Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Cheikh Lô | Artist Q&A (January 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71438 71438-17827790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Saturday, January 25, Noon-1:30pm
Blue Llama, 314 S. Main St
Free & Open to the Public

Cheikh Lô is one of the great mavericks of African music. A superb singer and songwriter as well as a distinctive guitarist, percussionist and drummer he has personalised and distilled a variety of influences from West and Central Africa, to create a style that is uniquely his own. Incorporating Senegalese mbalax with elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-laden style of pop music. Born in 1955, to Senegalese parents in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, not far from the border with Mali, where he grew up speaking Bambara (language of Mali), Wolof (language of Senegal) and French. At 21 he started singing and playing percussion with Orchestra Volta Jazz in Bobo Dioulasso, and spent much of the 1980s working as a session musician in both Dakar, Senegal and Paris, France, while also developing his own repertoire. In 1995, Youssou N’Dour helped to produce his second solo record, and signature sound – a semi acoustic, Spanish-tinged take on the popular mbalax style – was an instant success in Senegal, gaining him a dedicated local following and subsequent international success.

Cheikh Lô will also perform two sets at the Blue Llama Jazz Club on Saturday, January 25 (7pm & 9pm). Visit https://www.bluellamaclub.com/event/cheikh-lo for ticket information for these performances.

This Artist Q&A is co-sponsored by Center for World Performance Studies and African Studies Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:10:01 -0500 2020-01-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Cheikh Lo
Scientist in the Forum (January 25, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482978@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-25T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
A Conversation with Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Hope of Abstraction and the Possibilities of the Public Square (January 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68754 68754-17147142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, January 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Artist Cullen Washington, Jr. uses non-representational abstraction to understand order, chaos, and social relationships. His practice makes use of the grid to physically and metaphorically flatten hierarchies and rank to create a new conception of the possibilities for a public square. Washington sees this public space as an ideal "gathering place" for activated assembly and inclusive democracy. Historically, the public square has also been the site of spectacles and public humiliations; today, the internet holds out the promise of a level playing field with access for all that also includes space for extreme views and falsehoods.  Please join Mr. Washington and exhibition curator Vera Grant on opening day for a conversation about the role of art, artists, and the “hope of abstraction” within our current battles for the public square.

Light refreshments to follow.  

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:16:55 -0500 2020-01-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-25T17:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
ASP Public Talk| A Personal Introduction to Diaspora Armenian Art (January 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70366 70366-17586193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

What challenges and opportunities does the Armenian diaspora have? In this presentation, Dr. Karen Jallatyan will address this question by talking about his personal journey towards becoming a scholar of the Armenian diaspora, some of the specific research paths that he is taking as well as the way he sees the broader significance of it all. To this end, he will briefly allude to some works of art by the writer Vahé Oshagan, among other artists, to demonstrate the creative potential at the heart of diaspora. He will close his talk by making some general remarks about the centrality of Western Armenian literary language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:12:57 -0500 2020-01-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Karen Jallatyan, 2019-20 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M
Scientist in the Forum (January 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17482981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-01-26T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
In Conversation: Disability and Power with Dessa Cosma (January 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68755 68755-17147143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, January 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Dessa Cosma is a social justice activist and the founding director of Detroit Disability Power, which works to bridge the gap between the disability community and social justice movements. For Cosma, disability is a key part of her identity and of critical importance socially and politically—just like race, gender, sexual orientation, and religion. In this informal gallery talk, she will respond to the works of Japanese artist Mari Katayama and reflect upon her experiences and political expression as a disability activist. Mari Katayama uses her disabled body as the subject in her provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Katayama was born with two fingers on one hand and had both of her legs amputated by the age of nine; she has worn prosthetics ever since. In order to fill a deep gap between her own understanding of self and her physicality in the context of contemporary society’s simplistic categorizations, Katayama began to explore her identity by objectifying her body in her art.   

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, 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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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Jan 2020 18:17:21 -0500 2020-01-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-26T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques (January 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71734 71734-17877249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

CDB Faculty Candidate Seminar: Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee & the Department of Human Genetics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 09:27:44 -0500 2020-01-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T12:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Global, Organism-Scale Views of Cell State Heterogeneity & Dynamics Via Novel Single Cell Profiling Techniques - Junyue Cao, Ph.D
Heating Up for the Press: An Exchange of Writing & Research (January 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71152 71152-17783464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Speakers: Heidi Hilliker, Nadav Linial, Shachar Pinsker, Kathryn Babayan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:55:36 -0500 2020-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T19:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo of MES Lecture series poster
WCEE Distinguished Fellow Lecture. The Russian Media: 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall (January 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70723 70723-17619605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats, Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Moscow-based “New Times” and a radio host with more than 40 years experience with Soviet, Russian and international media, will give a lecture on the rise and fall of the Russian free press over the last 30 years. Despite perestroika and the collapse of the Berlin Wall, censorship has since returned and the once-famous Russian TV networks have turned back into Soviet-style propaganda machines. The few independent media outlets that remain are struggling to survive in the absence of advertising and financial support, while under pressure from the omnipotent state.

Dr. Yevgenia M. Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, author and radio host. Since 2007, she has served as Political Editor and is now Editor-in-Chief and CEO of “The New Times,” a Moscow-based, Russian language independent political weekly. The New Times is digital-only as of June of 2017, when Russian authorities severed its distribution and sales.
Since 2004, Dr. Albats has hosted “Absolute Albats,” a talk show on “Echo Moskvy,” the only remaining liberal radio station in Russia. Albats was an Alfred Friendly Press Fellow assigned to the “Chicago Tribune” in 1990, and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1993. She graduated from Moscow State University in 1980, and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University in 2004. She has been a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) since its founding in 1996.
Albats taught at Yale from 2003 to 2004 and was a full-time professor at the Moscow-based university The Higher School of Economics, where she taught institutional theory of the state and bureaucracy until her courses were canceled at the request of top Kremlin officials in 2011. In 2017 Albats was chosen as an inaugural fellow at Kelly’s Writers House and Perry House at the University of Pennsylvania. Albats is the author of four books, including one on the history of the Russian political police, the KGB, whose graduates are running the country today. Yevgenia Albats is the inaugural International Institute Distinguished Faculty Fellow for 2019-2020 in partnership with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES) at the University of Michigan.

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, 20 Dec 2019 16:03:12 -0500 2020-01-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Yevgenia Albats, radio host, Ekho Moskvy and International Institute/WCEE Distinguished Fellow, U-M
CSEAS Event. Book Discussion of “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen” by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71111 71111-17777077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Monday, January 27, 2020 / 6:00-8:30 pm / 555 Weiser Hall
Light refreshments from Silvio’s Organic Ristorante will be served at 6:00-6:30 pm

*Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen* by Filipino-American journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a book discussion followed by a Q&A, with Marlon James Sales, postdoctoral fellow in critical translation studies at the Department of Comparative Literature; and Rima Hassouneh, CSEAS outreach coordinator.

CSEAS will give away 25 complimentary copies of Dear America before our book event. To request your copy, contact Rima Hassouneh (at rhassoun@umich.edu; Pick-up location: Weiser Hall, Fourth Floor, 500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

*Books will be given away on a first-come-first-serve basis.*

Additional 25 complimentary copies will be given to the audience members during the book discussion.

Free and open to the general public, faculty, students, and staff, the event highlights the 2020 Washtenaw Reads event on January 30, 2020, at Washtenaw Community College, at which Jose Antonio Vargas will speak about his experiences as an undocumented citizen.

Washtenaw Reads is a community initiative that promotes reading and civic dialogue through the shared experience of reading and discussing a common book. Participating libraries include Ann Arbor, Chelsea, Dexter, Milan, Northfield Township, Saline, and Ypsilanti. For more information about this year's Washtenaw Reads, go to https://aadl.org/washtenawreads.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:04:37 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion book_discussion-image
The 1619 Project: Episode 5, part 1 and 2: The Land of our Fathers (January 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71001 71001-17766501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Part 1: More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession. June and Angie Provost, who trace their family line to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this story well.

On today’s episode: The Provosts spoke with Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619.”
Part 2: The Provosts, a family of sugar-cane farmers in Louisiana, had worked the same land for generations. When it became harder and harder to keep hold of that land, June Provost and his wife, Angie, didn’t know why — and then a phone call changed their understanding of everything. In the finale of “1619,” we hear the rest of June and Angie’s story, and its echoes in a past case that led to the largest civil rights settlement in American history.


On today’s episode: June and Angie Provost; Adizah Eghan and Annie Brown, producers for “1619”; and Khalil Gibran Muhammad, a professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard University and the author of “The Condemnation of Blackness.”

“1619” is a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:31:33 -0500 2020-01-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
(Mis)Education of Religion (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71535 71535-17836351@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

This dialogue will engage misconceptions about religious/spiritual and secular groups and tackle how difficult conversations like this to help ignite the movement for social change.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/mnAnk

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 16:51:57 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020 (January 27, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72053 72053-17922808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

2019 was a year of global mass protest in Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, France, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Haiti and many other countries. Millions of people filled the streets against social inequality.

This global wave of social struggle swept through the United States, where 50,000 autoworkers engaged in the largest auto strike in more than forty years.

The word “socialism” is gaining popularity, especially among young people and workers. Billions are opposed to unending war, unprecedented levels of social inequality, the rise of fascism and authoritarianism, environmental degradation and all the consequences of capitalism.

But does socialism mean working within the same capitalist political parties who are responsible for inequality and war, as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claim? No. Genuine socialism means mobilizing the strength of billions of workers, dismantling the militaries, seizing control of the corporations and reorganizing the world economy to meet social need, not private profit.

This meeting will review the state of world politics and outline a program and perspective for the working class to fight back.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:09:46 -0500 2020-01-27T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion The resurgence of class struggle and the fight for socialism in 2020. 7 PM Monday, January 27. University of Michigan. Michigan League, Vandenberg Room.
“Overcoming biological barriers to nucleic acid delivery” (January 28, 2020 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71237 71237-17794025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The NIH T32 Training Program in Organogenesis is pleased to present a Special Series: "Emerging Topics in Tissue Regeneration and Engineering" featuring seminar guest Micheal J. Mitchell, Ph.D.

Dr. Mitchell is a Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation, Department of Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

The talk is entitled, “Overcoming biological barriers to nucleic acid delivery”.

Trainee Host: Sajedeh Nasr Esfahani, Ph.D. Candidate-Jianping Fu Lab

For additional info: 936-2499 / organogenesis@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:00:47 -0500 2020-01-28T04:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T05:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Mitchell Seminar Flyer
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | How Hedging Made US-China Tensions Worse: Order, Strategic Competition, and Aggregated Security Dilemmas in Asia and the Pacific (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70201 70201-17547233@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

States in Asia and the Pacific have been talking about “hedging” and “not choosing sides” between the United States and China since the 1990s. Their aim was to moderate potential tensions between Washington and Beijing and promote cooperation, but this has not appeared to work. Instead, these disparate efforts to find a middle way between the two major powers resulted in greater levels of uncertain that have exacerbated security dilemma dynamics between the United States and China and created greater incentives for rivalry rather than cooperation.

Chong Ja Ian is an Associate Professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from Princeton University in 2008 and previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research covers the intersection of international and domestic politics, with a focus on the externalities of major power competition, nationalism, regional order and security, contentious politics, and state formation. He works on US-China relations, security and order in Northeast and Southeast Asia, cross-strait relations, and Taiwan politics. Chong is author of "External Intervention and the Politics of State Formation: China, Indonesia, Thailand, 1893-1952" (Cambridge, 2012), a recipient of the 2013 International Security Studies Section Book Award from the International Studies Association. His publications appear in the China Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Security, Security Studies, and other journals. At the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Chong will examine how non-leading state behavior collectively intensifies major power rivalries, paying particular attention to the US-China relationship. He has concurrent projects investigating how states react to sanctions on third parties by trade partners and the characteristics of foreign influence operations.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:11:43 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ja Ian Chong, Associate Professor of Political Science, National University of Singapore
Towards Humanity: A Conversation on Humanism and Antiracist Organizing (January 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70967 70967-17760240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

On behalf of the School of Social Work, CASC Undergraduate Minor Program, and Semester in Detroit, we invite your participation to the following MLK Symposium lecture and discussion.

The following session will explore themes presented in Tawana Petty’s book Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-Racism Organizing. Through a lecture and panel discussion, the presenter will explore pressing issues facing antiracist organizing and her vision and approach to a humanistic philosophy. Following the lecture, the speaker will host a conversation with community development organizer Lauren A. Hood to discuss how Detroit based organizers navigate questions, themes, and challenges in ant-racist organizing, applications of humanism, and other guiding philosophical principles toward change.

This event is co-sponsored by the Community Action and Social Change Minor Program, SSW Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Semester in Detroit Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 11:08:58 -0500 2020-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T14:00:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Towards Humanity
FellowSpeak: "Down and Out and Pregnant in Medieval France" (January 28, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69972 69972-17491319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk will address the meaning and consequences of extramarital pregnancy for women in medieval France, married and unmarried, low and high status, nuns, wives, widows, prostitutes, wet nurses, and domestic servants.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:54:13 -0500 2020-01-28T12:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Diane chassent Callisto, Ovide moralisé 1380-1395 Lyon, BM, 0742 (0648), f. 030
Critical Conversations: Rhetoric (January 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70160 70160-17540901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:35:42 -0500 2020-01-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha (January 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71531 71531-17836345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician whose research broke the news about the Flint water crisis and launched her into worldwide advocacy for clean water and better lives for children in Flint, Michigan. The event will be moderated by, Jacob Carah, an independent investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker. His recent film "Flints Deadly Water," for PBS FRONTLINE was focused on the water crisis and local development in the city of Flint, Michigan.

The event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Tuesday, January 28th. Lecture will be 3-4:30pm with a reception following the event 4:30-5:30 pm. We will have copies of Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha's latest copy "What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City" available for the first 30 students.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/Boq2Z

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 07:44:39 -0500 2020-01-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T17:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer with event information
Africa Workshop with Robert Launay (Northwestern) (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71004 71004-17766504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Biography
Robert Launay is a social/cultural anthropologist trained in the United States, England, and France. He has conducted extensive field work in West Africa (specifically in Côte d’Ivoire) with Muslim minorities historically specializing in trade. His first book, Traders without Trade (Cambridge University Press), focused on how this minority was able to adapt to its loss over its former trade monopoly. His second book, Beyond the Stream: Islam and Society in a West African Town (University of California Press), which won the Amaury Talbot Prize for best African ethnography in England in 1992, dealt specifically with religious change and controversy. He has recently edited a volume on Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards (Indiana University Press, in press).

After years of teaching the history of anthropology to undergraduates and graduates alike in the department, he has begun research on the history of the discipline, publishing several articles on the history of ethnography in Africa (particularly in French) and, more extensively, on the ‘prehistory’ of the field. His recently publishd book, Savages, Despots, and Romans: The Urge to Compare and the Origins of Anthropology, traces the ways in which “modern Europeans” came to define themselves with reference to non-moderns (ancient Greeks and Romans in particular) and non-Europeans from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. He has edited an anthology of early sources in anthropology, Foundations of Anthropological Theory: From classical antiquity to the eighteenth century (Wiley/Blackwell 2010)

Most recently, he has begun a project on French foodways in the Midwest, in collaboration with Aurelien Mauxion, a graduate of the program who wrote his dissertation under his supervision. The project takes as its starting point the fact that the Midwest was colonized by France before it became part of the United States. They are looking at how early French settlers adapted to specifically American foods and environments, and how contemporary descendants of French settlers express their identities in terms of what they cook and eat.

In Spring 2018, Prof. Launay spoke at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose Giovanni XXIII in Bologna, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and the Universities of Bayreuth and Gottingen in Germany.
Research and teaching interests
The history and ‘prehistory’ of anthropological theory, as well as its contemporary developments; the anthropology of scriptural religions, with particular focus on Islam; the historical ethnography of West Africa; the anthropology of food, particularly French foodways in the American Midwest.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 10:19:47 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Distinguished University Professor (DUP) Lecture (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71783 71783-17879434@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Page was named in 2019 as the John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management. He also is the Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration and professor of management and organizations in the Ross School, and a professor of political science, complex systems and economics in LSA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:46:08 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Scott Page
Distinguished University Professorships: Insights into Distinguished Careers (January 28, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71681 71681-17855681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

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Three recipients will present on their career work and answer audience questions, followed by a reception for all awardees.
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Human Conditions from Defective DNA Mismatch Repair
John M Carethers
C. Richard Boland Distinguished University Professor
John G. Searle Professor and Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Professor of Human Genetics, Medical School
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Elimination of Viral Hepatitis: A Tale of Two Viruses
Anna Suk-Fong Lok
Dame Sheila Sherlock Distinguished University Professor of Hepatology and Internal Medicine
Alice Lohrman Andrews Research Professor of Hepatology
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical School
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Cognitive Diversity and Collective Intelligence
Scott Page
John Seely Brown Distinguished University Professor of Complexity, Social Science, and Management, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Williamson Family Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Management and Organizations, Stephen M Ross School of Business
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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:17:00 -0500 2020-01-28T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption (January 28, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71465 71465-17827817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This presentation investigates the origins and the development of transnational adoption of Korean biracial children, including the symbolic meanings they carried in Korean society. It would demonstrate the status and representation of biracial children in Korea during the 1950s, analyze the state policies towards them, and trace the historical origins of transnational adoption of Korean children. The biracial children, known as “mixed-blood children,” honhyŏra, became the main representation of the questionable children in the 1950s that could not be “appropriate” members of the nation. The process of rescuing and regulating biracial children would illuminate how Korean society made biracial children into adoptable orphans, which was closely related to the formation of citizenship as well as kinship.

Young Sun Park is an assistant professor in History at the Department of History and Social Sciences at Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. Her research concerns the history of children in need and their institutionalization in Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She received her B.A. from Seoul National University, M.A. from the University of Notre Dame, and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. She was a 2018-2019 postdoctoral associate at the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:02:43 -0500 2020-01-28T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Undesirable Children: The Korean Origins of Transnational Adoption
Wallace House Presents “The 1619 Project: Examining the Legacy of Slavery and the Building of a Nation” (January 28, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70101 70101-17530518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Journalism is often called the first draft of history. But journalism can also be used as a powerful tool for examining history.

Four hundred years ago, in August 1619, a ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia, establishing the system of slavery on which the United States was built.

With The 1619 Project, The New York Times is prompting conversation and debate about the legacy of slavery and its influence over American society and culture. From mass incarceration to traffic jams, the project seeks to reframe our understanding of American history and the fight to live up to our nation’s central promise.

Wallace House Presents the project’s creator, New York Times Magazine reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones, in conversation with Rochelle Riley, longtime journalist and columnist.

About the Speaker:
Nikole Hannah-Jones is a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine focusing on racial injustice. She has written on federal failures to enforce the Fair Housing Act, the resegregation of American schools and policing in America. Her extensive reporting in both print and radio on the ways segregation in housing and schools is maintained through official action and policy has earned the National Magazine Award, a Peabody and a Polk Award. Her work designing “The 1619 Project” has been met with universal acclaim. The project was released in August 2019 to mark the 400th anniversary of American slavery and re-examines the role it plays in the history of the United States.

Hannah-Jones earned her bachelor’s in history and African-American studies from the University of Notre Dame and her master’s in journalism and mass communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

About the Moderator:
Rochelle Riley was a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace Fellow and is the Director of Arts and Culture for the City of Detroit. For nineteen years she was a columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Riley is author of “The Burden: African Americans and the Enduring Impact of Slavery” and the upcoming “That They Lived: Twenty African Americans Who Changed The World.” She has won numerous national, state and local honors, including the 2017 Ida B. Wells Award from the National Association of Black Journalists for her outstanding efforts to make newsrooms and news coverage more accurately reflect the diversity of the communities they serve and the 2018 Detroit SPJ Lifetime Achievement Award alongside her longtime friend, Walter Middlebrook. She was a 2016 inductee into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.

This is a 2020 Annual U-M Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium event.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 11:04:06 -0500 2020-01-28T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T19:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Nikole Hannah-Jones
Food Literacy for All (January 28, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566455@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-01-28T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Michigan (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52725 52725-12974158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our state.

Readings to consider:
1. 2019 State of the State
2. Michigan Health Policy for the Incoming 2019 Gubernatorial Administration
3. ACA Exchange Competitiveness in Michigan
4. Flint Water Crisis: What Happened and Why?

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/039-michigan/.

For the ever-present state of things, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/




...Flint still doesn't have clean drinking water.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:55:44 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-28T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Michigan
Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series: Willard Martin (January 28, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72129 72129-17942175@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 28, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

At heart, the lautenwerk is a harpsichord with gut strings instead of metal strings, and has a sweeter sound. It was also probably Johann Sebstian Bach's favorite instrument.

Prof. Joseph Gascho will perform several pieces on a lautenwerk that Willard Martin built in 1989, and Martin will discuss the history and acoustic properties of the instrument.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:15:31 -0500 2020-01-28T19:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
HET Brown Bag | Statistical inference of dark matter substructure with weak and strong gravitational lensing (January 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71096 71096-17777057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Dark matter structures are expected to exist over a large range of scales, and their properties and distribution can strongly correlate with the underlying particle physics. In this talk, I will describe two separate methods to statistically infer the properties of dark matter substructure using (astrometric)-weak and strong lensing observations, respectively. In the first part of the talk, I will describe how the motion of subhalos in the Milky Way induces a correlated pattern of motions in background celestial objects---known as astrometric weak lensing---and how global signatures of these correlations can be measured using the vector spherical harmonic decomposition formalism. These measurement can be used to statistically infer the nature of substructure, and I will show how this can be practically achieved with future astrometric surveys and/or radio telescopes such as WFIRST and the Square Kilometer Array. Next, I will describe a novel method to disentangle the collective imprint of dark matter substructure on extended arcs in galaxy-galaxy strong lensing systems using likelihood-free (or simulation-based) inference techniques. This method uses neural networks to directly estimate the likelihood ratios associated with population-level parameters characterizing substructure within lensing systems. I will show how this method can provide an efficient and principled way to mine the large sample of strong lenses that will be imaged by future surveys like LSST and Euclid to look for signatures of dark matter substructure. I will emphasize how the statistical inference of substructure using these techniques can be used to stress-test the Cold Dark Matter paradigm and probe alternative scenarios such as scalar field dark matter and enhanced primordial fluctuations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:11:30 -0500 2020-01-29T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Chinese Co - optation: Doing Business in the Era of Xi Jinping (January 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70712 70712-17957404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

The cost of doing business in China today is a high one, and it is paid by any and every company that comes looking to tap into its markets or leverage its workforce. Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one. As someone who has lived and worked in China, advised companies about investing there, and quite happily been described as a China bull, I have struggled to accept this fateful conclusion in the era of Xi Jinping. Like some other China Bulls, I had believed the early promises of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Zhu Rongji about China’s fair and open future, open markets, the emergence of a rule of law system. To be clear, I am still very bullish on the strength and trajectory of the Chinese economy – China *will* continue to grow and it *will* surpass the US as the largest economy in the world. However, the current era is just a much darker period for everyone, including Multinational Corporations (MNCs). There is no free lunch for doing business in Xi's China – especially for technology companies. China *will* get its pound of flesh as the cost of operating there: you get to operate here and gain access to the the most innovative supply chain in the world and world's largest marketplace; and China gets what it wants in terms of benefits to Chinese economy and society (as defined by the Chinese Government). Based on three decades of China research — including thousands of interviews — and, most recently, my time as an executive for Apple in China (2014-19), this talk attempts to lay out what my views on how China has co-opted the business community in the era of Xi Jinping.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:41:31 -0500 2020-01-29T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T14:00:00-05:00 Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion
HET Seminar | Spacetime fluctuations in AdS/CFT (and experiment) (January 29, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71579 71579-17842686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Please note special time and location:
Wednesday 29th January, 2:30 - 3:30
3481 Randall Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:25:41 -0500 2020-01-29T14:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T15:30:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
DCMB Seminar Series (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71998 71998-17911963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Experimental and computational strategies to aid compound identification and quantitation in metabolomics

Abstract: Over the past two decades, metabolomics as a technique has moved from the primary domain of analytical chemists to more widespread acceptance by biologists, clinicians and bioinformaticians alike. Metabolomics offers systems-level insights into the critical roles small molecules play in routine cellular processes and myriad disease states. However, certain unique analytical challenges remain prominent in metabolomics as compared to the other ‘omics sciences. These include the difficulty of identifying unknown features in untargeted metabolomics data, and challenges maintaining reliable quantitation within lengthy studies that may span multiple laboratories. Unlike genomics and transcriptomics data in which nearly every quantifiable feature is confidently identified as a matter of course, in typical untargeted metabolomics studies over 80% of features are frequently not mapped to a specific chemical compound. Further, although many metabolomics studies have begun to stretch over a timeframe of years, data quantitation and normalization strategies have not always kept up with the requirements for such large studies. Fortunately, both experimental and computational strategies are emerging to tackle these long-standing challenges. We will report on several techniques in development in our laboratory, ranging from chromatographic fractionation and high-sensitivity data acquisition, to computational strategies to aid in tandem mass spectrometric spectral interpretation. These developments serve to facilitate analysis for both experts and novice users, which should ultimately help improve the biological insight and impact gained from metabolomics data.

BlueJeans livestreaming link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:07:13 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Wallace House Presents Davey Alba of The New York Times with Ceren Burdak of the School of Information and College of Engineering (January 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70103 70103-17530519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

In 2018, journalist Davey Alba traveled to the Philippines to investigate Facebook’s breakneck proliferation in that country and President Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power. She revealed how the politician’s incendiary style aligned perfectly with the tech company’s algorithms that reward entertaining, inflammatory content. From maligning opponents to espousing hardline policies to combat the drug trade, Duterte’s operatives created memes, propaganda and egregious libel that flourished on Facebook. Join Alba and Ceren Budak, associate professor, University of Michigan, for an examination of how demagogic political campaigns worldwide have weaponized the social media platform.

About the Speakers:
Davey Alba is a reporter for The New York Times covering technology. Prior to joining the Times, she was a senior reporter at BuzzFeed News. She has been a staff writer at Wired and an editor at Popular Mechanics. Alba grew up in the Philippines and holds a B.A. degree from De La Salle University in Manila and an M.A. in science journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She received the 2019 Livingston Award for international reporting for her BuzzFeed investigation “How Duterte Used Facebook to Fuel the Philippine Drug War“.

Ceren Budak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and the College of Engineering. Her research interests lie in the area of computational social science, a discipline at the intersection of computer science, statistics and the social sciences. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New York. Burdak received a PhD from the computer science department at University of California, Santa Barbara and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Bilkent University in Turkey.

This Livingston Lecture event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is a co-sponsor of the event.

This event is produced with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Dec 2019 11:09:45 -0500 2020-01-29T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Davey Alba
A Conversation On Children's Literature and Writing with Author Brigit Young (January 29, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71149 71149-17783447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 6:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Brigit Young is the author of the middle grade novels Worth a Thousand Words and The Prettiest (forthcoming in April, 2020) from Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan. Worth a Thousand Words was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection and a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year for ages 12-14. Before beginning her work as a novelist, Brigit’s poetry and fiction appeared in multiple literary journals including The North American Review, The Pinch, Midwestern Gothic, Gargoyle Magazine, Eclectica Magazine, Word Riot, The Common, and 2 River View. Through the non-profit organization WritopiaLab, Brigit spent many years teaching creative writing to children of all ages, in settings ranging from classrooms to a pediatric hospital. A native Michigander, she currently resides in Brooklyn.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:14:11 -0500 2020-01-29T18:30:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Brigit Young and Worth a Thousand Words
LHS Collaboratory: Applications of AI/Machine Learning in Gastroenterology (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71218 71218-17959605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Waljee’s research focuses on tailoring treatment to the specifics of the individual (precision care) with gastrointestinal and liver diseases. He uses artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning and deep learning to improve decision-making for tailored and individualized care to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective and equitable care, especially in costly diseases and in limited resource settings.
Discussant 1: Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine

Discussant 2: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:36:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:00:00-05:00 Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
Local Learning at Literati: The Art of Cullen Washington Jr. (January 29, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70733 70733-17621673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Vera Grant, curator of the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square, presents an expansive look at the exhibition, and the artist’s recent series, Agoras. The compositions explore the ancient Greek public space as a site for activated assembly, through the dual lens of race and humanity.

Vera Ingrid Grant is an art consultant, curator, and writer, living in Ann Arbor, MI. Grant served as Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs, and curator of modern and contemporary art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) in 2018-19. Previously, she was the founding director of the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University. She most recently curated Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square; Reflections: An Ordinary Day. Grant has an MA in Modern European History from Stanford University with a concentration in comparative studies of race and visual culture and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Hamburg. She was the Associate Director for the Program in African and African American Studies (2001-2007) at Stanford University. She was a fellow (2015-16) at the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL). January 29th. 

Lead support for this exhibition is provided by Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, Candy and Michael Barasch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and the Institute for the Humanities. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Department of History of Art, School of Education, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, School of Social Work, and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:17:03 -0500 2020-01-29T19:00:00-05:00 2020-01-29T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Restoring Justice to Targets of Online Harassment (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70745 70745-17627844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Most social media sites sanction online harassment by removing content or banning users. However, these approaches largely write the targets of online harassment out of the justice-seeking process. If a person is harassed on social media, they are given no opportunity for acknowledgement or reparation. This talk will discuss how theories of justice can help social media sites to better support people who are targets of online harassment.

Dr. Schoenebeck is an Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She directs the Living Online Lab and co-directs the Social Media Research Lab. Her research
focuses on promoting more equitable and inclusive experiences online in domains ranging from online harassment to gender equity to children’s privacy. Her research has been covered in global media including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and elsewhere.

This is the fourth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be February 5, 2020. The title is: Why We Use Social Media: Evolution, Neuroscience, and Problematic Use.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:29:37 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist's Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness on College Campuses (January 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71370 71370-17903275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Michael S. Roth — historian, curator, author, and public advocate for liberal education — is the 16th president of Wesleyan University and former president of California College of the Arts. He is the author of six books, including Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters (Yale University Press, 2014), winner of AAC&U’s 2016 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education. President Roth’s newest book is Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correctness (Yale University Press, 2019), which addresses some of the most contentious issues in higher education in the US, including affirmative action, safe spaces, and questions of free speech.

This event is part of the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) Research and Scholarship Seminar Series, which features scholars who advance our understanding of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality.

The series also highlights how research and scholarship can address current and contemporary social issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:41 -0500 2020-01-30T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T11:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Michael Roth
A Meditation on Juliana v. United States (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70163 70163-17540919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Professor Lisa Heinzerling from Georgetown Law will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Meditation on Juliana v. United States."

This event is free and open to the public.

Lisa Heinzerling is the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center. Her specialties include administrative law, environmental law, food law, and torts. She has published several books, including a leading casebook on environmental law and a widely cited critique of the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy (Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:30:24 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:00:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71590 71590-17842696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few documents detailing the organization of those trade networks remain – if indeed they were ever written. Using geospatial analysis (GIS) of evidence from written and archaeological records, it becomes possible to trace the flow of goods and people within the Inland Sea region. The environment and geography are central players in this story, affecting the trade routes, networks, and even shipping practices that develop during the late medieval period.

Michelle Damian is an Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College, IL (USA). She has published chapters in several edited volumes and articles in Japan Forum and Education About Asia. She is also on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Museum of Underwater Archaeology (http://www.themua.org).

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:42 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
LHS Collaboratory: Applications of AI/Machine Learning in Gastroenterology (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71218 71218-17787742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Dr. Waljee’s research focuses on tailoring treatment to the specifics of the individual (precision care) with gastrointestinal and liver diseases. He uses artificial intelligence methods such as machine learning and deep learning to improve decision-making for tailored and individualized care to facilitate the delivery of efficient, effective and equitable care, especially in costly diseases and in limited resource settings.
Discussant 1: Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Learning Health Sciences and Department of Internal Medicine

Discussant 2: Kayte Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Chief of the Research Ethics Service in the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine.

Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 19:36:03 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Zama Katamzi-Joseph of the South African Space Agency (SANSA) (January 30, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72165 72165-17948642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Dr. Zama Katamzi-Joseph will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

Title: “Climatology of Thermospheric Neutral Winds and TIDs over South Africa: Observations from 630 nm Fabry-Perot Interferometer and All-sky Imager”

Abstract: Nighttime traveling ionospheric disturbances are detected from 630 nm airglow measurements from an all-sky imager in Sutherland, South Africa (geographic coordinates: 32.4° S, 20.8° E; magnetic latitude: 40.7° S). To understand the influence of the background winds on the propagation of the TIDs, we used wind data from a co-located Fabry-Perot interferometer. For this study the measurements used were taken during the period of September 2018 and August 2019. A total of 52 TIDs were identified, the majority occurring during the local winter season. The overall speed, azimuth, wavelength and periods of the majority of these TIDs were 50 – 200 m/s, 0 – 338 degrees, 150 – 400 km, 19 – 106 minutes, respectively. There was no detected seasonal trend on their characteristics. The TIDs propagated mostly in the west direction regardless of the season. Analysis of the FPI wind data revealed that the mean background zonal winds varied between -72 and 126 m/s and were strongly eastward before midnight. They reversed flow direction to westward around local midnight in summer whereas in winter the reversal occurs closer to local sunrise. In addition, zonal winds have lower (higher) magnitudes in summer (winter). Meanwhile the mean background meridional winds are mostly equatorward for most of the year until around winter where they flow poleward in early evening and then reverse direction around 22 UT (00 LT). The meridional winds varied between -52 and 109 m/s, and contrary to the zonal winds their amplitudes were higher in summer and lower in winter. The dominance of westward propagating TIDs is explained by the fact that the TIDs mostly had higher velocities and/or propagate against or perpendicular to the background wind.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 15:29:09 -0500 2020-01-30T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
BME 500: Meghan Driscoll, Ph.D. (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70418 70418-17594468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Signaling is governed not only by the expression levels of molecules, but by their localization via mechanisms as diverse as compartmentalization in organelles, phase separation, and directed transport by motor proteins. Cell morphology likely also modulates the localization of signaling molecules, and recent advances in high-resolution light-sheet microscopy, such as lattice light-sheet microscopy, now allow imaging at the spatiotemporal resolution needed to capture the many undulations and quick dynamics of the 3D cell surface. However, these microscopes generate large datasets with detailed 3D movies that are impossible to interpret without a dedicated computational pipeline. In this seminar, I will introduce u-shape3D, a computer graphics and machine-learning pipeline to probe molecular mechanisms underlying 3D cell morphogenesis. U-shape3D includes a generic morphological motif detector that automatically finds lamellipodia, filopodia, blebs and other motifs in order to test the intriguing possibility that morphogenesis itself affects intracellular signaling.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:24:58 -0500 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
EIHS Lecture: Ecology and Empire on the Yellow River (January 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63592 63592-15808573@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This presentation introduces Ruth Mostern’s work on the imperial and ecological history of the Yellow River, a five-thousand-year history of the relationship between people, water, and sediment. Her work reveals how gradual changes (for instance in climate and population) intersect with sudden cataclysms (such as wars and floods). Interweaving the history of the river’s moist floodplain with that of the erosion zone hundreds of miles away, it demonstrates how social and political transformations can have unintended ecological consequences very far from the locations where they transpire. This research combines maps and timelines with historical documents, archaeological information, and environmental science.

Ruth Mostern is associate professor of history and director of the World History Center at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of Dividing the Realm in Order to Govern: The Spatial Organization of the Song State (960-1276 CE), the coeditor of Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers, and the principal investigator for the World-Historical Gazetteer, a digital ecosystem for sharing information about historical places.

Free and open to the public.

This event is part of the Thursday Series of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:36:26 -0500 2020-01-30T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion “A Map of the Lower River,” Zheng Penghe
Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, Len Niehoff, and John de Lancie: Theater of Justice (January 30, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70388 70388-17594435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

This event brings together Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack, legal scholar and practitioner Len Niehoff, and acclaimed actor John de Lancie to explore the work of the courts and the law; how the human impulse for narrative performance and drama informs the inner workings of the courtroom; and how the courtroom is represented on stage and screen.

Chief Justice Bridget McCormack joined the Michigan Supreme Court in January 2013, and became chief justice in January 2019. As the chief justice, McCormack has promoted statewide initiatives devoted to improving the courts’ service to the public, and in particular delivering on a promise that courts are independent, accessible, engaged with their communities, and efficient. Len Niehoff is a nationally prominent law practitioner, professor, and scholar in three fields: media law and the First Amendment; higher education law; and trial and appellate litigation. Niehoff is working on a book about the Salem witch trials. John de Lancie is best known for his role as “Q” on Star Trek: The Next Generation, however, his credits are numerous and include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Breaking Bad, and The West Wing.  He was recently in a national tour of the “Scopes Monkey Trial” with Ed Asner where he played Clarence Darrow, and is the first recipient of the Clarence Darrow Award. De Lancie is currently at work on a play about the 2005 Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District trial.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA). This event heralds Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020, in UMMA’s Stenn Gallery.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 08:46:01 -0500 2020-01-30T17:10:00-05:00 2020-01-30T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McCormack.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
FAST Lecture | Assessing Mechanisms of Mobility and Exchange in the Prehistoric Cyclades (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71613 71613-17844816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Recent research in the Bronze Age Cycladic archipelago has documented the widespread evidence for the distribution of imported products — especially ceramics — throughout the region. In addition, consensus has grown that human mobility was a key feature in driving technical and stylistic changes in Cycladic assemblages. Indeed, the operation of different sorts of mobility seems to be a key feature underlying major patterns of material culture change in the islands during the Middle and Late Bronze Age. In this era, Cycladic islanders adopted and adapted material culture and practice from the palatial Minoan society of Crete. This presentation discusses human and object mobility in the context of changing patterns of consumption and production in the islands in order to provide new perspectives on the so-called Minoanization phenomenon.

Reception at the Kelsey Museum at 5:30 PM, lecture to follow at 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 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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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 16:35:12 -0500 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion detail of the Miniature Fresco from the West House at Akrotiri, Crete
The Court of Public Opinion (January 30, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71849 71849-17894525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: School of Information

The School of Information presents a lecture and panel discussion with R. Stanton Jones, a Michigan alum and Washington attorney whose firm has played a central role in litigating social justice cases related to immigration detention, gerrymandering and voter I.D. laws.

This includes high profile cases such as the Department of Commerce v. New York, which brought into question the legality of adding citizenship status to the U.S. census. After “smoking gun” evidence was uncovered and publicized, this case generated a high volume of social media interest. Prominent commentators have credited the enormous media attention and the accompanying public outrage/outcry with turning the outcome of the case.

Ann Arbor District Library Director Josie Parker will moderate a panel discussion with Jones and Professor Christian Sandvig, U-M School of Information and Department of Communication Studies, and Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Ford School

This event is funded by the William Warner Bishop and Martha Boaz Lectureships.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:36:11 -0500 2020-01-30T17:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union School of Information Lecture / Discussion R. Stanton Jones, Esq.
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72081 72081-17935674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong. This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg.Food will be available for RSVP: https://bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 18:00:37 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
Culinary Careers: Navigating Rank and Status in a Creative Organizational Field (January 31, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70748 70748-17642219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 8:00am
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:37:11 -0500 2020-01-31T08:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T09:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CSEAS Lecture Series. The Deep Constitution: Militant Constitutional Identity and the Afterlife of Martial Law in Thailand (January 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71495 71495-17834207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In Thailand, since the adoption of the widely-celebrated 1997 Constitution, all elected governments have been overthrown by the Constitutional Court, the military, or both in the name of democracy. By understanding the 1997 Constitution as a fully liberal-democratic constitution breaking with the country’s military past, most of the academic literature overlooked the resilient continuities and interdependence between military and civilian rule that form, under the patronage of the king, the core of Thailand’s constitutional order. Using historical institutional analysis, this paper documents the inner workings of the Thai Deep Constitution, defined as the legal-operational playbook of Thai democracy’s tutelary powers (the “Deep State”) linked to its Constitutional Identity defined as “Democracy with the King as Head of State.”

Beyond the Thai case study, this paper argues that the constitutional model for any tutelary democracy aims to enshrine, in the name of militant democracy, veto powers of the army and the judiciary over electoral politics in the unamendable part of the constitution, conceptualized as the Deep Constitution.

Eugénie Mérieau is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Prior to this, she held academic positions at Sciences Po (France), the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Thammasat University (Thailand). Fluent in Thai, she worked for four years at the King Prajadhipok's Institute under the Thai Parliament as a full-time researcher. Her most recent publications on Thailand have appeared in Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Southeast Asian Affairs, Buddhism, Law and Society, along more popular venues such as The Atlantic or the New York Times. Her first English-language monograph is forthcoming in 2020 with Hart Publishing under the title "Constitutional Bricolage : Thailand's Sacred King versus the Rule of Law".

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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. Contact: Jessica Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:40:41 -0500 2020-01-31T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
AIM Extended Reality (XR) (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71740 71740-17877256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, January 31 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Amphitheatre (4th Floor) at Rackham Graduate School for our first ever AIM Extended Reality (XR). We’ll welcome Courtney Cogburn, Associate Professor at Columbia University for the first of three speakers focused on XR throughout the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Please register below if you plan to attend.

Title: A Critical Analysis and Transdisciplinary Approach to Development and Application

Description: Dr. Cogburn will explore the importance of transdisciplinary approaches to extended reality and the integration of critical analysis of emerging technologies across disciplinary curricular. She will describe how this approach supports innovation and meaningful social and human applications. Dr. Cogburn will discuss how she and her colleagues have applied this approach to 1000 cut journey, an immersive virtual reality experience designed to help participants understand the social realities of racism as critical to promoting effective and collective social action. She will discuss this VR experience and another in production and how she and her colleagues are assessing and applying the work.

AIM Extended Reality (XR) is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how extended reality (XR) is being used in higher education and beyond. This speaker series stems from a Provost to engage in a new campus-wide XR Initiative. This initiative will formally ask us to consider how we can leverage emerging XR technologies to strengthen the quality of a Michigan education, cultivate an interdisciplinary scholarly community of practice at Michigan, and enhance a nationwide network for academic innovation. Learn more about the initiative on our XR initiative page.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:11:58 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Event Series
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71164 71164-17783481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Anil Menon is a Political Science PhD student at the University of Michigan. Before moving to Ann Arbor, he completed an MSc. in Economic History (Research) from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Middlebury College. He am also an alumnus of the United World Colleges initiative.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 11:51:10 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Anil Menon
Queer Students Abroad (January 31, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71077 71077-17774957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Queer students who have travelled out of the US will share their experiences living, traveling and/or working abroad. Learn about how their identities impacted their experience, as well as helpful resources to plan your own experience abroad. This event is a partnership between the International Center, the Spectrum Center, and the Center for Global and Intercultural Studies (CGIS). Register using the ticket link!

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Jan 2020 16:23:49 -0500 2020-01-31T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T14:30:00-05:00 Michigan Union Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Queer Students Abroad will give attendees a chance to listen to queer people talk about how their identity has impacted their travel to other countries. Co-hosted by the Spectrum Center, Center for Global and Intercultural Studies, and the International Center
Culinary Careers: Navigating Rank and Status in a Creative Organizational Field (January 31, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70762 70762-17642234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:47:55 -0500 2020-01-31T13:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (January 31, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67250 67250-16829023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

The Interdisciplinary Workshop on American Politics (IWAP) is a forum for the presentation of ongoing interdisciplinary research in American politics. Most of our presentations are given by graduate students. Each graduate student presenter is assigned a faculty and student discussant. IWAP circulates the work beforehand and the student presents it briefly at the start of the meeting. After discussant feedback, the bulk of the time is reserved for group discussion among all workshop participants. This format leads to informal yet highly interactive and productive conversations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:08:56 -0500 2020-01-31T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Steven Moore
Smith Lecture: Theoretical and Computational Contributions to the Modeling of Global Tsunamis (January 31, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63133 63133-15578784@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The distribution of tsunami amplitudes in the open ocean is controlled by source mechanism as well as bathymetry geometry and resolution, with the latter controlling far-field tsunami features. However, large detailed bathymetry grids result in long computer simulation times for tsunamis. It is therefore of interest to investigate the amount of physical detail in bathymetric grids that control the most important features in tsunami amplitudes, to assess what constitutes sufficient level for grids in numerical simulations. By decomposing the Pacific bathymetry using a spherical harmonics approach one can create “smoothed” versions of the original field. Using these simplified bathymetries to simulate tsunamis from potential ruptures around the Pacific, we can see that for large megathrust events (M0=1029 dyn-cm), only a resolution of ~1000 km (equivalent to l=40), or ~1% surface smoothness of the Pacific is needed in order to reproduce the main components of the true distribution of tsunami amplitudes. This would result in simpler simulations, and faster computations in the context of tsunami warning algorithms.

In a separate context, an overview of tsunami studies and a report on a study of a meteotsunami are presented. These scenarios are evidence for the fact that tsunami studies are interdisciplinary fields of research that require coordinated efforts by investigators from various backgrounds.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:57:05 -0500 2020-01-31T15:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Roundtable on South Asia | Keynote: Thinking About Politics in South Asian Studies (January 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71276 71276-17794082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

See details of the full CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia here: https://ii.umich.edu/csas/news-events/events.detail.html/65329-16571523.html

In this talk Professor Harriss will reflect on the ways in which patterns of political mobilization and participation in India over the period since Independence have been understood, drawing on the work of historians and anthropologists, as well of political scientists. How has democracy worked in practice in a context in which, as Barrington Moore argued, there had been no ‘bourgeois revolution’? Is India still to be understood as a ‘patronage democracy’? Has the significance of ideological cleavages emphatically replaced that of social cleavages? Is Indian politics best understood through specifically Indian concepts? He will consider these and other questions about knowledge of Indian politics.

John Harriss, now Professor Emeritus at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and formerly of the the London School of Economics, began studies of South Asia after driving overland from England to India in 1969. His research has ranged widely from work on agrarian change and labour studies to recent work on business and politics. He is the author (with Stuart Corbridge) of "Reinventing India," among other books.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 11:41:45 -0500 2020-01-31T16:30:00-05:00 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion John Harriss, Professor Emeritus of International Studies, Simon Fraser University
Utopia vs. the City Keynote: Saskia Sassen, Columbia University (January 31, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70919 70919-17753821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 31, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). Her new book is Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press 2014) now out in 15 languages. Recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization (W.W.Norton 2007), and the 5th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2018). Among older books are The Global City (Princeton University Press 1991/2001), and Guests and Aliens (New Press 1999). Her books are translated into over 20 languages. She is the recipient of diverse awards and mentions, including multiple doctor honoris causa, named lectures, and being selected as one of the top global thinkers on diverse lists. Most recently she was awarded the Principe de Asturias 2013 Prize in the Social Sciences and made a member of the Royal Academy of the Sciences of Netherland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:28 -0500 2020-01-31T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-31T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Saskia Sassen
Science Forum Demo (February 1, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-01T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Guest Master Class: MTNA University of Michigan Collegiate Chapter (February 1, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70431 70431-17596536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Founded in 1876 by Theodore Presser and sixty-two of his friends, the Music Teachers National Association is currently the largest professional, non-profit music teachers organization in the world. More than 26,000 members—comprised of independent and collegiate music teachers—are committed to furthering the art of music through teaching, performance, composition and scholarly research.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:15:32 -0500 2020-02-01T12:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Scientist in the Forum (February 1, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-01T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 1, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 1, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-01T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 2, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 2, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 2, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 2, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-02T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-02T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
BME Student Speaker: Xiaotian Tan (February 3, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72234 72234-17963872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biosensors are devices or systems that can be used to detect, quantify, and analyze targets with biological activities and functions. As one of the largest subsets of biosensors, biomolecular sensors are specifically developed and programmed to detect, quantify and analyze biomolecules in liquid samples. Wide-ranging applications have made immunoassays increasingly popular for biomolecular detection and quantification. Among these, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are of particular interest due to high specificity and reproducibility. To some extent, ELISA has been regarded as a “gold standard” for quantifying analytes (especially protein analytes) in both clinical diagnostics and fundamental biological research. However, traditional (96-well plate-based) ELISA still suffers from several notable drawbacks, such as long assay time (4–6 hours), lengthy procedures, and large sample/reagent consumption (∼100 μL). These inherent disadvantages still significantly limit traditional ELISA's applicability to areas such as rapid clinical diagnosis of acute diseases (e.g., viral pneumonia, acute organ rejection), and biological research that requires accurate measurements with precious or low abundance samples (e.g., tail vein serum from a mouse). Thus, a bimolecular sensing technology that has high sensitivity, short assay time, and small sample/reagent consumption is still strongly desired. In this dissertation, we introduce the development of a multifunctional and automated optofluidic biosensing platform that can resolve the aforementioned problems. In contrast to conventional plate-based ELISA, our optofluidic ELISA platform utilizes mass-producible polystyrene microfluidic channels with a high surface-to-volume ratio as the immunoassay reactors, which greatly shortens the total assay time. We also developed a low-noise signal amplification protocol and an optical signal quantification system that was optimized for the optofluidic ELISA platform. Our optofluidic ELISA platform provides several attractive features such as small sample/reagent consumption (<8 μL), short total assay time (30-45 min), high sensitivity (~1 pg/mL for most markers), and a broad dynamic range (3-4 orders of magnitude). Using these features, we successfully quantified mouse FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) concentration with a single drop of tail vein serum. We also successfully monitored bladder cancer progression in orthotopic xenografted mice with only <50 μL of mouse urine. More excitingly, we achieved highly-sensitive exosome quantification and multiplexed immuno-profiling with <40 ng/mL of total input protein (per assay). These remarkable milestones could not be achieved with conventional plate-based ELISA but were enabled by our unique optofluidic ELISA.

As an emerging member of the bimolecular sensor family, our optofluidic ELISA platform provides a high-performance and cost-effective tool for a plethora of applications, including endocrinal, cancer animal model, cellular biology, and even forensic science research. In the future, this technology platform can also be renovated for clinical applications such as personalized cancer diagnosis/prognosis and rapid point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:19:52 -0500 2020-02-03T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Tan
Archaeologies of Contemporary Migration: Border Assemblages, Global Apartheid, and the Decolonial Potential (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70522 70522-17602806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

18th Annual Dimitris and Irmgard Pallas Modern Greek Lecture

Summary:
Since 2016, I have been carrying out an archaeological ethnography project on contemporary migration, focusing on the border island of Lesvos. In this talk, I will report on some of the findings of this project, showing how a sustained and detailed attention to the materiality and temporality of the phenomenon, to the sensorial, affective, and temporal properties of things, can offer insights that elude other kinds of research. Objects, spaces, buildings and landscapes are essential components in the formation of border assemblages, together with border crossers, volunteers, as well as border guards and security apparatuses. I will explore how the attention to such assemblages can not only help us understand what some scholars have described as the new Global Apartheid, but more positively, allow us to imagine a decolonial present and future.

Biography:
Yannis Hamilakis is Joukowsky Family Professor of Archaeology and Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Brown University. He worked previously at the Universities of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the University of Southampton (2000-2016), and he has held research fellowships at Princeton University, Getty Research Institute, Cincinnati University, The Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the Remarque Institute at NYU. His research interests include Aegean prehistory, the socio-politics of the past, the bodily senses, archaeology and photography, contemporary archaeology, and the materiality of contemporary migration. His books include, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (OUP, 2007, Edmund Keeley Book Prize 2009), and Archaeology and the Senses: Human Experience, Memory, and Affect (CUP, 2013). His most recent book is the edited volume, The New Nomadic Age: Archaeologies of Forced and Undocumented Migration. (Equinox, 2018). He co-directs the Koutroulou Magoula Archaeology and Archaeological Ethnography Project, and in 2020 he will be curating an exhibition at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University, entitled, Transient Matter: Border Assemblages in the Mediterranean.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:17:10 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion Pallas 2020
Honors Stowe Lectures (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70511 70511-17602794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Anu Partanen speaks frequently about topics related to her book "The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life," both internationally and in the United States. Read more about this guest speaker and author on their website in Web & Social Media Links.

The lecture celebrates the best in journalism, broadly understood. Stowe was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1930 and one of the early American journalists to raise concerns about Hitler’s rise to power. During World War II, he was a war correspondent. He was a Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan 1956–1969 and died in 1994.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:13:16 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Honors Program Lecture / Discussion Nordic Theory of Everything Cover
Traditions Entwined: Writing Judeo-Persian Poetry in Fourteenth-Century Iran (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70129 70129-17538847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In this talk Rubanovich will look into several episodes from the Bereshit-nāma with an aim to explore Shāhīn’s (fl. in the first part of the 14th century) retelling of the Biblical story from a comparative angle, vis-à-vis both Jewish and Muslim exegetical sources, in an attempt to reveal the pool of traditions which Shāhīn could have gleaned for his version as well as elucidating the working techniques and the interpretative strategies he enacted

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:47:47 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubanovich Lecture Image
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Dr. Ryan Reynolds, Akropolis Reed Quintet (February 3, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68898 68898-17190816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The Akropolis Reed Quintet’s bassoonist, Dr. Ryan Reynolds is adjunct professor of Bassoon at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, OH. Prior to his current position, Reynolds taught bassoon at Miami University and was a graduate teaching assistant for the Florida State University bassoon studio, where he received his DMA in Bassoon. He has performed with the Dayton Philharmonic, Savannah Philharmonic, Traverse Symphony, Springfield Symphony, and Ann Arbor Symphony. 

Reynolds is also regular recitalist and contributor to the International Double Reed Society conferences. In 2018 at the Society’s conference in Granada, Spain, he premiered composer Ethan Wickman’s Cuatro Escanas del Cante Jondo for bassoon and piano, Per Bloland’s Asemic Patterns for oboe and bassoon, and Chiel Meijering’s the green reed which blows in the wind for 12 bassoons and string orchestra. At the Society’s 2019 conference in Tampa, FL, Dr. Reynolds performed a set of masterworks for reed quintet with the Akropolis Reed Quintet to a full house.

An educator, Reynolds was a judge for the junior level at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and was Akropolis’ representative to judge the Barlow Endowment’s first prize for a reed quintet commission. He has taught at the Renova Music Festival, Bocal Majority, Operation Oboe Camps, and many master classes at the United States’ top universities.

He has been featured on National Public Radio’s “From the Top,” Interlochen Public Radio, and can be seen in numerous videos in the University of Michigan Bassoon Studio and Akropolis Reed Quintet YouTube series.

After attending the Interlochen Arts Academy from 2004-08, where he studied with Dr. Eric Stomberg, Ryan attended the University of Michigan for his BM and MM degrees and Florida State University for his DMA. He studied with Dr. Jeffrey Lyman and Jeff Keesecker, respectively.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:15:26 -0400 2020-02-03T16:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: The Fishery - Living in Living Systems (February 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70985 70985-17762334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

A highlight of the 2020 Great Lakes Theme Semester will be a speaker series surveying key issues confronting the Great Lakes and the peoples who depend upon them. Each session will be structured as a panel of three to four presenters speaking briefly on an aspect of the session’s theme, engaging in dialogue as a panel, and then opening the floor for audience participation. An informal gathering, offering more opportunities for the campus community to interact with the speakers, will follow each session.

February 3th, 2020: The Fishery - Living in Living Systems

Cory Brant, US Geological Survey/Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Richelle Winkler, Michigan Technological University
Amber Peterson, Grand Haven
Moderator: Marc Gaden, Great Lakes Fishery Commission

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:52:29 -0500 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Great Lakes Theme
Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: The Fishery - Living in Living Systems (February 3, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70288 70288-17600674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

A highlight of the 2020 Great Lakes Theme Semester will be a speaker series surveying key issues confronting the Great Lakes and the peoples who depend upon them. Each session will be structured as a panel of three to four presenters speaking briefly on an aspect of the session’s theme, engaging in dialogue as a panel, and then opening the floor for audience participation. An informal gathering, offering more opportunities for the campus community to interact with the speakers, will follow each session.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 12:00:34 -0500 2020-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Great Lakes Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion GLTS
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Joy Saniyah (February 3, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71943 71943-17903278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

We're kicking off Health and Wellness Week with a very special keynote speaker, Dr. Joy Saniyah! She will be presenting based on the question: "what is right with you?" and talking about what you can do to improve your overall wellness while focusing on your strengths. Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

Joy Saniyah, Ph.D. (she/her) is the Founder & Director of Integrative Empowerment Group, PLLC (IEG). IEG is a multidisciplinary mental health and wellness group practice that aims to provide a safe space for clients to feel heard, understood, and empowered regardless of their identities, beliefs, and ways of living and loving. As a queer woman of color, Joy is passionate about working with those who are traditionally marginalized in society and underrepresented in help seeking environments. She has extensive experience working with people of color and clients who identify as LGBTQA. Joy is an advocate for those exploring gender identity including transition support. Finally, she is an experienced Kink and Poly Knowledgeable professional. Joy graduated with a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from Teacher's College at Columbia University and a Ph.D in Counseling Psychology from Fordham University in New York City. Joy has over 13 years of experience working with college students at several major universities including three years at Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Joy is passionate about integrative approaches to healing and as such is also a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), a Certified Kemetic Yoga Teacher, and a Reiki Level II Practitioner.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:47:12 -0500 2020-02-03T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-03T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Dr. Joy Saniyah, a Black woman with red loc'd hair, glasses, and earrings. Date, time, and location is listed to the left of it.
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Revenge of the Developmental State: Stock Market Struggles in East Asia (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70203 70203-17547316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Revenge of the Developmental State considers the challenges faced by East Asian stock exchanges attempting to refashion themselves in the mold of their global counterparts, and how the state has struggled to redefine its role vis a vis the market. Regulators and the exchanges increasingly have come to loggerheads on listings requirements, new financial instruments, and trading procedures, sometimes in public clashes but more often behind closed doors. Professor Yasuda highlights how the state attempts to dragoon the stock market in service of industrial policy, social welfare, social stability, and economic statecraft highlight obstacles to the rise of financial capitalism in China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.

John Yasuda is Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, specializing in regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and the politics of finance. His most recent book is "On Feeding the Masses: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China" (Dec 2017). His work has been published with Regulation and Governance, the China Quarterly, and Journal of Politics.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 11:01:28 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion John Yasuda, Assistant Professor of Chinese Politics, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (February 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67993 67993-16977587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Marlous van Waijenburg is a comparative economic historian working on the long-term development of African economies, with a specific focus on the nature and legacies of colonialism.

PEW provides a unique forum for doctoral students and faculty members to share and develop interdisciplinary research in political economy. Political science and economics are intimately linked in both substance and methodology, and the field of political economy is among the most fertile and enduring areas for cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Currently, PEW is the sole interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Michigan wholly dedicated to the exploration of current research in political economy, and thus plays a valuable role in fostering connections among the university’s various departments and schools.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:11:32 -0500 2020-02-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T13:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Marlous van Waijenburg
Three Common Assumptions about Chronic Inflammation that area Probably Wrong (February 4, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72465 72465-18009370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Speaker Series - Developmental Origins of Health & Disease: Evolutionary & Epidemiological Approaches - Presented by the Evolution and Human Adaptation Program & The Research Center for Group Dynamics

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:06:55 -0500 2020-02-04T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T14:00:00-05:00 Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion
2019 - 2020 Residential College Robertson Lecture featuring LSA Dean and Professor Anne Curzan (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71815 71815-17888055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join us for the 2019 - 2020 Residential College Robertson Lecture, featuring LSA Dean and Professor Anne Curzan. Her talk is titled "Life, Love, and the Liberal Arts: Pursuing an education that matters", and will focus on the joy of discovering the questions that drive us, the importance of not always knowing, and the value of a liberal arts education in preparing to succeed in "radically diverse environments," as Van Jones calls them.

The talk will be held in the East Quad Keene Theater on Tuesday, February 4th from 4-5:15pm, and will include some time for Q&A. It will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the Keene Theater.

Professor Anne Curzan is the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature, Linguistics, and Education, and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, Linguistics, and Education. Professor Curzan's research interests include the history of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, medieval language and literature, historical sociolinguistics, pedagogy, and lexicography. In addition to her teaching, research, and administrative posts in the English Department, Professor Curzan is co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics.

>> If you cannot join us in person, watch the livestream of this event at https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/yparexef

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:42:51 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Robertson Lecture flyer
Neuro Imaging Initiative: Temporal dynamics of brain activity - an application to pain (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72244 72244-17963881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:10:34 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
WCED Panel. Is Democracy Promotion Dead? (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70629 70629-17611214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Moderator: Dan Slater, WCED Director. Panelists: Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, associate professor of political science, Michigan State University; Jennifer Raymond Dresden, assistant teaching professor of government, Georgetown University; Thomas Flores, associate professor of conflict resolution and political science, George Mason University; Erica Frantz, assistant professor of political science, Michigan State University; Irfan Nooruddin, Hamad bin Khalifa Professor of Indian Politics, Georgetown University; David Waldner, associate professor of political science, University of Virginia.

As of February 2020, WCED will be the new publisher of the scholarly newsletter *Democracy and Autocracy,* featuring articles from members of the American Political Science Association's (APSA) organized section "Democracy and Autocracy." This roundtable discussion will include authors featured in WCED's inaugural issue on the topic "Is Democracy Promotion Dead?" Articles in this issue serve as follow-up reports to the authors' recent contributions to USAID's "Theories of Democratic Change Research Initiative" project (2013-2018).

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to 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 Thu, 19 Dec 2019 15:05:22 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Democracy and Autocracy cover
Food Literacy for All (February 4, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-04T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-04T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
HET Brown Bag | The supersymmetric Cardy formula from effective actions (February 5, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72126 72126-17940004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In this talk I will discuss supersymmetric Cardy formulae in d=4 and d=6. These formulae govern the universal behavior in the high-temperature regime of supersymmetric partition functions — or, in the case of the superconformal index, they govern the high-energy asymptotics of SUSY operators at large energy. I will outline the proof of the Cardy formulae for theories with moduli spaces of vacua, which relies on an effective supersymmetric Chern-Simons action in d-1 dimensions. I will argue that this effective action is universal and intimately related to perturbative as well as global gravitational anomalies. Finally, I will discuss some immediate consequences of our results and briefly compare and distinguish our results to other proposed Cardy formulas.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:38:08 -0500 2020-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
POSTPONED: Media, big tech, and democracy: What happened? (February 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71118 71118-17777084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
Visit fordschool.umich.edu in the fall for details.




Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
This event will be livestreamed. Check the event webpage for viewing details.

From the speaker's bio:

From 2001-11, Michael Copps served as a member of the Federal Communications Commission, where his tenure was marked by a consistent embrace of the public interest. As a strong voice in opposition to consolidation in the media, he dissented in the FCC vote on the Comcast-NBC Universal merger. He has been a consistent proponent of localism in programming and diversity in media ownership. Though retired from the Commission, he has maintained a commitment to an inclusive, informative media landscape. In addition to his work at Common Causes, Michael sits on the boards of Free Press and Public Knowledge.

Before joining the FCC, Michael served as assistant secretary of commerce for trade development at the Department of Commerce and chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-SC) from the early 1970s to 1983. He has a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:52:25 -0500 2020-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-05T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Michael Copps
Featured Speaker: Dr. Brett Kruzsch (February 5, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71939 71939-17903276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Dr. Brett Krutzsch presents "Queer Martyrdom: The Religious and Sexual Politics of LGBTQ Inclusion." Register for this event and other HWW events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthReg

This talk will compare the LGBTQ murder that generated the most media attention in the country’s history—the killing of white, gay, college student Matthew Shepard in 1998—with a similar LGBTQ murder that received considerably less attention—the killing of Native American, two-spirit, high school student F.C. Martinez in 2001. We will explore how activists used both deaths for political purposes and why Shepard became a more popular political emblem. We will also consider how religion shaped the activism surrounding their deaths and how LGBTQ activists used religion to promote greater acceptance of queer Americans.

See more Health & Wellness Week events at: http://bit.ly/LGBTQHealthWeek2020
Get event details at: http://bit.ly/SCeventnav

About the speaker:
Dr. Brett Krutzsch is a scholar in the Center for Religion and Media at NYU. He is an expert on LGBTQ politics and religion in the United States. He is the author of the 2019 book Dying to Be Normal: Gay Martyrs and the Transformation of American Sexual Politics from Oxford University Press. His writing has appeared in several scholarly journals as well as The Washington Post, Newsday, The Advocate, and he has been featured on NPR.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:36:01 -0500 2020-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion A photo of Brett Krutzsch, a white man with brown hair, next to a shortened version of his bio.
Applications of brain-model technology to study neurodevelopmental disorders (February 6, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71730 71730-17877246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Cleber Trujillo, Ph.D., to Palmer Commons - Great Lakes South on Thursday, February 6th, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:39:56 -0500 2020-02-06T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T10:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Applications of brain-model technology to study neurodevelopmental disorders - Cleber Trujillo, Ph.D
Why We Use Social Media: Evolution, Neuroscience, and Problematic Use (February 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70746 70746-17627845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Around two decades ago, Internet pioneers created online platforms that allow users to create profiles and interact with others. Today, almost 3 billion people worldwide use these social networking sites, such as Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. This talk will explain why we are driven to use these sites, the neuroscience underlying our use of these sites, and how social media use may become excessive and problematic.

Prof. Dar Meshi is a cognitive neuroscientist investigating problematic social media use and how the brain processes social information. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations. He is also a faculty member in the Neuroscience Program. Prof. Meshi earned his B.S. in biology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York.

This is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next lecture will be February 13, 2020. The title is: Is Technology Killing Privacy?

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Dec 2019 14:46:42 -0500 2020-02-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Linguistics Colloquium: Computational Models of Retrieval Processes (February 6, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72273 72273-17966046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 10:30am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Virtual colloquium (via BlueJeans) featuring Shravan Vasishth. Shravan Vasishth is professor of linguistics at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and holds the chair Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics (Language Processing). His research focuses on computational cognitive modeling, in particular, computational modeling of sentence processing in unimpaired and impaired populations, and the application of mathematical, computational, experimental, and statistical methods (particularly Bayesian methods) in linguistics and psychology.

ABSTRACT
Computational models of retrieval processes: An evaluation using benchmark data

The talk will begin by revisiting the key predictions of the ACT-R based model of sentence processing (Lewis and Vasishth, 2005, henceforth LV05). As discussed in Engelmann, Jäger, and Vasishth, 2020, the LV05 model predicts two classes of similarity-based interference effects: inhibitory and facilitatory interference. Jäger, Engelmann, and Vasishth, 2017, carried out a meta-analysis of some 100 existing effect estimates (self-paced reading and eyetracking during reading). This work showed that the LV05 model's predictions are only partly consistent with the current evidence available. A closer look at the published data suggests that the published studies are likely to be severely underpowered. As Gelman and Carlin, 2014, have pointed out, when power is low, statistically significant effect estimates will be highly misleading: either the effects will be overestimated, or the sign of the effect will be incorrect (for a real-life demonstration, see Vasishth, Mertzen, Jäger, and Gelman, 2018). Coupled with the problem of publication bias (in so-called high-impact journals, "big news" claims are published more often than "failed" studies or more tempered claims), these underpowered studies make theory evaluation difficult to impossible. What can we do as researchers? How to proceed?

In the second part of the talk, I show one way that we can resolve these problems. In their classic paper, Roberts and Pashler (2000) laid out two important criteria for model evaluation: the model needs to make quantitatively constrained predictions, and the effect estimates have to be measured with high precision. Modeling researchers usually have one more criterion: model evaluation should always be carried out in the context of a competing baseline model to be meaningful. As a case study of model evaluation, we compare the predictive performance (using k-fold cross-validation) of the LV05 model with a competing model of retrieval processes, the McElree 2003 direct-access model (Nicenboim and Vasishth, 2018). The evaluation data-set is a relatively high-precision study on inhibitory interference effects in German number agreement (Nicenboim, Vasishth, Engelmann, and Suckow, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:12:46 -0500 2020-02-06T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Jillon Stoppels Dupree (February 6, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64881 64881-16485053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 11:30am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A baroque chamber orchestra master class.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:15:28 -0500 2020-02-06T11:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70096 70096-17530444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and the general public in Japan. Tea bowls function as important modern signifiers of tea ceremony praxis, national aesthetics, and a perceived shared affinity for ceramics. This lecture will trace the rise of the tea bowl in Japan from the 1920s onward, considering its status in terms of core aspects of modern Japanese ceramics—materiality, tactility, revivalism, rebellion, and global presence. Within the vast field of modern Japanese ceramics, the tea bowl provides a means to index key production and reception values.

Meghen Jones is Division Head /Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at Alfred University. She recently co-edited with Louise Cort Ceramics and Modernity in Japan and is currently curating for the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum an exhibition titled Path of the Tea Bowl.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:28 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Ilya Kaminsky Roundtable Q&A (February 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69431 69431-17318598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Ilya Kaminsky’s widely acclaimed parable in poems, Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), reads like a two-act political drama in which lyric poems trace the experiences of citizens living under martial law. A New Yorker review called it a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

Kaminsky is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey, Holland, Russia, France, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, Spain and China, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

He is the editor of several anthologies, among them The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Ecco, 2010), co-edited with Susan Harris, which John Ashbery praised as “immediately indispensable;” A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith (Tupelo Press, 2012), co-edited with Katherine Towler; Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poets and Prose (Tupelo Press, 2014), co-edited with Katie Farris and Valzhyna Mort; and In the Shape of the Human Body I am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (McSweeney's, 2017) with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan. With Jean Valentine, he has co-translated Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive and welcoming to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:19:16 -0500 2020-02-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ilya Kaminsky
BME 500: Jun Li, Ph.D. (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70419 70419-17594471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

In today’s research we often talk about knowledge-extraction from Big Data, and integration across different scales: molecules, cells, tissues/organs, organisms and their communities. The pursuit of multi-scale synthesis has a long history. For the microscopic world we have largely succeeded in connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the facts of atoms and their constituents and interactions. In epidemiology, many are currently applying linear mixed models to quantify the genetic contribution of disease risks in the general population. By and large, we live with the tacit belief that basic principles, once found, will be simple and elegant, and that we can build Systems Biology from the ground level. This leads to a pointillistic research culture, as when we try to explain the heredity of complex traits by summing up the individual actions of millions of DNA variants, or when we look for the neural basis of behavior by the connectivity and firing patterns of millions of neurons.
I will use this talk to share some thoughts on the emerging appreciation that, in biomedical data science, perhaps the best one can learn is not widely generalizable Mechanisms, but different laws for different scales of organization. There may not be a good chance, and perhaps no need, to "know" a system by brute force accumulation of larger and larger data at the bottom level. Acknowledging the irreducibility of highly-level phenomena in biology and medicine can help us appreciate the distinct methods, norms, and compromises in traditional disciplines, and steer the society's investment towards balanced collection of good data on all levels. By giving up the blind celebration of sample size, we give more attention to new technologies that can measure what was previously inaccessible, and to the next-generation of information science that embraces messy, context-specific models.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:04:28 -0500 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Professor Liliana Borcea, the Peter Field Collegiate Professorship in Mathematics, Inaugural Lecture (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70109 70109-17532709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Wave based imaging is an inverse problem for a wave equation or a system of equations with a wide range of applications in nondestructive testing of structures such as airplane wings, ultrasound for medical diagnosis, radar, sonar, geophysical exploration, etc. It seeks to determine scattering structures in a medium, modeled mathematically by a reflectivity function, from data collected by sensors that probe the medium with signals and measure the resulting waves. Most imaging methods formulate the inverse problem as a least squares data fit optimization, and assume a linear mapping between the unknown reflectivity and the data. The linearization, known as the Born (single scattering) approximation is not accurate in strongly scattering media, so the reconstruction of the reflectivity may be poor. I will describe a new inversion methodology that is based on a reduced order model approach. This borrows ideas from dynamical systems, where the reduced order model is a projection of an operator, called wave propagator, which describes the propagation of the waves in the unknown medium. I will explain how such a reduced order model can be constructed from measurements at the sensors and then I will show how it can be used for improving the existing inversion methodology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 13:29:20 -0500 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion calendar
Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power, and Assault on Campus (February 6, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69535 69535-17357972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

with respondents:
-Abdul El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, and progressive activist
-Kamaria B. Porter, Ph.D. Candidate, Center for the Study of Higher & Postsecondary Education; Research Assistant, Department of Sociology; University of Michigan

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan’s new book presents an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault’s social roots, transcending current debates about consent, predators in a “hunting ground,” and the dangers of hooking up.

Based on years of research interviewing and observing college life―with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds―Hirsch and Khan’s study reveals the social ecosystem that makes sexual assault so predictable, explaining how physical spaces, alcohol, peer groups, and cultural norms influence young people’s experiences and interpretations of both sex and sexual assault.

Book sales and signing will follow the discussion.

Cosponsors: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), Departments of American Culture, Sociology, Women’s Studies, School of Education, and CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:19:02 -0500 2020-02-06T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Sexual Citizens, Jennifer Hirsch and Shamus Khan
Angela Washko: Tactical Embodiment (February 6, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70390 70390-17594437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Angela Washko is an artist, writer, and facilitator devoted to creating new forums for discussions about feminism in spaces frequently hostile toward it. Since 2012, Washko has operated “The Council on Gender Sensitivity and Behavioral Awareness in World of Warcraft,” an ongoing intervention inside the most popular online role-playing game of all time. Washko’s most recent project, The Game: The Game, is a video game in which professional pickup artists attempt to seduce the player using their signature coercive techniques sourced from their instructional books and video materials. Washko is a recent recipient of the Impact Award at IndieCade, a Franklin Furnace Performance Fund grant, and a Frank-Ratchye Fund for Art at the Frontier grant. Her practice has been highlighted in The New Yorker, Frieze Magazine, Time Magazine, The Guardian, ArtForum, the Los Angeles Times, Art in America, The New York Times, and more. Her projects have been presented internationally at venues including the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Milan Triennial, the Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale in China, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands. Washko is an assistant professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, where she is also a member of the MFA core faculty and the area head of electronic time-based art.

Supported by the U-M Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 18:15:37 -0500 2020-02-06T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Washko.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (February 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
Creativity, Consciousness and Cognition: Arts-based Integral Distinctions (February 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72150 72150-17946487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This talk explores distinctions and relationships between consciousness and cognition through the lens of an emergent worldview called Integral Theory (IT), with insights from artistic creativity guiding the inquiry. Drawing widely from disciplines across the sciences and humanities as well as age-old spiritual wisdom, IT posits a remarkably expansive vision of human nature and developmental potential—at the core of which is consciousness development. From an IT vantage point, cognition has to do with the activity of the mind, Put another way, cognition is to consciousness as the wave is to the ocean. Artistic creativity, particularly as it manifests in improvised music, can be seen as a bridge between the two realms and helps illuminate them as part of an overarching wholeness of subjective experience. The arts-consciousness relationship also helps us move past conventional boundaries and labels when it comes to academic disciplines, with longstanding tensions between science and spirituality/mysticism a common, and unnecessary, casualty of such boundaries.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:49:33 -0500 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Dr. Ed Sarath
Ilya Kaminsky Reading & Book Signing (February 6, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69432 69432-17318601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Ilya Kaminsky’s widely acclaimed parable in poems, Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), reads like a two-act political drama in which lyric poems trace the experiences of citizens living under martial law. A New Yorker review called it a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

Kaminsky is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey, Holland, Russia, France, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, Spain and China, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

He is the editor of several anthologies, among them The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Ecco, 2010), co-edited with Susan Harris, which John Ashbery praised as “immediately indispensable;” A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith (Tupelo Press, 2012), co-edited with Katherine Towler; Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poets and Prose (Tupelo Press, 2014), co-edited with Katie Farris and Valzhyna Mort; and In the Shape of the Human Body I am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (McSweeney's, 2017) with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan. With Jean Valentine, he has co-translated Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:19:16 -0500 2020-02-06T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ilya Kaminsky
Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara: Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer, A Performance Piece and Lecture (February 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71938 71938-17903273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara is a native Angelino Chicano musician, singer and songwriter, a record producer of Chicano rock and roll and rock en español compilations, and a performance artist, poet, short story writer, historian, journalist, and activist. His newly published book Confessions of a Radical Chicano Doo-Wop Singer (University of California Press, 2018) is a moving memoir of his life and a compelling counter-history of the city of Los Angeles.

“It is as if Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara, polymath Azteca warrior and Chicano superhero, rose with the first East Los Angeles Aztlȧn sun that gave creative light to the barrio.” – Louie Pérez, musician, songwriter with Los Lobos

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:03:57 -0500 2020-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubén Funkahuatl Guevara 2.6.20
Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Presents: "Conversations on Inclusion and Equity" (February 7, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71967 71967-17905471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 9:30am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics

“Recommendations for a More Inclusive Canadian Astronomy Community”

The Canadian astronomical community is currently undergoing its "Long Range Planning" process, similar to the Decadal Survey in the US. As such, the Equity and Inclusivity Committee (EIC) has recently shared a white paper with a set of recommendations for improving the representation of minoritized peoples and the working conditions in the professional astronomy community: http://myumi.ch/Bo38l. I'll briefly describe these recommendations and then open an informal discussion of their merit (and what we have inevitably missed!).

Please note: Should you require any reasonable accommodations to ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440 or stibu@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:16:28 -0500 2020-02-07T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T10:20:00-05:00 West Hall Michigan Institute for Research in Astrophysics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Daryl Haggard
Craft Lecture: How Poets Speak to, Learn From, and Steal From Other Poems (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72270 72270-17966044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
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Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Participants in this craft lecture workshop will look at various poets from around the world and discuss ways on which they influence one another. If Shakespeare learned from Ovid and Greek drama, if Whitman & Dickinson learned from the Bible and Hymns, if Eliot learned from the French, if many American poets of 60s and 70s learned from Polish poets and Latin American poets-- what about us, our contemporaries? Where is our place in this conversation? What can we take from it for our own work?

Ilya Kaminsky’s widely acclaimed parable in poems, Deaf Republic (Graywolf, 2019), reads like a two-act political drama in which lyric poems trace the experiences of citizens living under martial law. A New Yorker review called it a work of “profound imagination.” Poems from Deaf Republic were awarded Poetry magazine's Levinson Prize and the Pushcart Prize.

Kaminsky is also the author of Dancing In Odessa (Tupelo Press, 2004), and Musica Humana (Chapiteau Press, 2002). Kaminsky has won the Whiting Writer's Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Metcalf Award, the Dorset Prize, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, and the Foreword Magazine’s Best Poetry Book of the Year award. Recently, he was on the short-list for the Neusdadt International Literature Prize. His poems have been translated into numerous languages and his books have been published in many countries including Turkey, Holland, Russia, France, Mexico, Macedonia, Romania, Spain and China, where his poetry was awarded the Yinchuan International Poetry Prize. His poems have been compared to work by Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, and Marina Tsvetaeva.

He is the editor of several anthologies, among them The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (Ecco, 2010), co-edited with Susan Harris, which John Ashbery praised as “immediately indispensable;” A God in the House: Poets Talk About Faith (Tupelo Press, 2012), co-edited with Katherine Towler; Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poets and Prose (Tupelo Press, 2014), co-edited with Katie Farris and Valzhyna Mort; and In the Shape of the Human Body I am Visiting the Earth: Poems from Far and Wide (McSweeney's, 2017) with Dominic Luxford and Jesse Nathan. With Jean Valentine, he has co-translated Dark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva.

This event is free and open to the public.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive and welcoming to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (Angell Hall #5209), reflection room (Haven Hall #1506), and gender-inclusive restroom (Angell Hall 5th floor) are available on site. ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu two weeks prior to the event whenever possible, to allow time to arrange services.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:57:06 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Ilya Kaminsky
Food Literacy for All (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-18033414@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (February 7, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72393 72393-18000381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 10:00am
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

The Blessings of Multiple Causes (Joint with Yixin Wang)

ABSTRACT: Causal inference from observational data is a vital problem, but it comes with strong assumptions. Most methods require that we observe all confounders, variables that affect both the causal variables and the outcome variables. But whether we have observed all confounders is a famously untestable assumption. We describe the deconfounder, a way to do causal inference with weaker assumptions than the classical methods require.

How does the deconfounder work? While traditional causal methods measure the effect of a single cause on an outcome, many modern scientific studies involve multiple causes, different variables whose effects are simultaneously of interest. The deconfounder uses the correlation among multiple causes as evidence for unobserved confounders, combining unsupervised machine learning and predictive model checking to perform causal inference. We demonstrate the deconfounder on real-world data and simulation studies, and describe the theoretical requirements for the deconfounder to provide unbiased causal estimates.

David works in the fields of machine learning and Bayesian statistics.

The goal of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods is to provide an interdisciplinary environment where researchers can present and discuss cutting-edge research in quantitative methodology. The talks are aimed at a broad audience, with emphasis on conceptual rather than technical issues. The research presented is varied, ranging from new methodological developments to applied empirical papers that use methodology in an innovative way. We welcome speakers and audiences from all disciplines and fields, including the social, natural, biomedical, and behavioral sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:04:40 -0500 2020-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 West Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion David Blei
CSEAS Lecture Series. Decomposing a National Language: Pluralism and the Origins of the Vietnamese Language (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71496 71496-17834208@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

By the 1930s, the Vietnamese vernacular language had unquestionably come to be viewed as the national language of Vietnam, and the primary medium of anticolonial intellectuality. Nationalist thought, which fueled the anticolonial movement, quickly settled on a narrative—patterned after French nationalism—enshrining the Vietnamese language as a kind of ancient vessel of Vietnamese identity, a thread that bound contemporary Vietnamese all the back to an imagined pre-Sinitic past. However, a closer look at both the social and linguistic history of Vietnam reveals an intensely alloyed and mosaic formation of the Vietnamese language—one intimately bound up with a form of Chinese that was also native to the region. In this talk we will explore the linguistic origins of the Vietnamese language, and discuss how these origins challenge and complicate modern nationalist conceptualizations of language and culture in Vietnam.

John Phan completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University in East Asian Literature and Linguistics. After graduating at the end of 2012, he spent two years as a JSPS post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the National Institute for Japanese Language & Linguistics in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Upon returning to the States, Dr. Phan taught for three years at Rutgers University, before accepting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Vietnamese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Columbia University. He is currently completing his first book focusing on the history of Sino-Vietic linguistic contact, and is cocurrently working on the emergence of vernacular literary practice in medieval Vietnam. In addition to the nature of linguistic contact and broad issues in linguistic change and historical phonology, he is keenly interested in the cultural and intellectual ramifications of multiple languages coexisting in single East Asian societies, of linguistic pluralism in general, and of the transformation of oral languages into written literary mediums in historically diglossic cultures of East and Southeast Asia. His current work focuses largely on the rise of the vernacular Vietnamese script known as Chữ Nôm, and its development alongside a sustained and flourishing tradition of Literary Chinese composition.

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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. Contact: Jessica Hill Riggs, jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:43:57 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Lunch with Anne Curzan (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72177 72177-17948646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Join us for this Lunch with series to meet the Dean of the College of Literature, Arts, and Science: Anne Curzan.

Prior to becoming Dean in 2019, Curzan held multiple administrative roles, including Associate Dean for the Humanities for LSA, Faculty Athletics Representative for the University of Michigan, and Director of the English Department Writing Program. She teaches courses on the history of English, English grammar, language and gender, and the dynamics of conversations.

Dean Curzan, as a trained linguist who studies the history of the English language, has dedicated a great part of her career to helping students and the broader public understand linguistic diversity as part of cultural diversity, and change in language as a natural part of languages. Her TEDx talk at UM called “What makes a word ‘real’?” has over 1.2 million views.

At Michigan, Curzan aims to promote a culture based on contributing to the common good, the power of learning, the value of play, and the importance of well-being.

Salads Up will be served!

PLEASE NOTE:
-You must commit to being on time and staying through the entire lunch
-If you are unable to attend, please update your registration as soon as possible to make space for another student

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:56:29 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI
Stone in the Age of Clay: Lithic Use-Wear from Prehistoric Ceramic Period Sites in Chachapoyas, Peru (February 7, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72360 72360-17998143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This paper will discuss a microscopic use-wear analysis of the lithic assemblages of Ceramic Period prehistoric sites in Chachapoyas, Peru. After a brief review of the state of lithic studies in Peruvian archaeology, I will describe the results of the low-power use-wear study, including the production of a comparative experimental collection. By contextualizing these results with other lines of evidence, I will discuss what conclusions may be drawn regarding subsistence and cultural behaviors at each site. In particular, I will highlight raw material acquisition and selection, which offer tantalizing insights into possible ceremonial behaviors in prehistoric Chachapoyas.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:52:19 -0500 2020-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (February 7, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71169 71169-17785570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Party leaders are seen as the face and central control of a political party’s agenda (also possibly the legislature). This asks the question, with all this power why would a leader ever relinquish their position? Little work has looked comparatively at why leaders step down from office due to data limitations. We contribute to the literature on party politics and leader tenure by providing a new dataset of leadership changes in advanced industrial democracies from 1960-2017. This dataset includes approximately 1,400 party leaders, and it codes why leaders step down using primary and secondary sources. With these original data, we investigate the drivers of leadership change across time and space. We find that electoral loss and intra-party ousting are the most common forms of leadership change, suggesting that voters and party members have effective power to check leaders. Even though we analyze cases with different party systems and institutions our findings suggest similar outcomes. A leader’s survival is contingent on party member and voter support. We test the relationship between vote loss, incumbency status, and leadership change to understand the role of external drivers on party organization. This new data provides a unique tool for understanding party organization more broadly.

Julia Maynard is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She studies party politics and voting behavior mostly within the context of European Politics. Her interests are within the dynamics of mainstream parties and niche parties- how these parties react to each other as well as reasons why voters would choose one over the other.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:05:55 -0500 2020-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Julia Maynard
HistLing Discussion Group: "Making Hay out of Armenian: A Whirlwind Tour" (February 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70209 70209-17547566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:16:29 -0500 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Annual Werner Grilk Lecture in German Studies (February 7, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71245 71245-17794032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

PETER E. GORDON is the Amabel B. James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is primarily a critical theorist and an historian of modern European philosophy and social thought, specializing in Frankfurt School critical theory, phenomenology, existentialism, and Western Marxism. He has published major works on Heidegger, the Frankfurt School, Jürgen Habermas, and Theodor W. Adorno. His book Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003) received four international awards, including the Salo Baron Prize for the best book in Jewish history, the Goldstein-Goren Prize for the best book in Jewish philosophy, and the Forkosch Prize from the Journal of the History of Ideas. His second book, Continental Divide: Heidegger, Cassirer, Davos (2010) received the Jacques Barzun Prize from the American Philosophical Society, one of the most distinguished awards in European and American cultural history. His third and more recent monograph, Adorno and Existence, was published by Harvard University Press in 2016, and was reviewed in periodicals such as Critical Inquiry (by Robert Pippin) and The New York Review of Books. His next book, Migrants in the Profane: Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization, based on lectures he gave at Yale University in the Franz Rosenzweig Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought, is forthcoming from Yale University Press (Fall, 2020). He is also co-author of Authoritarianism: Three Inquiries in Critical Theory with Wendy Brown and Max Pensky (2018). In June, 2019, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Theodor W. Adorno's death in 1969, he delivered the Adorno Vorlesungen at the Institute for Social Research at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, on the theme, "Adorno and the Sources of Normativity." The lectures, widely reviewed in the German press, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting, are currently available online from the Institut für Sozialforschung, and will be published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:32:52 -0500 2020-02-07T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Gordon Poster
HET Seminar | Large Signals in the Cosmological Collider (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71950 71950-17903308@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Cosmological inflation gives a unique opportunity of probing physics at high energies. In particular, non-Gaussianities contain information on new physics particles being produced through the interaction of the inflatons. In this talk, I will discuss the size of such signals and highlight the scenarios in which we expect it to be observable.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:53:59 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group: "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact" (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70220 70220-17549985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Marlyse Baptista, Uriel Weinreich Collegiate Professor of Linguistics, will give a talk on "Convergence, Divergence and Innovation in Language Contact: A View from Creole Genesis."

ABSTRACT
From the early years of Contact Linguistics (Schuchardt, 1882), linguists have noted that when two or more languages come into contact, whether it is in the context of L2 acquisition (Ellis & Sagarra, 2011;Tolentino, L. C., & N. Tokowicz, 2014), bilingualism (Silva-Corvalán, 1994; Toribio, 2004), trilingualism (Rothman, 2010, 2015; Rothman & Cabrelli Amaro, 2010; Rothman et al., 2015) or multilingualism leading to language creation (Rougé, 1986; Kihm, 1990; Corne, 1999), it is often (but not always!) the case that the features that the languages in contact have in common promote acquisition or language creation. More precisely, the phonemes, morphemes, lexemes or syntactic structures that speakers perceive as being similar in the languages in contact, what we will call here, congruent features or domains, are likely to be acquired more easily in L2 (or L3/L4...) or are more likely to contribute to the grammatical make-up (and lexicon) of the emerging language in the case of creole genesis.

This paper represents a first step in a long-term research program exploring how new languages emerge in a multilingual setting. It examines the role of convergence in Creole formation and development, using a competition and selection framework. Specifically, it illustrates how morphosyntactic and semantic features are more likely to be selected into the grammatical makeup of a given Creole when they preexist and are shared by some of the source languages present in its linguistic ecology. This is empirically supported in this paper by numerous case studies and a survey of congruent features in 20 contact languages across 19 grammatical and lexical domains. In order to show how convergence operates, I propose an algorithm and a model of matter and pattern mapping, adapted to the multilingual setting in which Creole languages emerge. In addition to a set of variables, the model includes both the linguistic ecology (linguistic factors) and speakers' attitudes (non-linguistic factors) (Thomason, 2001) to predict (in a non-deterministic fashion) the features that are more likely to win within a competition and selection framework (Mufwene, 2001). It shows that even when a given feature is traceable to two or more sources, it readily diverges from the original sources and is innovative. The paper also explores cases where convergence does not take place and examines the conditions underlying such outcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:32:14 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: “Historical and Environmental Impacts of Pastoralism: Examining the timing, tempo, and character of animal herding among Europe’s first farmers” (February 7, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63286 63286-15612039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"The spread of farming (ca. 8000 years ago) ushered in a new chapter in Europe’s cultural and environmental history. The translocation of plants and animals instigated the reorganization of economic activities that reshaped landscapes, communities, and even human biology. Within this broader context, I present new data from the earliest Neolithic villages on the Dalmatian coast of Croatia to explore the timing, tempo, and nature of Neolithic domestic animal management, and its long-term cultural, biological, and ecological effects in the Adriatic and throughout Europe."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 14:32:36 -0500 2020-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Smith Lecture: Tectonics, Climate, and Topography: A View from the Greater Caucasus (February 7, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63135 63135-15578785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The potential for interactions and feedbacks between climatically mediated surface processes and active tectonics has been a motivating question within large swaths of the Earth Sciences for years. Conflicting results have been presented at both local and global scales arguing for either clear coupling between climate and tectonics or a complete dominance of tectonics. Ultimately, careful analysis of the details of the nebulously defined ‘climate’, structural geometries, and topography (as this serves as the interface between tectonic and surface processes) are required to resolve these issues. Here I present a case study of an active collisional orogen, the Greater Caucasus, where gradients in both climate and tectonics do not appear to be reflected in the topography, suggesting that this area may have a lot to teach us about the more general question. In detail, the Greater Caucasus mountains are a young (~5 Ma), active orogenic system that is the current locus of NE-SW convergence within the central Arabia-Eurasia collision zone. Importantly, the orogen is characterized by a variety of NW-SE, along-strike gradients including an order of magnitude eastward decrease in mean annual precipitation from ~2 to ~0.5 m/yr and an order of magnitude eastward increase in geodetic shortening velocity from ~2 to ~12 mm/yr. Despite these gradients, the topography of the range is surprisingly similar along-strike which suggests: (1) broadly similar rates of rock uplift, and (2) very limited influence of precipitation on the topography of the range. However, this hypothesis is predicated on the existence of a single relationship between topography and uplift/erosion rate. Here we test this assumption with a new suite of erosion rates estimated from catchment averaged 10Be inventories along the southern range front of the GC. Erosion rates range from 30-5600 m/Myr with the majority of rates being below 2000 m/Myr. Our results are consistent with a single relationship between erosion rate and topography as quantified by normalized channel steepness (ksn). These data also indicate a strongly non-linear relationship between ksn and erosion rate such that topography seem insensitive to increases in erosion rate beyond ~500 m/Myr. There is limited evidence of any influence of mean precipitation on either the topography or the erosion rates of the GC. We hypothesize that this lack of sensitivity to mean precipitation and the related non-linearity in the ksn - erosion rate relationship may be linked to the extremely low variability in runoff observed in gauged basins throughout the region, a hypothesis consistent with theoretical expectations of a stochastic threshold incision model. Spatial patterns in 10Be erosion rates largely mirror those observed in a suite of available bedrock low-temperature thermochronologic cooling ages and new detrital zircon (U-Th)/He ages, i.e. areas with high erosion rates generally have young cooling ages and total amounts of exhumation seem largely constant along-strike within the range, suggesting that this pattern is long-lived. More broadly, the results from the Caucasus reflect that local nuances in both the climate and tectonics are essential for understanding the potential for (or lack of) coupling between surface processes and tectonics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 11:00:55 -0500 2020-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-07T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (February 7, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71882 71882-17896714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Established in Fall 2017, the Department of Film, Television, and Media’s speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and artists/practitioners to engage in dialogues about past and contemporary topics that influence media industries, audiences, and society at large. This particular conversation will focus on jobs in new media industries as well as the use of digital platforms for reaching different political constituencies. The participants are Phil Ranta, Head of Gaming Creators, North America at Facebook, and Tara McPherson, Professor and Chair of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and author of two award-winning books, FEMINIST IN A SOFTWARE LAB (Harvard University Press 2018) and RECONSTRUCTING DIXIE (Duke 2003).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:59:42 -0500 2020-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster with event details
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Jillon Stoppels Dupree (February 7, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64882 64882-16485054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 7, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A harpsichord master class.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:15:30 -0500 2020-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Science Forum Demo (February 8, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-08T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 8, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
U-M Jazz Festival Historic Lecture Series (February 8, 2020 1:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70655 70655-17613296@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 1:10pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Moderated by Michael Jewett.

Including Scotty Barnhart, Rob Smith, and SMTD Prof. Ed Sarath.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 18:15:35 -0500 2020-02-08T13:10:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Walgreen Drama Center
Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event #2 w/Darryl Terrell (February 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71057 71057-17770760@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for back-to-back talks by artists Noura Ballout, micha cardénas and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell. Following the presentations, Ballout and Terrell will lead a group discussion on the books Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volumes 1 and 2. This program is part of the Spectrum Center LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week.

micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art & Design: Games + Playable Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. micha cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology. Her book in progress, Poetic Operations, proposes algorithmic analysis to develop a trans of color poetics. cárdenas’s co-authored books The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities (2012) and Trans Desire / Affective Cyborgs (2010) were published by Atropos Press. Her artwork has been described as “a seminal milestone for artistic engagement in VR” by the Spike art journal in Berlin. She is a first generation Colombian American. Her articles have been published in Transgender Studies Quarterly, GLQ: Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, AI & Society, Scholar & Feminist Online, the Ada Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology, among others.

cárdenas earned her Ph.D. in Media Arts + Practice in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. She is a member of the artist collective Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0. Her solo and collaborative artworks have been presented in museums, galleries and biennials including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the ZKM in Karlrushe, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, the Centro Cultural del Bosque in Mexico City, the Centro Cultural de Tijuana, the Zero1 Biennial and the California Biennial. cárdenas was the recipient of the first ever James Tiptree Jr. fellowship. cárdenas was named as one of “7 bio-artists who are transforming the fabric of life itself” by io9.com. She tweets at @michacardenas

Darryl DeAngelo Terrell is a BLK queer artist, digital curator, and writer, currently based in Detroit, MI. Darryl’s work is centered around the philosophy of F.U.B.U. (The Shit Is For Us) They think about how their work can aid to a larger conversation about blackness, and it many intersectionalities. Darryl’s work explores the displacement of black and brown people, femme identity, and strength, the black family structure, sexuality, gender, safe spaces, and personal stories, all while keeping in mind the accessibility of art. They received their MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Darryl is a 2019 Kresge Arts In Detroit Visual Arts Fellow, 2018 Luminarts Fellow in Visual Arts, a 2017/18 Hatch Project Artist in Resident at Chicago Artist Coalition and a 2017 Artist in Resident at ACRE. Darryl has exhibited work at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NYC , the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Il, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, TN, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, AZ and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC.

Image: Detail of Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, Documentation of Dion Being A Bad Bitch…, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.

About the Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series

The Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series is centered around queer, mixed-race writer, artist, filmmaker, and activist Nia King’s book series Queer & Trans Artists of Color Volumes 1, 2 & 3. In the books, King interviews fellow queer and trans artists of color about their work, their lives, and “making it” - both in terms of success and in terms of survival. Each event features a guest artist who will speak about their own practice and lead a group discussion on a topic from the book. Everyone is welcome to attend.

The Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series is organized by Stamps Gallery and presented in partnership with the U-M Spectrum Center with support from the Ann Arbor District Library. It is sponsored by the U-M Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Purchase copies of the Queer & Trans Artists of Color books here.

For more information about this event or the Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event Series contact, Stamps Gallery Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan at jenjkhan@umich.edu or (734)615-5322.

Download printable PDF schedule of events for this series: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Series: January 18, February 8, and March 14

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-trans-artists-of-color-book-read-event-2-wdarryl-terrell-tickets-85767644333

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Jan 2020 21:51:26 -0500 2020-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/QTAOC2.jpeg
Science Forum Demo (February 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-08T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 9, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758021@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-09T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Guest Master Class: Adedeji Ogunfolu, horn (February 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70432 70432-17596537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Adedeji Bailes Ogunfolu began his duties as second horn of the Pacific Symphony in September 2018. Since relocating to Southern California, he has also recorded for major studio projects in Los Angeles, most notably the recent “Lion King” live action remake. Before his varied career in L.A. and Orange County, he was a member of the San Antonio Symphony, a position he was awarded in 2014. Ogunfolu is a native of Washington D.C. He began his college education at the University of Maryland, College Park, and finished his undergraduate degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He went on to complete his graduate degree at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His major teachers include Gregory Miller, Jennifer Montone, and Adam Unsworth. He has had additional studies with Bryan Kennedy, and Denise Tryon.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 18:15:33 -0500 2020-02-09T12:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Scientist in the Forum (February 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-09T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
In Conversation with Jennifer Friess: Curating Mobile Memories (February 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68838 68838-17163790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The votes are in! For the last four months UMMA visitors have voted for their top favorite photographs of the 1,000 on view in the Take Your Pick exhibition. Now what? Join Jennifer M. Friess, Assistant Curator of Photography, to look at the 250 winning photographs that will be acquired into the Museum’s permanent collection and discuss the exciting research and exhibition potential of this new acquisition, as well as the significance of snapshot photography in the digital age.

Support for this exhibition is provided by Cecilia and Mark Vonderheide and the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Department of Film, Television, and Media, and Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:16:39 -0500 2020-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Science Forum Demo (February 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-09T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-09T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Chromatin control of cell size & embryonic development (February 10, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71736 71736-17877250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Amanda Amodeo, Ph.D. to the Kahn Auditorium of BSRB on Monday, February 10th, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:39:19 -0500 2020-02-10T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-10T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Chromatin control of cell size & embryonic development - Amanda Amodeo, Ph.D.
LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (February 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70169 70169-17540925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Geared toward undergraduate students and focusing on the current exhibitions at the Institute for the Humanities, this contemporary series of discussions offers a fresh take on the basics of looking and evaluating art in the gallery and how it’s organized, making the connection from the traditional “white cube gallery” to iGen visual worlds like Facebook and Instagram.Today: The Art of Valery Jung Estabrook with Institute for the Humanities curator Amanda Krugliak.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:21:50 -0500 2020-02-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Valery Jung Estabrook Instagram
Madeline Miller - a public reading and discussion of "Circe" (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70183 70183-17540939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: History of Art

A public reading and conversation with Madeline Miller, author of 'Circe' and 'Song of Achilles.'

About the author:
Madeline Miller grew up in New York City and Philadelphia. She attended Brown University, where she earned her BA and MA in Classics. She has taught and tutored Latin, Greek, and Shakespeare to high school students for over fifteen years.

She has also studied at the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, and in the Dramaturgy department at Yale School of Drama, where she focused on the adaptation of classical texts to modern forms.

The Song of Achilles, her first novel, was awarded the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction and was a New York Times Bestseller. Miller was also shortlisted for the 2012 Stonewall Writer of the Year. Her second novel, Circe, was an instant number 1 New York Times bestseller, and won the Indies Choice Best Adult Fiction of the Year Award and the Indies Choice Best Audiobook of the Year Award, as well as being shortlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction. Circe also won The Red Tentacle Award, an American Library Association Alex Award (adult books of special interest to teen readers), and the 2018 Elle Big Book Award. It is currently being adapted for a series with HBO Max. Miller's novels have been translated into over twenty-five languages including Dutch, Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish, Arabic and Greek, and her essays have appeared in a number of publications including the Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Telegraph, Lapham's Quarterly and NPR.org. She currently lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

http://madelinemiller.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 07:22:45 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T18:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library History of Art Lecture / Discussion Circe
Opportunities and challenges of autonomous vehicles: Role of governments? (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71249 71249-17794043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Automation has been significantly improving safety, efficiency, and throughput in aviation for decades. Automation in autonomous vehicles (AVs) offers similar improvement potential on our streets and highways. Automation on the ground, however, will be far more complex and challenging than in aviation. Given existing skepticism about AVs, crashes that could have been avoided by paying attention to lessons learned in aviation are particularly unfortunate because they will delay implementation of these life-saving technologies. In addition, the AV industry will face many automation challenges that were not encountered in aviation. The transformative changes from AVs will introduce major changes and challenges for federal, state and local governments.

Christopher A. Hart is the founder of Hart Solutions LLP, which specializes in improving safety in a variety of contexts, including the safety of automation in motor vehicles, workplace safety, and process safety in potentially hazardous industries.

Mr. Hart is also Chairman of the Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, a three-jurisdictional agency (MD, VA, DC) that was created to oversee the safety of the Washington area mass transit subway system. He was also asked by the Federal Aviation Administration to lead the Joint Authorities Technical Review that was created bring together the certification authorities of 10 countries, as well as NASA, to review the robustness of the FAA certification of the flight control systems of the Boeing 737 MAX and make recommendations as needed to improve the certification process.

Until February 2018 Mr. Hart was a Member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). In March, 2015, he was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate to be Chairman, which he was until March, 2017. Prior to that he was Vice Chairman, after being nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2009 and 2013. The NTSB investigates major transportation accidents in all modes of transportation, determines probable cause, and makes recommendations to prevent recurrences. He was previously a Member of the NTSB in 1990, having been nominated by (the first) President Bush.

Mr. Hart’s previous positions include:
Deputy Director, Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service, Federal Aviation Administration,
Assistant Administrator for System Safety, FAA,
Deputy Administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Deputy Assistant General Counsel to the Department of Transportation,
Managing partner of Hart & Chavers, a Washington, D.C., law firm, and
Attorney with the Air Transport Association.

Mr. Hart has a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Master’s Degree and a Bachelor’s Degree (magna cum laude) in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association, and he is a pilot with commercial, multi-engine, and instrument ratings.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 13:18:40 -0500 2020-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-10T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Christopher A. Hart
Department Colloquium (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72447 72447-18007181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Edward Stabler, Professor of Linguistics, UC Los Angeles, will give a talk titled "Head movement after syntax."

ABSTRACT
Much work in Chomskian syntax defends the view that syntactic structures are unordered, with the computation of prosodic form imposing the linear, temporal order of language productions. Treating head movement as part of this post-syntactic process allows us to explain why some basic properties of head movement differ so significantly from phrasal movement. This talk reviews some versions of this idea and formulates an explicit computational model, extending the framework of Yu and Stabler's (2017) treatment of Samoan syntax/prosody. This perspective preserves a rigorous connection to parsing models, but leaves many puzzles, some of which are briefly surveyed here.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:45:09 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Doctor as a Patient: How it Changed Her Life (February 11, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70689 70689-17619576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Awdish’s near-death experience revealed a dark hole at the center of what was otherwise highly-proficient, astoundingly skillful care. What she learned was that, though the healing potential of knowledge is magical, it is also a lie: Medicine cannot heal in a vacuum; it requires connection. Her talk will focus on what is needed to heal medicine, and how medical training distances physician from patients. Ultimately, it is only by giving primacy to the patient narrative, building resilience in the physician, and forming a community that we can hope to reunite the pieces into a cohesive whole, with the power to heal us all.

Detroit, Michigan. She serves as Medical Director for both Care Experience and the Pulmonary Hypertension Program. In addition to her critically acclaimed, bestselling memoir, In Shock, she also has written for the Harvard Business Review, Huffington Post, and the New England Journal of Medicine. In 2017, she was named National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year by the Schwartz Foundation, and Physician of the Year by Press Ganey. Her work focuses on improving healthcare for both providers and patients, through compassionate communication, medical humanities, and finding joy in our shared purpose.

This is the fifth in a series of ten lectures covering various topics. One lecture is presented on the second Tuesday of each month during the academic year. The next lecture will be March 10, 2020. The title is: What About Weed? The Cannabis Controversy, Past, Present, and Future.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:34:45 -0500 2020-02-11T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Urban Environment Change in Post-Reform China (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70222 70222-17549992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Based on the authors’ past and current research and a critical review of related literature, Dr. Fan will introduce patterns, drivers, and impacts of main urban environmental problems in Chinese cities, focusing on air pollution, urban heat island, and provision of urban green spaces. She will reveal the co-evolved relationship of urbanization, economic development, and urban environmental conditions. She will also discuss Chinese cities’ urban environmental transition, regional and intra-city perspectives, and the environmental impacts of emerging socioeconomic transformations in China.

Dr. Peilei Fan is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at Michigan State University (MSU). She has a Ph.D. in Economic Development and a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, both from MIT. Dr. Fan has served as a consultant/economist for United Nations University –World Institute of Development Economics Research and the Asian Development Bank. Dr. Fan’s research focuses on urban environment and sustainability, innovation and economic development, and planning and policy. Her research projects have been funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) (three as PI and two as Co-PI). She is the Secretary General of International Association of Landscape Ecology (2019-2024). She also serves as the Track Co-Chair for Food Systems, Community Health and Safety for American Collegiate Schools of Planning. She was a Core Fulbright US Scholar for 2017-2018 (Taipei and Shanghai) and is a Public Intellectuals Program Fellow of the National Committee on US-China Relations (2019-20). She has published more than 60 peer-reviewed articles and been a guest (co)editor for special issues of four academic journals. She served on the review panels for NASA, EPA, and Fulbright, and been ad-hoc reviewer for NSF and multiple international organizations.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 16:36:43 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Peilei Fan, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (February 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67994 67994-16977588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

PEW provides a unique forum for doctoral students and faculty members to share and develop interdisciplinary research in political economy. Political science and economics are intimately linked in both substance and methodology, and the field of political economy is among the most fertile and enduring areas for cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Currently, PEW is the sole interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Michigan wholly dedicated to the exploration of current research in political economy, and thus plays a valuable role in fostering connections among the university’s various departments and schools.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:11:55 -0500 2020-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Hoyt Bleakley
FellowSpeak: "Terminal Regions: Queer Environmental Ethics in the Absence of Futurity" (February 11, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69977 69977-17491331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This talk asks what contemporary environmentalism’s (seemingly necessary) emphasis on the future has rendered unthinkable. By reading queer texts whose animating conditions require their protagonists to bracket questions of futurity as normatively lived, I trace paradigms of relationality, practices of care, political affects, temporal modes, and forms of solidarity that as yet have not found their way into ecocritical conversations and practices of environmental stewardship.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:43 -0500 2020-02-11T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The Babushkas of Chernobyl
Signs of Disability: Faculty, Accommodations and Access at Work (February 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72570 72570-18018162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

While accommodation procedures for students are by now generally recognized and recognizable (although there is certainly still tremendous work to do on this front), the question of faculty accommodations is uncharted terrain on many college and university campuses. Beginning by articulating the concept of “signs of disability”—a means of making disability available for perception using a variety of embodied, environmental, and discursive practices—this talk moves through some of the experiences and encounters that disabled faculty have shared in research interviews, published accounts, and surveys. What such accounts reveal is that the emergence of disability and concomitant development of access and accommodation practices is part of a dynamic interrelationship between institutional cultures, environments for disability, and various ways that disability is available for noticing (or not-noticing) within faculty bodies and practices. The talk will conclude with some next-steps and questions for those interested and invested in creating more broadly inclusive academic environments for all members of the campus community, including faculty.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:32:46 -0500 2020-02-11T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Kerschbaum headshot
What Ifs of Jewish History (February 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70132 70132-17538850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? What if a Jewish state had been established in Uganda instead of Palestine? In his talk, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld discusses how these and other counterfactual questions would have affected the course of Jewish history. Drawing on his edited volume, "What Ifs of Jewish History" (2016), he discusses why Jewish historians were historically slow to adopt the increasingly popular methodology of counterfactual reasoning in their work, and how they have finally begun to do so in recent years. He concludes with some reflections on the merits of speculating about how the course of Jewish history might have been different.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:57:31 -0500 2020-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion "New Judea" Stamp
Quartering the British Army in Revolutionary America (February 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71155 71155-17783465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In the decades before the Revolution, British soldiers were a common sight in America. They lived in private houses in Trenton, marched up Broadway in New York, and came to blows with colonists in Boston. What was it like to live in this world?

Drawing on his new book "Quarters: The Accommodation of the British Army and the Coming of the American Revolution" (which he largely researched at the Clements Library), John McCurdy explains how the colonists made room for redcoats by reimagining places like home, city, and empire. They insisted on a right to privacy in their houses and civilian control of troops stationed in their cities, both of which they achieved through the Quartering Act. McCurdy also explores how protests by the Sons of Liberty and events like the Boston Massacre caused the civilian-martial comity to unravel such that Americans ultimately declared the “quartering of large bodies of armed troops among us” to be a reason for independence.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the U-M Eisenberg Institute, which supported McCurdy's work on this book through a Residency Research Grant. John G. McCurdy is Professor of History and Philosophy at Eastern Michigan University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:47:28 -0500 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Boston Massacre Engraving by Paul Revere, 1770
"De-colonizing Food Journalism" (February 11, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72672 72672-18044326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Zahir Janmohamed, co-founder of the James Beard nominated podcast Racist Sandwich, will speak about what has, and has not, changed in food media since he and Soleil Ho began their show in 2016. He will speak about why he thinks the subjects of race, gender, class cannot be separated from discussions about food and will offer advice, and lessons learned, from his successes, and failures, to get traditional media to center their stories around non-white, non-male voices.

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, and the Center for Academic Innovation.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:06:56 -0500 2020-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Zahir Janmohamed
Food Literacy for All (February 11, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

UPDATE: All remaining Food Literacy for All sessions will take place virtually starting on Tuesday, March 17. Community members will still be able to tune in at 6:30pm here: https://zoom.us/j/998944566

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Food Literacy for All is a community-academic partnership course started in 2017. Structured as an evening lecture series, Food Literacy for All features different guest speakers each week to address challenges and opportunities of diverse food systems. The course is designed to prioritize engaged scholarship that connects theory and practice. By bringing national and global leaders, we aim to ignite new conversations and deepen existing commitments to building more equitable, health-promoting, and ecologically sustainable food systems.

The course is co-led by Cindy Leung (School of Public Health), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

See here for more information: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/foodliteracyforall/

Community members should register for each Food Literacy for All session here: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/sustainablefoodsystems/community-rsvp/

This course is presented by the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, with support from the Food Systems Theme in the School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), the Center for Latin and Caribbean Studies (LACS), the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, the Residential College, the School of Public Health’s Department of Nutritional Sciences, the Department of English Language and Literature, the Center for Academic Innovation, and the King•Chávez•Parks Visiting Professors Program.


Winter 2020 Speakers:

January 14: Cindy Leung, Jerry Hebron, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Devita Davison, Winona Bynum
“Setting the Table for Health Equity”

January 21: Jessica Holmes
“Health Inequities: The Poor Person’s Experience in America”

January 28: Pakou Hang
“Racial Justice and Equity in the Food System: Going Beyond the Roots”

February 4: Robert Lustig
“Corporate Wealth or Public Health?”

February 11: Zahir Janmohamed
“De-colonizing Food Journalism”

February 18: Nicole Taylor
“The Disruption of Traditional Food Media”

February 25: Panel
“The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers”

March 10: Leah Penniman
“Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty”

March 17: Maryn McKenna
“Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure”

March 24: Panel
“To Impossible & Beyond: Are the New Plant Based Burgers Too Good to be True?”

March 31: Marlene Schwartz
“Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System”

April 7: Terry Campbell
“The Farm Bill and National Food Policy”

April 14: Jennifer Falbe
“Big Soda vs. Public Health: Soda Taxes and Public Policy”

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-11T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Love (February 11, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52726 52726-12974160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the chemistry of our biology.

Readings to consider:
1. The Neurobiology of Love
2. The Medicalization of Love
3. Self-Transcendence, the True Self, and Self-Love
4. Love yourself: The relationship of the self with itself in popular self-help texts

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/040-love/.

You might love the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:11 -0500 2020-02-11T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Love
BME Ph.D Defense: Xiaotian Tan (February 12, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72235 72235-17963874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 11:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biosensors are devices or systems that can be used to detect, quantify, and analyze targets with biological activities and functions. As one of the largest subsets of biosensors, biomolecular sensors are specifically developed and programmed to detect, quantify and analyze biomolecules in liquid samples.

Wide-ranging applications have made immunoassays increasingly popular for biomolecular detection and quantification. Among these, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA) are of particular interest due to high specificity and reproducibility. To some extent, ELISA has been regarded as a “gold standard” for quantifying analytes (especially protein analytes) in both clinical diagnostics and fundamental biological research. However, traditional (96-well plate-based) ELISA still suffers from several notable drawbacks, such as long assay time (4–6 hours), lengthy procedures, and large sample/reagent consumption (∼100 μL). These inherent disadvantages still significantly limit traditional ELISA's applicability to areas such as rapid clinical diagnosis of acute diseases (e.g., viral pneumonia, acute organ rejection), and biological research that requires accurate measurements with precious or low abundance samples (e.g., tail vein serum from a mouse). Thus, a bimolecular sensing technology that has high sensitivity, short assay time, and small sample/reagent consumption is still strongly desired.

In this dissertation, we introduce the development of a multifunctional and automated optofluidic biosensing platform that can resolve the aforementioned problems. In contrast to conventional plate-based ELISA, our optofluidic ELISA platform utilizes mass-producible polystyrene microfluidic channels with a high surface-to-volume ratio as the immunoassay reactors, which greatly shortens the total assay time. We also developed a low-noise signal amplification protocol and an optical signal quantification system that was optimized for the optofluidic ELISA platform.

Our optofluidic ELISA platform provides several attractive features such as small sample/reagent consumption (<8 µL), short total assay time (30-45 min), high sensitivity (~1 pg/mL for most markers), and a broad dynamic range (3-4 orders of magnitude). Using these features, we successfully quantified mouse FSH (follicle stimulating hormone) concentration with a single drop of tail vein serum. We also successfully monitored bladder cancer progression in orthotopic xenografted mice with only <50 µL of mouse urine. More excitingly, we achieved highly-sensitive exosome quantification and multiplexed immuno-profiling with <40 ng/mL of total input protein (per assay). These remarkable milestones could not be achieved with conventional plate-based ELISA but were enabled by our unique optofluidic ELISA.

As an emerging member of the bimolecular sensor family, our optofluidic ELISA platform provides a high-performance and cost-effective tool for a plethora of applications, including endocrinal, cancer animal model, cellular biology, and even forensic science research. In the future, this technology platform can also be renovated for clinical applications such as personalized cancer diagnosis/prognosis and rapid point-of-care diagnostics for infectious diseases.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:28:04 -0500 2020-02-12T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Xiaotian Tan
CREES Noon Lecture. Terroir, Ecological Stewardship, and Heritage Politics in the Bulgarian Wine Industry (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71275 71275-17794081@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Bulgaria is arguably one of the oldest wine-producing countries in the world, and built a large, highly industrialized and export-oriented wine sector during state socialism as a wine-producing specialist of COMECON (the economic alliance of Soviet allies). When socialism collapsed in 1989, the wine industry faced multiple challenges, including the accepted international hierarchy of wine-producing countries through which Bulgarian wines then became understood and marketed. In this talk, I examine the contestations over the idea of *terroir* (a taste of place) among Bulgarian wine professionals to understand how wine is involved in heritage projects. As new resources and opportunities became available through EU heritage politics in which wine traditions became a central piece of the heritage industry and of agricultural and rural development, these debates highlight diverse meanings of ecological stewardship in light of heritage preservation. Understanding wine as a cultural heritage raises important questions of whose and which past is worthy of preservation, and why. The tensions within the Bulgarian wine industry, namely reconciling the cultural pride of winemaking heritage with a competitive hierarchical global wine market, illustrate the multi-faceted aspects of culture, ecology, and politics in the era of post-Cold War globalization.

Yuson Jung is associate professor of anthropology at Wayne State University. Her research explores issues of consumption, food politics, globalization, and postsocialism. She is the author of "Balkan Blues: Consumer Politics after State Socialism" (Indiana University Press, 2019) which examines everyday consumer experience in postsocialist Bulgaria. She has also co-edited (with Jakob Klein and Melissa Caldwell) "Ethical Eating in the Postsocialist and Socialist World" (University of California Press, 2014). Currently, she is working on a book project entitled "The Cultural Politics of Wine: Globalization, Heritage, and the Transformation of the Bulgarian Wine Industry," as well as on a collaborative research project (with Andrew Newman) regarding food politics and urban governance in Detroit.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to 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, 10 Jan 2020 16:42:53 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Bulgarian vineyard
HET Brown Bag | The Large-Misalignment Mechanism for Compact Axion Structures (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72413 72413-18000398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Axions are some of the best motivated particles beyond the Standard Model. I will show how the attractive self-interactions of dark matter (DM) axions over a broad range of masses, from 10^−22 eV to 10^7 GeV, can lead to nongravitational growth of density fluctuations and the formation of bound objects. This structure formation enhancement is driven by parametric resonance when the initial field misalignment is large, and it affects axion density perturbations on length scales of order the Hubble horizon when the axion field starts oscillating, deep inside the radiation-dominated era. This effect can turn an otherwise nearly scale-invariant spectrum of adiabatic perturbations into one that has a spike at the aforementioned scales, producing objects ranging from dense DM halos to scalar-field configurations such as solitons and oscillons. This "large-misalignment mechanism" leads to various observational consequences in gravitational lensing and interactions, baryonic structures and star formation, direct detection (including for the QCD axion), and stochastic gravitational waves.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 14:06:00 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68428 68428-17080061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

We study the causal effect of firms' lobbying activities on the misallocation of resources through the distortion of firm size. To address the endogeneity between firms' lobbying expenditure and their size, we propose a new instrument. Specifically, we measure firms' political connections based on the geographic proximity between their headquarter locations and politicians' districts in the U.S., and trace the value of these networks over time by exploiting politicians' assignment to congressional committees. We find that a 10 percent increase in lobbying expenditure leads to a 3 percent gain in revenue. To investigate the macroeconomic consequences of these effects, we develop a heterogeneous firm-level model with endogenous lobbying. Using a novel dataset that we construct, we document new stylized facts about lobbying behavior and use them, including the one from the instrument, to estimate the model. Our counterfactual analysis shows that the return to firms' lobbying activities amounts to a 22 percent decrease in aggregate productivity in the U.S.

In Song Kim's research interests include International Political Economy, Formal and Quantitative Methodology.

The goal of the Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods is to provide an interdisciplinary environment where researchers can present and discuss cutting-edge research in quantitative methodology. The talks are aimed at a broad audience, with emphasis on conceptual rather than technical issues. The research presented is varied, ranging from new methodological developments to applied empirical papers that use methodology in an innovative way. We welcome speakers and audiences from all disciplines and fields, including the social, natural, biomedical, and behavioral sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:35:21 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion In Song Kim
EER Seminar Series (February 12, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72341 72341-17974693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Abstract:
Learning analytics dashboards (LADs) have emerged from a growing interest in presenting and visualizing students’ learning activities in digital learning environments, and they are growing in popularity for both residential and online courses. Dashboard displays are seen as powerful metacognitive tools, and delivering them to learners is intended to support awareness and decision-making, and trigger self-reflection. Despite their increasing availability, recent meta-reviews of the existing research on LADs have revealed that there are few empirical studies on the impact of dashboards on student motivation, behavior, and skills. In this talk I will present the student dashboard we have designed and tested here at the University at Michigan, called MyLA (My Learning Analytics). In a partnership between the School of Information, School of Education, and the Teaching and Learning group at ITS, we have created a Canvas-integrated dashboard that uses design principles derived from Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) theory combined with a focus on accessible and actionable information. Based data from 10 Winter 2019 courses where MyLA was available, I will describe our early findings about how UM students have used the dashboard, and the relationships between dashboard use with performance and measures of self-regulation.

Bio: Dr. Teasley is a Research Professor in the School of Information, the Director of the Learning Education & Design Lab (LED Lab), and Core Faculty member of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) at the University of Michigan. Her recent work has focused on assembling and utilizing institutionally-held student data to design and evaluate new ways to support student success in Higher Education. From 2016-2018 she was the president of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), and she is currently the chair of the International Alliance for the Advancement of Learning in the Digital Era (IAALDE).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:19:52 -0500 2020-02-12T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Teasley
2019-2020 Tanner Lecture on Human Values: Theorizing Racial Justice (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60868 60868-14979680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Livestream the 2020 Tanner Lecture here: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/phil/phil021220.html

After years of being restricted to the marginalized voices of people of color and a few white progressives, “racial justice” as a demand has suddenly jumped to the national center stage. Whereas Barack Obama self-consciously presented himself as a candidate who just happened to be black, and generally ran away from the topic, we are now witnessing the startling spectacle of mainstream Democratic candidates vying to be the most progressive on issues of race. Indeed, large percentages of white liberals now endorse a structural analysis of racial domination. For those of us old enough to remember the evasions of past electoral campaigns, and the hegemony in the Obama years of norms of “post-raciality” and “color-blindness,” it is a welcome and remarkable change, one doubtless attributable to multiple factors, from the activism of “Black Lives Matter!” on the one hand to the ominous rise of white nationalism and the alt-right on the other.

But what does philosophy have to say on this issue? After all, philosophers in the Western tradition like to think of themselves as the go-to guys on matters of justice, in a history that (supposedly) stretches 2500 years all the way back to ancient Greece. And since its revival half a century ago by John Rawls’s 1971 A Theory of Justice, mainstream Anglo-American liberal political philosophy has expressly taken social justice as its central theme. Where better to seek guidance on the subject of racial justice, then, than in the work of political philosophers, especially American political philosophers, citizens of what has historically been a white supremacist state?

Alas, any such expectations would be sadly disappointed. “White” political philosophy and “white” liberalism, including Rawls and Rawlsianism, have generally been part of the problem rather than part of the solution. In this lecture, I will offer some thoughts and diagnoses on the causes of this troubling history, and some suggestions for the development of a new liberalism, one that recognizes its historic role in the creation and consolidation of white supremacy, and is committed, unlike currently hegemonic varieties of liberalism, to ending it.

This event is free and open to the public. ASL interpretation will be provided. Venue is wheelchair accessible.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:00:26 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion 2020 Tanner Lecture - Theorizing Racial Justice - Charles W. Mills
Arabic Lecture Series - Jewish Representations in Contemporary Arabic Literature (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72738 72738-18070543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Although the overwhelming majority of Egyptian Jewry left the country in waves from 1948 to 1967, their presence continues to be noticeable in Egyptian culture. During the second half of the twentieth century, unfavorable portrayals of Jews appeared in a period of time marked by turmoil and conflict between Egypt and the nascent state of Israel. Representations of Jews in contemporary Egyptian literary works, however, mark a shift from portrayals influenced by the Arab-Israeli conflict which internalized negative Jewish stereotypes. Twenty-first century novelistic productions, however, invoked Jewish portrayals to shape Egypt as a multiethnic and multicultural society of which Jews were an integral part.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:37:31 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Lecture Series Poster
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics (DCMB) Weekly Seminar (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72535 72535-18015945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:
Normal mechanical function of the heart requires that ATP be continuously synthesized at a hydrolysis potential of roughly -60 kJ mol-1. Yet in both the aging and diseased heart the relationships between cardiac work rate and concentrations of ATP, ADP, and inorganic phosphate are altered. Important outstanding questions are: To what extent do changes in metabolite concentrations that occur in aging and heart disease affect metabolic/molecular processes in the myocardium? How are systolic and diastolic functions affected by changes in metabolite concentrations? Does metabolic energy supply represent a limiting factor in determining physiological maximal cardiac power output and exercise capacity? Does the derangement of cardiac energetics that occurs with heart failure cause exercise intolerance?

To answer these questions, we have developed a multi-physics multi-scale model of cardiac energy metabolism and cardiac mechanics that simulates the dependence of myocardial ATP demand on muscle dynamics and the dependence of muscle dynamics on cardiac energetics. Model simulations predict that the maximal rate at which ATP can be synthesized at free energies necessary to drive physiological mechanical function determine maximal heart rate, cardiac output, and cardiac power output in exercise. Furthermore, we find that reductions in cytoplasmic adenine nucleotide, creatine, and phosphate pools that occur with aging impair the myocardial capacity to synthesize ATP at physiological free energy levels, and that the resulting changes to myocardial energetic status play a causal role in contributing to reductions in maximal cardiac power output with aging. Finally, model predictions reveal that reductions in cytoplasmic metabolite pools contribute to energetic dysfunction in heart failure, which in turn contributes to causing systolic dysfunction in heart failure.

BlueJeans Livestream Link: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments served in Forum Hall Atrium
4:00 p.m. - Lecture in Forum Hall

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:41:29 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Financial Inclusion: A Conversation with Adrienne Harris (February 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69973 69973-17491318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Join the +Impact Studio at Ross and MBA Finance Club for a discussion on financial inclusion with U-M Ford School Professor and Gate Foundation Senior Research Fellow, Adrienne Harris. Adrienne also advises fintech companies, incumbent financial institutions, and large venture capital firms. Most recently, she was the Chief Business Officer and General Counsel at a San Francisco-based inter-tech start-up for which is is now an advisor.

As part of the school’s Business+Impact initiative, the +Impact Studio brings together students from Ross and other disciplines in applying design principles to translate insights from faculty research into practical solutions to societal challenges. Studio faculty Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Jerry Davis will be on hand to engage Ms. Harris in a lively discussion about her work in governmental and corporate strategy around financial inclusion and fintech availability to the underserved.

REGISTER HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/financial-inclusion-in-the-age-of-fintech-tickets-92064733095

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:07:58 -0500 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Adrienne Harris
Artist Conversation & Opening Reception for "Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior" (February 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72662 72662-18035614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Join us as we welcome artist Valerie Jung Estabrook to the Institute for the Humanities for an engaging conversation with curator Amanda Krugliak. Audience Q & A follows the conversation, as well as an opportunity to meet the artist and talk one-on-one.

About the exhibition:
Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior, by Valery Jung Estabrook, re-creates a life-size living room sewn by hand, suggestive of the artist’s history growing up in rural southwestern Virginia.The installation includes a custom upholstered recliner embellished with a Confederate Flag motif, and a plush TV emanating country music karaoke sung by the artist.The exhibition challenges the notions of heritage, Southern nationalism and “traditional” American culture, providing a window into the tensions of being a perpetual foreigner in one’s own hometown.

Reflecting on her exhibition title, Estabrook states, “The second part of the title, “Chink,” is a word that is fundamentally linked to my lifelong experience as an Asian American. Yes, it’s offensive—an incredibly painful slur. But that same pain is something that I, unfortunately, think of when I think of home. I include it because I must in order to have an honest discussion about the America that I know.”

Valery Jung Estabrook was born in Plantation, Florida, and grew up on an organic pear farm in rural southwestern Virginia. She holds an MFA in drawing and painting from Brooklyn College and a BA in visual art from Brown University. Her work has been exhibited in major cities both domestically and internationally, including New York, Los Angeles, Lagos, Bilbao, and Melbourne. In 2018 she received the Gold AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Award, an annual award recognizing artists of Korean heritage in the United States. She currently resides in Albuquerque and teaches experimental art at the University of New Mexico.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:18:16 -0500 2020-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion From "Hometown Hero (Chink): An American Interior"
Love Where You Are: Cultivating a Compassionate Workplace Culture (February 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72316 72316-17974679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

A panel of local entrepreneurs and small business owners will explore different models and approaches to creating and sustaining a more caring and empathetic work environment.

This event is a Mindful Leader Session open to the BLI community!

Featured Panelists:
-James Goebel (Menlo co-founder )
-Jeff Hall ( Second to None founder )
-David Seaman (Detroit Filling Station manager )
-Lisa McDonald (TeaHaus owner)

Dinner is served!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 14:41:22 -0500 2020-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion Love Where You Are: Cultivating a Compassionate Workplace Culture
Building the Oligodendrocyte: Mechanisms of Acentrosomal Microtubule Nucleation and mRNA Transport (February 13, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71737 71737-17877251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are please to welcome Meng-meng Fu, Ph.D., to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB on February 13th, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee and Center for RNA Biomedicine Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:37:18 -0500 2020-02-13T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Building the Oligodendrocyte: Mechanisms of Acentrosomal Microtubule Nucleation and mRNA Transport - Meng-meng Fu, Ph.D.
Is Technology Killing Privacy? (February 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70747 70747-17627846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Privacy is dead! Or is it? This talk will explore the darker side of social media, smartphones, smart speakers. How and why do these technologies track your behavior online and in your homes? What can they know about you? Why do people struggle to protect their privacy? The talk further discusses research advances that can lead to better privacy protections and user controls, and what you can do now to take back your privacy.

Florian Schaub is Assistant Professor in the University of Michigan School of Information. His research combines privacy, human-computer interaction, emerging technologies, and public policy. He studies people’s privacy decision making and behavior, investigates technology-related privacy implications, and develops user-centric privacy solutions that help people better manage their privacy in technology contexts. Dr. Schaub holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University.

This is the last in a six-lecture series. The subject is Social Media Research: What We Know Now. The next series will start February 20, 2020.The subject is The Power of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 21 Dec 2019 15:08:05 -0500 2020-02-13T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
DS/CSS Seminar Series: Danaja Maldeniya (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72761 72761-18070594@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

PhD candidate Danaja Maldeniya will discuss collaborative crowdsourcing and how the structure and operation of these virtual and loosely knit teams differ from traditional organizations.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:50:15 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Danaja Maldeniya standing in a park.
LECTURE CANCELLED | CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of the Benshi (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69871 69871-17480871@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this week's Noon Lecture has been cancelled. At this time there is no plan of rescheduling, but please stay tuned to our website and social media pages for the latest updates. We thank you for your patience and understanding.

The silent film benshi has attracted attention for being a unique aspect of Japanese film culture. With the release of Suo Masayuki’s new feature film, Katsuben!, interest in the benshi will no doubt increase. This lecture will examine the history of the benshi. Special attention will be paid to its role in the immigrant communities of America, as a point of cultural exchange in the Japan-America film relationship a century ago.

Ichiro Kataoka graduated from the Nihon University College of Art and began training under Midori Sawato, in 2002. He is the most well-known benshi of his generation, a rising star that is also the most internationally active benshi, having given performances in countries such as Croatia, Germany and Australia. Performing a broad repertoire of styles, Mr. Kataoka is known for not only performing with the more “traditional” benshi accompaniment of a small ensemble or select Japanese instruments, but also has been open to working with experimental or electronic music. He has appeared as a benshi in various films and also works as a voice actor for animation and video games.

You may also wish to attend the 7:30pm screening of "The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)." This silent film will be accompanied by a live benshi narration. More details, and information on how to purchase tickets is here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:10:24 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ichiro Kataoka
LSI Seminar Series: Michael Birnbaum, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (February 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70180 70180-17540936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
The immune system relies on T cells to distinguish between normal cells and cells altered by infection or cancer. The T cells must integrate signals from their environment in deciding what cells to kill or to spare. This diversity can make determining exactly what is recognized during an immune response extremely challenging. My lab combines protein engineering, combinatorial biology, structural biology and immunology to better understand and then manipulate immune recognition. We aim to find what is recognized during the course of successful immune responses, what antigens should be targeted in treatments and how to better design cell-based immunotherapies.

About the Speaker:
Michael Birnbaum is an assistant professor of biological engineering at MIT. He received his bachelor's degree in chemical and physical biology from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2014. There, he worked under K. Christopher Garcia and studied the molecular mechanisms of T cell receptor recognition, cross-reactivity and activation. After postdoctoral work in Carla Shatz’s group at Stanford, supported by a Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Professor Birnbaum joined MIT and the Koch Institute in 2016. During his tenure at the Koch Institute, Birnbaum has received the AACR-TESARO Career Development Award for Immuno-oncology Research, a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and a V Scholar Grant from the Jimmy V Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:53:15 -0500 2020-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Negativity and Emotion in Electoral Politics (February 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65909 65909-16670232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Soroka is Michael W. Traugott Collegiate Professor of Communication Studies and Political Science, and faculty associate in the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research, U-M. His research focuses on political communication, on the sources and/or structure of public preferences for policy, and on the relationships between public policy, public opinion, and mass media. Current projects include work on negativity in politics, on the role of mass media in representative democracy, and on support for social welfare and immigration policy. With the 2020 elections coming up soon Dr. Soroka will provide some interesting insights.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:10:30 -0400 2020-02-13T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
BME 500: Leyuan Ma, Ph.D. (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70420 70420-17594472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has shown dramatic clinical responses in hematologic malignancies, with a high proportion of durable complete remissions elicited in leukemia and lymphomas. However, achieving the full promise of CAR T-cell therapy, especially in solid tumors, will require further advances in this form of cellular therapy. A key challenge is maintaining a sufficient pool of functional CAR T cells in vivo. We recently developed a strategy to target vaccines to lymph nodes, by linking peptide antigens to albumin-binding phospholipid-polymers. Constitutive trafficking of albumin from blood to lymph makes it ideal chaperone to concentrate these “amphiphile-vaccine” molecules in lymph nodes that would otherwise be rapidly dispersed in the bloodstream following parenteral injection. These lipid-polymer conjugates also exhibit the property that they insert in cell membranes on arrival in lymph nodes. Here, we generated amphiphile CAR T ligand (amph-ligand) vaccine by exploiting these dual lymph node targeting and membrane-decorating properties to repeatedly expand and rejuvenate CAR T cells through the chimeric receptor in native lymph node microenvironment. We evaluated this approach in the presence of a complete host immune system. Amph-ligand vaccine boosting triggered massive CAR T expansion, increased donor cell polyfunctionality, and enhanced anti-tumor efficacy in multiple immunocompetent tumor models. We demonstrate two approaches to generalize this strategy to any CAR, enabling this simple HLA-independent vaccination approach to enhance CAR T functionality to be applied to existing CAR T cell designs. Taken together, our amph-ligand vaccine provides a simple engineering solution to augment CAR T-cell therapy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 13:11:56 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Communication and Media Speaker Series (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70281 70281-17564353@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

The political theorist Hannah Arendt once said that “A people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its own mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.” (Interview, New York Review of Books, October 26, 1978). Arendt’s well-known revisionist account of propaganda shifted the focus away from “indoctrination” and toward the role of cynicism and quiescence in sustaining authoritarianism. If uncertainty becomes a systemic feature of our media systems, we are likely to lose trust—in each other, in the institutions that inform and represent us, and, ultimately, in the democratic process. In the long term, the general expectation that little of what is available online can be trusted may contribute to an attitudinal spiral that “anything goes”—a new culture of indeterminacy that may further diminish individuals’ sense of accountability for the information they share. At the elite level, such a culture may also enable deceitful politicians to claim that nothing can be proved in a public sphere characterized by chaos, distrust, and cynicism. New opportunities will emerge for politicians to campaign on promises to restore “order” and “certainty” through illiberal policies curtailing free speech and other civil rights. How should communication researchers respond to these challenges?

Andrew Chadwick is Professor of Political Communication in the Department of Communication and Media at Loughborough University, where he is also the founding Director of the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C). His latest book is The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (OUP, Second Edition). His next book is Social Media and the Future of Democracy (OUP) www.andrewchadwick.com

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:06:20 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion A Chadwick
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Respite: 12 Anthropocene Fragments (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70058 70058-17505681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This talk draws on work in the environmental humanities to rewrite the Anthropocene as autotheory. Written in a poetic-philosophical mode, “Respite” brings together 12 fragments as autotheoretical forms—autocollage, autothermograph, nested equation, and 9 others—for a self confronted with the unthinkable extinction of all life on earth. Grounded in human and natural archives, “Respite” is framed by Sylvia Wynter’s and Michel Foucault’s theoretical critiques of anthropos (Man). In casting self-writing as an experiment, “Respite” offers a new ethical model for being present to life in its ending.

Lynne Huffer is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of *Foucault’s Strange Eros* (forthcoming 2020); *Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex* (2013); *Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory* (2010); *Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference* (1998); and *Another Colette: The Question of Gendered Writing* (1992). She has published academic articles on feminist theory, queer theory, Foucault, ethics, and the Anthropocene, as well as personal essays, creative nonfiction, and opinion pieces in mass media venues. With Chicago artist Jennifer Yorke she also created Wading Pool, a collaborative artists book http://www.vampandtramp.com/finepress/h/Lynne-Huffer-Jennifer-Yorke.html.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:57:03 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Lynne Huffer
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. The Rohingya Crisis and Future of Democracy in Myanmar (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71793 71793-17885874@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Wai Wai Nu is a former political prisoner and the founder and Executive Director of the Women Peace Network in Myanmar. She spent seven years as a political prisoner in Burma because of her father’s pro-democracy political activism. Since her release from prison in 2012, Nu has dedicated herself to working for democracy and human rights, particularly on behalf of marginalized women and members of her own ethnic group, the minority Rohingya population.

As Executive Director and Founder of Women Peace Network, a platform to build peace and mutual understanding between Myanmar’s different ethnicities, and to empower and advocate for the rights of marginalized women in Arakan and Myanmar; campaigns for women’s rights. She has been working to reduce discrimination and hatred among Buddhist and Muslim communities, building allies and solidarity to improve the human rights of the Rohingya people. Nu has conducted women’s empowerment training, offered legal education seminars, and organized human rights and peacebuilding advocacy, workshops, and forums.

In 2014, Nu co-Founded Justice for Women, a network of women lawyers providing pro-bono legal consultation and education. In 2016, she founded Yangon Youth Center, where young people of diverse backgrounds in Myanmar can explore their ideas, learn civic and political leadership, and build trust and relationships among each other. Nu organized the My Friend Campaign with youth from different communities to promote tolerance and to reduce discrimination among diverse groups. Nu received a law degree from Yangon University in 2014 and graduated with her Master of Laws from the University of California Berkeley in 2018.

Nu is the recipient of N-Peace Wards (2014),; Democracy Courage Tributes (2015), World Movement for Democracy; Hillary Rodham Clinton award in (2018).

Nu was named among "100 Top Women", BBC (2014); among 100 inspiring women, Salt Magazine; among 100 World Thinkers (2015), Foreign Policy Magazine; Next Generation Leader, Time Magazine (2017).; Women of the Year, Financial Times (2018).

Currently, Nu is an Obama Foundation’s visiting Scholar at the Columbia University World Project.

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Program in International and Comparative Studies.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at umichhumanrights@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, 07 Feb 2020 15:59:15 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Lecture with Wai Wai Nu
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17851291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
Lecture: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez, "Liminal Practice(s)" (February 13, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70920 70920-17753822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Amanda Williams is a visual artist who trained as an architect. Her practice blurs the distinction between art and architecture through works that employ color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place and value in cities. The landscapes in which she operates are the visual residue of the invisible policies and forces that have misshapen most inner cities. Williams’s installations, paintings, video, and works on paper seek to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar, and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space in America. Amanda has exhibited widely, including the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, a solo exhibition at the MCA Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. She is a a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors grantee, an Efroymson Family Arts Fellow, a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow and a member of the multidisciplinary Museum Design team for the Obama Presidential Center. She is this year’s Bill and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago and has previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at Cornell University and Washington University in St. Louis. She lives and works on Chicago’s south side.

Andres L. Hernandez is a Chicago-based artist, designer and educator who re-imagines the environments we inhabit, and explores the potential of spaces for public dialogue and social action. Hernandez is a 2018 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellow, and his recent projects include a 2018-2019 visiting artist residency with the University of Arizona School of Art, and Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See A Line), a commissioned installation in collaboration with artists Amanda Williams and Shani Crowe for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Hernandez is co-founder of the Revival Arts Collective, founder and director of the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative, and exhibition design team member for the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, IL. He received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and a Master of Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he is an Associate Professor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:31:03 -0500 2020-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lecture: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez, "Liminal Practice(s)"
CANCELED: Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez: Liminal Practice(s) (February 13, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58872 58872-14569980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The Amanda Williams and Andres L. Hernandez presentation scheduled for Thursday, February 13, 2020 has been canceled due to flight delays.

A visual artist who trained as an architect, Amanda Williams’ practice blurs disciplinary distinctions. She employs color as a way to draw attention to the political complexities of race, place, and value in cities and raises questions about the state of urban space in America. She has exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. In collaboration with Andres L. Hernandez, an artist-designer-educator based in Chicago, and artist Shani Crowe, Williams installed Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line) at the U.S. Pavilion in the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

Andres L. Hernandez re-imagines the environments we inhabit, and explores the potential of spaces for public dialogue and social action. Hernandez is co-founder of the Revival Arts Collective, and founder and director of the Urban Vacancy Research Initiative. With Williams, he is a member of the design team for the Museum of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Co-presented with the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 18:16:04 -0500 2020-02-13T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-13T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Williams-Hernandez.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (February 13, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

Or just writing a paper for an AMCULT or Ethnic Studies class?

Join us, Thursdays in Ethnic Studies Lounge on the 3rd floor of Haven Hall!

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-13T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
Michigan Environmental Justice Summit 2020 (February 13, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68931 68931-17197028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

The School for Environment and Sustainability honors the 30th Anniversary of the “Incidence of Environmental Hazards Conference,” which helped put environmental justice (EJ) on the national radar for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Building on the momentum of the 1990 conference, the University of Michigan soon became the first university to establish environmental justice as an academic field of study.

Looking forward, the Michigan Environmental Justice Summit 2020 will take lessons from the past and look towards the future. The event will highlight the challenges and opportunities now—and for the future—of environmental justice, and how YOU can make an impact and create a more equitable, inclusive future.

As part of U-M’s year-long series “Earth Day at 50,” the university is working with local and regional partners to catalyze a mass movement for climate and environmental justice. Now more than ever, justice must be at the center of today’s movement in order to bring about true transformative change.

Join us for a dynamic discussion with our panel of environmental justice game changers:

Michelle Martinez (MS ’08) SEAS alumna
Panel Moderator
Coordinator, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition
Detroit-based EJ activist, speaker, writer, and mother

Robert Bullard
Known as the “Father of Environmental Justice”
Named one of 13 Environmental Leaders of the Century (Newsweek, 2008)

Rhiana Gunn-Wright
Policy Director, New Consensus
An architect of the Green New Deal

Charles Lee
Senior Policy Advisor, EPA
EJ pioneer and principal author of the landmark report, Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States

Regina Strong
Environmental Justice Public Advocate,
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy

Sponsors: College of Literature, Science , and the Arts (Program in the Environment); School of Public Health (Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education); The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; Taubman College (Urban and Regional planning Program); Erb Institute; Office of the President; The Law School (Environmental Law & Policy Program)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:08:20 -0500 2020-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion EJ logo
Coeducation for Democracy (February 13, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71385 71385-17819320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the admission of women to U-M. Andrea Turpin, associate professor of history at Baylor University and author of the recent award-winning book, A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917, will speak on the struggle for women's admission at U-M and the experiences of women students here during the early decades of coeducation. This lecture is part of a new monthly series on the history of the University, sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:41:17 -0500 2020-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T20:30:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Women graduates, LSA 1889
AIM Data Showcase (February 14, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71743 71743-17877257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, February 14 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League (911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48104) for the AIM Data Showcase. Please register below if you plan to attend.

We love data! The Center for Academic Innovation invites all University of Michigan community members to join us for a morning of conversations about the data that power higher education and educational research. We’ll hear from faculty, staff, and students about how they’re using data across campus, including the insights, opportunities, and challenges they’re observing.

Presentations and conversations will include:

- A keynote presentation from Andy Krumm, Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at University of Michigan Medical School

- Lightning talk presentations and conversations from:
- Yuanru Tan, Learning Experience Designer & Accessibility Coordinator, Academic Innovation
- Rebecca Quintana, Learning Experience Design Lead, Academic Innovation
- Heather Rypkema, Assistant Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
- Liz Hanley, Post-graduate Fellow, Academic Innovation
- Steve Lonn, Director of Data, Analytics and Research, Enrollment Management
- Trevion Henderson, Doctoral Student in Higher Education, Academic Affairs and Student
Development

- A panel of U-M students discussing what role students should play in the design, collection, and analysis of learning analytics

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:11:35 -0500 2020-02-14T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Event Series
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 14, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17948636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 10:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Gómez-Barris lecture center the work of artists, scholars, and new social and ecological formations that reside in that productive tension of critical undoing and living and making otherwise. In particular, it draws from her in-progress book At the Sea’s Edge that considers the oceanic not only as an archive of coloniality, and a receptacle and spectacle of planetary ruins, but as a dynamic life force and historical shaper in relation to the forces of racial and extractive capitalism. Thinking with submerged perspectives primarily in the trans-Pacific and trans-Atlantic, Gómez-Barris expands upon Kamau Brathwaite’s concept of tidealectics as key to understanding how to move within and beyond the colonial anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:21:50 -0500 2020-02-14T10:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for lecture
By land or by sea? Investigating early routes and inter-zonal connections during the settlement of South America (February 14, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72707 72707-18061835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The settlement of the Americas represents the most extensive and rapid biogeographic expansion of our species. My working group is studying how this settlement process took place in western South America. I will share new insights from our team’s excavation and dating of sites from the Pacific Coast to the high Andes and outline an approach combining survey, provenance analysis, and GIS path modeling to trace human movements. Ultimately, the goals of this work are to understand migration routes, processes of adaptation in extreme environments, and inter-zonal connections in the Andean world.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:12:11 -0500 2020-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion R
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology. We meet roughly biweekly during the academic year to present our research, discuss "hot" topics in the field, and practice upcoming conference or other presentations. We welcome anyone with interests in phonetics and phonology to join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (February 14, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71170 71170-17785571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Michael Lerner is a Dow Sustainability Fellow and Ph.D. student in the Political Science department and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on topics in comparative environmental politics, with a broad interest in questions related to adaptation to environmental change, the responsiveness of government, and disaster recovery and prevention.

The Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) provides a platform for sharing and improving research that provides comparative perspectives on the causes and effects of political and economic processes. We have participants from Economics, the Ford School of Public Policy, the Law School, the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Mathematics, Political Science, the Ross School of Business, Sociology, Statistics, and the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:45:54 -0500 2020-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Michael Lerner
Chinese Co - optation: Doing Business in the Era of Xi Jinping (February 14, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70712 70712-17619588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

The cost of doing business in China today is a high one, and it is paid by any and every company that comes looking to tap into its markets or leverage its workforce. Quite simply, you don’t get to do business in China today without doing exactly what the Chinese government wants you to do. Period. No one is immune. No one. As someone who has lived and worked in China, advised companies about investing there, and quite happily been described as a China bull, I have struggled to accept this fateful conclusion in the era of Xi Jinping. Like some other China Bulls, I had believed the early promises of Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, and Zhu Rongji about China’s fair and open future, open markets, the emergence of a rule of law system. To be clear, I am still very bullish on the strength and trajectory of the Chinese economy – China *will* continue to grow and it *will* surpass the US as the largest economy in the world. However, the current era is just a much darker period for everyone, including Multinational Corporations (MNCs). There is no free lunch for doing business in Xi's China – especially for technology companies. China *will* get its pound of flesh as the cost of operating there: you get to operate here and gain access to the the most innovative supply chain in the world and world's largest marketplace; and China gets what it wants in terms of benefits to Chinese economy and society (as defined by the Chinese Government). Based on three decades of China research — including thousands of interviews — and, most recently, my time as an executive for Apple in China (2014-19), this talk attempts to lay out what my views on how China has co-opted the business community in the era of Xi Jinping.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:41:31 -0500 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Political Theory Workshop (February 14, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71091 71091-17777055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

One of the defining features of W.E.B. Du Bois’s career in the 1940’s was his return to the NAACP and subsequent participation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization (UNCIO) from April to June of 1945 as a consultant to the United States delegation. This essay traces Du Bois’s transnational democratic thought during his work with the UN and the NAACP in the 1940s and beyond. Pushing against nation-centered framings of Du Bois’s democratic politics that place the problem of racial equality within the nation, I explore how Du Bois used the language of “colonial status” and “colonial peoples” to connect domestic racial hierarchies in the United States to colonial hierarchies abroad. Focusing on unpublished speeches, essays, and correspondence, I argue that Du Bois exploits the conceptual elasticity of terms like “colonialism” and “colony” in order to build a transnational majority on a global scale, constituting what he would call in an unpublished 1935 essay, “a pragmatic program for a dark minority.” The conceptual capaciousness of the term “colony” allows Du Bois to connect disparate forms of domination across boundaries of race, nation, and empire, thus binding colonial and semi-colonial peoples together in a common program of international action. The fruition of these efforts, I argue, is Du Bois’s 1948 petition to the United Nations, An Appeal to the World. Through distinct rhetorical strategies and the appropriation of international legal discourse, Du Bois contests the bifurcation of domestic and international politics and expands the spatial scale of democracy by placing civil rights struggles in imperial context.

Adam Dahl's research and teaching interests are in American political thought, democratic theory, the politics of race and indigeneity, and political theories of empire and colonialism. His first book, Empire of the People: Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought (University Press of Kansas, 2018), examines the constitutive role of settler colonialism in shaping modern norms of democratic legitimacy. His current project, tentatively titled Transnational Democracy in the Americas, explores the interconnected dynamics of internationalism, anti-imperialism, and transnational citizenship in the American democratic tradition, focusing on the political thought of Ottobah Cugoano, Frederick Douglass, Randolph Bourne, W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, and Herman Melville.

The Political Theory Workshop provides a venue for political theory-oriented scholarship broadly construed. Participants include theoretically-inclined members of social science and humanities departments across the University of Michigan, as well as institutions throughout southwest Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:52:27 -0500 2020-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Adam Dahl
SynSem Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72621 72621-18033396@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at UM, and from neighboring universities (thus far including EMU, MSU, Oakland University, Wayne State and UM-Flint) can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains. The group is frequently used by students to practice conference presentations and receive constructive feedback from familiar faces.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 08:43:18 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Senator Chang (February 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72334 72334-17974685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is designed to increase healthy discourse and learning throughout U-M by inviting speakers from the political and public service sectors of national and international note.

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan, Senator Chang. Senator Stephanie Chang was the first Asian American woman to be elected to the Michigan Legislature and worked as a community organizer in Detroit for nearly a decade before serving two terms in the Michigan House of Representatives. The event will be moderated by, Niala Boodhoo, is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan. Previously, she was the Founding Host/Executive Producer for the awarding-winning statewide public radio show “The 21st”.

The event will take place in the Multipurpose Room at the Trotter Multicultural Center on Friday, Feb 14th.

Registration link: https://myumi.ch/qg0Q0

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:22:06 -0500 2020-02-14T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
HET Seminar | Globally consistent three-family Standard Models in F-theory (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72170 72170-17948640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

We present recent advances in constructions of globally consistent F-theory compactifications with the exact chiral spectrum of the minimal supersymmetric Standard Model. We highlight the first such example and then turn to a subsequent systematic exploration of the landscape of F-theory three-family Standard Models with a gauge coupling unification. Employing algebraic geometry techniques, all global consistency conditions of these models can be reduced to a single geometric criterion on the base of the underlying elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau four-folds. For toric bases, this criterion only depends on an associated polytope and is satisfied for at least quadrillion bases, each of which defines a distinct compactification. We conclude by pointing out important outstanding issues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 14:33:28 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72536 72536-18015946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. Members of the SoConDi group present their work in progress from time to time, and discuss current issues in the disciplines, or study selected readings together.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:53:58 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Aging Patterns in Wild Chimpanzees" (February 14, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68799 68799-17153402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Although chimpanzees have been studied in the wild for almost 60 years, until recently, very little is known about how chimpanzees age both physically and socially. This is surprising given that they can live up to 50-60 years in the wild, well past the prime years of their life. In this talk, Dr. Machanda will highlight recent research from her long-term field site, the Kibale Chimpanzee Project, on the physical, physiological and social aging patterns of wild chimpanzees."

The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series presents speakers on current topics in the field of anthropology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:45:56 -0500 2020-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Smith Lecture: Weathering and Soil Development in the Earliest Land Plant Biospheres (February 14, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63136 63136-15578786@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Colonization of the land by primitive plants during the Early Palaeozoic had a profound effect on biologically mediated soil development, the stabilisation of land surfaces, the architecture of fluvial sedimentary systems, and global biogeochemical cycles (carbon, phosphorous, oxygen). Modern analogues of terrestrial habitats from ~450 million years ago include cryptogamic ground covers (CGCs), which contain a mix of primitive biotas such as the non-vascular bryophyte plants (mosses, liverworts, hornworts), lichens, fungi, algae, and bacteria. Some modern liverworts and hornworts form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi and cyanobacteria, a mutualistic relationship regarded as a primitive method of nutrient acquirement from mineral substrates which was likely occurring deep in the geologic past to create some of the earliest ‘bio-soils’. In this talk I will present interdisciplinary efforts to better understand the chemical, physical and mechanical processes of plant-symbiont-soil interactions and nutrient acquirement in modern analogues of early terrestrial biospheres. In particular, I will focus on cutting edge multi-dimensional (2D – 3D) and multi-scale (cm – nm) correlative imaging methods with a view to applying this to methods of weathering, nutrient extraction and biological interactions in the geologic past.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:33:34 -0400 2020-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics Colloquium: "Linguistics for the Common Good" (February 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72575 72575-18018168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

ABSTRACT

Although institutions of higher education increasingly recognize the imperative of fostering diversity, equity, inclusion and access, language and linguistic diversity are rarely part of institutional efforts toward greater justice. Further, despite many different kinds of efforts, linguists have not been as successful as we might hope in advocating for the centrality of language within the imperative toward inclusion and justice. Yet, part of diversity is linguistic diversity; part of equity is linguistic equity; part of inclusion is linguistic inclusion; and part of access is linguistic access.

In this talk, I’ll explore some of the ways that linguists can have more success in our efforts to enhance linguistic justice through embracing and engaging with ongoing as well as emerging shifts in the discipline. By framing linguistic inclusion in the context of standardized language privilege, I present what we know about linguistic discrimination, pinpoint the linguistic stakes of efforts towards inclusion, highlight some flashpoints that occur in public discussions about language such as with pronouns and political correctness, and offer some concrete steps that we as linguists can take to effectively advocate for the importance of language at all levels of intervention linked to greater equity and justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:03:07 -0500 2020-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CSAS Lecture Series | Islam and the Lessons of Pakistan’s History (February 14, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64845 64845-16460998@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 14, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

How have Islamic doctrinal orientations, religious institutions, and governmental policies relating to Islam evolved since the establishment of Pakistan in 1947? What has constrained successive Pakistani governments in their policies and their initiatives in the religio-political sphere? What insight and lessons can the history of Pakistan offer for a better understanding of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary world? These are among the questions that this talk will address.

This event is cosponsored by the U-M Global Islamic Studies Center.

Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department of Near Eastern Studies of Princeton University in 2006. He has written on the relation­ship between religious and political institutions in medieval and modern Islam, on social and legal thought in the modern Muslim world, on institutions and traditions of learning in Islam, and on the flow of ideas between South Asia and the Arab Middle East. He is the author of Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids (1997), The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008), Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism (2012), and Islam in Pakistan: A History (2018). With Robert W. Hefner, he is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (2007); with Roxanne L. Euben, of Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought (2009); and, as associate editor, with Gerhard Bowering et al., of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought (2013). Among his current projects is a book on South Asia and the wider Muslim world in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 10:52:30 -0500 2020-02-14T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Science Forum Demo (February 15, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-15T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 15, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 15, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 15, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-15T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Science Forum Demo (February 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Take a journey through deep time as we explore a story that has taken millions of years to unfold, and then examine a brand new discovery! Where did life begin? How did the first four-footed land animals emerge? And why do fossil whales have feet? Participants examine the museum’s fossil whales and related species as they learn about the evolutionary processes responsible for the diversity of life on earth. After a brief presentation, visitors can make a cast of a tooth from an ancient whale species called Dorudon and help to construct an evolutionary timeline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

Join a University of Michigan researcher in the Science Forum for a special peek into cutting-edge research. Interactive presentations last about 15 minutes, with time for conversation afterwards. Presentations are appropriate for ages 5 and up.

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-16T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Join us in the Science Forum for 15-20 minute engaging science demonstrations that will help you see the world in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Home to 84% of North American surface fresh water, complex ecosystems, and more than 30 million people, the Great Lakes are the backdrop for all life on both of Michigan’s peninsulas. Explore their natural history, current human impact, and the challenges for the future. Can you guess where the oldest fossils are? Or how much of the world’s accessible fresh water the Lakes contain? Join us.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-16T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-16T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Fighting to Build a Wall: How Cell Competition Shapes Morphogenesis in Mammalian Skin (February 17, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71738 71738-17877253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D., to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB on Monday, February 17, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:48:48 -0500 2020-02-17T09:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Fighting to Build a Wall: How Cell Competition Shapes Morphogenesis in Mammalian Skin - Stephanie J. Ellis, Ph.D.
Tau Beta Pi Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series (February 17, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72850 72850-18085920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Office of Student Affairs

Tau Beta Pi Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

"Semantic Robot Programming... and Making the World a Better Place"

featuring Professor Chad Jenkins

Monday, February 17, 2020

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/DVwppYWzvbv3yj286

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center (3rd Floor)
The University of Michigan, North Campus

Professor Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. He is also the leader of the Laboratory for Progress (Perception, RObotics, and Grounded REasoning SystemS), Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, and Associate Director for the Michigan Robotics Institute.


Lunch provided by Jerusalem Gardens
Sponsored by Tau Beta Pi
and the
Center for Engineering Diversity and Outreach (CEDO)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:05:17 -0500 2020-02-17T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Office of Student Affairs Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Critical Conversations: Futures (February 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70161 70161-17540902@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2019-20. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

Lunch will be available at 12:30. Presentations begin at 1:00pm, followed by discussion. The session concludes at 2:30.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Dec 2019 09:37:00 -0500 2020-02-17T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
STS Speaker. ToxiCity: Practices of Living Anthropogenic Seas (February 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70127 70127-17538845@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

How might we think about and address the kinds of life that emerge in the wastescapes of cities? In this talk I attend to the social and natural life of Mumbai’s anthropogenic sea. Today, Mumbai’s sea is an uneasy gathering of urban, climactic and agrarian processes. As sewage, fish, birds, coral, and algae interact in dynamic relations, how are fishers, amateur naturalists and scientists negotiating the ambivalent ecologies of the Anthroposea. By attending to their practices, this talk explores emergent ways of thinking, knowing and acting in muddy waters.

Bio: Nikhil Anand is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the political ecology of cities, read through the different lives of water. His award winning book, Hydraulic City, focuses on the everyday ways in which cities and citizens are made through the everyday management of water infrastructure in Mumbai. With Hannah Appel and Akhil Gupta, Dr. Anand is also co-editor of The Promise of Infrastructure, which focuses on how infrastructure provides a generative ground to theorize time and politics. Dr. Anand's new research project, The Urban Sea, attends to the ways coastal cities are actively constituted through social and natural relationships with the sea. Dr. Anand has a Masters in Environmental Science from Yale University and a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 09:23:21 -0500 2020-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Nikhil Anand
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Dr. Christian Schillinger, Ithaca College (February 17, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68899 68899-17190817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Hailed as a “…force of nature” by The Double Reed, bassoonist Christin Schillinger specializes in the accessibility of the avant-garde, aiming to broaden the audience for both new music and bassoon.

Schillinger works closely with living composers who remark on her “natural interpretation” and “perfect musical choices.” Her solo albums, Bassoon Unbounded (2018), Bassoon Transcended (2013) and Bassoon Surrounded (2009), produced for MSR Classics by Swineshead Productions, include world-premiere recordings of new repertoire for bassoon.

To facilitate the demands of 21st-century compositions, Schillinger researches reed-making consistency. Her 2016 book, Bassoon Reed Making (Indiana University Press) details current and historic trends in this field. Schillinger’s groundbreaking research extends to guest lectures and residencies throughout the United States and Europe.

Schillinger is an advocate for diversity in performance and programming. She is a founding member of Limitless Collective, an all-female ensemble featuring works by women, PoC, and the LGBTQ community. She is also the creator and organizer of the fEmpower social media network for bassoonists identifying as female.

Schillinger publishes numerous articles and appears regularly as a performer and lecturer. In addition, Schillinger co-hosted the 2012 International Double Reed Society Annual Conference and inaugural IDRS Teen Camp. 

Schillinger is on faculty at Ithaca College in New York where she performs frequently with New Music and traditional orchestral ensembles. Previously, she has held positions with Miami University, the University of Nevada, and various orchestras throughout the west.

Christin Schillinger holds degrees from Northwestern University (BM), Michigan State University (MM), and Arizona State University (DMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 10:27:23 -0500 2020-02-17T16:30:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Christin Schillinger
Artist Talk with Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness, presented by the Penny Stamps Speaker Series and UMMA (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68761 68761-17147149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, N.C., and the current Roman Witt Artist in Residence at the Stamps School of Art & Design. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches to fields like law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication. 

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

 

Witness Lab is presented in partnership with the Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Program of the Stamps School of Art & Design, with lead support provided by the University of Michigan Law School and Office of the Provost.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 12:17:18 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Courtney McClellan: Observer v. Witness (February 17, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70391 70391-17594438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Monday, February 17, 5:30pm / Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA, 525 S State St, Ann Arbor 48109

Courtney McClellan is an artist and writer from Greensboro, North Carolina, and the 2019-2020 Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence. Her work addresses public ritual, institutional space, and objects that invite or demand speech. Her explorations result in sculpture, performance, installation, writing, and video. Her studio practice includes experimenting with materials, but also reaches into fields such as law, theater, and journalism. For the past five years she has studied legal simulation.

At UMMA, McClellan will mount Witness Lab, an architectural courtroom installation and performance series. The facsimile courtroom located in the glassed-in Stenn Gallery will host legal simulations from participating groups including the Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Additionally, court transcript readings and trial advocacy workshops will be performed in the gallery. Stamps students will observe and document the courtroom activity through drawing, text, photography, and video. The accumulated documents will result in a publication.

Witness Lab offers audiences a complex truth. By studying the courtroom as a space of performance, and the lawyers as agents of justice, participants and passersby consider the physical and social architecture of the law.

Presented in partnership with University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), presenting Witness Lab, a project by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This courtroom installation is activated from February 15 through May 17, 2020. Lead support for Witness Lab is provided by the University of Michigan Law School and the Office of the Provost.

Image credit: Double Jeopardy, GIF, 2019

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 18:15:46 -0500 2020-02-17T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/McClellan.jpg
Lecture: Lesley Lokko (February 17, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70986 70986-17762335@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Lesley Lokko is an architect, academic and the author of eleven best-selling novels. She served as Head of School at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and as of December 2019, she took up the post of Dean of Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY, New York. She trained as an architect at the Bartlett School of Architecture from 1989–1995, and gained her PhD in Architecture from the University of London in 2007. She has taught at schools in the US, the UK and South Africa. She is the editor of White Papers, Black Marks: Race, Culture, Architecture (University of Minnesota Press, 2000); editor-in-chief of FOLIO: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture and is on the editorial board of ARQ (Cambridge). She has been an on-going contributor to discourses around identity, race, African urbanism and the speculative nature of African architectural space and practice for nearly thirty years. She is a regular juror at international competitions and symposia, and is a long-term contributor to BBC World. In 2004, she made the successful transition from academic to novelist with the publication of her first novel, Sundowners (Orion 2004), a UK-Guardian top forty best-seller, and has since then followed with ten further best-sellers, which have been translated into fifteen languages.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 20:58:40 -0500 2020-02-17T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-17T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lesley Lokko
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Winners and Losers of the Belt and Road (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70224 70224-17549994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

An on-the-ground look at some of the local communities that are being impacted by China's Belt and Road initiative and the broader New Silk Road with an in-depth look at impact areas in Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Georgia, and Poland. What communities are benefiting from the development boom? What communities are being wiped off the map?

Wade Shepard is an author/journalist/filmmaker who has been on the road since 1999, working in over 90 countries. He is the author of "Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World's Most Populated Country," which recounts the two and a half years he spent in China's sparsely populated new cities. His latest book is called "On the New Silk Road: Journeys through China's Artery of Power," which covers the three years he spent traveling up and down the Belt and Road trying to decipher out what is actually going on. Wade has been a guest on top news programs, including BBC World News, NPR 'Morning Edition,' CNBC 'Squawk Box,' ABC News 'The World,' and CCTV China 24.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:59:33 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wade Shepard, Author/Journalist/Filmmaker
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (February 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67995 67995-16977589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Kenneth Scheve is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute. His research interests are in the fields of international and comparative political economy and comparative political behavior with particular interest in the behavioral foundations of the politics of economic policymaking.

PEW provides a unique forum for doctoral students and faculty members to share and develop interdisciplinary research in political economy. Political science and economics are intimately linked in both substance and methodology, and the field of political economy is among the most fertile and enduring areas for cross-disciplinary research in the social sciences. Currently, PEW is the sole interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Michigan wholly dedicated to the exploration of current research in political economy, and thus plays a valuable role in fostering connections among the university’s various departments and schools.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:12:13 -0500 2020-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Scheve
FellowSpeak: "Eco Soma: Speculative Performance Experiments" (February 18, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69993 69993-17491337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In her talk, Petra Kuppers will present ecopoetic disability culture work that engages contact zones between human and non-human others. She will focus on art-based methods of envisioning change, and show that disability, traditionally seen as an enemy to environmentalism (with concrete ramps supposedly damaging pristine wildernesses), can instead offer imaginative ways toward living well in climate catastrophe, unrest, and challenge.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:20 -0500 2020-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Screen-shot from “Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees,” directed by Wobbly Dance