discussing innovative interventions that have been implemented to begin the process of cultural transformation in medicine\, in the hopes that they may also provide inspiration for initiatives in other settings. UID:69405-17318568@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69405 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:#Metoo,Education,Interdisciplinary,Medicine,Organizational Studies,Women's Studies LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0220 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T144906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:That's an Interesting Idea: Data Driven Models\, Compressed Sensing\, and Other Outré Tools for Nuclear Applications DESCRIPTION:Ryan will cover a variety of research topics being investigated in his group at Notre Dame\, including using data-driven models to estimate the time-dependent behavior of fission experiments\, the use of compressed sensing to estimate Monte Carlo solutions\, and the application of machine learning to improve nuclear data. This talk will highlight how knowledge from statistics\, applied mathematics\, and computer science can be used to increase the impact of research in nuclear engineering applications. The talk will conclude with future research opportunities in these areas. \n\nRyan McClarren is a graduate of the University of Michigan NERS program with BSE\, MSE\, and PhD degrees. Currently he serves as Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. McClarren joined the Notre Dame faculty in August 2017. His research interests include the application of machine learning and compressed sensing to numerical simulation\, numerical methods for X-ray radiative transfer and particle transport and uncertainty quantification. He received the 2019 Young Member’s Research Award by the Mathematics and Computations Division (MCD) of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). \n\nHe is the author of two textbooks: the recently published Uncertainty Quantification and Predictive Computational Science\, a textbook focused on senior undergraduate and early-career graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences\, and Computational Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science Using Python\, a textbook for undergraduate engineering students that uses the Python programming language to present more easily accessible numerical methods for nuclear energy\, radiation protection and homeland security applications. UID:69829-17433857@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69829 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Engineering,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - Baer Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T153441 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:“Lessons Learned for Developing an “Exposome” for Children’s Cohort Studies: Challenges and Successes in Applying new Methods for Assessment\, Integration\, and Analytics” DESCRIPTION:Dr. Elaine Faustman is a toxicologist and Professor in the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences. She is also Adjunct Professor in the UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. One key aim of her research is to understand molecular pathways that control normal brain cell proliferation\, differentiation\, and apoptosis. Faustman’s group is working to understand the biochemical\, molecular\, and exposure mechanisms that define children’s susceptibility to environmental chemicals. A focus of her research has been on pesticides and to assess pesticide risks to normal childhood development and learning.M-LEEaD Center Winter Seminar Series UID:69734-17392934@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69734 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Medicine,Public Health LOCATION:School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower - 3755 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191126T162452 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Absinthe Reading DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Absinthe: World Literature in Translation\, Issue 26: VIBRATE! Resounding the Frequencies of Africana in Translation.\n\nPlease join us in celebrating this new publication with a reading on Friday\, December 6\, 2019 in 3222 Angell Hall. UID:64797-16444954@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64797 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:comparative literature,literature,translation,Writing LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T093448 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Presentation:CCN Forum: Mental Health Challenges in the Academe DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\nResearch\, teaching\, and service are rewarding experiences. However\, the stresses of academic life can contribute to a variety of mental health issues. In this interactive\, discussion-based forum\, we will discuss the prevalence of mental health issues in the academe\, anonymously survey the audience to identify the mental health issues experienced by faculty and students in our Area\, and review strategies for coping with these issues to enhance well-being. UID:69455-17324774@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69455 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium LOCATION:East Hall - 4464 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191203T120231 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Defense Dissertation: Design and Implementation of Mechanical Metamaterials DESCRIPTION:Brittany Essink\n\nCommittee:\nChair: Professor Daniel J. Inman\nCognate: Professor Kon-Well Wang\nMembers:\nProfessor Henry Sodano\nAssociate Professor Veera Sundararaghavan\n\nPresentation Info:\nDate: 12/6\nTime: 2:00 PM\nLocation: McDivitt Conference Room\n\nThe use of mechanical metamaterials\, or metastructures\, for vibration suppression has recently emerged as an approach to creating vibrationally resilient systems. Although many metastructures predict an improved performance\, many have not been experimentally validated due to the previous infeasibility of manufacturing their complex geometries. \n\nAdditionally\, existing research has only considered designs excited in one or two directions. This research successfully designs and fabricates the first multi-axis mechanical metamaterial design capable of attenuating vibration in three directions of excitation (longitudinal\, transverse\, and torsional) and experimentally validates its performance against FEM and analytical models.\n\nThis work analyzes cases where using a highly damped material will outperform an optimized geometry and determines a dividing line between material damping and vibration absorption in mechanical metamaterial design. These criteria can help determine whether it is necessary to undergo costly geometric optimization processes.\n \nThe peak separation capabilities of the multi axis mechanical metamaterial are considered for augmentation through a control system located on the distributed absorber system. A pole placement control system was introduced to adjust the natural frequencies of the absorbers. Additional insight on control use in mechanical metamaterials is discussed\, including recommendations on when an active control system should be considered. UID:69884-17482922@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69884 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Aerospace,aerospace engineering LOCATION:Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building - 1044 FXB McDivitt Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190806T094944 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HistLing Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty\, graduate students\, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics\, Anthropology\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, Classics\, Germanic Languages\, Near Eastern Studies\, Romance Languages\, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities\, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit). UID:64927-16491244@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64927 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 403 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190926T145937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 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:67694-16918021@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:20191120T101758 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Soul Matters: Plato and Platonists on the Nature of the Soul DESCRIPTION:Platonist discourses about the soul are incredibly rich and multitiered. That complexity is rooted in Plato's own texts\, offering as they do competing views on the nature of the soul. How did the soul (psyche) come to stand in for the interiority of the human person? How did the idea of an incorporeal self come to occupy an unbroken tradition of over one thousand years\, pervading cultures around the Mediterranean basin\, but rooted in ideas that can be directly traced back to Plato’s texts? Over that millennium\, questions arose as to the existence of a world soul or even of an evil soul\, the cosmic function of the soul\, the way that the soul thinks\, how soul governs or enlivens the body\, the pre-existence of the soul\, its fall into embodiment\, etc. How did soul come to have so many disparate functions and configurations in the Platonic tradition?\n\nIn celebration of the upcoming 70th birthday of John Finamore\, Roger Hornsby Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa\, President of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies\, and Editor of the International of the Platonic Tradition.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\nDay One\, Friday Dec. 6 \nClassics Library\, 2175 Angell Hall\nConference Opening\n\nFirst Session: Plotinus and Proclus\n2:00 pm \nSuzanne Stern-Gillet. University of Bolton and University of Manchester\n“The double hamartia of the soul in Enn. IV 8 [6] 5.16-24\n\n3:00 pm John Finamore\, University of Iowa\n\"Proclus interprets Hesiod: The Procline Philosophy of the Soul.”\n\nCoffee Break\, adjourn to 3222 Tisch Hall\n\n4:00 pm \nSvetla Slaveva-Griffin\, Florida State University\n“Plato and Plotinus on Healing”\n\n5:00 pm \nDanielle Layne\, Gonzaga University\n“The Queer Soul in Plato and Proclus”\n\n6:00 pm \nLight Reception in Classical Studies Library\n\nDay Two\, Saturday Dec. 7th\nAll talks in 3222 Angell Hall.\n\nFirst Sessions. Skype\nSession II. Soul in Plato and Plotinus\n\n9:00 am \nHarold Tarrant University of New South Wales\, Australia.\n“Soul in the earliest multilevel interpretations of the Parmenides”\n(skype session)\n\n10:00 am \nJohn Dillon\, Trinity University\n“Intellect Sober and Intellect Drunk: Some Reflections on the Plotinian Ascent Narrative”\n(skype session)\n\n11:00 am\nCoffee Break\n\n11:15 am \nVan Tu\, University of Michigan and Boudin College\n\"Is the Soul a Form? The Status of the soul in the last argument for immortality in the Phaedo\"\n\n12:00 pm\nDavid Morphew\, University of Michigan\n\"Is the rational soul divided?\" \n\nSession III \nPolytheists and Christians\n\n1:30-2:30 \nGreg Shaw\, Stonehill College\n“Neoplatonism: Pagan and Christian”\n\n2:30-3:30\nIliaria Ramelli\, University of Durham\n\"The Soul in Bardaisan\, Origen\, and Evagrius: Between Unfolding and Subsumption.\"\n\n3:30-4:00 Break\n\n4:00-5:00 \nSarah Wear\, Franciscan University Steubenville\n“Platonist Terminology and Cyril’s Account of the Rational Soul of Jesus”\n\n5:00-6:00 \nCrystal Addey\, University of Cork and Jay Bregman\, University of Maine\n“Julian and Sallust on the Ascent of the Soul and Theurgy”\n\nDay Three\, Sunday\, Dec. 8th\n3222 Angell Hall\n\nCoffee 9-9:30\n\nSession IV: Soul and Mind\n\n9:30-10:30 \nRobert Berchman\, FSA Roma\, Bard College\n“Of Orioles\, Owls and Aviaries\nRevisiting the Problem of Other Minds in Aristotle and Plotinus”\n\n10:30-11:30 \nSara Ahbel-Rappe\, University of Michigan\n“The Backward Turning Eye. Reversion\, Soul\, and Intellect in Plotinus and the Chaldean Oracles” UID:69451-17324768@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 Angell - English Dept. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190221T135119 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Other:Winter Wonder Gathering DESCRIPTION:Email pswebevents@umich.edu for details. UID:61495-15117149@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/61495 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Political Science LOCATION:Haven Hall - Eldersveld Room (5670) CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T144633 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Asian American and Pacific Islander Faculty and the Bamboo Ceiling: Barriers to Leadership and Implications for Leadership Development DESCRIPTION:Racial stereotypes of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders limit their access to leadership positions in higher education. Using a national sample of college and university faculty at 2 and 4-year institutions\, Dean Lee explores the reality and implications of the bamboo ceiling for Asian American faculty and staff.\n\nCo-Sponsors: U-M Asian Pacific Islander Desi/American Staff Association and INDIGO\, the LSA Asian/Asian American Faculty Alliance UID:68921-17197021@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68921 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:American Culture,Anthropology,Asia,Asian/pacific Islander American Studies,Culture,Discussion,Diversity,Diversity Equity and Inclusion,Education,Free,Humanities,Inclusion,Interdisciplinary,Multicultural,Networking,Professional Development LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191202T093445 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Economic Theory: Stability in Repeated Matching Markets DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nI develop a framework for studying repeated matching markets\, where in every period\, a new generation of short-lived agents on one side of the market is matched to a fixed set of long-lived institutions on the other. Within this framework\, I characterize self-enforcing arrangements for two types of environments. When wages are rigid\, as in the matching market for hospitals and medical residents\, players can be partitioned into two sets: regardless of patience level\, some players can be assigned only according to a static stable matching\; when institutions are patient\, the other players can be assigned in ways that are unstable in one-shot interactions. I discuss these results’ implications for allocating residents to rural hospitals. When wages can be flexibly adjusted\, I show that with flexible wages\, repeated interaction resolves well-known non-existence issues: while static stable matchings may fail to exist with complementarities and/or peer effects\, self-enforcing matching processes always exist if institutions are sufficiently patient. UID:69031-17220012@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69031 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Economics,seminar LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 301 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191126T111314 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Presentation:60 Minutes Around the Globe DESCRIPTION:60 Minutes Around the Globe is an opportunity for international students to present a variety of topics they choose (e.g. food\, music\, sports\, politics\, religions\, etc.) from their home countries. Through an informal presentation\, followed by questions and answers\, it promotes awareness and discussions among those attending the events.\n\nCultural food tastings provided. While walk-ins are welcome at the event\, early registration is appreciated so we can better prepare for the event. UID:66617-17423623@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66617 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Food,Music,Politics,Religious LOCATION:International Center - Conference Room CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191107T130609 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Anna Vainchtein: Strictly supersonic solitary waves in lattices DESCRIPTION:Abstract:We consider a nonlinear mass-spring chain with first and second-neighbor interactions and show that there is a parameter range where solitary waves in this system are strictly supersonic. In these regimes standard quasicontinuum theories\, targeting long-wave limits of lattice models\, are not adequate since even weak strictly supersonic solitary waves are of envelope type and crucially involve a microscopic scale in addition to the mesoscopic scale of the envelope. To capture this effect in a continuum setting it is necessary to employ unconventional\, higher-order quasicontinuum approximations carrying more than one length scale. This talk is based on recent joint work with Lev Truskinovsky (ESPCI).\n\nBio: Anna Vainchtein is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is generally interested in mathematical modeling and analysis of nonlinear phenomena in materials science\, physics and biology. UID:69225-17269229@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69225 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Computational Modeling,Graduate,Mathematics LOCATION:East Hall - RM 1084 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T113813 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T164500 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Department Colloquium: Barbara Natalie Nagel *\"It's Not All So Bad\, But Perhaps It Runs In the Family\"* DESCRIPTION:\"Swiss modernist writer Robert Walser has come to late fame – not however for the attention he pays to the otherwise notoriously underrepresented issue of domestic violence. There is something obsessive about both the sheer quantity of scenes of family violence in Walser and the fact that he repeatedly revisits one and the same fantasy-tableau\, sometimes across decades. My talk is concerned with this repetition and variation. Why\, for instance\, does Walser keep on changing the tone of these depictions? And why is Walser\, more than other writers\, so concerned with altering the perspective on these acts of violence? This talk uncovers in the often-cited 'madness' of Walser’s literature an important insight into what makes acts of domestic violence so challenging to grasp: Walser’s literary examples make evident that\, in the case of family violence\, the problem of perspective is not purely formal but intrinsic\; epistemologically speaking\, part of the violence of domestic violence is the exhausting degree of affective mobility it demands – a capacity but also an obligation to change tones and perspectives.\" -- Barbara Natalie Nagel\, Assistant Professor\, German Studies\, Princeton University.\n\nFriday\, December 6\, 3-4:45pm\nRackham\, Earl Lewis Room\, Third Floor UID:69533-17376530@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69533 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Germanic Languages And Literatures LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Earl Lewis Room, Third Floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191125T145723 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Engaging Images: Art History and Anthropology in Conversation DESCRIPTION:A symposium in honor of Jennifer Robertson and Celeste Brusati.\n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nArt and/as \"Historical Ethnography\" \nJulie Hochstrasser - University of Iowa\n\nIn which an art historian reflects upon the role of anthropology in her scholarship on the seventeenth-century Dutch across the course of her career\, pausing to dwell upon several case studies in greater depth. Explores the notion of \"historical ethnography\" in several respects: examples of early modern artists as proto-ethnographers\, and on the other hand\, the art historian herself as ethnographer\, tackling subjects doubly distanced\, both culturally and temporally. \n\n\"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past\"\nLaura Miller - University of Missouri\, St. Louis\n\nWho was considered to be a beautiful man or a gorgeous woman in Japan’s ancient period? What did an attractive Edo samurai or courtesan look like? When contemporary popular culture producers set out to create manga\, anime\, film and TV series set in historical eras\, they often find that the beauty standards of long ago are quite different from contemporary reader and viewer standards. Rather than try to represent historically accurate appearance\, artists and writers meld some aspects of historic fashion with recent ideals for body and facial types. This presentation will feature several reimagined historical figures who are represented by actors\, cosplayers\, or drawn characters who reflect today’s beauty ideology rather than those of the periods they are portraying. Although some efforts are made to depict the costumes and hairstyles of the period\, the desire to cater to current beauty norms dominates these productions.\n\n\"Lodging/Dwelling/Painting in Elizabethan England\"\nElizabeth Alice Honig - University of Maryland\, College Park\n\nFrom the Old Testament to Heidegger and beyond\, the concept of “dwelling” has been freighted with significance. It has meant belonging and being chosen\, shared community and special entitlement\, a state of mind as well as one of physical habitation\, the possession of selfhood and of a perspective on the world. This paper explores “dwelling” in Renaissance England\, particularly considering those who lack that privilege. It takes as its foci first\, a set of Elizabethan wall paintings at Pittleworth Manor that depicts the story of rich Dives and the roaming beggar Lazarus\; and second\, the prison run by Pittleworth’s recusant owner\, which became a kind of dwelling-place for imprisoned Catholics.\n\n\"Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan\"\nGennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University\n\nAn army of schoolgirls march through Tokyo\, their faces an anonymous procession of gas masks. Photographer Horino Masao’s Gas Mask Parade\, Tokyo from 1936 is one of the most iconic images of the anxious modernism of 1930s Japan. It reveals the vivid yet prosaic inculcation of fear in Japanese daily life through the increasingly pervasive visual culture of civil defense. Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in late 1931—the beginning of its Fifteen-Year War—marks the onset of a period of intense social mobilization and militarization on the home front as the war zone expanded on the continent and throughout the Pacific. Surveillance\, secrecy\, darkness\, defensive barriers\, physical security\, and prophylaxis all became standard visual tropes of national preparedness and communal anxiety. Still\, amidst this anxiety\, a culture of pleasure and wonder persisted\, a culture in which tasty Morinaga-brand caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways\, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to marvelous futuristic wartime weapons. The visual and material culture of civil air defense or bōkū titillated the senses\, even evoking the erotic through the monstrously enticing gas mask figures marching through the streets.\n\nPrevailing scholarship portrays the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture—and creativity in general—were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Without denying the horrors of total war\, this understanding of the cultural climate needs revision. Pleasure\, desire\, wonder\, creativity\, and humor were all still abundantly present. Humanity persisted in its complexity. Therefore\, by grasping the full nature of wartime’s all-encompassing sensory and compensatory enticements\, the dangers of its mix of sacrifice and gratification are unmasked UID:66190-16719579@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66190 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Anthropology,Art,Art History,Japanese Studies LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Amphitheatre - 4th floor CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T135043 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:HET Seminar | UV and IR properties of quantum gravity from amplitudes DESCRIPTION:Using the general unitarity cuts method and amplitudes approach\, we calculate the 4-point all-plus-helicity graviton amplitudes at 2-loop. This reproduces a well-known result about 2-loop divergence in quantum gravity\, and more importantly\, we figure out a very simple renormalization scale dependence of gravity theories at 2-loop. And from this scale dependence\, we conclude the duality between scalar and 2-form\, between 3-form and cosmological constant at quantum level. And after this direct but complicated calculation\, we figure out an alternative simple derivation by doing the cuts and integration in 4d\, instead of 4-2e dimension. This elucidates the ultraviolet(UV) physics within. Besides\, using techniques from amplitudes\, we calculate the bending angle of massless projectiles\, including graviton\, when they pass near a massive object\, like the sun\, which is represented by a massive scalar. This reveals the long-distance/infrared(IR) properties of quantum gravity\, without worrying about the UV details. And we obtain different bending angles for different massless projectile with different spins\, which could possibly indicate a violation of classical equivalence principle at quantum level. UID:69833-17433861@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69833 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Fall 2019,High Energy Theory Seminar,physics,science LOCATION:West Hall - 335 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190821T115245 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:SoConDi Discussion Group DESCRIPTION:The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics\, language contact\, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time\, and discuss current issues in the disciplines\, or study selected readings together. UID:65546-16611719@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65546 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Discussion,Language,Linguistics LOCATION:Lorch Hall - 473 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190727T100542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T151500 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T171500 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Gene Therapy: Medicine’s Ultimate Frontier DESCRIPTION:This course will discuss the development of a gene-therapy strategy that enables the human body to fight malignant brain cancer and\, potentially\, other solid cancers by employing a highly disabled virus to deliver therapeutic cargoes. Genetically engineered viruses (vectors) kill the cancerous tumor cells and elicit an anti-tumor immune response. The presenter will also discuss the preliminary results of the Phase I clinical trial at the University of Michigan – the first-in-human\, first-in-the-world clinical trial using two different gene-therapy vectors. \nMaria G. Castro\, instructor\, is the R.C. Schneider Professor of Neurosurgery\, Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology\, and Program Director of the Cancer Biology Training grant at the University of Michigan Medical School. She dedicates her research to novel treatments for adult and pediatric brain cancer\, including immune-mediated gene therapy. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Friday\, 3:15–5:15 pm on December 6. UID:64662-16410960@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64662 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Lifelong Learning,Medicine,Research,Retirement LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191113T111729 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T163000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Smith Lecture: Origin of the Mesoproterozoic Igneous Rocks in the St. Francois Mountains\, Missouri\, USA DESCRIPTION:The Mesoproterozoic St. Francois Mountains (SFM) terrane of southeast Missouri is part of a large felsic igneous province that developed along the margin of the Laurentian craton. New geochemical\, geochronological\, and geophysical data are used to develop an improved model for the origin of the terrane. The terrane formed during two major episodes of igneous activity: (1) an older episode (ca. 1.48–1.44 Ga) of granodiorite to granite intrusive activity accompanied by felsic and subordinate basaltic to andesitic volcanism and associated subvolcanic intrusive activity and (2) a younger episode (ca. 1.33–1.30 Ga) consisting of bimodal granite and gabbro intrusion. The older rocks are predominantly ferroan\, subalkaline with tholeiitic affinity and are enriched in Rb\, Ba\, Th\, K\, Pb\, and light-REEs and depleted in Ta and Nb relative to primitive mantle. Trace element contents are similar to both within-plate\, A-type and volcanic arc\, I- and S-type granite compositions\; however\, the Nb and Ta depletions are characteristic of arc magmatism. Nd isotopic data suggest derivation from a mantle source or a mantle-derived juvenile (< 50 m.y.) crust. The younger granitic rocks are highly evolved with trace element abundances similar to within-plate granite.\n\nWe suggest that the SFM terrane involved melting of newly formed crust along the margin of the Laurentia as a result of mantle upwelling and underplating of tholeiitic basaltic magma at or near the base of the crust\, possibly due to far field subduction processes or extension along the margin of the craton. The mantle-derived magmas generated partial melting and assimilation of the crust that subsequently fractionated in magma chambers at mid-crustal levels. Evidence of the underplating and incursion of the mantle-derived mafic magmas is seen in the regional gravity and aeromagnetic data\, with the SFM underlain by dense\, highly magnetic units at mid-crustal levels believed to be the mafic precursor magmas and(or) restite. Three-dimensional modeling of magnetic and gravity data coupled with results from a new magnetotelluric survey are yielding new insights into the crustal architecture of the terrane. Deep-seated magmatic systems can be resolved that we believe are the feeders for the near surface volcanic and shallow plutonic rocks and the coeval mineralizing systems. As well\, a new high-resolution aeromagnetic survey acquired in August 2019 is yielding new insights as to the subtle complexities of the intrusions throughout the terrane. UID:63126-15576734@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63126 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Lecture LOCATION:1100 North University Building - 1528 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200317T101002 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Meeting:CANCELLED - Islamophobia Working Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dear IWG members\,\n\nWe're cancelling the next IWG meeting scheduled for March 20th\, in light of the public health guidelines and care for your wellbeing.\n\nPlease let me or Silan Fadlallah know if you have any questions. Stay safe and take good care of yourself.\n\nkind regards\,\nSamer Ali\n\n--------------------\nThe Islamophobia Working Group (IWG) was assembled in January 2016 to address the national crisis of Islamophobia and its impact on our campus community. We—a group of faculty\, staff\, and students -- have become actively involved in the University’s strategic plan for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and gained visibility across the university. For over two years\, the IWG was run through the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in American Culture\; starting in Winter 2019\, the IWG is led by CMENAS housed in the International Institute. Our work is driven by issues brought to the group by any student\, staff\, or faculty member. The group strategizes as a collective to figure out the best approach to a given issue. Thus\, if you encounter a pertinent issue\, we want to know about it and we welcome your participation in the group. If you would like to join our email list or come to a meeting\, please contact Professor Samer Ali (samerali@umich.edu). \n---\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. Contact (email or phone): Samer Ali\, samerali@umich.edu UID:64316-16314272@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64316 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Islamophobia Group,Middle East Studies LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 955 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T091533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Graduate Student Colloquia DESCRIPTION:Linguistics graduate students Jiseung Kim and Emily Sabo are the featured speakers for the final departmental colloquium event of the semester on Friday\, December 6\, starting at 4 pm. Light refreshments will be served. \n\nABSTRACTS\n\nJiseung Kim:\n\"Individual differences in the production and perception of prosodic boundaries in American English\"\nWe investigate the hypothesis that individual participants vary in their production and perception of prosodic boundaries\, and that the acoustic properties they use to encode prosodic contrasts are closely related to the properties used to perceive those contrasts. An acoustic study examined 32 native speakers’ production of sentences containing IP and word boundaries. Twenty participants returned and participated in an eye-tracking study where they listened to stimuli that were manipulated to include different combinations of the acoustic properties associated with IP boundaries. The results indicate large variability in both production and perception\, and provide evidence for production of the boundary cues influencing the same individuals’ perception. \n\nEmily Sabo: \n\"Does speaker accent influence bilingual word processing?\"\nDuring sentence comprehension\, how does the accent of a speaker interact with a bilingual listener’s lexical knowledge to influence word processing? This project will address this question by examining the N400 responses of highly fluent Spanish-English bilingual listeners as they process lexical errors\, particularly FALSE COGNATES from Spanish into English (e.g. Eng. ‘embarrassed’ == [[pregnant]] because Sp. ‘embarazada’ == [[pregnant]]). An example of a false cognate from Spanish in sentential context could be as follows: \"My wife and I have wanted kids for so long. We're so excited to announce that she is finally embarrassed.\" The question here is whether the accent of the speaker who uttered the false cognate error affects how the bilingual listeners interprets and/or resolves the error during sentence comprehension. The study will employ a 3 x 3 design: ErrorType (NoError\, SpanishError\, OtherError) and SpeakerAccent (L1-MUSE-accented English\, L2-Spanish-accented English\, L2-Other-accented English). The results will shed light on the role of speaker accent during bilingual word prediction and semantic integration. UID:65549-16613716@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/65549 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Language,Linguistics,Research LOCATION:Ross School of Business - R0320 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T133620 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T020000 SUMMARY:Social / Informal Gathering:Month-Long White Russian Fundraiser @ 327 Braun Court DESCRIPTION:From Nov 7 to Dec 7\, 2019\, $1 from every white Russian (the best in town!) ordered at 327 Braun Court in Ann Arbor goes to support Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP). Make sure you stop by\, check out the art from PCAP\, and have a good time while supporting artistic collaboration between UM and artists impacted by the criminal justice system. UID:69348-17310293@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69348 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:art,Free,Fundraiser,Social,social justice,Visual Arts LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191126T142837 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T170000 SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:NERS Colloquium: Nonproliferation Policy and the U.S. Fuel Cycle DESCRIPTION:Abstract\nIn July 2019\, the White House established the U.S. Nuclear Fuel Working Group to “reinvigorate the entire nuclear fuel supply chain\, consistent with United States national security and nonproliferation goals.” But what is the link between a robust and secure civil nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear nonproliferation\, and how do U.S. nonproliferation policies impact the domestic nuclear industry? In this colloquium talk\, Ty Otto will discuss these issues\, including topics such as (1) U.S. nuclear cooperation agreements\, which pave the way for U.S. nuclear firms to compete in foreign countries\, (2) concepts to “internationalize” the nuclear fuel cycle in support of nonproliferation goals. As an analyst at a U.S. national laboratory\, he also shares his perspectives on how DOE Labs harness technical expertise to support nonproliferation policymakers. \n\nBiography\nTy Otto is an analyst at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory\, where he focuses on a variety of nonproliferation issues including IAEA verification\, the risks of emerging technologies\, ensuring treaty compliance at domestic U.S. locations\, and advancing U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy. Prior to joining PNNL in 2016\, he worked as a graduate fellow at DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration\, supporting the Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control.  He has a master’s in nuclear energy from the University of Cambridge (UK)\, and a BS in physics from the University of Washington. UID:68947-17197050@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68947 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:colloquium,Energy,Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences LOCATION:Cooley Building - White Auditorium, G906 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T181542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Other:Third Year Inorganic Student Seminars DESCRIPTION:Inorganic\n UID:69191-17263094@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69191 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Biosciences,Chemistry,Science LOCATION:Chemistry Dow Lab - CHEM 1640 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T141129 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Opening Night: If we were ___________\, this would be ________________. DESCRIPTION:The exhibition includes work created as part of the fall 2019 RCARTS classes including Photography\, Sculpture\, Ceramics and Drawing as well as the RCHUMS course\, How To Think (Arts).\n\nOpens on December 6 with a reception serving local baked goods and snacks from 4:30-6pm. Runs until December 17. Gallery hours 10-5pm\, Monday through Friday. UID:69727-17392896@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69727 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Free,Free Food,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Residential College Art Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191115T104151 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Planet Blue Ambassador (PBA) Community Gathering DESCRIPTION:Join your fellow Planet Blue Ambassadors for snacks and conversation about Green Teams on Friday\, December 6th from 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm at the Hatcher Gallery. Have you been thinking about forming a Green Team for your office or student organization? Are you part of a Green Team\, but are wondering about ways it could be more effective? We’ll have representatives from Green Teams around campus present to share their tips\, resources\, strategies\, and advice. UID:69505-17333395@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69505 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Earth Day at 50,Environment,Food,Free,Sustainability LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - First Floor Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110523 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Performance:Guest Recital: Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt\, cello DESCRIPTION:Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt\, one of the most preeminent cellists of his generation\, presents this recital.\n\nPROGRAM:\nSchumann- Adagio and Allegro op. 70\nBeethoven- Sonata Op. 102 #1 (4th Sonata)\nSchumann- 3 Fantasie- Stücke Op. 73\, Narae Joo\, piano\nKodaly- Duo Op. 7 for violin and cello\, Prof. Aaron Berofsky\, violin UID:68451-17082174@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Stamps Auditorium CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T181534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T173000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Catherine Moss\, soprano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Handel - Armida Abbandonata in D mInor\, HWV 105\; Porter - Small Town Folklore\; Traditional - The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby\; Clarke - The Seal Man\; Traditional - The Leprechaun\; Wolf - selections from Mörike LiederI\; Honegger - Trois Chansons de la Petite Sirène\; Thomas - selections from Hamlet. UID:69987-17491330@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69987 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T181533 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T180000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Kasan Belgrave\, alto saxophone & vocals DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Tristano - Wow!\; Belgrave - Backwoods and Coconut Water\; Belgrave - Gemini II\; Wonder - I Can’t Help It\; Machado - Agua Viva. UID:70085-17510054@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/70085 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Carolyn and Milton Kevreson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191101T100542 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 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:69029-17220004@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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191207T120017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T150000 SUMMARY:Other:Series vs. Indiana University DESCRIPTION:Series vs. Indiana University UID:69561-17362150@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69561 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Frank Southern Ice Arena CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110407 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:A New Brain DESCRIPTION:By Wm. Finn & James Lapine\nDirected by Mark Madama\nMusic direction by Cynthia Westphal\n\nA New Brain is a 1998 energetic musical about a composer during a medical emergency. After collapsing into his lunch\, composer Gordon wakes up in the hospital to find himself surrounded by friends\, family\, and a large green frog from the children’s show he is meant to be writing for. UID:63552-15784093@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63552 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Walgreen Drama Center - Arthur Miller Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T134556 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T213000 SUMMARY:Performance:Afro-Cuban Drumming End of Term Concert DESCRIPTION:This performance will showcase students' understandings of the basics of conga playing\, clave and other percussion instruments associated with Afro-Cuban music.\n\nUnder the direction of Michael Gould. UID:69831-17433859@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69831 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Africa,free,music,residential college,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:East Quadrangle - Keene Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110543 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:BFA Senior Dance Concert: v i t a l e y e s DESCRIPTION:Senior BFA students in dance present a joint concert of their choreography at the conclusion of their studies in the dance program. Presenting seniors are Emma Lambert\, Kaitlyn Soloway\, Matthew Standerski\, and Florence Woo. UID:67754-16928714@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67754 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Dance LOCATION:Dance Building - Betty Pease Studio Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110932 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Contemporary Directions Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Adrian Slywotzky\, conductor\n\nThe Contemporary Directions Ensemble explores music about obsession: an obsession with a motive\, obsession with love\, obsession with process\, obsession with an idea. Featuring music by Andrew Norman\, Nina C. Young\, Thea Musgrave\, and Marc Mellits.\n\nPlease note Hankinson Rehearsal Hall has limited seating capacity\, early arrival is recommended to ensure admission. UID:66008-16680432@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66008 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Hankinson Rehearsal Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191127T121527 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Master’s Recital: Ruochen Liao\, piano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Bach - Flute Sonata in B Minor\, BWV 1030\; Beethoven - Flute Sonata in B-flat Major\, Anh. 4\; Piazzolla - The Four Seasons of Beunos Aires. UID:69820-17433847@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69820 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - McIntosh Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191120T133437 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:Red Wanting Blue w/sg Sam Goodwell DESCRIPTION:Hailed as “Midwestern rock heroes” by American Songwriter\, Red Wanting Blue has spent the last twenty years establishing themselves as one of the indie world’s most enduring and self-sufficient acts\, notching appearances everywhere from Letterman to NPR and reaching #3 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart\, all while operating largely outside the confines of the traditional music industry. For their powerful new album\, ‘The Wanting\,’ the band handed production duties over to acclaimed singer/songwriter Will Hoge\, who helped them create their most ambitious\, fully realized collection yet. Recorded in Nashville\, TN\, the record draws on many of the group’s traditional strengths—indelible melodies\, infectious hooks\, explosive performances—even as the making of it pushed them far outside their comfort zone and forced them to take an unprecedented\, nearly year-long break from touring. UID:67655-16909326@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/67655 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:The Ark LOCATION:Off Campus Location CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T180026 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T220000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:SAS Angell Hall Open House DESCRIPTION:Open houses are free\, inclusive opportunities to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house\, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Visitors can view astronomical objects through the 8\" and 0.4m telescopes (weather permitting)\, watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics\, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation. https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/sas/openhouse?authuser=0 UID:66987-16792077@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66987 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Angell Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191204T110603 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:Senior Recital: Hayley Tibbenham\, mezzo-soprano DESCRIPTION:PROGRAM: Schumann - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann\; Schumann - Widmung\; Schumann - Dictherliebe\; Schumann - Liebst du um Schönheit\; Schumann - Volkslied\; Brahms - O liebliche Wangen\; Brahms - Dein baues Auge\; Brahms - Treue Liebe\; Schumann - Die gute Nacht. UID:69821-17433848@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69821 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Free,Music,North campus LOCATION:Earl V. Moore Building - Britton Recital Hall CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191106T112844 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T220000 SUMMARY:Reception / Open House:Student Astronomical Society Open House DESCRIPTION:Open houses are free\, inclusive opportunities to learn more about astronomy and experience the universe firsthand. At each open house\, members of SAS operate the telescopes and the planetarium of the Angell Hall Observatory. Visitors can view astronomical objects through the 8\" and 0.4m telescopes (weather permitting)\, watch a planetarium show on a number of interesting topics\, or learn about the cosmos from a presentation. UID:69125-17250858@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69125 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Free,Science,Student Org LOCATION:Angell Hall - Planetarium, Roof CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191122T120546 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Grapes of Wrath DESCRIPTION:A sweeping epic of the American experience\nAdapted by Frank Galati\nBased on the novel by John Steinbeck\nDirected by Gillian Eaton\n\nJohn Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath comes to the stage in a brilliant and faithful adaptation by Frank Galati. Forced from their home in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma\, the Joad family piles its few possessions on a battered old truck and heads west for California\, hoping to find work and a better life. Faced instead with intolerance and exploitation\, the Joads suffer death and deprivation as they struggle to find their place in the world. Despite the anguish it depicts\, the play is ultimately a soaring and deeply moving affirmation of the indomitability of the human spirit. \n\nOriginally premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago\, Galati’s adaptation of The Grapes of Wrath transferred to both the West End and Broadway to critical acclaim. The play was nominated for eight Tony Awards in 1990\, winning for Best Direction and Best Play. Steinbeck’s 1939 novel was based on the author’s own experiences living and traveling with migrants from the Dust Bowl. The fictional Joads represent the tens of thousands of Americans who\, forced into similar circumstances by the confluence of climate change and poverty\, fought to preserve their humanity in the face of the vast inequities of the American experience. UID:63551-15784089@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/63551 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Theater LOCATION:Power Center for the Performing Arts CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191206T103937 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191206T220000 SUMMARY:Performance:The Yeomen of the Guard DESCRIPTION:To begin its 73rd season UMGASS presents \"The Yeomen of the Guard\, or the Merryman and His Maid\,\" the story of the heroic Colonel Fairfax\, under sentence of death on questionable grounds\, whose heirs will lose their inheritance if he dies unmarried. The night before his scheduled execution the Colonel arranges to marry the strolling player Elsie Maynard for the price of 100 crowns\, much to the chagrin of her traveling partner and presumed fiancé\, the jester Jack Point. Will the Colonel\, the marriage\, and the Jester all survive until the final curtain? \n\nDavid Andrews directs a cast featuring Austin DuBois\, Megan Laine-Yacobozzi\, and Makoto Takata\, with music direction by Ezra Donner.\n\nTickets available at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/umichevents/4418283\n\nStudents can attend for free through the Passport to the Arts Program (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/programs/passport/).\n\nRunning time is 2 hours and 45 minutes. UID:68637-17128431@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68637 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Music,Student Org,Theater LOCATION:Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191208T180019 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T235959 SUMMARY:Other:Dr. Richard Porter DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard Porter competition UID:66571-17526304@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66571 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:Ann Arbor Ice Cube CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200108T153628 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T235900 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:68084-17489232@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:20190809T101919 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T180000 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:65088-16515495@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:20191113T101359 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T200000 SUMMARY:Exhibition:Envisioning Religion in Hamtramck DESCRIPTION:Michigan artist Razi Jafri leads University of Michigan students on a photographic experience of Hamtramck\, the first American Muslim-majority city. Through a visual exploration of the spaces\, peoples\, and stories of this vibrant multi-ethnic and multi-faith community\, participants consider how ways of seeing and modes of representation intersect with narratives of inclusion and belonging across the Abrahamic faiths. UID:69123-17250822@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69123 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Free,Library,Muslim LOCATION:Hatcher Graduate Library - Gallery CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191207T120017 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T180000 SUMMARY:Other:Home Tournament DESCRIPTION:Fall Tournament @ Home  UID:68685-17138790@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/68685 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES: LOCATION:IM Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20200113T124906 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T115900 SUMMARY:Careers / Jobs:UROP Peer Facilitator Applications Open DESCRIPTION:UROP Peer Facilitators serve as a liaison and program guide for UROP students. In this capacity\, Peer Facilitators support prospective UROP student researchers by helping them find research projects\, sharing information about academic and other campus resources\, serving as a liaison between student researchers and faculty mentors\, and planning programs for and facilitating research seminars for their peer group. Other responsibilities include giving presentations about UROP and helping with program-wide activities such as the Spring Research Symposium. \n\nPeer Facilitators must be third or fourth year students by the fall 2020 and be in good academic standing with a GPA of 3.0 or above. Applicants should have completed one full year in UROP. (Note: Students who plan to be Resident Advisors are ineligible to be a UROP Peer Facilitator because of the time and training demands of both positions.)\n\nApply today! myumi.ch/MEynX UID:69842-17472644@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69842 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Applications,Education,Engineering,Environment,Free,Interdisciplinary,Leadership,Life Science,Professional Development,Research,Undergraduate,Undergraduate Students,Urop LOCATION:Undergraduate Science Building - 1190 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190715T130925 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T160000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:2019 World History and Literature Initiative: Empire\, Decolonization & Independence in Global History & Literature DESCRIPTION:The World History and Literature Initiative (WHaLI) is a unique collaboration between area studies centers in the International Institute and the U-M School of Education\, funded in part by Title VI grants from the U.S. Department of Education\, with additional funding from the International Institute and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. \n\nAbout the conference:\n\nToday we live in a world of a few hundred nation-states. “Yet\,” historians Burbank and Cooper argue\, “the world of nation-states we take for granted is scarcely sixty years old.\" People lived throughout most of human history in empires\, states that never claimed to represent a single group of people or a nation. Such imperial systems were durable\, ruling over vast territories for long durations of time. The Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire\, for example\, each lasted for almost 700 years\, the Mongols and Comanche Empires for about two centuries\, while some have argued the Chinese Empire endured for well over 4\,000 years. All empires faced resistance and rebellion in some form and to some degree.\n\nImperial systems and those who have opposed\, resisted\, and rebelled against imperial power\, politics\, and culture have played a long and important role in global history. Given how important empires\, decolonization\, and independence movements have been\, it is not surprising that we have a rich historical\, literary and artistic heritage that captures the impact empires and liberation from imperial control has had on individuals\, peoples\, communities\, and the world.\n\nThe World History and Literature Initiative’s (WHaLI) three-day conference for secondary teachers will focus on these issues using examples drawn from different historical times and areas of the world. In addition to helping teachers develop their knowledge and understanding of this Empires\, imperial practices\, independence movements and decolonization in world history and literature\, the conference also illuminates challenges students face in learning such content and explores ways teachers might meet those challenges. WHaLI conference provides participants with relevant resources as well as lunch and refreshments. This year we will meet on December 6 (Friday)\, December 7 (Saturday) and December 14 (Saturday).\n\nRegistration: https://payments.lsa.umich.edu/whali/ UID:64242-16260523@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64242 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:International LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 1010 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190808T162032 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T180000 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:65071-16509419@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:20191120T101758 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T180000 SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:Soul Matters: Plato and Platonists on the Nature of the Soul DESCRIPTION:Platonist discourses about the soul are incredibly rich and multitiered. That complexity is rooted in Plato's own texts\, offering as they do competing views on the nature of the soul. How did the soul (psyche) come to stand in for the interiority of the human person? How did the idea of an incorporeal self come to occupy an unbroken tradition of over one thousand years\, pervading cultures around the Mediterranean basin\, but rooted in ideas that can be directly traced back to Plato’s texts? Over that millennium\, questions arose as to the existence of a world soul or even of an evil soul\, the cosmic function of the soul\, the way that the soul thinks\, how soul governs or enlivens the body\, the pre-existence of the soul\, its fall into embodiment\, etc. How did soul come to have so many disparate functions and configurations in the Platonic tradition?\n\nIn celebration of the upcoming 70th birthday of John Finamore\, Roger Hornsby Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa\, President of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies\, and Editor of the International of the Platonic Tradition.\n\nSCHEDULE\n\nDay One\, Friday Dec. 6 \nClassics Library\, 2175 Angell Hall\nConference Opening\n\nFirst Session: Plotinus and Proclus\n2:00 pm \nSuzanne Stern-Gillet. University of Bolton and University of Manchester\n“The double hamartia of the soul in Enn. IV 8 [6] 5.16-24\n\n3:00 pm John Finamore\, University of Iowa\n\"Proclus interprets Hesiod: The Procline Philosophy of the Soul.”\n\nCoffee Break\, adjourn to 3222 Tisch Hall\n\n4:00 pm \nSvetla Slaveva-Griffin\, Florida State University\n“Plato and Plotinus on Healing”\n\n5:00 pm \nDanielle Layne\, Gonzaga University\n“The Queer Soul in Plato and Proclus”\n\n6:00 pm \nLight Reception in Classical Studies Library\n\nDay Two\, Saturday Dec. 7th\nAll talks in 3222 Angell Hall.\n\nFirst Sessions. Skype\nSession II. Soul in Plato and Plotinus\n\n9:00 am \nHarold Tarrant University of New South Wales\, Australia.\n“Soul in the earliest multilevel interpretations of the Parmenides”\n(skype session)\n\n10:00 am \nJohn Dillon\, Trinity University\n“Intellect Sober and Intellect Drunk: Some Reflections on the Plotinian Ascent Narrative”\n(skype session)\n\n11:00 am\nCoffee Break\n\n11:15 am \nVan Tu\, University of Michigan and Boudin College\n\"Is the Soul a Form? The Status of the soul in the last argument for immortality in the Phaedo\"\n\n12:00 pm\nDavid Morphew\, University of Michigan\n\"Is the rational soul divided?\" \n\nSession III \nPolytheists and Christians\n\n1:30-2:30 \nGreg Shaw\, Stonehill College\n“Neoplatonism: Pagan and Christian”\n\n2:30-3:30\nIliaria Ramelli\, University of Durham\n\"The Soul in Bardaisan\, Origen\, and Evagrius: Between Unfolding and Subsumption.\"\n\n3:30-4:00 Break\n\n4:00-5:00 \nSarah Wear\, Franciscan University Steubenville\n“Platonist Terminology and Cyril’s Account of the Rational Soul of Jesus”\n\n5:00-6:00 \nCrystal Addey\, University of Cork and Jay Bregman\, University of Maine\n“Julian and Sallust on the Ascent of the Soul and Theurgy”\n\nDay Three\, Sunday\, Dec. 8th\n3222 Angell Hall\n\nCoffee 9-9:30\n\nSession IV: Soul and Mind\n\n9:30-10:30 \nRobert Berchman\, FSA Roma\, Bard College\n“Of Orioles\, Owls and Aviaries\nRevisiting the Problem of Other Minds in Aristotle and Plotinus”\n\n10:30-11:30 \nSara Ahbel-Rappe\, University of Michigan\n“The Backward Turning Eye. Reversion\, Soul\, and Intellect in Plotinus and the Chaldean Oracles” UID:69451-17324769@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69451 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Classical Studies,Philosophy LOCATION:Angell Hall - 3222 Angell - English Dept. CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190731T143326 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T120000 SUMMARY:Class / Instruction:Annual Holiday Greens Workshop DESCRIPTION:Denise Looker will demonstrate how to make a holiday wreath\, centerpiece\, or fireplace decoration. Bring your own garden clippers. All other materials provided. \nRSVP: Nancy Hart\, nhartgreen@aol.com. \nPart of Ann Arbor Garden Club’s Hands-on Home Gardening series. \n\nPresented by Ann Arbor Garden Club. UID:64789-16444947@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/64789 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Ann Arbor Garden Club,holiday LOCATION:Matthaei Botanical Gardens CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T121539 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T103000 SUMMARY:Other:Museum Highlights Tour DESCRIPTION:Tours are about 30 minutes long and are limited to 15 people per tour group. Sign up for a tour at the Welcome Desk. Visitors of all ages are welcome. Times subject to change.\n\nCheck at Welcome Desk for availability. \n\nGet behind-the-scenes information about the Biological Sciences Building (the museum’s new home)\, and learn about some of our most exciting exhibits like the iconic mastodon couple\, the Majungasaurus\, and more. Along with learning about the past\, this tour will take a step into the future and explore cutting-edge research being done in the Biological Sciences Building every day. UID:69332-17310058@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69332 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Museum,Natural Sciences,Tour LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20191112T124910 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T113000 SUMMARY:Presentation:Molecularium DESCRIPTION:The Molecularium is a digital dome program that makes molecular science fun. The show blends scientific simulations with kid-friendly characters to introduce young people to the world of atoms and molecules. Suitable for K-3\, plus families of all ages. Preceded by brief star talk.\n\nThe new Planetarium & Dome Theater has comfortable seating for 57 visitors and space for up to 9 wheelchairs\, easy-access seats\, and a limited number of hearing assistance devices. Tickets $8. Available one hour prior to show. UID:69344-17310100@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/69344 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Astronomy,Children,Family,Museum,Natural Sciences,Science LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - Planetarium & Dome Theater CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190904T103107 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T113000 SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Saturday Morning Physics | Black Holes: Facts\, Myths and Mysteries DESCRIPTION:This talk will be a journey through the concept of astrophysical black holes: from Einstein's theory to the discovery of the first stellar mass black hole in our Galaxy\, all the way to the four- million-solar-mass black hole that is hiding at its center. UID:66291-16725808@events.umich.edu URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/66291 CLASS:PUBLIC STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:Culture,Faculty,Free,Graduate And Professional Students,Lecture,Natural Sciences,Physics,Science,Talk,Undergraduate Students LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 170 & 182 CONTACT: END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190510T121534 DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20191207T170000 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:58562-15784131@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 END:VCALENDAR