Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. A Little Math History (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64668 64668-16420900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

As we investigate aspects of the 5000-year history of mathematics, we will recognize individual accomplishments as well as the context in which they were conceived. Mathematics developed because of the cultural, economic, and religious needs of society. Mathematical thought often flourished at times when societies had enough wealth to support a leisure class or in times of war. It is through this lens that we will study the discoveries of some great mathematicians, focusing on different times in history and emphasizing some amazing men and women whose discoveries advanced knowledge of mathematics in the eras in which they lived.
This course requires no advanced knowledge of mathematics, only a lively curiosity. There will be many hands-on activities throughout. Joan Cohen Jones, instructor, is a retired mathematics professor who has taught a number of OLLI classes. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and meets Wednesdays, 10:00am–12:00 pm on October 30 – November 6.

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Class / Instruction Sun, 28 Jul 2019 15:58:48 -0400 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66701 66701-16770248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

The 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.

The exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen, UMSI student, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:
https://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center

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Exhibition Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:07:27 -0400 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail of Alcidamas’ On Homer, P. Mich. inv. 2754
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
SambaNova Systems Career Day (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68085 68085-17009813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

The ECRC is hosting a Career Day for SambaNova Systems on October 30th from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM in the Duderstadt Connector Hallway.

We invite students of all degree levels (BS/BA, MS and PhD) to stop by to learn about the exciting full time software engineering and hardware engineering opportunities within SambaNova Systems ahead the ECE Career Fair on October 31st. Resume drop-off is also welcomed.

SambaNova Systems (https://sambanova.ai) is a rapidly growing startup that is powering the next generation of machine learning and AI. Using technology born at Stanford, we are building a software stack and specialized processor that allows deep learning applications to run orders of magnitude faster than on traditional hardware. We are re-imagining what these applications are capable of by re-inventing the platforms they run on. Our team has developed and shipped numerous groundbreaking systems. We're funded for the long-term by some of the best known investors in Silicon Valley, including GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Intel Capital.

We’re looking for sharp, ambitious graduates to help us pioneer this new computing revolution. You should be excited by software/hardware co-design and building reliable, efficient, high performance systems.

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Careers / Jobs Mon, 07 Oct 2019 08:45:44 -0400 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs Duderstadt Center
Walk-In Flu Shot Clinics (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65494 65494-16605675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: MHealthy

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.

Present 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.

Mass flu shot clinics are available through a collaboration between MHealthy, Michigan Visiting Nurses, and University Health Service.

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Well-being Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:57:09 -0500 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Michigan League MHealthy Well-being University Health Service
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 30, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820772@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Collection Ensemble (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Jamaica Jordan Office Hours (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66029 66029-16684544@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about Semester in Detroit (SiD)? Stop by during Jamaica's office hours! Jamaica Jordan is a senior, Pre-Medicine student with a major in Gender & Health. Jamaica grew up in Detroit and attended Detroit Public Schools. Jamaica’s favorite activities are to watch movies and travel. Working for Semester in Detroit for the past 2 years has helped her grow in leadership, team building, communication, and utilizing university resources. After interning at Eastern Market Corporation through Semester in Detroit, summer 2017, she was given the opportunity to continue working for Eastern Market the following summer, working in the Market’s Nutrition Educational programs. In Jamaica’s previous three years at the university she has continued to be lifted by her mentors and values the work of mentorship, this has lead her to accept a position with the Office of Multicultural Initiatives as an Academic Success Partner mentoring freshmen and sophomore students. The past three years at the University and the past 2 years at Semester in Detroit has continued to bring blessings of new and challenging experiences.

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Other Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:04:48 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Other Semester in Detroit fall 2019 office hours
Mari Katayama (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901136@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15612019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
North Campus Off-Campus Housing Fair (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67835 67835-16958331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Beyond the Diag

The housing fairs are meant to simplify the search for students seeking off-campus housing. Students will have the opportunity to:

- Speak with landlords face-to-face to learn about pricing and amenities for the 2019-2020 school year
- Explore their options of homes and apartments in the Ann Arbor area
- Receive peer-to-peer support from Neighborhood Ambassadors
- Check in with campus partners about legal considerations, conflict resolution, off-campus transportation, and home safety
- Free food & enter to win prizes

Faculty and staff are encouraged to attend to learn how they can support students through this process.

Open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members!

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Fair / Festival Tue, 01 Oct 2019 10:57:08 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Beyond the Diag Fair / Festival Fall 18 Housing Fair
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (October 30, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take 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!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support 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.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-10-30T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
Interactive Workshop to create exhibition "Blood Underwater" (October 30, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68771 68771-17147159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:30am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join the Residential College Studio Art program for open studio time with visiting artist Elshafei Dafalla to assist in creating the exhibition "Blood Underwater".

Elshafei Dafalla will be working with RC and LSA students to realize new work for this exhibition, using the gallery as a studio space, and working primarily with pastels and canvas.

Statement about Blood Underwater
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Water, as a natural resource, has been weaponized or made treacherous against people seeking safety and security. Some have been tortured or killed through waterboarding, others have been forced into oceans to die or disappear. Refugees across world regions have drowned crossing bodies of water in hopes for a better life.

Millions of people all over the world are being tortured, disappeared, and forcibly displaced by repressive regimes and wars while governments of other countries are denying them a safe place to live. There are now as many as 1.3 million survivors of politically motivated torture survivors living in the U.S. And over 70 million refugees in the world according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, the highest number in the almost 70 years since the refugee agency was founded.

During this time of rapid political change worldwide, the Blood Underwater Workshop and Exhibition offers an opportunity for students, activists, members of civil society organizations, and NGOs to come together as change agents to protect human rights, freedom and dignity, and to spread peace, justice and love.

Blood Underwater is a collaborative work, which encourages deep thinking and creative expression. It provides a voice for community members and activists, especially from political, national, racial, religious and other minorities, to express their concerns about global suffering through art. Participants gather around a large canvas with paints and music and are guided through a series of artistic expressions by “artivist” Elshafei Dafalla. The purpose is to use art to protest against violence, torture, enforced disappearances and other forms of brutality.

Blood Underwater is a demand for “freedom, peace and justice” -- from San Salvador to Khartoum to Sindh -- and throughout the world. This visual narrative will recognize men and women who have been murdered because they wanted to live in freedom, political prisoners, people forced from their homes, and those who have been tortured for standing up to dictatorships.

The Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another, and to refugees, asylum seekers, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering, and what can be done about it.
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Eishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at Sudan University for Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Elshafei has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work, holding artist residencies, participating in community building activities, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally. An extended interview with Elshafei was created by the Washington DC-based, nonprofit, Center for Concern. He's also created a series of short videos: Wagala, Unshackled Memory, Root Cause, Made By Survivors.

The exhibition will be on display November 4-22, M-F, 10am-5pm, at the Residential College Art Gallery at 701 East University Ave., Ann Arbor MI 48109. Free and open to the public.

There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on November 1 from 6-8pm. The exhibition runs through November 22.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:24:36 -0400 2019-10-30T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Workshop / Seminar Blood Underwater
STRESS MANAGEMENT and Resilience at Work (October 30, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67269 67269-16831230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 11:45am
Location: Administrative Services Building
Organized By: University Human Resources

FASCCO is offering a four-week educational and support group for faculty & staff who are experiencing job stress. This interactive group will explore causes and dynamics of job stress, including both personal and organizational factors. Participants will identify their own signs of job stress and develop stress management strategies, in order to reduce and prevent its personal impact and to enhance resilience at work.

Sessions are at no charge to faculty and staff. Information shared in the group will be strictly confidential.

Class size is limited so those interested are encourage to register promptly.

Registration: Contact Tina at 734-936-8660 or cmwey@umich.edu to register

Rewards eligible. Attendance at all sessions is requested.

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Meeting Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:50:29 -0400 2019-10-30T11:45:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Administrative Services Building University Human Resources Meeting Joshua Tree hikers resting
2019 International Opportunities Fair - 2019 International Opportunities Fair (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64323 64323-16316270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

The International Career Pathways network brings University ofMichigan students together with professionals from a variety of fields toexplore pathways to international careers.  International Career Pathways includes: Program Sessions featuring students, alums and professionals sharing their experiencesInternational Opportunities Fair with organizations offering internship, volunteer, teaching and work abroad opportunities(see below)International Opportunities FairOctober 30, 201912noon–3pm / Michigan League 2nd floorWhat to ExpectThe International OpportunitiesFair is a great way to connect with organizations with an international focus right here on campus! We expect 40-50 organizations and 300 studentsThe Fair includes:- Post Graduation Opportunities- Internships Abroad- Volunteering Abroad- Teaching Abroad- Grants/Fellowships/ScholarshipsRegistrationUM students and alumni/aeRegistration is on-site the day of the event. Bring your student IDNon UM-Ann Arbor studentsThis event targets UM-AnnArbor students, however, non UM-Ann Arbor students may attend.  There is a $20 registration. (cash only)What to WearFair dress is casual for this eventNeed help building your professional dress closet? Plan to visit the University Career Center Clothes Closet  What to BringCopies of your resume if you are meeting with organizations offering post graduation and/orinternship abroadA folder for carrying your resumes and materials from organizations. No need for a cover letterParticipating OrganizationsClick on“View All Employers” (left navigation bar) to review the list of participating organizations. Use the filters to target organizations based on your interests and the website links for information on the organization. An event handout will be available at the Fair.SponsorsUniversity Career Center •International Center    

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 06:30:32 -0500 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Contemporary Issues Discussion: Dental Health (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67874 67874-16960534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Teenage newlywed Phebe Jane Knapp wrote a letter to her brother in 1851 describing her dental pain as well as other health issues, while she and her husband Marquis settled in the new state of Iowa.

All are welcome to a discussion with historians, curators, dentists, and archivists to explore how this powerful letter relates to current issues within dental care. Join in the conversation by sharing your own history and personal reflections with other U-M and local community members over a complimentary lunch. Free, registration is required. Please register online (or call 734-647-0864 to register) by Oct. 28.

Sponsored by Frank and Judy Wilhelme. Presented by the U-M Clements Library, the U-M Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry, and the U-M Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:57:24 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion The anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the teeth. By Thomas Bell ... (1831)
Expanding the Boundaries of Contemporary Anarchist Historiography (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68489 68489-17088483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Shane Little, from the Department of Politics and International Studies at Loughborough University, UK, talks about why contemporary works in anarchist studies often neglect the tradition of individualist anarchism, and how a rereading of the tradition can enrich our understanding of contemporary anarchism.

Little is currently a Heidrich Fellow at U-M Library. William P. Heidrich Research Fellowships support research projects that require substantial on-site use of the Joseph A. Labadie Collection.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:13:49 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Looking for Axion Dark Matter: from Dwarf Galaxies to Pulsars (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67394 67394-16846510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Axion and Axion-like particles are fascinating dark matter candidates and a great effort has been devoted to their study, both theoretically and experimentally. In this talk I will discuss two different astrophysical searches. One consists in looking with radio telescopes for the spontaneous decay of axion dark matter using different targets as Dwarf Galaxies, Clusters or the Galactic Center. The second one uses the parity violating axion interactions to exploit the extreme precision of pulsar timing measurements and look for oscillations in the polarization angle of the pulsar signal.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:51:02 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
International Opportunities Fair (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68275 68275-17037499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Center

The International Opportunities Fair is a great way to connect with organizations with an international focus right here on campus! We expect 50-60 organizations and 400+ students to participate in the event. The Fair includes:
-Internships Abroad
-Volunteering Abroad
-Teaching Abroad
-Post Graduation Opportunities
-Grants/Fellowships/Scholarships

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Fair / Festival Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:15:46 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Michigan League International Center Fair / Festival
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68016 68016-16983972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research
Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:22 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Youjin Lee
Microaggressions (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67763 67763-16928724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Microaggressions—the subtle everyday verbal and nonverbal slights and insults which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages. Microaggressions can effect anyone! This course is recommended as a follow up to Change it Up! Bystander Intervention.
This workshop will

Provide a brief review and history of microaggressions
Identify how our background influences how we perceive and experience other people
Discuss the ways we can build strong relationships
Identify ways to apply this information to your work environment

Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/mn9gg.
We 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.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 27 Sep 2019 18:17:33 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Social Area Brown Bag Talk - Quid pro quo in children: The origins of reciprocity (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67144 67144-16805221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

While the importance of reciprocity has been shown in theoretical models and extensively studied in adults, little is known about the developmental trajectory of reciprocity in children. In the first part, I will provide a theoretical framework about the developmental trajectory of cooperative behaviors. In the second part, I will show a series of studies in which we adapted paradigms from adult research for studies with children, exploring when they begin to engage in tit-for-tat reciprocity, learn how to invest in a trust game, and bribe others.

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Presentation Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:55:55 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:20:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation Felix Warneken
Code Switching (October 30, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66835 66835-16779029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Boyer Building
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Do you change the way you speak at work? Do you feel you have to modify your behavior, appearance, etc., to adapt to different sociocultural norms of the workplace? Learn more about the roots of Code Switching. Non-ITS staff are welcome!

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Presentation Tue, 10 Sep 2019 15:51:33 -0400 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 Boyer Building Information and Technology Services (ITS) Presentation code switching
German Lab (October 30, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 48604-16770150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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/

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:40:00 -0500 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Class / Instruction German Lab MTWTh 1-4 LRC
Hannah Myers Office Hours (October 30, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66031 66031-16684559@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

Got questions about Semester in Detroit? Stop by Hannah's office hours! Hannah is a Junior in the Residential College. She was a part of the Spring/Summer 2018 Semester in Detroit cohort, and interned with Detroit Audubon. Hannah enjoys eating clementines, making collages, and pretending to know a lot about birds.

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Other Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:06:54 -0400 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Other Semester in Detroit fall 2019 office hours
International Institute Open Co-Advising (October 30, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64888 64888-16485062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Join CGIS and II undergraduate advisors for two open advising opportunities!

On the 29th, we will be advising on CGIS French, Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies programs.

On the 30th, we will be advising on CGIS Middle Eastern & North African
studies; Latin American & Caribbean studies, and Spanish.

As questions about how to fit study abroad into your academic plan as well as financial aid and scholarship questions, and more!

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Meeting Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:59:16 -0400 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
Construction Seminar (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66412 66412-16734212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

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Chelsea serves as Assistant Director at the University Career Center, providing strategic oversight and management for our career coaching and advising team. In addition, Chelsea coaches and counsels undergraduate and graduate students from a wide spectrum of career interests in individual counseling and advising appointments.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:14:15 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar CEM Seminar
Post-Show Discussion of Sense and Sensibility (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68659 68659-17130526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Those of us who were able to attend the UM Theatre & Drama Department's production of Sense and Sensibility (a play adapted by Kate Hamill based on the novel by Jane Austen) earlier this month are planning to get together to discuss our reactions to the show (which was amazing!) and think through some larger questions about performance and adaptation.

We're meeting on Wednesday, October 30 from 1:30-2:30pm in 3184 Angell Hall. A light vegetarian lunch will be served. Please email Sarah Van Cleve (srvc@umich.edu) to RSVP if you'd like to join us. Even if you didn't get a chance to see the show, all are welcome to the discussion! Come to listen, eat, and hang out :)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:53:02 -0400 2019-10-30T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Sense and Sensibility playbill
Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo. (October 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68125 68125-17011965@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Join us in a dialogue with the mapuche poet and feminist activist Daniela Catrileo. She will talk about indigeneity, feminism and mapuche poetry in the social and political context of Chile and Argentina. Her work combines mapuche traditions, politics and knowledge with contemporary discourses of radical feminism and poetic and artistic experimentation practices. The talk will be in Spanish and English. Translations will be provided.

Daniela Catrileo (b. Santigo de Chile) is a writer and performer. She studied Philosophy and Pedagogy at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación and Gender and Women’s studies at the Universidad de Chile. She is part of the feminist Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü. She has published several poetry books such as La Guerra Florida (2018), El territorio del viaje (2017), and Río Herido (2016) as well as many articles and essays in both Chilean and Argentine magazines and newspapers. Fragments of her last poetic work, La Guerra Florida, were recently translated into English.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.
Speaking American English (October 30, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66521 66521-16744962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 2:00pm
Location: V. Vaughan
Organized By: University Center for Language and Literacy

Are you looking to increase confidence in your use of American English? The University Center for Language and Literacy (UCLL) at U-M offers a special workshop designed for non-native English speakers who want to expand their communication skills. Our program provides the perfect environment for you to reach your personal goals and we’re registering now!

Our certified Speech and Language Pathologists use techniques technically known as accent reduction to help non-native speakers feel more at home in their communications — whether that’s giving a presentation or taking notes in a class with a native speaker with a fast cadence. The goal of the program is certainly not to eliminate the accents of our clients, but to enhance communication skills for greater confidence in all settings. Participants will set their own individual objectives at the start of the workshop and will work to reach those goals using a combination of small group activities and one-on-one interaction, facilitated by a Speech and Language Pathologist.

The workshop will run from October 16 to December 18, 2019. Participants will meet weekly on Wednesdays. The time is TBD. There will be no meeting on November 27. The program cost is $275.00, plus the purchase of Mastering the American Accent by Lisa Mojsin.

If you have questions, need assistance, or want more information, please call (734) 764-8440 or visit https://mari.umich.edu/ucll

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:17:48 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 V. Vaughan University Center for Language and Literacy Workshop / Seminar Photo of students smiling
Orson Welles’ "War of the Worlds" (October 30, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64583 64583-16388953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers collection at the University of Michigan Library’s Special Collections Research Center consists of the personal and professional papers of a number of noted film directors including Robert Altman, Jonathan Demme, and John Sayles. In this course for those 50 and over, Instructor Phil Hallman will help us explore a variety of material pertaining to the life and career of Orson Welles -- letters, diaries, photographs, drawings, and production documents, including the hundreds of letters sent to him following his Mercury Theater on the Air’s infamous broadcast of "War of the Worlds" on October 30, 1938.

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Class / Instruction Thu, 25 Jul 2019 07:45:36 -0400 2019-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Group
13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67523 67523-16890090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR)

Registration is now open for the 13th annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy sponsored by the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center.

This year, CHEAR welcomes Robert Gordon, JD, the director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Director Gordon will speak on the topic of food insecurity and child health.

An open reception and poster session will follow the lecture from 5:30-6:30pm.
This lecture is free and open to all members of the University of Michigan community and the general public, but registration is required.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:39:16 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR) Lecture / Discussion 13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy
2019 Ta-You Wu Lecture in Physics | Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64676 64676-16426883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

With the invention of lasers, the intensity of a light wave was increased by orders of magnitude over what had been achieved with a light bulb or sunlight. This much higher intensity led to new phenomena being observed, such as violet light coming out when red light went into the material. After Gérard Mourou and I developed chirped pulse amplification, also known as CPA, the intensity again increased by more than a factor of 1,000 and it once again made new types of interactions possible between light and matter. We developed a laser that could deliver short pulses of light that knocked the electrons off their atoms. This new understanding of laser-matter interactions, led to the development of new machining techniques that are used in laser eye surgery or micromachining of glass used in cell phones.

You may find more details: lsa.umich.edu/physics/special-lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:38:46 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Donna Strickland, Professor of Physics, University of Waterloo and 2018 Nobel Laureate
29th Annual Davis, Markert, and Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63302 63302-15634620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Faculty Senate

“Do Adjuncts Have Academic Freedom?, or Why Tenure Matters”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jul 2019 07:46:19 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Faculty Senate Lecture / Discussion Henry F Reichman
Author's Forum Presents: "Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity" (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66149 66149-16709267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Ellen Muehlberger (history, classical studies, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies, history) discuss Muehlberger's latest book, followed by Q & A.

Late antiquity saw a proliferation of Christian texts dwelling on the emotions and physical sensations of dying—not as a heroic martyr in a public square or a judge’s court but as an individual, at home in a bed or in a private room. In sermons, letters, and ascetic traditions, late ancient Christians imagined the last minutes of life and the events that followed death in elaborate detail. This book traces how, in late ancient Christianity, death came to be thought of as a moment of reckoning: a physical ordeal whose pain is followed by an immediate judgment of one’s actions by angels and demons and, after that, fitting punishment. This emphasis on the experience of death ushered in a new ethical sensibility among Christians, in which one’s death was to be imagined frequently and anticipated in detail. This was initially meant as a tool for individuals: preachers counted on the fact that becoming aware of a judgment arriving at the end of one’s life tends to sharpen one’s scruples. But, as this book argues, the change in Christian sensibility toward death did not just affect individuals. Death imagined as the moment of reckoning created a fund of images and ideas within late ancient Christian culture about just what constituted a human being and how variances in human morality should be treated. This had significant effects on the Christian adoption of power in late antiquity, especially in the case of power’s heaviest baggage: the capacity to authorize violence against others.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:16:15 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Moment of Reckoning
FRBNY 'Spotlight Webinar' - Overview of Early Career Programs (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68399 68399-17073758@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:23 -0500 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Heberle Lecture (Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University) (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67740 67740-16926551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Saidiya Hartman is a scholar of African American literature and cultural history whose works explore the afterlife of slavery in modern American society and bear witness to lives, traumas, and fleeting moments of beauty that historical archives have omitted or obscured. She weaves findings from her meticulous historical research into narratives that retrieve from oblivion stories of nameless and sparsely documented historical actors, such as female captives on slave ships and the inhabitants of slums at the turn of the twentieth century.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:37:07 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Leveraging Electrophilicity and Polarizability in Catalysts for Challenging Coupling Reactions (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67457 67457-16857831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

A general approach by our group for the development of new catalytic synthetic methods that occur with higher efficiency and selectivity, use simpler reagents, and proceed with lower energy demand involves new ancillary ligand design coupled with fundamental studies of how metal-ligand bonding dictates catalytic reactivity. In this context, the presentation will focus on our recent efforts to discover new phosphorus- and sulfur-based ligands and associated metal catalysts that manifest special properties from seemingly "weak" interactions, for instance dispersion. In one case, low-coordinate Pd complexes possessing polarizable diamondoid substituents are shown to enable a new transmetalation mechanism under exceptionally mild conditions, facilitate the first ever characterization and reactivity studies of monoligated Pd(0) – the true active catalyst in modern cross-coupling reactions, and enable direct visible light-induced bond weakening. Studies of oxidative dehydrogenative coupling reactions will also showcase evidence for a distinct C−H bond activation mechanism that we describe as electrophilic CMD or "eCMD", which has characteristics distinct from established pathways for C−H functionalization. Transition state analyses suggest this reaction pathway could be a general class of C−H activation that to date has been convoluted with the classic concerted metalation-deprotonation (CMD) model, and selection rules have been identified for predicting what catalyst structures manifest either CMD or eCMD, each of which occurs with characteristic substrate preferences and selectivity.








Bradley Carrow (Princeton University)

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Other Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:15:13 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Macroeconomics (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68840 68840-17163791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:30:13 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
WCED Lecture. The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Lessons from India (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66331 66331-16727909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

What explains the electoral dominance of a single party over a prolonged period of time in a democracy? Focusing on the case of the Indian National Congress in India, Ziegfeld argues that authoritarian-era politics can influence the likelihood of single-party dominance after democratization. More specifically, when the authoritarian era's primary socio-political division becomes irrelevant because the democratization process roundly discredits one side of the division, the resulting party system in the democratic period is likely to feature a single major party and a host of small, disorganized, and inexperienced parties. Such asymmetric party competition is likely to produce a dominant party. This explanation accounts for the main features of Congress dominance in India, where the decolonization process discredited most of Congress' colonial-era competitors, leaving it to face a highly fragmented and disorganized opposition against which it could easily win elections. Ziegfeld concludes by reflecting on whether India is, today, on the cusp of a new dominant-party system under the BJP.

Adam Ziegfeld is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. He is the author of “Why Regional Parties? Clientelism, Elites, and the Indian Party System,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2016, as well as numerous articles on a range of topics related to political parties and elections.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at weisercenter@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:50:56 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Adam Ziegfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University
ChE Open House for Undergraduate Students (October 30, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67945 67945-16969035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Considering declaring chemical engineering as your major? Or, curious how a chemical engineering degree could accelerate your career across diverse industries?

Explore ChE during Michigan Chemical Engineering's open house from 5-7 pm on Wednesday, Oct. 30 in Chrysler Building 2nd floor lobby on North Campus.

Meet with chemical engineering students and faculty, connect with our undergraduate advisor and see live demos by ChE student design teams. Dinner will be provided.

To learn more about Michigan Chemical Engineering undergraduate program, please visit: https://che.engin.umich.edu/undergraduate/program/

Or visit Michigan Engineering's Majors website: https://majors.engin.umich.edu/program/chemical-engineering/

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Reception / Open House Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:42:27 -0400 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Chemical Engineering Reception / Open House
Resume Lab (October 30, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64413 64413-16342385@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:00pm
Location: University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback on your resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'dlike to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326046

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:16 -0500 2019-10-30T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 University Career Center, 3200 Student Activities Building, Program Room (3003), 515 E Jefferson St, Ann Arbor, MI, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Ace Your ResStaff Interview! (October 30, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68720 68720-17140906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 1931 Duffield St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
Organized By: University Career Center

Workshop for ResStaff applicants who are interested in tips and tricks on interviewing and practice some interview questions.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:25 -0500 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 1931 Duffield St, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Copy of UCC @ Transfer Turf (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69156 69156-17254951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building)
Organized By: University Career Center

If you're a transfer student, come to Transfer Turf on Oct. 30th for free food, to meet other transfer students, and learn about career resources from the University Career Center.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:29 -0500 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building) University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Getting a Letter of Recommendation: Politely Making a Big Ask (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68894 68894-17188754@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Newnan-ELI Fall 2019 Undergraduate Sessions

Any interested international undergraduate students are invited to this free session, a conversation with Newnan and ELI about effectively procuring great letters of reference from faculty members. In this session, we will look together at what a solid letter of recommendation contributes to your application for grad school, an internship program, a scholarship, or other future endeavors you may be considering. We will identify what information to supply to your recommenders, and how to ask most politely (with a higher likelihood of "yes"). If time allows, we can practice making the ask with one another.

Registration Required: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/20505

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:31:02 -0400 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall English Language Institute Workshop / Seminar
IISS Workshop. Divine Revelation and Mystical Philosophy in al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī's Epistemology (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68474 68474-17086375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

The Ṣafavid twelver shiʿi polymath by the name of Mulla Muḥsin-Muḥammad (1007/15991090/1679), nicknamed al-Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, was known as an exegete, a traditionist, a theologian, a philosopher and a mystic. This article will argue that al-Kāshānī’s epistemological framework in ʿAyn al-yaqīn (Certainty Itself), written in 1627, is founded upon the simultaneous distinction and integration of three epistemological paradigms: 1. demonstrative reason, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation. Al-Kāshānī’s epistemological position is particularly intriguing because the three epistemic resources are true on two levels. First, each is true in itself despite its relationship with the other two epistemic resources. Second, the interaction of all three are deemed to yield higher harmonies of epistemic verity. Hence, the distinction between the spheres of 1. demonstrative reason, 2. mystical unveiling and 3. divine revelation does not entail their lack of correlation from al-Kāshānī’s epistemic stance.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:40:28 -0400 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Workshop / Seminar Weiser Hall
UCC @ Transfer Turf (October 30, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66063 66063-16686683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building)
Organized By: University Career Center

If you're a transfer student, come to Transfer Turf on Oct. 30th for free food, to meet other transfer students, and learn about career resources from the University Career Center.

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Careers / Jobs Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:30:22 -0500 2019-10-30T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 Office of New Student Programs (2nd floor, Student Activities Building) University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (October 30, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67128 67128-16803034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

The Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity from Michigan's best incarcerated writers. The Review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers- writing that comes from the heart, that is unique, well-crafted, and lively. It is a publication by the Prison Creative Arts Project, a nationally recognized program committed to bringing those impacted by the justice system and the University of Michigan community into artistic collaboration for mutual learning and growth.

If you would like to volunteer, the commitment level for this meeting is flexible, drop by when you have a chance or come as often as you would like.

Meetings are from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm in EQ 1807, the Conference Room in the Residential College. During meetings you will read and vote on creative writing that has been submitted to the review.

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Meeting Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:47:47 -0400 2019-10-30T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Prison Creative Arts Project, The Meeting Surrendurance
Secular Student Alliance Weekly Meeting (October 30, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68726 68726-17147095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 7:00pm
Location: G449 Mason Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Here we discuss all the big questions from morality to politics to religion. We discuss things like, What is the meaning of life? Do we have free will? We are primarily a group of secular / atheist students, but anyone is welcome to join regarless of their religion, worldview, or anything else for that matter.As always, every week we have FREE PIZZA and free friends, so come hang out!

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Meeting Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:00:18 -0400 2019-10-30T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T20:00:00-04:00 G449 Mason Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Meeting
Kaffeestunde (October 30, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66421 66421-16736376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

"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.

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Social / Informal Gathering Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:15:33 -0400 2019-10-30T21:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering FA19 Kaffeestunde
Applications Open for Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68084 68084-17009779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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.

Apply today! http://myumi.ch/erK95

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:36:28 -0500 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65699 65699-16629933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

*The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe.*

Stasys Eidrigevičius, often referred to simply as “Stasys,” was born in Mediniskiai, Lithuania in 1949. He studied at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Warsaw in 1980 where he established a reputation as a world-renowned artist. A master of many techniques as an illustrator, book cover designer, sculptor, painter, and photographer, Stasys is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. He has exhibited in the United States, Switzerland, Japan, Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany and many other countries.

Stasys is the recipient of numerous international prizes and medals in various fields of artistic activity including: the Grand Prize at the International Book Illustration Contest in Barcelona (1986); Gold Medal at the International Poster Festival in Chicago (1987); Silver Medal at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art in New York (1988); Grand Prize at the 1st International Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustration in Belgrade (1990) and Bratislava (1991); Grand Prize at the International Salon of Poster in Paris (1993); Gold Medal at the 4th International Triennial of Poster in Toyama (Japan, 1994); and at the Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (1999). In 2019, he was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this exhibition, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:06:33 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Stasys Collages
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16849033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Halloween (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67990 67990-16977592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Trick-or-Treat!! Our Dining Halls have a multitude of treats for you at many of our locations.

South Quad: Decorative Cuisine
North Quad: Candy and Treats
Markley: Decorations and Treats
Bursley: Candy Display
Twigs: Themed Dinner
East Quad: Themed Dinner
Mojo: All Day Candy

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Well-being Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:20:54 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Dining Well-being Halloween
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (October 31, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-10-31T08:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
BME Seminar: Raj Kothapalli, Ph.D. (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68891 68891-17188750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) gained significant attention of biomedical community as it provides optical
absorption contrast based functional and molecular information of very deep biological tissue at ultrasonic
resolution. In the last two decades, PAI evolved as a multi-scale imaging technology, enabling in vivo imaging from organelles to organs, and translated to several clinical applications such as breast and thyroid imaging. Nevertheless, the development of PAI systems for internal organs (e.g., prostate and ovaries) in the clinic has its challenges. In the first part of my talk, I will present the development of a transrectal ultrasound and photoacoustic (TRUSPA) human prostate imaging system, and its validation in various phantoms, surgically removed human prostates, in vivo mouse models of prostate cancer, all the way to the first-in-human multispectral photoacoustic human prostate imaging results. In the second part of my talk, I will introduce some new research developments in my lab. This includes results from a multimodal thermoacoustic simulation platform, novel ultrasound transducers for high throughput and wearable
photoacoustic imaging, and low-cost portable photoacoustic imaging systems.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:51:53 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
ELI Halloween Open House (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68842 68842-17163793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: English Language Institute

Have you ever wanted to learn more about Halloween? Come by the English Language Institutes (ELI) main office to see some decorations, grab treats and candy, and learn fun facts about Halloween symbols and traditions!

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Reception / Open House Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:54:54 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall English Language Institute Reception / Open House Happy Halloween
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

This 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.

Content 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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
Ph.D. Dissertation Write-In (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68114 68114-17011954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Spend some time getting a jump start on your writing. Continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgKyK.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:17:21 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Yo Tengo Nombre (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64978 64978-16499293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This series of paintings was inspired by the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy and the images of migrant families being separated and detained at the US-Mexico border that dominated media outlets across the nation since the summer of 2017. The exhibition also includes nearly 100 I.D. photos of migrant children from a Texas holding center. Buentello took the photos in 2014 while working for an intake agency.

"Focusing on images from the US media sources that exposed the violence of migrants’ dehumanization, vulnerability, fear, loss, and criminalization, the paintings document the embodiment of state-authorized brutality and erasures of personhood." -Ruth Leonela Buentello

This project is funded by a grant from the Efroymson Family Fund.

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Exhibition Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:04:13 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Exhibition We Need Boarders
Allyssa Garza Office Hours (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66032 66032-16684574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Semester in Detroit

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.

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Other Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:09:27 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Semester in Detroit Other Semester in Detroit fall 2019 office hours
From Vote to Government: A Short Guide to the Complexity of the American Electoral System (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68340 68340-17052342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Bednar will provide an overview of the American electoral system, paying particular attention to the way that federalism shapes the rules and the effects of the rules. We’ll consider how the system varies between states, with topics to include voting eligibility, candidate qualifications, the districting process, electoral rules, campaign finance, and direct democracy.

Dr. Jenna Bednar is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of the Michigan in Washington program, and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of an award-winning book, “The Robust Federation: Principles of Design”, as well as over three dozen articles on topics ranging from campaign contributions, to Medicaid reform, to institutional performance. She earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University.

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is Voting in America: Perennial Issues, Current Developments. The next lecture will be November 7, 2019. The subject is Election and Voting Security in the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:52:15 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
International Studies Horror Film Fest (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68410 68410-17080041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

It’s our annual Halloween spectacular, where we screen frightening foreign-language movies from around the world! All films are subtitled in English. Drop in for one or all of the movies; it's free and snacks are provided.

10:00–11:30 a.m. — Face (2004, Korean)
11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m. — The Lure (2005, Polish)
1:15–3:00 p.m. — Dogtooth (2000, Greek)

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Film Screening Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:03:41 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Film Screening Skull
Kennedy Cup (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66721 66721-17236469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

National Championship hosted by the Navy. We will be sailing in Navy 44s.

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Sporting Event Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:00:13 -0500 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T23:59:59-04:00 US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD Maize Pages Student Organizations Sporting Event
Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66701 66701-16770249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

The 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.

The exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen, UMSI student, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:
https://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center

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Exhibition Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:07:27 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail of Alcidamas’ On Homer, P. Mich. inv. 2754
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Coffee and Bagels (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68290 68290-17043840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: School of Information North
Organized By: LSA AEM

Take root and flourish cosmic ocean realm of the galaxies explorations tendrils of gossamer clouds something incredible is waiting to be known? Across the centuries concept of the number one network of wormholes Euclid stirred by starlight dream of the mind's eye? A still more glorious dawn awaits descended from astronomers Cambrian explosion dispassionate extraterrestrial observer vastness is bearable only through love a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena and billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions upon billions.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 11 Oct 2019 09:05:42 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 School of Information North LSA AEM Social / Informal Gathering The essentials of a good conversation.
Collection Ensemble (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Diversity Thumball Session (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66815 66815-16779016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Arbor Lakes
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

The Diversity Thumball is a fun training tool that tackles DEI topics with smarts and sensitivity. We toss it around in a group and ask participants to share their reaction to whatever prompt lies under their thumb.

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Other Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:51:13 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 Arbor Lakes Information and Technology Services (ITS) Other Diversity Thumball
Mari Katayama (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901137@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15612020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Schokoladenstunde (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66630 66630-16767996@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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.

"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.

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Social / Informal Gathering Mon, 09 Sep 2019 11:33:08 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Social / Informal Gathering Fall 2019 Schokoladenstunde
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (October 31, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take 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!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support 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.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-10-31T11:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
International Economics (October 31, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68608 68608-17105368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:38:38 -0400 2019-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
#FirstGenStrong (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68561 68561-17096961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Diag - Central Campus
Organized By: First Generation Student Gateway

We want to celebrate you and the ways first-generation students trailblaze! First-gens often show strength in the face of adversity. Stop by the Diag to show how you've been #FirstGenStrong. We will be taking pictures for social media and sharing some neat SWAG.

#FirstGenStrong is part of First Generation Week, which promotes the many ways first-generation students innovate, blaze new trails, and take risks.

CAPS is committed to creating an environment based on our values of multicultural, multi-disciplinary and multi-theoretical practices that allow our diverse student body to access care, receive high quality services and take positive pathways to mental health. We also strive to find creative ways of reaching out to students and the UM community to nurture and develop a proactive, renewed sense of engagement throughout the campus.

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Social / Informal Gathering Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:10:03 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Diag - Central Campus First Generation Student Gateway Social / Informal Gathering First
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64524 64524-16386875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work on abjection by LGBT scholars and its intersection with recent critiques of the concept of sexual, or "intimate," citizenship and social activism based on it. Literary works to be discussed include HIV+ poet Hasegawa Takeshi’s Confessions of Bearine de Pink (2005) and Japan’s first cell phone novel, Yoshi Yū's Ayu no monogatari (2002).

John Whittier Treat is Emeritus Professor in the Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb; Great Mirrors Shattered: Orientalism, Japan and Homosexuality; and The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature.

If 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.

Image credit: Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:19:40 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)
Classical Violin & Piano (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67416 67416-16849159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

This performance is a part of the U-M Community Outreach Performance Series, an engaged-learning initiative of the School of Music, Theatre & Dance (SMTD). Student performers prepare repertoire and high quality cultural experiences for the surrounding community with assistance from SMTD faculty and staff. U-M Professor Danielle Belen’s violin studio is comprised of some of the top young players in the country. Under her tutelage, they have won major prizes in national and international competitions including the Menuhin, Stulberg and Klein competitions, as well as being accepted into major conservatories and universities across the country. Abigel Szilagyi is a featured performer for Disability Community Month. Look for live stream video on Gifts of Art Facebook.

University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Performance Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:31:20 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Performance Photograph of Danielle Belen’s students by Kristina Zlatareva.
Interdisciplinary Seminar on Social Science Methodology (I3SM) (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65880 65880-16736446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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.

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Meeting Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:52:42 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Meeting Haven Hall
P&SC/G&FP Brown Bag (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66210 66210-16719589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Race and Gender Differences in Benevolent Sexism

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Presentation Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:32:16 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Presentation East Hall
Power of Mentorship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68544 68544-17096960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: First Generation Student Gateway

Mentorship is a key intervention for supporting first-generation student success. As a part of First Generation Week, faculty and staff as well as allies of first-generation students are invited to learn directly from first-generation students about the value and impact mentorship has had on their experience at the University of Michigan. Light refreshments will be provided. This event is sponsored by the First Generation Gateway and the University Mentorship Program.

The First Generation Student Gateway serves as a launching point to get connected to resources and to the first-generation community. Housed in the Office of Academic Multicultural Initiatives (OAMI), the Gateway is for all first-generation undergraduate and graduate students and their allies

The University Mentorship Program provides an opportunity for new first-year students to connect with volunteer mentors who are knowledgeable about the University in order to ease the transition from high school to college. Mentorship helps to make the University a smaller place, and builds relationships between students, faculty and staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:55:48 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 Student Activities Building First Generation Student Gateway Lecture / Discussion Flier for the program. It includes images of first-generation students as well as event details.
SMRL Talk (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67561 67561-16892250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Abstract:

Facial recognition systems are increasingly common components of smartphones and other consumer digital devices. These technologies enable animated video-sharing applications, such as Apple’s animoji and memoji, Facebook Messenger’s masks and filters and Samsung’s AR Emoji. Such animations serve as technical phenomena translating moments of affective and emotional expression into mediated, trackable, and socially legible forms across a variety of social media platforms.

Through technical and historical analysis of these digital artifacts, the talk will explore the ways facial recognition systems classify and categorize racial identities in human faces in relation to emotional expression. Drawing on the longer history of discredited pseudosciences such as phrenology, the paper considers the dangers of both racializing logics as part of these systems of classification, and of how social media data regarding emotional expression gathered through these systems can be used to reinforce systems of oppression and discrimination.

Speaker Biography

Luke Stark is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics (FATE) Group at Microsoft Research Montreal. His scholarship examines the history and contemporary effects of digital media used for social and emotional interaction; his work has been published in venues including Social Studies of Science, Media Culture and Society, History of the Human Sciences, and The International Journal of Communication. He has previously been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Dartmouth College, a Fellow and Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and an inaugural Fellow with the University of California Berkeley’s Center for Technology, Society, and Policy. He holds a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and an Honours BA and MA in History from the University of Toronto.

This talk is hosted by The Social Media Research Lab (SMRL)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:38:29 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Luke Stark
Tech Talk (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68150 68150-17045985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

Join us for our regular series of 20-minute drop-in sessions designed to help you discover new tech and make the most of the tech you already have.

Each week, we have a new demo or tutorial - including Q&A and personal consulting - on hardware, software, apps, and products that might just change your world. Check out upcoming topics at computershowcase.umich.edu/tech-talks/.

Bring your own device if you want, but that’s not required either; we can provide 1:1 tech consults or helpful how-to resources so you can DIY with confidence.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:42:35 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library Information and Technology Services (ITS) Workshop / Seminar Tech Talk Drop in Sessions
Expect Respect Workshop (October 31, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67837 67837-16958337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

This workshop will utilize the CLARA method of effective listening and communication in order to practice and reinforce respect for individuals on a daily basis.
Benefits of a respectful environment include:
• Building and sustaining high quality relationships
• A safe space leading to elevated levels of trust
• Enhanced creativity, output and community-building

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 01 Oct 2019 11:32:09 -0400 2019-10-31T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Workshop / Seminar Expect Respect Workshop
German Lab (October 31, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48604 48604-16770164@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 1:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

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/

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Class / Instruction Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:40:00 -0500 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad Germanic Languages & Literatures Class / Instruction German Lab MTWTh 1-4 LRC
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Constraint and Possibility in Contemporary African American Literature (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68773 68773-17147183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Panel #1: Constraint and Possibility in Contemporary African American Literature

Margo Natalie Crawford
“Scenes of Loosening the Thick Time of Black Body/Slave Body”

In “The Slavebody and the Blackbody,” in The Source of Self-Regard, Toni Morrison wonders how the “black body” can be separated from the “slave body.” I argue that the work of freeing the black body from this afterlife of slavery is the work of denaturalizing that which Bakhtin describes as the “thickening of time.” Bakhtin writes, “time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh.” I propose that the thickening of time and time’s “taking on of flesh,” in terms of the afterlife of slavery, gain new dimensions when we rethink Fanon’s theory of epidermalization—“the slow composition of my self as a body in the middle of a spatial and temporal world.” The slow decomposition of the black body as a slave body demands a loosening of the thickness of that melancholic historicism that keeps collapsing black past and black present. I argue that the practice of that loosening is a core tension in 21st century African American literature. I bring together scenes of loosening in Toni Morrison’s flow from Paradise to her last novel God Help the Child.

Kevin Quashie
“Poetic Inclination, Black Subjunctivity”

I want to make a case about ethics that requires first that I make a case for aliveness. But just to establish a marker for the ethical—the urgency of the ethical—I want to be clear that there is no question more vital than the question “how to be,” and no doing more vital than to imagine that this question belongs to ones who are black (and to black literature). That is, because the question of the ethical is a question of relation, it seems to elide blackness: in an antiblack imagination, there is no “how to be” since antiblackness presumes to answer or overwhelm or even render inept this query. I want to get to the question “how to be” without reifying it as one of respectability or worthiness that is sutured to behavior; I want to get to the question as if we, black people, are not exempt from its daily reckoning. This thinking through both aliveness and ethics will lean on black poetics.


Margo Natalie Crawford is professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a scholar of 20th and 21st century African American literature and visual culture and global black studies. Crossing boundaries between literature, visual art, and cultural movements, her scholarship opens up new ways of understanding black radical imaginations. Her other research interests include performance studies, queer theory, comparative ethnic studies, radical feminism, and transnational modernism. Her most recent book is Black Post-Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and 21st Century Black Aesthetics (2017). Her earlier work includes Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008) and New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (co-edited with Lisa Gail Collins, 2006). She is now completing What is African American Literature? Through a focus on textual production, diasporic tensions, and the ongoing, repetitive production of the contemporary, What is African American Literature? shows how tensions between the material and ephemeral make the textual production of African American literature become the textual production of black affect.

Kevin Quashie is a professor in the English Department of Brown University, where he teaches black cultural and literary studies. He is the author of Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject (Rutgers University Press, 2004) and The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Rutgers University Press, 2012). He is co-editor of the landmark anthology New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America. His essays have appeared in differences, CLA Journal, The Massachusetts Review, African American Review, and Meridians. His forthcoming new book is titled “Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being.”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:31:29 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 60739-14961639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Held over two days, the symposium features a keynote lecture, "The End of Black Studies," from Stephen Best (Berkeley), three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora; political activism; historicity; gender/sexuality; and cross-media cultural production.

In addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn), Madhu Dubey (UIC), Erica Edwards (Rutgers), Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt), Kevin Quashie (Brown), and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon).

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:57 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Poster for AALCN symposium
Copyright and Your Dissertation: Don’t Get Spooked! (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65441 65441-16597583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Have you ever wondered what is the difference between copyright infringement and plagiarism? Do you know when it’s okay to use copyrighted works without permission or how to get permission when you need it? Explore these and other questions about copyright and dissertations in a workshop facilitated by Melissa Levine, Director of the U-M Library Copyright Office. This workshop is primarily designed for students in the Rackham Graduate School, but all are welcome.

Please register via TeachTech or by contacting Yuanxiao at xuyu@umich.edu.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:35:00 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Workshop / Seminar copyright symbol
Join the PEAK Team- Chicago IL (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68689 68689-17138812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: University Career Center

Info Session

It's an exciting time here at PEAK Technical Staffing USA, we are looking to grow our Chicago team! Are you Career Driven and seeking an Entry Level Opportunity?

Join us Thursday October 31, 2019 at 2pm CST for an Info Session about our Management Trainee Program and why we want you to Join our team!

When: Thursday October 31, 2019 at 2pm

We will be covering:
· Who is Peak Technical Staffing USA?
· Why work in the staffing industry?
· What is the Management Training Program?
· Accelerated Career Path
· Q & A with graduates of Peak’s Management Training Program

For immediate consideration please send resume to josephinerichards@peaktechnical.com

See you there!

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:30:24 -0500 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 University Career Center Careers / Jobs
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

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.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Safe Shared Mobility Through Game Based Learning (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68885 68885-17188744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Overview of an experiment to help vulnerable road users understand their safety critical roles in shared mobility scenarios.

Dr. Aditi Misra is an assistant research scientist in UMTRI’s CMISST group.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:30:52 -0400 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar Transportation Seminar
Departmental Seminar (899): Santanu Dey, Georgia Tech — *Convexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program* (October 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66536 66536-16744985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

The Departmental Seminar Series is open to all. U-M Industrial and Operations Engineering graduate students and faculty are especially encouraged to attend.

The seminar will be followed by a reception in the IOE Commons (Room 1709) from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Title:
Convexification of substructures in quadratically constrained quadratic program

Abstract:
An important approach to solving non-convex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP) to global optimality is to use convex relaxations and branch-and-bound algorithms. In our first result, we show that the exact convex hull of the solutions of a general quadratic equation intersected with any polytope is second-order cone representable. The proof is constructive and relies on the discovery of an interesting property of quadratic functions, which may be of independent interest: A set defined by a single quadratic equation is either (1) the boundary of a convex set, or (2) the boundary of union of two convex sets or (3) it has the property that through every point on the surface, there exists a straight line that is entirely contained in the surface. We next study sets defined for matrix variables that satisfy rank-1 constraint together with different choices of linear side constraints. We identify different conditions on the linear side constraints, under which the convex hull of the rank-1 set is polyhedral or second-order cone representable. Finally, we present results from comprehensive set of computational experiments and show that our convexification results together with discretization significantly help in improving dual bounds for the generalized pooling problem. (This is joint work with Asteroide Santana and Burak Kocuk.)

Bio:
Santanu S. Dey is A. Russell Chandler III Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dey's research interests are in the area of non convex optimization, and in particular mixed integer linear and nonlinear programming. His research is partly motivated by applications of non convex optimization arising in areas such as electrical power engineering, process engineering, civil engineering, logistics, and statistics. Dr. Dey has served as the vice chair for Integer Programming for INFORMS Optimization Society (2011-2013) and has served on the program committees of Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2013 and Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization 2017. He currently serves on the editorial board of Computational Optimization and Applications, MOS-SIAM book series on Optimization, is an area editor for Mathematical Programming C and is an associate editor for Mathematical Programming A, Mathematics of Operations Research and SIAM Journal on Optimization.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 08 Oct 2019 13:07:37 -0400 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar Departmental Seminar (899): Santanu Dey, Georgia Tech
Rackham North: Knowing Your Strengths (October 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65456 65456-16599595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best every day? Research shows that knowing and focusing on your strengths helps to increase your engagement and satisfaction at work. Learn how using a strengths-based approach will help you to achieve higher levels of overall personal well-being, productivity, and professional success. As a pre-requisite of this workshop, you will take the Gallup Strengths assessment to learn your top five strengths. The registration deadline for this session is October 24 to allow time for you to take the Gallup Strengths assessment. During the workshop, you will engage in a series of activities that will enhance your self-awareness of your top strengths and help you to identify how to apply your strengths in your professional life.
This 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.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/yKKzn.
We 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.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:17:39 -0400 2019-10-31T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Pierpont Commons
CLASP Seminar Series: Qusai Al Shidi (October 31, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67949 67949-16969037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

We are very pleased to welcome CLASP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Qusai Al Shidi.

Mr. Al Shidi will give a presentation titled: "Modeling and Simulating the Solar Chromosphere."

Abstract: The Sun’s chromosphere is a highly dynamic, partially ionized region where spicules (hot jets of plasma) form. I will go over why the chromosphere is an important but understudied region of the Sun, then I will present a two-fluid magnetohydrodynamic model to study the chromosphere, which includes ion–neutral interaction and frictional heating. The simulation produces a shock self-consistently, where the jet is driven by the frictional heating, which is much greater than the ohmic heating.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:29:30 -0400 2019-10-31T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "Smart Additive Manufacturing" (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68882 68882-17188742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Abstract
There is a lot of excitement about the potential of smart manufacturing (aka Industry 4.0), with its associated technologies like cloud computing, big data analytics, artificial intelligence and IoT, to revolutionize the manufacturing industry. An excellent application for such “smart” technologies is the additive manufacturing, another area of Manufacturing that is gaining a lot of traction. In this talk, I will share some of my early work on smart additive manufacturing using a few case studies. I will also share an initiative I am leading on establishing a smart additive manufacturing education program at U-M. My goal is to excite you with our vision, get your feedback, and maybe bring some of you along on the journey.

About the Speaker...

Chinedum Okwudire received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2009 and joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Michigan in 2011. Prior to joining Michigan, he was the mechatronic systems optimization team leader at DMG Mori USA, based in Davis, CA. His research is focused on exploiting knowledge at the intersection of machine design, control and, more-recently, computer science, to boost the performance of manufacturing automation systems at low cost. Chinedum has received a number of awards including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation; the Young Investigator Award from the International Symposium on Flexible Automation; the Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers; the Ralph Teetor Educational Award from SAE International; and the Russell Severance Springer Visiting Professorship from UC Berkeley. He has co-authored a number best paper award winning papers including the 2016 ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Division’s Best Paper in Mechatronics Award. His recent work on boosting the speed of 3D printers at low cost through feedforward vibration compensation has been featured internationally in popular news media, including NASA Tech Briefs and Discovery Channel Canada.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:47:40 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Examples of Smart Additive Manufacturing
Crafting a Compelling Cover Letter (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66110 66110-16686734@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Do cover letters have you at loss for words? Not sure where to start? Come work alongside peers and Hub coaches to practice a step-by-step process for writing compelling cover letters. Participants are encouraged to identify a job description of interest before the workshop and are invited to bring copies of drafted letters. This event is intended for undergraduate LSA Students.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:40:43 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar Cover letter
EEB Thursday Seminar: Unraveling the tangled web: the evolutionary impact of hybridization (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65475 65475-16605609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

How distinct species persist in the face of gene flow is a long-standing and central question in evolutionary biology, reinvigorated by the recent realization that hybridization is surprisingly common. Though it is now appreciated that gene flow often occurs before, during, and after speciation, little about the evolutionary impact of hybridization is understood, from the ecological and behavioral forces driving hybridization to the ways in which selection acts on hybrid genomes. Our research addresses these questions using replicate, recently formed hybrid populations of swordtail fish. I will discuss work mapping the locations of hybrid incompatibilities and investigating the role of selection on these regions in hybrid genome evolution. I will also discuss our work investigating how selection on incompatibilities interacts with other genetic processes such as recombination. Together, this work highlights a set of mechanisms that shape hybridization on a population and genetic level.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/NX1wEe5CCzk

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:16:23 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Image of Hybrid Fish
Hopwood Halloween Tea (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68871 68871-17186670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

-Trick or treating noon to 4:00 p.m.
-Spooky (and delicious) treats
-Costume contest
-Book raffle for "Ghost Writers"
-Exquisite Corpses, cooperative ghost stories, and other creepy stuff!

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Reception / Open House Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:52:33 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Hopwood Awards Program Reception / Open House A spider weaves a web over a teacup near a pumpkin and a copy of Ghost Writers
LRCCS Public Lecture Series | The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States? (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67953 67953-16975338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Dr. Duara seeks to grasp the genealogy of China’s Belt and Road (BRI) in relation both to the imperial Chinese world order and the historical sequence of forms of global domination, i.e., modern imperialism, the ‘imperialism of nation-states’ during the inter-war and Cold War period as well as the post-Cold War notion of ‘soft power’. While we may think of BRI as poised uncertainly between the logics of the older imperial Chinese order and the more recent logic impelled by capitalist nation-states, there are significant novelties in the new Chinese order, mostly in relation to debt, the environment and digital technology which constitute new realms of power not easily dominated by a hegemon.

Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He received his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. He was Professor and chair of History and East Asian Studies at University of Chicago (1991-2008) and Raffles Professor and Director of Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore (2008-2015). His latest book is "The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future" (Cambridge 2014). He was awarded the doctor philosophiae honoris causa from the University of Oslo in 2017 and he is the current President of the Association for Asian Studies.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:55:35 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Prasenjit Duara, Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University
MedChem Seminar (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68814 68814-17155483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Pharmacy College
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Visualizing Microbial and Cellular Chemistry in Situ

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:01:37 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
Resume Lab (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67574 67574-16894380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Organized By: University Career Center

THIS IS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM

Just getting started building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Wherever you’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when youcan during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resume formatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback on your resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326046

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Resume Lab for First Year Students! (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67630 67630-16909296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Organized By: University Career Center

THIS IS FOR THE FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE PROGRAM!

Just gettingstarted building a resume? Have a draft but not sure how to make it better? Want to learn about resources available to revise your resume? Whereveryou’re at: that’s ok!

Get real time, personalized support by checking out the Resume Lab. It's designed as a drop-in hour, so come when you can during this time. It's a place for you to learn the basics to get your resume started and get feedback to take your resume from good to GREAT!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to understand resumeformatting, learn how to build great bullet points, and get feedback onyour resume.

If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab so we can cater because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening @ Michigan calendar so that it will beseen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326039

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:30:23 -0500 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 West Quadrangle , Multipurpose Room, West Quadrangle, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
UROP - Creating Effective Presentations using PowerPoint or Google Slides Workshop (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67114 67114-16803014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

UROP students probably already know how to make slides in PowerPoint or Google Slides, but do you know how to create a presentation that will keep your audience's attention, as well as clearly communicate your message? This workshop will examine principles that support more effective communication, regardless of the software you use. We'll talk about visual design guidelines, how to ensure better audience comprehension, and other things to keep in mind when putting together a presentation. We'll also talk about a few lesser-known features of presentation software that will make it easier to build a useful and consistent presentation.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 13 Sep 2019 09:28:24 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Shapiro Library UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Workshop / Seminar PowerPoint for Presentations Registration
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Keynote Lecture: Stephen Best (October 31, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64103 64103-16147472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Prof. Stephen Best (Berkeley), author of None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke, 2018) and The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (U of Chicago Pree, 2004), will deliver the keynote lecture of the symposium, titled "The End of Black Studies."

The End of Black Studies

This talk will address the dual ends of black studies—that is, the way the field's conditions of origin (think of Richard Wright’s White Man, Listen!) are always bound up with a sense of the field's imminent exhaustion, if not inutility (What project remains once he does?). These conflicting ends are a kind of Gordian knot with which the black scholar of black studies cannot fail to grapple—the question of how far “to define Black people as reactions to White presence,” as Toni Morrison once put it, never completely beyond the horizon of debate. And where Morrison redefined black studies, freeing black writing from the imperative of having to address a white reader, those changes could never quite accommodate James Baldwin, whose work fell into some disfavor upon his death in 1987. This talk will frame the recent resurgent interest in Baldwin in terms of an aesthetic turn within black studies, arguing that his invocations of the category of “beauty,” while not a clean cutting of the Gordian knot, offer a means of grappling with origins, both one's own and that of the field.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:56:53 -0400 2019-10-31T16:15:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Prof. Stephen Best
Law and Economics (October 31, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68323 68323-17046000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:20:14 -0400 2019-10-31T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
Joe Caslin: Is Street art Capable of Advancing a Society? (October 31, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65261 65261-16559491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Designboom Magazine has Described the work of Joe Caslin as “towering works of art [that] appear like massive sketch books across the architecture of Ireland’s cities.” Caslin is the recipient of the 2013 Association of Illustrators award for New Talent in Public Realm Illustration. He creates highly accessible work that engages directly with the social issues of modern Ireland. Caslin confronts the subjects of suicide, drug addiction, economic marginalization, marriage equality, stigma in mental health, the Irish asylum system, institutional power, and most recently, sexual consent. The monochrome drawings Caslin creates live with us and against many of us for some time before washing away. They hold a mirror up to the kind of society that we are, while asking us individually what kind of society we want to be a part of. In 2018, Caslin worked with the National Gallery of Ireland to create Finding Power, a huge mural of the writer and activist Stephen Moloney installed in the gallery’s courtyard. His current project, Our Nation’s Sons, aims to persuade entire communities to address the very real problem of young male’s apathy and their mental well-being.

Supported by the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:51:11 -0400 2019-10-31T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/caslin.jpg
Sky Tonight (October 31, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67976 67976-17037437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 5:30pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

Star talks will examine the night sky with its slowly changing constellations, bright planets, and a short journey to visit far-away objects.

The 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.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:22:12 -0400 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 1027 E. Huron Building Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Presentation Sky Tonight
From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete (October 31, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 65602-16966892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries, scaling up to address construction level challenges, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build, our ethos and aspirations. Yet, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players, institutions, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.

What approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?

This symposium, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory, engineering, construction technology, material science, design, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.

Co-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday, October 31, followed by a full day symposium on Friday, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery, highlighting some of the work produced by participants, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex.

The symposium is free and open to the public, and will also be available via live stream.

Keynote Lectures:
Thursday, October 31: Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology
Friday, November 1: Sarah Billington, Stanford University

Participants:
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Brandon Clifford, MIT
Brian Ellis, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Fiske, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
María González Pendás, Columbia University
Vineet Kamat, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Kudless, CCA
Wanda Lau, Architect Magazine
Victor Li, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jonathan Massey, University of Michigan Taubman College
Wes McGee, University of Michigan Taubman College
Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Shadi Nazarin, Penn State University
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Nichols, Rice University
Davide Zampini, Cemex
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell AAP

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:36:05 -0400 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Concrete is a building material with enormous potential for innovation
Sky Tonight (October 31, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67976 67976-17037424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History

Star talks will examine the night sky with its slowly changing constellations, bright planets, and a short journey to visit far-away objects.

The 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.

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Presentation Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:22:12 -0400 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T19:30:00-04:00 Planetarium & Dome Theater at the Museum of Natural History Presentation Sky Tonight
CMENAS Event. Beyond Faith-based Humanitarianism: What Everyday Responses to Iraqi and Syrian Displacement Tell Us About Encountering Difference (October 31, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68475 68475-17086376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Drawing on research conducted with Iraqi refugees in Damascus and Syrian refugees on the Turkish-Syrian border, Dr. Zaman considers how displaced people re-imagine understandings of religious traditions to produce a distinctive geography of belonging. In so doing, a window opens for us to reflect on what decolonial readings of refuge and the sacred can offer.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:46:01 -0400 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion poster_image
Weekly Bible Study - "Supremacy of Christ" (October 31, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66645 66645-16770091@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for prayer, worship, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Supremacy of Christ from Colossians 1:15-23.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:00:24 -0400 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Beginner Brazilian Zouk Dance Lesson (October 31, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68458 68458-17086343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00pm
Location: openfloor
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

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
8:10 PM Beginner Class
9:00 PM Teacher-Guided PracticaWe can't wait to meet you! See our facebook events for more details: https://www.facebook.com/pg/aaZoukMi/events/

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Exercise / Fitness Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:00:26 -0400 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T22:00:00-04:00 openfloor Maize Pages Student Organizations Exercise / Fitness
Faculty Theatre Performance: Malcolm Tulip *CANCELED* (October 31, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67364 67364-16842071@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

*These performances have been canceled*

Written and performed by Malcolm Tulip
Sound design and performance by Cy Tulip
Video design by Jeromy Hopgood
Set design by Vincent Mountain
Costume design by Christianne Myers

In 2017 Prof. Malcolm Tulip came across a book of anagrammatic poetry by the German Surrealist artist Unica Zürn (1916-1970) and a journey into her writings, art works, and life followed. As he became hypnotized by the vivid life force of her work memories, real and imagined, from his own life were released. Encouraged by Zürn’s creative strategies as well as playwright Charles L. Mee’s intuitive text/image assemblage approach, Tulip brings together seemingly disparate fragments of text and imagery to conjure a new hybrid autobiography. Texts from multiple and contrary sources live side by side. The friction between apparent non-sequiturs fire the imagination; more closely resembling our brain activity with collisions of past, present, tangible, and subconscious events that constantly fight to be seen and heard.

Made possible with the generous support of the U-M Office of Research, the Center for World Performance Studies, SMTD, the Department of Theatre & Drama, and Trinosophes, Detroit.

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Performance Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:15:30 -0400 2019-10-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance
Kennedy Cup (November 1, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66721 66721-17236470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00am
Location: US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

National Championship hosted by the Navy. We will be sailing in Navy 44s.

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Sporting Event Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:00:13 -0500 2019-11-01T00:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T23:59:59-04:00 US Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD Maize Pages Student Organizations Sporting Event
Missouri Loves Company (November 1, 2019 6:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66474 66474-17240551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 6:00am
Location: Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

This is the perfect time to get to know your teammates!!!! 

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Other Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:00:26 -0500 2019-11-01T06:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T23:59:59-04:00 Columbia Cosmopolitan Recreation Area Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
Bald Eagle Collegiate Invitational (November 1, 2019 6:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68068 68068-17236487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 6:15am
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Race

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Other Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:00:14 -0500 2019-11-01T06:15:00-04:00 2019-11-01T23:59:59-04:00 Indianapolis, IN Maize Pages Student Organizations Other
World Vegan Day (November 1, 2019 7:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69020 69020-17213815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Dining

Come in to any of our dining halls to enjoy some vegan selections from our World Class Chefs.

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Well-being Thu, 31 Oct 2019 15:52:51 -0400 2019-11-01T07:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan Dining Well-being World Vegan Day
Applications Open for Detroit Community-Engaged Research Program (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68084 68084-17009780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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.

Apply today! http://myumi.ch/erK95

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Careers / Jobs Wed, 08 Jan 2020 15:36:28 -0500 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T23:00:00-04:00 UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Careers / Jobs DCERP
CCPS Exhibition. Stasys Eidrigevičius: Collages (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65699 65699-16629934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

*The juxtaposition of fragments creates original, unexpected, and often surrealist images that unlock a new imaginary universe.*

Stasys Eidrigevičius, often referred to simply as “Stasys,” was born in Mediniskiai, Lithuania in 1949. He studied at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts before moving to Warsaw in 1980 where he established a reputation as a world-renowned artist. A master of many techniques as an illustrator, book cover designer, sculptor, painter, and photographer, Stasys is perhaps best known for his graphics and poster art. He has exhibited in the United States, Switzerland, Japan, Great Britain, Spain, France, Germany and many other countries.

Stasys is the recipient of numerous international prizes and medals in various fields of artistic activity including: the Grand Prize at the International Book Illustration Contest in Barcelona (1986); Gold Medal at the International Poster Festival in Chicago (1987); Silver Medal at the 2nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art in New York (1988); Grand Prize at the 1st International Biennial Exhibition of Book Illustration in Belgrade (1990) and Bratislava (1991); Grand Prize at the International Salon of Poster in Paris (1993); Gold Medal at the 4th International Triennial of Poster in Toyama (Japan, 1994); and at the Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice (1999). In 2019, he was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this exhibition, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:06:33 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Stasys Collages
Civitates Orbis Terrarum: Braun & Hogenberg’s Evolving World (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65088 65088-16515459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:19:19 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Hatcher Graduate Library
Football & Pets: Paper Sculpture (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67407 67407-16849034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition When Do We Eat? by Steve Wirtz, photograph by the artist.
Michigan Medicine Employee Art Exhibition (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67398 67398-16848782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center South Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:08:19 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Photograph of the 2018 winning piece in Painting, Harriet by Merideth Sauvé
Michigan Sports Galore: Oil on Canvas (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67410 67410-16849118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Cancer Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Rogel Cancer Center, Level 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:37:28 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cancer Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Coach Lloyd Carr by Jeff Joseph, photograph by the artist.
Oil on Water: Painting on Linen (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67400 67400-16848865@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:12:19 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Ny Alesund II by Danielle Eubank, photograph by the artist.
Pen & Ink Queens (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67401 67401-16848948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – University Hospital Main Corridor, Floor 2
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:19:06 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Gifts of Art Exhibition Zora by Laura Cavanagh, photograph by the artist.
The Un-Quarium: Mixed Media (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67393 67393-16846474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1.
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:53:58 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition The Un-Quarium series by Unruly artists, photograph by Lori Schoen.
Ваза: Copper & Brass Vessels (November 1, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67395 67395-16846557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Center
Organized By: Gifts of Art

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.

Gifts of Art Gallery – Taubman Health Center North Lobby, Floor 1
1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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Exhibition Wed, 18 Sep 2019 12:03:02 -0400 2019-11-01T08:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Taubman Center Gifts of Art Exhibition Cinderella Shoes by Victoria Bulgakova, photograph by the artist.
Exhibition | Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile: El-Kurru, Sudan (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63992 63992-16059392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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.

Curators: Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis

View the online exhibition:
http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/graffiti-el-kurru/

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Exhibition Fri, 23 Aug 2019 10:06:16 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Exhibition Graffiti as Devotion
From Lab to Site: Innovation in Concrete (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65602 65602-16966893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

From the climate imperatives to make the built environment carbon positive to novel material forming techniques such as 3D printing, concrete is undergoing a transformation along different fronts in the building industry. As computational design and digital fabrication technologies become mainstream in the AEC industries, scaling up to address construction level challenges, concrete holds tremendous promise for the future, not only in shaping our built environment but also in how we build, our ethos and aspirations. Yet, there are many hurdles to overcome. With traditional building processes steeped in protocols and regulations, moving R+D to the building sector requires an awareness of the different players, institutions, and contingencies that shape the contours of concrete innovation.

What approaches contribute to a smooth transfer of innovations to the building sector? Given new modes of manufacturing, what are the new codes and standards that will govern the path toward implementation? What cross-platform systems will need to be in place in order to facilitate automation and construction productivity? What are the new technologies and associated expertise that will emerge to redefine architectural practice and the building industry, especially to navigate and manage the increasingly multi-disciplinary teams?

This symposium, rather than a survey of contemporary concrete architecture, brings researchers and industry experts together from diverse disciplinary fields and areas of production – history & theory, engineering, construction technology, material science, design, and manufacturing – for a timely discussion centered on concrete as a building material with enormous potential for innovation. The symposium aims to foster and identify trajectories for advancing concrete research and align potential collaborative exchanges.

Co-organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan College of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the symposium will launch with an evening keynote lecture on Thursday, October 31, followed by a full day symposium on Friday, November 1. The format consists of paired presentations centered on different topics related to concrete research, with a second keynote lecture at noon. A closing panel discussion aims to chart trajectories and methodologies for research and collaboration. Friday’s event will conclude with an exhibition opening reception downtown at the Liberty Research Annex gallery, highlighting some of the work produced by participants, including a performance by Brandon Clifford and Davide Zampini of Cemex.

The symposium is free and open to the public, and will also be available via live stream.

Keynote Lectures:
Thursday, October 31: Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology
Friday, November 1: Sarah Billington, Stanford University

Participants:
Lucia Allais, Princeton University
Brandon Clifford, MIT
Brian Ellis, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Mike Fiske, Jacobs Space Exploration Group (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)
María González Pendás, Columbia University
Vineet Kamat, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Andrew Kudless, CCA
Wanda Lau, Architect Magazine
Victor Li, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jerry Lynch, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
Jonathan Massey, University of Michigan Taubman College
Wes McGee, University of Michigan Taubman College
Forrest Meggers, Princeton University, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
Shadi Nazarin, Penn State University
Tsz Yan Ng, University of Michigan Taubman College
Sarah Nichols, Rice University
Davide Zampini, Cemex
Sasa Zivkovic, Cornell AAP

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 02 Oct 2019 09:36:05 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Conference / Symposium Concrete is a building material with enormous potential for innovation
Other Crusoes, Other Islands: Mapping a Complex Legacy (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65071 65071-16509383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

This 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.

Content 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.

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Exhibition Thu, 08 Aug 2019 16:20:32 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition a map from the Clark Library
WGTE “On the Road with Brad Cresswell” at SMTD (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68903 68903-17190821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

WGTE FM 91 is taking it on the road with host Brad Cresswell.

WGTE (91.3 FM) will be broadcasting live from the Earl V. Moore Building from 9-11 a.m. and 1-4 p.m.

Tune in to hear SMTD professors talk with WGTE all throughout the day.

Listen live here: http://myumi.ch/mnqQl

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Performance Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:15:37 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance WGTE On The Road
Write-Together (November 1, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66016 66016-16680440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:17:37 -0400 2019-11-01T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 North Quad Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar North Quad
EXCEL Talk with yMusic (November 1, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66977 66977-16789926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 9:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Organized By: University Career Center

Join EXCEL for a Q&A with members of yMusic, as part of theirUMS residency, that will explore their work and professional trajectories. Heralded as "six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres,” (The New Yorker) yMusic performs in concert halls, arenas and clubs around the world. Founded in New York City in 2008, they believe in presenting excellent, emotionally communicative music, regardless of style or idiom. Their virtuosic execution and unique configuration (string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet) has attracted the attention of high profile collaborators—from Paul Simon to Bill T. Jones to Ben Folds—and inspired original works by some of today’s foremost composers, including Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli and Andrew Norman. Refreshments will be provided. This event is made possible by University Musical Society. ARTSADMN 410/510: 1 credit

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Careers / Jobs Sat, 16 Nov 2019 06:30:24 -0500 2019-11-01T09:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building, EXCEL Lab (1279), 1100 Baits Dr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Applied Microeconomics/IO Seminar: Time-Varying Risk Aversion? Evidence from Near-Miss Accidents (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68382 68382-17071652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Abstract

We present evidence consistent with time-varying risk preferences among automobile drivers. Exploiting a unique dataset of agents’ high-frequency driving behavior collected by a mobile phone application, we show that driving behavior changes after driving mishaps. Following “near-miss” accidents (measured by hard brakes or hard turns), drivers drive more conservatively, which is consistent with increased risk aversion following such mishaps. In a preferred specification, a near-miss triggers a reduction in driving distance of 8.12 kilometers, in-car cellphone use by 88.80%, and highway use by 34.88%. Calibration results indicate that such changes in behavior are consistent with an increase in risk aversion of [???]% and a reduction in annual insurance cost amounting to about 0.05–1.54% of the average car insurance premium.

Paper joint with Yi Xin, Caltech

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:20:15 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
HistLing Discussion Group (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68670 68670-17136729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Guest speaker Martin Kohlberger will speak on "The importance of variation in understanding language change: lessons from Shiwiar (Chicham, Ecuador)."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:01:00 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Literature in Fragments: Lost Greek Works at Michigan (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66701 66701-16770250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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.

The 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.

The exhibit was curated by Allison Thorsen, UMSI student, and can be viewed during regular hours of the Special Collections Research Center:
https://www.lib.umich.edu/special-collections-research-center

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Exhibition Mon, 07 Oct 2019 16:07:27 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Exhibition Detail of Alcidamas’ On Homer, P. Mich. inv. 2754
Mentoring Plan Workshop (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64851 64851-16462990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This workshop helps to enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor. Faculty and students will work independently to identify their own objectives and styles initially, and then faculty-student pairs have time to work together to develop a mentoring plan: a two-way document to codify goals, needs, and shared expectations. Our mentoring committee places high value on this exercise because we know that of Rackham students who have written mentoring plans, 86% report that they find them useful.
Registration is required of both the faculty member and the student. Lunch is provided.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:15:38 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Nature a Moment: Visions of the World from Three Korean-American Artists (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67493 67493-16866581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Three Chicago-area Korean-American artists render deeply personal interpretations of the natural world in the exhibit “Nature a Moment” at Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Using woodcut, painting on canvas, and mixed media, Linda Hyong, Sung Eun Hong, and Seong Ok Lee explore the world of flowers, gardens, and nature in vivid works that slow time to a fleeting present moment.

Linda Hyong is a University of Michigan alumna and former teaching assistant in the U-M Stamps School of Art & Design. She draws her inspiration from Claude Monet’s water lily garden in France to create her own modern interpretation of impressionism. Seong Ok Lee is inspired by flowers, which she believes are the most beautiful forms in nature. In her dream-like, nearly abstract paintings, Sung Eun Hong communicates her vision of what she calls “pure dreams and fantasy.”

Exhibit runs September 14 through November 15, 2019 at the

University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens, 1800 N. Dixboro Rd., Ann Arbor. Free.

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Exhibition Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:08:53 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Exhibition Kyoto lily pond by Linda Hyong
Statistics Department Seminar Series: Heping Zhang, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics, Professor in the Child Study Center and Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63887 63887-15977789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Ordinal outcomes are common in scientific research and everyday practice, and we often rely on regression models to make inference. A long-standing problem with such regression analyses is the lack of effective diagnostic tools for validating model assumptions. The difficulty arises from the fact that an ordinal variable has discrete values that are labeled with, but not, numerical values. The values merely represent ordered categories. In this paper, we propose a surrogate approach to defining residuals for an ordinal outcome Y. The idea is to define a continuous variable S as a ``surrogate'' of Y and then obtain residuals based on S. For the general class of cumulative link regression models, we study the residual's theoretical and graphical properties. We show that the residual has null properties similar to those of the common residuals for continuous outcomes. Our numerical studies demonstrate that the residual has power to detect misspecification with respect to 1) mean structures; 2) link functions; 3) heteroscedasticity; 4) proportionality; and 5) mixed populations. The proposed residual also enables us to develop numeric measures for goodness-of-fit using classical distance notions. Our results suggest that compared to a previously defined residual, our residual can reveal deeper insights into model diagnostics. We stress that this work focuses on residual analysis, rather than hypothesis testing. The latter has limited utility as it only provides a single p-value, whereas our residual can reveal what components of the model are misspecified and advise how to make improvements.

This is a joint work with Dungang Liu, University of Cincinnati Lindner College of Business.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:43:56 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Statistics Workshop / Seminar Heping Zhang
WiAn: White Garden With White Noise (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67261 67261-16831211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

October 5 - November 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Friday, October 4, 6-8 pm
Center Galleries at the College for Creative Studies, Detroit

WiAn: White Garden With White Noise is co-presented by Center Galleries and the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, with support from the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan.

Through visually and auditorily immersive installation, artist JuYeon Kim recognizes, illuminates, and honors the unimaginable suffering and enduring spirit of the Korean “comfort women” (wianbu in Korean) who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

It is estimated over 200,000 Korean women fell prey to Japanese soldiers during this time period, many were as young as 14 years old. The girls and women, often from rural villages, were enslaved in a variety of ways, including kidnapping, coercion, or being convinced with lies of paid factory work during desperate times of famine. Victims of forced sterilization, many died during their time of enslavement. Those who survived often did not return home after the war for fear of stigma and rejection. For much of history, their story has remained untold.

Through WiAn, Kim invites viewers to join her in the recognition of this atrocity — and in providing comfort to the souls of these women. Through meditative poetry, a soundscape by classical music composer George Tsontakis, and sculptural objects, Kim creates a physical space for the souls of these women to be honored, to be comforted, to let go of the past, and to move forward. 

Visitors to the exhibition encounter an ethereal white gardenscape of transparent and opaque fictitious flora, comprised of many different plant specimens. White, the traditional color for Korean funerals, returns the women to their rightful purity and innocence. At the center of the garden, two palanquins engraved with original poetry invite the souls of the wianbu to take rest from their arduous journey to be carried like royalty, to receive unequivocal compassion and kindness. A transparent door and trellis, also engraved with original poetry, invites souls to move lightly, unburdened, to the next chapter of being.

In a time when the #metoo movement has brought about a cultural reckoning, Kim’s work also provides comfort, strength, and a space of contemplation for the living, to all who have suffered and still suffer at the hands of systemic power inequity.

JuYeon Kim is the 2019 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence at the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan. 

 

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Exhibition Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/JuYeonKim-WittDocumentation-8824.jpg
ISD Manufacturing Seminar Series (November 1, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68798 68798-17153401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 8, 2019 from 11:00am-12:00pm in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Manufacturing Seminar Series Speaker, with Xun Huan, Ph.D. Professor Huan is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

In this presentation, Dr. Huan will talk about finding the most useful data and how using a careful design of limited data acquisition opportunities can lead to substantial resource savings.
RSVP here: https://forms.gle/b94JCeg23jJwu3Li9

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:25:41 -0500 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Workshop / Seminar MFG Seminar
U-M Structure Seminar: LRRK2, Rab GTPases, and Parkinson’s disease (November 1, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65766 65766-16654001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Trinity College, The University of Dublin

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:46:03 -0400 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Abstraction, Color, and Politics in the Early 1970s (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58562 58562-15002298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support of this exhibition:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Fri, 10 May 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/Gilliam-04.jpg
Abstraction, Color, and Politics: (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63803 63803-15884102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors: University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, and College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Exhibition Endowment Donors:  Richard and Rosann Noel Endowment Fund, Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and Robert and Janet Miller Fund

University 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

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Exhibition Tue, 11 Jun 2019 12:15:31 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/pindell_image.jpg
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Black Feminisms in the Archive (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68781 68781-17147187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Panel #2: Black Feminisms in the Archive

Courtney Thorsson
"The Sisterhood, Literary Organizing, and The Archive"

A 1977 photo of "The Sisterhood,” a writers' group in New York in the late 1970s that included June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker has circulated as a source of inspiration since it was first published in 2004. This paper tells the story of a research journey from that photo to my book manuscript, The Sisterhood and Black Women's Literary Organizing. Taking my project as a case study, I consider the possibilities and challenges of engaging archives of contemporary African American literature. This paper describes a number of Black Feminist research methods including simultaneously constructing and using archives, engaging Black women writers across genres as theorists, rendering women's work visible, and grappling with loss.

Erica Edwards
“Extraliterature and the Black Feminist Imperative”

This paper begins with the assumption that post-1968 Black feminist writing is a field through which to approach the questions of periodicity, history, and materiality that have animated recent studies of African American literature. I begin by juxtaposing two well known textual moments that expand literary capacity and, at the same time, destabilize the relationship between literature and knowledge at the very moment that Black writing finds its institutional home in the American academy: Shange’s “bring her out/to know herself/to know you” (c. 1974) and Morrison’s “Sth. I know that woman” (1992). Offering these two
sentences/confessions/pleas/ songs as extratextual, extraliterary actings (actings-out?) that perform a certain outwardness or extra-ness, I move on to discuss the extraliterary imperative that guides June Jordan’s 1979 play, The Issue, and Gloria Naylor’s 2005 fictionalized memoir 1996. The extraliterary forms that crowd around the play, on one hand, and the memoir, on the other hand, demand what I want to call, after Greg Thomas, a “literacy of outlaws,” a reading practice that indicts the contemporary critic's position within literary institutions and, at the same time, generates occult forms of knowledge that the critic can access, although not unprobematically, not exclusively, and not without risk.


Courtney Thorsson is an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon, where she teaches, studies, and writes about African American literature from its beginnings to the present. Her book, Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels (Virginia 2013) argues that Toni Cade Bambara, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange, and Toni Morrison reclaim and revise cultural nationalism in their novels of the 1980s and 90s. Her essays have appeared in Callaloo; African American Review; MELUS; Gastronomica; Foodscapes: Food, Space, and Place in a Global Society; Contemporary Literature; and Public Books. With the support of a Public Scholars Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Professor Thorsson is completing a book on Black Women's literary organizing in the 1970s.


Erica R. Edwards is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where she holds the Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature. She is the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership, which was awarded the Modern Language Association’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize. She is the co-editor of Keywords for African American Studies, published in 2018 by NYU Press. Edwards is the recipient of many prestigious fellowships and grants, most recently having completed a residency at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her work on African American literature, politics, and gender critique has appeared in journals such as differences, Callaloo, American Quarterly, American Literary History, and Black Camera.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:29:45 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:35:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Photo of "The Sisterhood"
African American Literature and Culture Now: Symposium (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60739 60739-14961640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Held over two days, the symposium features a keynote lecture, "The End of Black Studies," from Stephen Best (Berkeley), three panels comprised of guest speakers and Michigan respondents, a writing workshop for graduate students and postdocs, and a concluding roundtable focused on teaching. Over the course of the symposium, conversations will range across a number of vital topics including: nation/diaspora; political activism; historicity; gender/sexuality; and cross-media cultural production.

In addition to keynote speaker Stephen Best, the symposium's guest speakers are Margo Crawford (UPenn), Madhu Dubey (UIC), Erica Edwards (Rutgers), Emily Lordi (Vanderbilt), Kevin Quashie (Brown), and Courtney Thorsson (Oregon).

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:57 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Conference / Symposium Poster for AALCN symposium
Behind the Scenes Tour of the Clements Library (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61827 61827-16629892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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.

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Presentation Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:43:24 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Presentation Postcard of the Clements Library
Border Control: Traversing Horizons in Media Practice (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63627 63627-15820774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

In September 2019, the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will host the New Media Caucus 2019 Symposium and Exhibition, Border Control.  Symposium and exhibition events will take place in Ann Arbor at the Stamps School of Art and Design (2000 Bonisteel Blvd.) and Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.).

Exhibition Dates: September 20 - November 10, 2019
Symposium Dates: September 19 - 22, 2019
Guest Curator: Allison Collins, Media Arts Curator, Western Front

Curated by Allison Collins in collaboration with Carrie Edinger and Srimoyee Mitra.
In partnership with the New Media Caucus

Human migration is a defining issue of the 21st century, often calling into question the relevance, role, and responsibilities of national borders across the globe. As individuals seek refuge from geopolitical and environmental forces, we become an increasingly globalized community. Demarcations of all types are simultaneously porous and closed, defensive and receptive, and seen in almost every facet of our existence. Border Control responds to these conditions with an open-ended question, asking: “How has humanity made sense of the world in relation to borders and boundaries, both physically and psychologically?” While positioned within (or outside of) defined spaces and identities, human refusal of such literal definitions is paramount. Even while lines drawn have important consequences for lived reality, the winds, currents, and natural energies of the Earth deny enclosures and definitions that politics and maps might suggest.

Drawn from practices that are touched or driven by new media, Border Control assembles works by artists who consider geographical contexts, patterns of migration, displacement, and statelessness. Collectively, they offer projects with subterfuge, refusal, and reconsideration of imposed state-sanctioned boundaries.

 

 

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Exhibition Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:15:21 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Exhibition https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/escalante3.jpg
Collection Ensemble (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68063 68063-16988409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:07 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition Museum of Art
Copies and Invention in East Asia (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63517 63517-15769777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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.

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Exhibition Tue, 06 Aug 2019 12:15:49 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/1970_2_156.jpg
Donuts in the Dude (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68912 68912-17194950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Student Government

Join ESG for free cider & donuts, coffee, hot chocolate, and tea in the Dude Connector! Let us help you get through midterm season with some free food and tell us what to fix on North campus.

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:02:58 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Student Government Social / Informal Gathering Donuts in the Dude Event
Mari Katayama (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63837 63837-15901138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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.

Lead 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. 

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Exhibition Mon, 30 Sep 2019 18:17:51 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/onthewayhome001_1800x1200_2.jpg
New at UMMA: Walter Oltmann (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63283 63283-15612021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Infant Skull II, a woven “tapestry” made out of very fine aluminum wire, only reveals its shape when seen from afar. Drawing inspiration from his country’s basketry traditions, the South African artist Walter Oltmann (b. 1960) alternates densely layered sections with open spaces, allowing the underlying surface of the work to show through. The skull that emerges is, in a South African context, evocative of the Cradle of Humankind—a series of caves outside Johannesburg, where some of the oldest hominin fossils in the world have been found.

The work complements UMMA’s renowned and growing collection of historical and contemporary African art and reminds us of the central role of Africa in the history of humankind. The purchase was made possible thanks to the generosity of UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee.

This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of the UMMA Director's Acquisition Committee, 2016.

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Exhibition Thu, 20 Jun 2019 12:15:34 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/AP_151005_054%2520%25281%2529.jpg
Take Your Pick: Collecting Found Photographs (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63842 63842-15931458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Come help build our collection of “ordinary” American 20th-century photographs.

Take 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!  

Vote for your favorite pictures: Saturday, September 21, 2019 – Sunday, January 12, 2020 Final selections on view: Tuesday, January 14 – Sunday, February 23, 2020

Support 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.
 

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Exhibition Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Exhibition https://umma.umich.edu/sites/default/files/for%2520the%2520web%25201.jpg
The Best of the West: Western Americana at the Clements Library (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68495 68495-17088514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

"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.

The 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.

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Exhibition Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:07:34 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Exhibition "Buffalo Hunt, Chase" by artist George Catlin (1844)
Academic Innovation at Michigan (AIM) for DEI (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68804 68804-17155489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
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Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, November 1 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Ehrlicher Room at North Quad for AIM for DEI. The team for the Academic Innovation software tool, Tandem, will give a presentation. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event if you plan to attend. 

Abstract:

Team-based learning is an effective pedagogy that has the potential to increase student learning and motivation, but it can also sometimes lead to inequitable or even toxic experiences.  We know that working well on diverse teams is an important skill, but generic messages addressing cultural humility and pro-teamwork behaviors often fall short. 

Tandem is a web-based, customizable tool that provides research-based instruction and support for student teams at scale. Messages informed by an assessment of individuals’ and teams’ needs allow for brief “coaching” that can encourage students to (re)consider teammates’ perspectives and redirect maladaptive team patterns. Short lessons including opportunities for applying ideas to current teamwork experiences via reflection are pushed out regularly throughout the semester. Example lesson topics include: imposter syndrome, equality in group conversation, and tools for supporting collaboration.

Tandem can identify problematic DEI-related team issues and call them out for faculty. For example, in the first year engineering course we co-teach, women sometimes complete more of the project management and communication work, and men sometimes do more of the physical building. That pattern is not meaningful if it only happens with a single team: many characteristics of the individuals on the team affect who does which tasks, and gender is certainly not the sole determinant. However, an instructor might wish to know about such patterns at the class level, or even in the discipline more generally, and Tandem includes algorithms to identify such information. 

Tandem Team Bios:

Laura K. Alford is a Lecturer and Research Investigator in the Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Department in the College of Engineering. She researches ways to use data-informed analysis of students' performance and perceptions of classroom environment to support DEI-based curricula improvements.

Robin Fowler is a Lecturer in the Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. She enjoys serving as a "communication coach" to students throughout the curriculum, and she's especially excited to work with first year and senior students, as well as engineering project teams, as they navigate the more open-ended communication decisions involved in describing the products of open-ended design scenarios. She researches student experiences in team-based pedagogy.

Stephanie Sheffield is a Lecturer in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering. She currently teaches senior-level courses in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. Her research interests are focused on better understanding and improving the learning experiences of the students in her courses, with current emphasis on the ways in which students engage with online resources and student attitudes towards working in teams in DBTC courses.

AIM 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:07:15 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM DEI
AIM for DEI (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67295 67295-16831272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, November 1 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Ehrlicher Room at North Quad for AIM for DEI. More details to come. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event if you plan to attend.

AIM 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:51:28 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DEI
Biophysics Talk Title: TBD (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64274 64274-16274484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: LSA Biophysics

Abstract: TBD

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:39:20 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab LSA Biophysics Workshop / Seminar Chemistry Dow Lab
Building a Dialogic Community: Skills for Faculty and Staff (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67576 67576-16898620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

A series of lunch and learn workshops led by the Program on Intergroup Relations as part of the U-M DEI Summit. Workshops will focus on dialogic skill-building for faculty and staff. This series is generously supported by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

All sessions have a maximum capacity. Please click the Registration link below to reserve your spot.

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What Is Intergroup Dialogue: This Is How We Do It
October 18, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Introductory
Learn about the Program on Intergroup Relations' approach and pedagogical underpinnings to the work rooted in dialogue, power, privilege and oppression.

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Who I am and why it matters: Understanding your social group identities and how it impacts your work
October 25, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Donna Rich Kaplowitz & Cesar Vargas-Leon
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using tools for exploring social group identity and their relations to power and privilege, this workshop has participants examine and reflect on how their social group identities impact their work. Self reflection and sharing is expected.

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Successfully Navigating Power Dynamics with Generative Listening
November 1, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher & Hamida Bhagirathy
Level: Introductory through Advanced
Using the tool of generative listening, participants will learn about their strengths, skills, and capacities to create change, while focused on surfacing the power dilemmas in the workplace and navigating those dynamics to productively move DEI agendas forward in their context. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect upon and answer questions such as “When have I had success in dealing with the power structure? Where have I experienced roadblocks, and what were they? How can collective and coalitional action fuel the power I need to remove roadblocks?”

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(Good) Sh*t Happens: Conflict, Identity and Power
November 8, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Monita Thompson & Shana Schoem
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
This interactive session will provide participants with an opportunity to learn strategies for navigating conflict that specifically focus on balancing power, noticing and surfacing dynamics and attending to how social identities and positionality impact conflict and conflict resolution. Participants will also consider how to reframe conflict as positive, productive and natural.

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Dominant Narratives
November 15, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Stephanie Hicks
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
In this workshop we will explore the influence of social power, hegemony and dominant (meta, grand or master) narratives in classrooms and other dialogic settings. Participants will learn about an approach called Multipartiality and the technique of counter narratives.

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Advanced Strategies and Techniques for Multipartial Facilitation
November 22, 2019 - 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Roger Fisher
Level: Advanced
This session is for participants already familiar with dominant narratives and multipartiality as a facilitation technique, to explore a deeper dive into the nuances of these skills.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:37:38 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Workshop / Seminar Building a Dialogic Community
CALCIUM - Panel: Industry to Academia (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67850 67850-16960491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

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Other Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:15:21 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Chemistry Other Chemistry Dow Lab
Demystifying Work-Life Balance (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65482 65482-16605628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Research on the concept of dual-centric provides helpful guidance on strategies for balance. Studies show that people with a dual focus on work and personal life are less stressed and more successful than those whose primary focus is on just work, or just personal life. In this interactive workshop we will review the strategies these dual focused people follow to achieve balance, and engage in related exercises.
This 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.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/Boo87.
We 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.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 23 Sep 2019 18:17:23 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Rackham Graduate School Workshop / Seminar
EEB Seminar Series: Leveraging the power of place to explore, educate and predict how the natural world works now and in the future (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68571 68571-17103237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Field stations provide platforms for transformative long-term and placed-based research as well as extraordinary opportunities for education and outreach. Dr. Classen will discuss her field station vision using some examples from her own work exploring ecosystem and global change ecology. Broadly, the Classen group explores how ecosystems function and how biotic and abiotic interactions influence patterns and processes within and among communities and ecosystems. Working across scales from the micro (soil food webs) to the macro (regional carbon fluxes) as well as across diverse terrestrial ecosystems (forests, meadows, bogs; tropics, arctic, temperate) the Classen lab uses a combination of observations, experiments, and models to answer ecological and global change questions

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:07 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Workshop / Seminar Dr. Classen in the field
IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, U-M IOE (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68543 68543-17096938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

This event is open to all IOE PhD students, faculty, and staff. Lunch will be provided. In order to get an accurate count for food, please RSVP by Wednesday, October 30, 2019.

Title:
Contextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization: Theory and Applications to Chronic Diseases

Abstract:
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide, requiring the surveillance and monitoring of patients to assess disease progression and determine if a treatment is warranted. Even when a suitable treatment is prescribed, dosing it correctly remains a significant challenge because proper dosage is highly volatile among patients. This involves adaptively learning a personalized disease progression control model conditional on patient-specific contextual information. We formulate this as a new contextual multi-armed bandit under a two-dimensional patient-specific control with a nested structure, which sequentially selects both treatment and corresponding dosage based on contextual information of patients, with the goal of minimizing disease progression risk. We develop contextual learning and optimization algorithms that integrate the strength of contextual bandit learning with online convex optimization. Comparing with the clairvoyant optimal policy, we prove a T-period regret, which is provably tight up to a logarithmic factor. We illustrate the effectiveness of our methodology by using case data on patients with type 2 diabetes. We believe that our contextual learning and optimization framework could be widely used in many other service systems.

Bio:
Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh is a PhD candidate in Operations Research at the Industrial and Operations Engineering department of the University of Michigan. His main research interests have broadly focused on developing efficient and effective data-driven algorithms with theoretical performance guarantees for several core problems in healthcare operations and medical decision making. Methodologically, he focuses on statistical machine learning algorithms such as contextual multi armed bandits, online convex optimization, and reinforcement learning. For applications, he focuses on online resource allocation for healthcare operations, readmission problem, managing chronic disease progression, and personalized medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:27:13 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Workshop / Seminar IOE Lunch & Learn Seminar Series: Esmaeil Keyvanshokooh, U-M IOE
MCDB Seminar: UTI Pathogenesis, Host-Pathogen Interface, Antibiotic-sparing therapeutics (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67348 67348-16839904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Host: Matt Chapman

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:23:11 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Workshop / Seminar high resolution micrograph of pathogenic bacteria binding to tissue
Sandwiches and Science: Training (for) Better Presentations Graduate Speaker Series (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59651 59651-16898652@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

**Fall 2019 KICK-OFF WORKSHOP SEPTEMBER 23RD**

Sandwiches 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.

Each 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.

If 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.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:20:21 -0500 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Tau Beta Pi Workshop / Seminar TBP Speaker Series
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66037 66037-16684585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Dorian Warren, president of the Center for Community Change Action, will give a talk about his book, titled "The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy," as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dorian Warren
Time Management (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68662 68662-17130529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Nursing
Organized By: First Year Experience Programs

How do you manage your time? Time is a form of currency: you want to spend it well in order to grow and achieve your goals! Bring your schedule and learn how to effectively manage your academics to be successful inside and outside the classroom!

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:15:13 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 School of Nursing First Year Experience Programs Workshop / Seminar FYE/School of Nursing Flyer
ASCE Seminar Series: GHD (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66245 66245-16719620@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: GG Brown Laboratory
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Established in 1928 and privately owned by our people, GHD operates across five continents - Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America - and the Pacific region. GHD employs more than 10,000 people in 200+ offices to deliver projects with high standards of safety, quality and ethics across the entire asset value chain. Driven by a client-service led culture, GHD connects the knowledge, skill and experience of their people with innovative practices, technical capabilities and robust systems to create lasting community benefits.

Committed to sustainable development, GHD improves the physical, natural and social environments of the many communities in which they operate. GHD are guided by their workplace health, safety, quality and environmental management systems, which are certified to the relevant international standards (ISO and OHSAS).

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 03 Sep 2019 16:43:49 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 GG Brown Laboratory Civil and Environmental Engineering Workshop / Seminar ASCE Speaker Series
E-Hour Speaker Series - eLab Ventures (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69004 69004-17211738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: Center for Entrepreneurship

The weekly Entrepreneurship Hour speaker series is back every Friday during the academic year, free and open to the public to attend.

Paul W Brown is a managing partner of eLab Ventures, a venture capital firm headquartered in Michigan with offices in Silicon Valley. Formerly the Vice President of Capital Markets at the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC), and before that practiced law in the Manhattan office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge John O’Meara in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Regent Brown is a past board member and observer of the Michigan League of Conservation Voters, the Michigan Venture Capital Association, the Venture Michigan Fund, and several early stage IT and life-science companies. Regent Brown cofounded and was board chair of Front Door Insights. He has also taught courses on finance and entrepreneurship as a lecturer in the College of Engineering.

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Presentation Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:39 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:20:00-04:00 Walgreen Drama Center Center for Entrepreneurship Presentation Paul Brown
ECRC Group Chats with Peer Advisors (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67145 67145-16805216@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Engineering Career Resource Center

Fridays 12:30pm-1:30pm in 265 Chrysler Center

Need advice on your job search? Got a quick question? Stop in to ask our Career Peer Advisors. Stay to join the group discussion and learn additional tips for a successful job search.

The ECRC Peer Advisors have experienced the job search. They know what it’s like out there and they know how to navigate interactions with recruiters and hiring managers to get the interview and land the job! And, they are excited to assist you in your search.

Questions about this recurring event? Email ecrc-info@umich.edu.

This is a College of Engineering Event

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Careers / Jobs Fri, 13 Sep 2019 12:44:26 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Engineering Career Resource Center Careers / Jobs Chrysler Center
Mid-Day Morsel Drop-In Tour (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64510 64510-16380892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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.

While 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.

Mid-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.

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Other Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:08:16 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Other Mid-Day Morsels
Robotics Symposium (November 1, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67379 67379-16846416@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:30pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Organized By: Michigan Robotics

Together with the Association for Advancing Automation and the University of Michigan Robotics Institute, Littler is proud to be hosting the AI and Robotics Symposium.

Advanced technologies are at the forefront of nearly every major industry and thought leaders worldwide are discussing their impact on our enterprises and workforces. At this symposium, executives from some of the world’s leading robotics manufacturers, system integrators, end users, technologists, corporate leaders, and academics will engage in panel discussions covering the latest innovations in robotics and AI, as well as the most pressing questions their adoption poses.

Attendees can engage in thought-provoking discourse on how emerging technologies are reshaping business and the world of work. A review of the most current issues includes:
• The most important and immediate ethical challenges of AI and AI-empowered robotics in the workplace
• How to harness your competitive edge through collaborative robots
• Practical reskilling steps that are required now for successfully preparing your workforce for the implementation of robotics, augmented and virtual reality, and various forms of AI
• Expert tips on successfully automating from some of the world's leading robotics manufacturers, system integrators, and end users

Registration: 12:30 - 1:00 pm
Program: 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Networking Reception: 5:00 - 6:30 pm

Register here:
https://www.littler.com/events/ai-and-robotics-symposium-sharing-thought-leadership-shaping-future-work

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 18 Sep 2019 08:22:33 -0400 2019-11-01T12:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 18 Michigan Robotics Conference / Symposium North Campus Research Complex Building 18
Economics at Work (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68594 68594-17105353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Economics

Rachel is currently the Head of Business Development at One Rockwell, a full-service ecommerce agency.
Her career is powered by a passion for helping brands grow their business, and in a belief that an exceptional brand story and the right technology are the foundational elements to sustained success. At One Rockwell she leads a team to generate leads, expand agency verticals, and collaborate with product to constantly evolve their offerings. Previously, over three years at Lyst, she co-led US partnerships generating industry buy-in for their proprietary technology and helping the site to amass over 2.5 million live products in their largest market.
Strengths include creative problem solving, industry alignment, a deep understanding of the ecommerce ecosystem, and creating a superior retail experience. Rachel has worked with brands including Dior, COTY, Vera Bradley, Schiaparelli Haute Couture, Farm Rio, American Eagle/aerie, and more. She carries an Economics degree from the University of Michigan and is on the Board of Advisors for the Michigan Fashion Media Summit (MFMS).


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.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 28 Oct 2019 09:10:18 -0400 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Economics Workshop / Seminar economics
EXCEL Talk with Matt Letscher (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66979 66979-16789928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: B222 Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: University Career Center

Join EXCEL for a Q&A with SMTD alumnus, Matt Letscher, on his career and professional trajectory. Mr. Letscher attended the Universityof Michigan and received a BA in Theatre, but it was a pair of workshopswith the legendary Uta Hagen that cemented his love of the craft. His career since has ranged from stage to screen. Film credits include 13 Hours,Her, Teacher of the Year, Devil’s Knot, Towelhead, Identity, and The Mask of Zorro. Television credits include The Flash, Scandal, Carrie Diaries, Boardwalk Empire, Brothers and Sisters, Entourage, and The New Adventures of Old Christine. Theater credits include Broadway productions of Neil Simon’s Proposals, The Rivals, and Julia Cho’s The Language Archive. He’s also appeared in the world premieres of Howard Korder’s In a Garden, Beth Henley’s Ridiculous Fraud, Kate Robin’s What they Have and Lanford Wilson’s Raindance (at the Purple Rose Theatre.)
As a writer, his play Sea Of Fools received a production at The Purple Rose in 2007. His pilot, Gentrification (co-written with Nipper Knapp and Andrew Newberg) won the award for Best Writing at the 2010 New York TelevisionFestival and their series One and Done can now be seen at oneanddoneshow.com. His visit is hosted by the Department of Theatre & Drama. ARTSADMN 410/510: 1 credit

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Careers / Jobs Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:30:29 -0400 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 B222 Walgreen Drama Center University Career Center Careers / Jobs
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63912 63912-15987739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:03:13 -0400 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Internship Lab (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64464 64464-16351036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Organized By: University Career Center

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!

Get 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!

Chat with folks from the University Career Center to explore Handshake, the University Career Alumni Network (UCAN) and to learn about other tools you can use to build a great job/internship search strategy.

**If you're not sure what you're interested in, consider making an "Exploring Major/Career Option" appointment to get started clarifying your interests with a career coach in a 1-on-1 setting.

**If you're a Graduate Student, please make a 1:1 appointment instead of attending the Lab because this event is designed for undergraduates.

Note: This event's information is shown in Handshake as well as on the Happening@ Michigan calendar so that it will be seen by a larger number of U-M Students. If you'd like to indicate that you'll be attending this event then please go to: https://umich.joinhandshake.com/events/326484

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Careers / Jobs Sat, 16 Nov 2019 06:30:20 -0500 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery, 913 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA University Career Center Careers / Jobs
AE 285 Undergraduate Seminar: Reusable Launch Systems, Space Sustainability and Economic Growth, and the Development of Green Spaceports (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68981 68981-17205330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Charles J. Lauer
Co-founder & VP Business Development, Rocketplane Global Inc.

This presentation will review the fundamental economic drivers that will create a robust and diverse cis-lunar space economy over the next 30 years and how these forces support the UN Sustainability Goals. New space industries such as lunar and asteroid resource development, in-space assembly and satellite servicing, and active debris removal will be discussed. Reusable launch vehicle developments will be discussed including the Rocketplane Global program here in Michigan and the development of a Green Spaceport under the Michigan Launch Initiative.

Mr. Lauer is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He is a successful real estate planning consultant and developer, and the President of Peregrine Properties, Ltd. in Lansing, Michigan. Mr. Lauer has been responsible for negotiating, obtaining regulatory approvals and arranging financing for over $350 million in numerous successful real estate development projects; as well as having served as the Planning Commission Chairman in his local community for more than 10 years. He is also a co-founder and Vice President of Business Development for Rocketplane Global, Inc. He has been researching and developing potential business opportunities in space since 1991, and has published many general interest articles and technical papers on commercial space development. Mr. Lauer has been a consultant to Boeing, NASA and several space start-ups on commercial space projects. He is now actively involved in the planning and development of several new spaceport projects around the world; and is an Advocate and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Space Frontier Foundation. He is a member of the IAF Commercial Spaceflight Safety Committee; a member of the Board of Advisors of the International Space Safety Foundation; and a member of the Suborbital Spaceflight Safety Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety. He is also a Guest Lecturer and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Embry Riddle Aeronautical University Commercial Space Operations Program Advisory Board, and a member of the FastForward Working Group studying point-to-point suborbital space transportation policy and technology issues.

Mr. Lauer has also been involved in the development and commercialization of several next-generation renewable energy technologies including advanced wind turbines for land as well as offshore wind farm applications; hybrid wind/solar energy farms; wave energy development, manufacturing and deployment, and new algae-based biofuels production. His focus in this business sector is in creating public-private partnerships in key geographic markets around the world and creating joint venture project teams to implement the technology development and manufacturing capacity necessary to commercialize these Green Technology programs.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Workshop / Seminar Rocketplane XS reusable launch platform
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Writing Workshop (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68782 68782-17147188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium brings together a group of leading scholars in African American humanistic fields to identify and discuss the central questions that animate 21st-century Black Studies.

Please join us for a discussion of pre-circulated papers by University of Michigan graduate and postdoctoral students.

Faculty Respondents: Michael Awkward, Madhu Dubey, Emily Lordi, Kevin Quashie, Xiomara Santamarina, Megan Sweeney, Courtney Thorsson, Jason Young

Participating PhD students and Postdocs: Samantha Adams, Alexander Aguayo, Lauren Benjamin, Kyle Frisina, Jeremy Glover, David Hutchinson, Valentina Montero-Roman, Emily Na, Hayley O'Malley, Yeshua Tolle, Sydney Tunstall, and Jessica Walker

We very much welcome auditors, but please email Hayley O'Malley (hayleyom@umich.edu) and Yeshua Tolle (ygtolle@umich.edu) by Wednesday, October 30th to receive access to the papers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:53:46 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Workshop / Seminar
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Team and Leadership Training Interventions in Emergency Medical Teams (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67886 67886-16960561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Teamwork failures have been directly linked with medical errors and adverse patient events. As a result, multiple efforts have been made to improve the leadership and performance of healthcare teams. Two studies will be presented that assess team training effects on teamwork behaviors and patient outcomes for emergency medical teams. In the first study, a computer-based team training program was designed to familiarize emergency medical residents on eight teamwork processes. Results showed teams that received this training were significantly better than placebo training teams on both teamwork and patient care outcomes in high-fidelity simulated patient resuscitation scenarios. In the second study, a simulated-based team leadership training program was designed to train trauma team leaders on behaviors important to action team leadership. In a randomized controlled trial, trauma team leaders were video recorded in actual trauma resuscitations, before and after training. Results showed a significant difference in post-training leadership behaviors between the training and control conditions. Furthermore, leadership behaviors were found to mediate an effect of training on patient care with a significant indirect effect.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:58:48 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
IPE Friday Free Passport Photos for Engineering Students (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53322 53322-16452987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: International Programs in Engineering

Need a passport photo for a passport or visa application? International Programs in Engineering (IPE) has got you covered!

-Fall & Winter Semester Only
-Fridays 1:30-3:30pm at the IPE Office (245 Chrysler Center)
-No Appointment Needed
-Not During Exam Week or Holidays

This service is for CoE undergraduate and graduate students.
For best results, wear darker colored, solid (non patterned) shirt/top

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Other Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:54:10 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center International Programs in Engineering Other IPE
Linguistics Open House (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65569 65569-16613768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The open house is an opportunity for prospective students to meet with Linguistics faculty, staff, and LSA advisors; tour Linguistics labs; learn about research and pre-speech and hearing opportunities; and hear from undergraduate clubs. Free burrito lunch provided.

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Reception / Open House Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:32:24 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Reception / Open House Lorch Hall
Political Theory Workshop (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65951 65951-16676310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

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Meeting Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:08:55 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Meeting Haven Hall
Alumni Connections: International Journalist Patti Waldmeir (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67937 67937-16969027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Patti Waldmeir majored in English and math in the LSA Honors college and went on to win a Marshall scholarship to study English at Clare College, University of Cambridge, in the U.K., where she obtained a master’s degree.

Patti has worked as a foreign correspondent for 40 years, almost all of it for the Financial Times. She has been a correspondent for the FT since 1980, based in London, Washington, Johannesburg/Cape Town, Shanghai, and most recently Chicago.
Patti started her career covering the continent of Africa, including a decade covering the transition from white to black rule in South Africa, after which she wrote a prize-winning book about the transition. Patti went on to become U.S. editor of the Financial Times, and then spent a decade as FT’s U.S. legal columnist before moving to Shanghai to cover China for the publication for 8 years.
Patti is now a columnist and feature writer for the Financial Times writing about the U.S. Midwest.

Patti will speak to students about her path from the liberal arts to journalism, what it’s like to have a global career and navigate different cultural environments, and balancing life and career goals.

This event is intended for undergraduate LSA students.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 02 Oct 2019 14:34:19 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Workshop / Seminar PW
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Rights of Neighbourliness: Decolonising Responses to Mass Displacement. (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68136 68136-17011976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is "Migration in the Islamicate World."

Following postcolonial debates on the decentering of knowledge production, and relational understandings of agency, I explore hitherto unremarked upon popular socio-cultural memories of jiwār or a right of neighborliness as a means to (a) furrow other geographies beyond the humanitarian and (b) to interrogate the sacred/profane binary inherent to the concept of ‘religion’. In articulating a right of neighborliness, refugee and migrant others in fact demand a right to the neighborhood. In so doing, they interrogate both the poetics and politics of so-called sacred space. This reveals conviviality and neighborliness to be a fluid everyday strategy of encountering difference to help mitigate the possibility of conflict and bolster positive relations as refugees negotiate their new geography of exile. Attention is drawn not only to the limits built-in to thinking about the movement of refugees from the global South through European inflected ontologies, but also understandings of where the sacred can be located. Based on ethnographic and interview data gathered during fieldwork in Damascus (2010-11), Gaziantep (2013) and Athens (2016), this paper examines the struggle for displaced people to claim a right of neighborliness. It considers the constraints on home-making for displaced populations. In the absence of a definitive legal status for forced migrants in the region, relationships at the everyday local neighborhood level take on added significance in negotiating a geography of exile.

Tahir Zaman is lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Sussex and the Deputy Director of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research (SCMR). Tahir is primarily interested in matters pertaining to refugee agency and alternative socio-cultural understandings of refuge during times of mass displacement. Tahir’s work explores the social and cultural life-worlds of Iraqi refugees in Damascus, where he undertook fieldwork in 2010 and 2011. His work also critically engages with the limits and opportunities of faith-based humanitarianism. Palgrave Macmillan published his monograph in 2016 under the title of ‘Islamic traditions of refuge in the crises of Iraq and Syria’. His current research interest focuses on the intersections of displacement, humanitarianism and social economy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:15:39 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image