Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CANCELED: CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonie (February 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53321 53321-13340972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Due to travel difficulties we regret that this event has been canceled. We hope to see you at our next event!

In a longer project called The Postcolonial Commons, I am interested in the emergence of fluid political subjectivities around questions of defending existing commons, and creating new ones, in two regions of India: of small-scale fishers in coastal Kerala, and small farmers in the Garhwal region of present-day Uttarakhand state. I am in conversation with strands of contemporary political theory (represented, among others, by Hardt and Negri, Federici, de Angelis, Zizek, and Bauwens) that posit a future organised around ‘the commons’. However, while these writings are futuristic, I suggest that they have an underpinning narrative of the transition from the ‘pre-capitalist commons’ to the ‘commons unmade through capitalism’, which has implications for the political imaginaries outlined in their works. I challenge their orthodox account of this transition with drawing on writings on ‘postcolonial capitalism’, including my own recent work.

For this seminar, I offer two sections of the ‘historical’ part of the larger project: a discussion of the historiographical challenges in reconstructing ‘the pre-capitalist commons’ and the transitions it undergoes ‘under capitalism’ in relation to Kerala fisheries and Garhwali forests, and the limits of the ‘commodity frontiers’ approach to narrate this process. Among other things, the very nature of ‘rule’, and the problems of establishing it in these ‘unruly’ spaces, has a bearing on the sources – rather, the lack thereof – on which an account of such a process can be reconstituted. Accounts are few, and the reliability of some sources is uncertain, for much of the period of early colonial conquest. And what accounts there are do not point to the transformation of fish or forest into ‘commodities’ until relatively recently. Nor are capitalist production relations visible in any meaningful sense. The conditions for fish and forests becoming ‘commodities’, and for the emergence of capitalism in these sectors, come from a number of scientific, technological and other governmental innovations under late-colonial and early-postcolonial developmentalism. I conclude by identifying the implications of my account for radical political theory of the commons.

Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at Northwestern University and the University of Vermont. His research interests are institutional change, sustainable development, social movements, state-society relations in development, and South Asian politics, with a current focus on decentralised development in India, early postcolonial planning, and on the global fishworkers' movement.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:31:21 -0500 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series - The Joy of Collaboration (February 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60220 60220-14849123@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University and Development Events

Martin Katz, holder of the Gwendolyn Koldofsky Distinguished University
Professorship, will give a lecture on musical collaboration.
Prof. Katz hopes to make his audience aware---or perhaps more aware---of what
some of the techniques, tools, and objectives are for any successful and committed
collaborative pianist. He will include illustrations of accommodating breathing,
telling stories, and orchestration in both art song and operatic repertoire, to name
just a few.
Speaking from the piano in order to provide audible examples for his listeners, he
will be assisted by graduate students in voice. Their common goal? To create a
seamless ensemble between the performers, as well as a convincing fusion of words
and music.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:38:12 -0500 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Martin Katz
Linguistics Colloquium (February 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59268 59268-14726030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics Winter 2019 Colloquium Series continues February 1 with a presentation by Linguistics Professor and Chair William Idsardi of the University of Maryland. His areas of specialization are phonology, cognitive neuroscience, and psycholinguistics. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

ABSTRACT
Exploring the Phonological Continuity Hypothesis

Fitch (2018) proposes the Phonological Continuity Hypothesis, "humans share the processing capabilities required to deal with regular-level sequential processing, and thus phonology, with other animals, and these shared capabilities are implemented in homologous neural processing algorithms and circuitry." In this talk I will offer some different ways to understand the differences between sentence patterns and sound patterns (Heinz & Idsardi 2011, 2013; Idsardi 2018), and will review some recent work testing song sequence recognition in songbirds (Lawson et al 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:36:23 -0500 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion William Idsardi
NERS Colloquium: Paul Wilson, University of Wisconsin- Madison (February 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60599 60599-14910418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: From Individual Neutrons to Fleets of Reactors: Software Tools for Analyzing Complex Nuclear Energy Systems

Abstract: There are many axes of complexity in nuclear energy modeling and simulation. Multi-physics, multi-scale feedback gets the most attention in efforts like CASL, MOOSE and NEAMS, with a focus on increasing the fidelity of those simulations to reduce approximations of well- understood fundamental physical phenomena on relatively simple geometric domains. My work explores alternative axes: in one case the geometry itself introduces the complexity; in the other, poorly defined interactions among facilities may lead to complex emergent behavior.

With CAD-based Monte Carlo radiation transport at its core, the Svalinn software suite supports workflows that couple the neutronics results in these complex geometries to other analyses including deterministic transport, neutron activation, heat transfer, and mechanical analyses. These tools are being used for support of licensing at ITER, designing radiation protection for astronaut travel to Mars, and experiment design at ATR.

Cyclus uses agent-based modeling to track the flow of material among nuclear energy facilities with a specific goal of facilitating the introduction of new facility models, either to improve the physics model, add nuance to the way the facility interacts with others, or both. This open source platform enables innovation while ensuring nuclear engineering material compatibility as new facilities are introduced and improved. Recent work has used Cyclus at large scale to study optimization of fuel cycles and hedging scenarios under disruption.

Bio: Paul Wilson is the Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering in the University of Wisconsin-Madison‘s Department of Engineering Physics, and Chair of the Energy Analysis and Policy Program. His research interests focus on developing improved tools for computational modeling of complex nuclear energy systems, with applications in radiation shielding, nuclear waste management, nuclear non-proliferation and energy policy. His Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group (CNERG) develops and provides software for the analysis of complex nuclear energy systems. Paul joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor in August 2001 as part of the Energy Systems and Policy Hiring Initiative. Paul received a B.A.Sc. (Engineering Science) from the U of Toronto, an MS from U. Wisconsin-Madison, a Dr.-Ing from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, and a PhD from U. Wisconsin- Madison. Paul was the founding President of the North American Young Generation in Nuclear [NA-YGN] and has been active in the American Nuclear Society for over 20 years. He represented the ANS and NA- YGN at the international climate change negotiations in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1998), and Bonn, Germany (1999).:

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:48:28 -0500 2019-02-01T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of NERS Colloquium: Paul Wilson
Special Seminar: Dr. Michael Levitt, Professor or Structural Biology at Stanford University (February 1, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60614 60614-14919292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Medical Science Unit I
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Friday, Feb. 1. 5:10 PM in 5330 Med Sci I with overflow seating (live video/audio feed) in 3330 Med Sci I.
Special Seminar: Dr. Michael Levitt, Professor or Structural Biology at Stanford University and 2013 co-recipient of the the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (along with Arieh Warhsel and Martin Karplus) for development of computational approaches to studying macromolecular structure and dynamics: “A Wonderful Life in Science”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Jan 2019 17:12:27 -0500 2019-02-01T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-01T18:10:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit I Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
Guest Lecture: Parthenia (February 2, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60493 60493-14901367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

An Academy of Early Music–Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments Partnership Event.

While Renaissance England treasured wildflowers, it had a less comfortable relationship with the wilderness, which harbored not only wild animals, but also malignant beings from ancient day: elves, fairies, hobgoblins, and the like. An ideal garden should be well-tended and have some symmetry. So too the instrumental music of the period, which was allowed to branch from its roots, and blossom, whilst keeping safely within prescribed boundaries. In the garden and the fantasia, pattern and tonality served as “safe zones” from which to observe the wonders of nature and the imagination.

The viol quartet PARTHENIA brings early music into the present with its repertoire that animates ancient and fresh-commissioned contemporary works with a ravishing sound and a remarkable sense of ensemble. These “local early-music stars,” hailed by The New Yorker and music critics throughout the world, are “one of the brightest lights in New York’s early-music scene.” Parthenia is presented in concerts across America, and produces its own series in New York City, collaborating regularly with the world’s foremost early music specialists.

The quartet has been featured in prestigious festivals and series as wide- ranging as Music Before 1800, the Harriman-Jewell Series, Maverick Concerts, the Regensburg Tage Alter Musik, the Shalin Lui Performing Arts Center, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale Center for British Art, Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Parthenia’s performances range from its popular touring program, When Music & Sweet Poetry Agree, a celebration of Elizabethan poetry and music with actor Paul Hecht, to the complete viol fantasies of Henry Purcell, as well as the complete instrumental works of Robert Parsons, and commissions and premieres of new works annually.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:15:27 -0500 2019-02-02T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Guest Master Class: Andrés Cárdenes, violin (February 2, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59231 59231-14719608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Talented violinists from SMTD will perform for Andrés Cárdenes, one of the leading violinists of this generation.

Recognized worldwide as a musical phenomenon, Grammy-nominated Cárdenes parlays his myriad talents into one of classical music’s most versatile careers. A ferocious, passionate and personally charismatic artist, Cuban-born Cárdenes has garnered international acclaim from critics and audiences alike for his compelling solo violin, conducting, viola, chamber music, concertmaster and recorded performances.  

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 12:15:19 -0500 2019-02-02T13:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Walgreen Drama Center
Artist Talk: Connecting Communities: Wang Qingsong in Detroit and Beijing (February 2, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58525 58525-14510847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 2, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Chinese artist Wang Qingsong’s 2018 work The Bloodstained Shirt restages in Highland Park, Michigan, an iconic 1959 drawing by Wang Shikuo of peasants rising up against a cruel landlord and triumphantly reclaiming their right to the land. Wang’s projects are usually located in China, but while visiting southeast Michigan he was struck by the similarities between the effects of inequitable real estate development on local communities in Detroit, Highland Park, and his native Beijing. His large-scale photograph in the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing features more than seventy volunteers from the greater Detroit community and University of Michigan. Eight months later, Michigan residents created a work of protest banners in collaboration with Wang, also included in the exhibition. Join the artist to hear more about the evolution of this project, from the initial idea to a larger project connecting the two urban centers.

Light refreshments and open gallery after the program. 

Lead support for Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing is provided by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan, the University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, and the Herbert W. and  Susan L. Johe Endowment.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:16:46 -0500 2019-02-02T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-02T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
RNA Innovation Seminar, Theme: Medicinal Chemistry (February 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59715 59715-14780096@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

1.) Brittany Morgan, Ph.D.
from the Anna Mapp lab
Title of talk: “Rational Approaches to Design and Synthesize RNA-Biased Small Molecule Libraries”

2.) Andrew Robertson, Ph.D.
from the Sherman lab
Title of talk: “Towards the Treatment of HIV: Isolation and Structural Characterization of Natural Product Nef Inhibitors”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:35:03 -0500 2019-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Seminar: Regulation of gene expression by altered composition of chromatin remodeling complexes (February 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60405 60405-14875267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Chromatin remodeling plays a critical role in regulating all processes that require access to DNA. There are four families of chromatin remodelers, defined by the ATPase subunit of the complex. Although each family is often treated as a singular entity, in reality, the composition of remodeling complexes can vary greatly based on the inclusion of different subunits. SWI/SNF is the chromatin remodeler that best exemplifies the idea of compositional heterogeneity. More than half of its 12-15 subunits can be filled by mutually exclusive proteins. Despite the many studies on the function of SWI/SNF, considerably fewer have focused on regulation of assembly and composition of the complex. The goal of my lab is to understand how the composition of a chromatin remodeling complex is regulated, and how altered chromatin remodeling disrupts normal chromatin state and contributes to disease. My work integrates quantitative genomics, biochemistry, and molecular biology to develop a mechanistic understanding of how changes to the composition of a chromatin remodeling complex affects its function.

Speaker:
Jesse Raab received his Ph.D. from The University of California Santa Cruz working with Dr. Rohinton Kamakaka to uncover the role of human tRNA genes as chromatin insulator elements. In 2012, he joined the lab of Terry Magnuson to study how changes to the composition of chromatin remodeling complexes affect their function. He is now a research assistant professor in the Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he has continued his research to understand how disruption of chromatin remodeling complex composition contributes to disease.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 14:38:30 -0500 2019-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Jesse Raab, Ph.D.
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Quantitative analyses of the early ape Ekembo with implications for hominoid evolution" (February 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51780 51780-12248759@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:07:17 -0500 2019-02-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59559 59559-14752318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 4, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Racialized Costs of ‘Traditional’ Banking in Segregated America.”

By Terri L. Friedline, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:35:12 -0500 2019-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Gun violence in the United States: Competing frames and policy tensions (February 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60056 60056-14814821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. This event will be livestreamed. Check event website just before the event for viewing details.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

This event is made possible in part through the generous support of the Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling Health Policy Fund.

About the event:

Gun violence represents a significant social problem in the United States. In a single week, the U.S. experiences, on average, over 1,200 gun-related incidents, including accidents, suicides, homicides, and mass shootings. Of all developed nations, the U.S. has - by far - the highest rates of gun ownership and gun violence.

Many competing lenses frame the primary causes or drivers of the unique and multi-faceted problem of gun violence in the U.S., lenses that invoke perspectives on crime, race, mental health, immigration, and other contentious issues. Moreover, the topic of gun violence results in extremely heated, bitter, and politically-divisive policy debates. This will be a moderated discussion with a panel of experts who have competing views on how best to frame or define the problem of gun violence and priority policy solutions.

Panelists:

Jane Coaston, Senior politics reporter at VOX

Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Sociology, Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University

Rebecca Cunningham, MD, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Injury Prevention Center, and Associate Vice President for Research-Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Moderator:

Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Public Policy, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Ford School of Public Policy

For more information, visit http://myumi.ch/aKrYo.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:06:50 -0500 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Jane Coaston, Jonathan Metzl, and Rebecca Cunningham
Handle with Care: Hazards and Wonders of Early Modern Greek Literature (February 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58794 58794-14561442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

Three eighteenth-century texts will serve as points of reference in an attempt to map some of the issues involved in the study of early modern Greek literature. These texts come with a number of challenges – philological, methodological, hermeneutic – while also being fascinating literary artifacts. At the very least, they require a kind of treatment that would do justice to the determined interplay of what this talk will identify as their key features: a creative engagement with classical forms and genres; a programmatic interest in European paradigms; and a firm grasp of the realities and exigencies of the Ottoman status quo.

Bio:

Nikos Panou is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University. Before moving to Stony Brook he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University. His current research focuses on the ways power and authority were conceptualized and represented in pre-modern philosophical discourse, with a particular emphasis on moral and political works written from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. He has published on topics ranging from Byzantine historiography to seventeenth-century satire.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:33:48 -0500 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion poster
Town Hall Meeting on English Department Interest Groups (February 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52311 52311-12631409@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This meeting is both an opportunity for current interest group coordinators and advisors to discuss any organizational issues that have arisen this year, and for all members of the English department to think together about plans for next year (including possible guest speakers, department sponsored series, etc).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 22:37:07 -0500 2019-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Minds, Markets, and Machines: Capitalist Praxis and the Origin of Planetary Crisis (February 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60579 60579-14910392@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Science for the People

The rise of capitalism after 1450 marked a turning point in the history of humanity’s relation with the rest of nature. It was greater than any watershed since the rise of agriculture and the first cities. And in relational terms, it was greater than the rise of the steam engine. These historical questions have assumed new salience in an era of runaway global warming and the Anthropocene narrative, which seeks to explain the origins and prime movers behind such deepening planetary instability. In this talk, environmental historian Jason W. Moore explains why and how the early modern origins of capitalism – understood as a world-ecology of power, capital, and nature – have shaped the crises of the 21st century.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:30:42 -0500 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Science for the People Lecture / Discussion moore monday talk
Climate Adaptation Lightning Talk (February 4, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60344 60344-14866435@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Hosts:
Maria Carmen Lemos
Paige Fischer
Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

Speakers:
Meha Jain
Inés Ibáñez
Drew Gronewold
MaryCarol Hunter
Richard Rood
Allison Steiner
Elisabeth Gerber
Mark Flanner
Ashley Payne
Jeff Masters

Reception will follow in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:56:41 -0500 2019-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T19:30:00-05:00 Dana Building School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
CPPS Lecture and Exhibition Opening. 100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918 (February 4, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59371 59371-14734939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Zakopane is an extraordinary town. Located amidst the stunning beauty of the Tatra Mountains, it is Poland’s best-known holiday resort. Tourism has been growing there since the 1870s, when wealthy outsiders began building holiday homes to enjoy the town’s picturesque location.

With the outbreak of the First World War, many Zakopane residents rushed off to fight, but many others sought refuge in Zakopane to wait out the global conflict. The writer Stefan Żeromski became the informal leader of those who remained. As the war came to an end, the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires collapsed, joining the Russian Empire that had fallen a year earlier, creating a confusing vacuum of authority. On October 31, 1918, a group of politicians, intellectuals, and local activists in Zakopane took the initiative to disarm the local Austrian military police, and on November 1st they proclaimed the formation of a “National Council,” under Żeromski’s leadership. Thus was born the “Republic of Zakopane.”

Although Poles celebrate November 11, 1918, as the anniversary of independence, in fact there were many such proclamations in various towns and cities during those tumultuous weeks, each capturing a different vision of what this new country might become. The “Republic of Zakopane” may seem like an idiosyncratic curiosity, but it exemplifies the rich diversity of attitudes, dreams, and hopes that blossomed in 1918.

Maciej Krupa is a journalist and mountain guide who lives and works in Zakopane, Poland. An anthropologist and historian by training, he is the co-founder of the local weekly newspaper, "Tygodnik Podhalanski," and a former BBC World Service producer. Krupa has authored and co-authored several books and numerous publications on topics related to Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains. His most recent works in English include: "The Tatras," "Zakopane," "Podhale" (2018); "The Outstanding Residents of the Zakopane Trail" (2017); and "Zakopane, Past and Present" (2004).

This lecture marks the opening “100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918,” an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:22:46 -0500 2019-02-04T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T19:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Zakopane 1918
Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series - New Ways to Make Molecules: From Fundamental Science to Applications in Medical Imaging and Drug Development (February 5, 2019 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60223 60223-14849125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University and Development Events

This lecture will describe how fundamental studies of chemical bond-formation can be applied to achieve greener routes to industrial chemicals as well as to the development of novel medical imaging agents.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:38:26 -0500 2019-02-05T04:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T06:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Melanie Sanford
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60114 60114-14838299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Michael Laub, Professor of Biology at MIT and HHMI, will be presenting a seminar titled "Regulating Chromosome Replication and Cell Growth in Bacteria." This seminar will be presented on Tuesday February 5th, 2019 at 12:00 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:07:13 -0500 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | US-China Relations in the Age of Trump and Xi (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60070 60070-14814838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk will examine the current state of US-China relations since the start of the Trump Presidency and the second term of Xi Jinping in China.

Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. She was a foreign student in China in 1989 at Nanjing University. She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing from 1996-1997. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China. In 2012-2013, she was a visiting professor at the Koguan School of Law at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her most recent book is "Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State," published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She is also the author or editor of several other books, including "Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China" (Princeton 2005), "Chinese Justice: Civil Dispute Resolution in Contemporary China" (Cambridge 2011), "From Iron Rice Bowl to Informalization: Markets, Workers, and the State in a Changing China" (Cornell 2011), and "Contemporary Chinese Politics: New Sources, Methods, and Field Strategies" (Cambridge 2010).

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, 24 Jan 2019 16:07:23 -0500 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of Michigan where she is also the director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. Professor Gallagher received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. She was a foreign student in China in 1989 at Nanjing University. She also taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing from 1996-1997. She was a Fulbright Research Scholar from 2003 to 2004 at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai, China. In 2012-2013, she was a visiting professor at the Koguan School of Law at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Her most recent book is "Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State," published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She is also the author or editor of several other books, including "Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China"
UROP Brown Bag (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Whole Earth, Fractured Planet: Geohistory, Climate Justice, and the Crisis of Capitalism (February 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60578 60578-14910391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Science for the People

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Cartoonist Walt Kelly’s iconic poster for the first Earth Day (1970) captured the zeitgeist of a new political imaginary: modern environmentalism. Ever since, its dominant metaphors – from Spaceship Earth to the Anthropocene – have stressed the fundamental unity of humans in facing, and creating, planetary crises. Rightly insisting that humans are part of the web of life, post-1970 environmentalism rapidly slipped into a second, more dubious, worldview: “we” created the conditions and realities of planetary crisis. The new global environmental imaginary had little sense of capitalism’s global fractures, above all the ways in which planetary color, gender, and class lines have been drawn and violently policed since 1492. As today’s climate crises unfold, so too has a resurgent Western universalism, captured in the Anthropocene’s discourse of Man versus Nature. Looking at capitalism’s long history of power and re/production, Moore shows how movements for planetary justice must directly challenge – and disrupt – the enduring legacies of racism, sexism, and colonialism as fundamental drivers of climate crisis and the enrichment of the globe’s One Percent.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:40:10 -0500 2019-02-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T13:00:00-05:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Science for the People Lecture / Discussion JMoore Tuesday talk
Chair's Distinguished Lecture Series - Programmable metamaterials for redirecting stress waves on the fly (February 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60541 60541-14937146@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Osama R. Bilal, ETH Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Mechanical metamaterials are material systems with tailored, architected geometry, designed to retain static and dynamic properties that do not exist or rare in nature. This class of materials usually features a structural pattern that repeats spatially (i.e., unit cell). Most of the metamaterials properties are inscribed in the unit cell’s frequency dispersion spectrum, ranging form its stiffness at zero frequency to its wave attenuation capacity at finite frequencies. These metamaterials are well suited to provide new materials-based advances (through geometry rather than chemical composition) to both structural and acoustical engineering of aerospace vehicles and structures. These advances, for example, can range from sound and vibration insulation to flow control. A major challenge in metamaterials design is to engineer unit cells that have the ability to change their mechanical properties in a predetermined manner, within practical time frames. As a demonstration of principle, we harness geometric and magnetic nonlinearities to tune the metamaterials’ dispersion characteristics. We program our nonlinear metamaterial to redirect stress waves, on the fly, in a reversible and element-wise fashion.

About the speaker...
Osama R. Bilal received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Before relocating to Caltech, he was an ETH postdoctoral fellow in the department of mechanical engineering in ETH Zurich, Switzerland. His research interest spans the realization of advanced material and structures by design, autonomous deployment of material systems, topology optimization, flow control, and multifunctional metamaterials. Osama is the recipient of several awards, including the ARL postdoctoral fellowship (Army), ETH postdoctoral fellowship (ETH), the Graduate Student Service Award (CU-Boulder), the International Student Award (CU-Boulder), the Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (CU-Boulder) and the Phononics 2011 Fellowship (National Science Foundation), among others. More info at http://www.orbilal.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:18:08 -0500 2019-02-05T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T16:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Bilal Photo
Special Lecture: Decoding Molecular Messages: Organic Biomarkers as Tracers of Microbial Controls on Biogeochemical Cycling (February 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60332 60332-14864273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that bring in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 09:13:02 -0500 2019-02-05T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-05T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Neighborhoods, Suburbs, Environments" (February 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58925 58925-14578311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects.

Today, U-M faculty members explore the history and development of living environments, emphasizing the promises of sociability and social mobility suburban and city neighborhoods may have offered, and the realizations and failures of such promises.

Featuring:

Alexandra Murphy (sociology)
Matthew Lassiter (history, American culture)
Harley Etienne (architecture)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:05:05 -0500 2019-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Lecture: "Over There" With the American Expeditionary Forces in France During the Great War (February 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58490 58490-14510812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

A current exhibit at the William L. Clements Library aims to present the experiences of ordinary Americans who served in France as part of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) during the First World War. Studying hundreds of letters written by soldiers, postcards, photographs, and other diverse materials, curator Louis Miller discovered some shared themes from these firsthand accounts to explore in the exhibition. Miller’s lecture will discuss some of the exceptional and heartbreaking stories found in the Clements’ archives and present an overview of the exhibit.

Join us for the lecture at the Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery; an after-hours viewing of the exhibit at the Clements Library will follow the lecture. Visitors have the opportunity to view both paper and three-dimensional objects relating to the First World War, including a doughboy helmet, censored letters, photographs, and souvenirs. A pamphlet of excerpts from the writings of Americans who served complements the exhibit.

Louie Miller is an archivist at the University of Michigan’s William L. Clements Library. He has a Masters of Science in Information from the U-M School of Information with a specialization in archives and records management and a Bachelors in History from Kalamazoo College. It was while working on his undergraduate thesis at Kalamazoo that he was first drawn to the topic of American involvement in the First World War.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:08:41 -0500 2019-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "The Edge" by WWI veteran C. Leroy Baldridge
WCED Lecture. Impunity as State Formation: Dictatorship and the Future of Justice in Thailand (February 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57819 57819-14314716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The regime of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), which took power in Thailand in the 22 May 2014 coup, is a dictatorship that has been marked by series of human rights violations including curtailment of freedom of expression, torture, arbitrary detention and unjust prosecutions which depart from the letter and spirit of the law. Four years after the coup, General Prayuth Chan-ocha and the NCPO have gestured towards a willingness to hold elections, albeit under circumstances highly-constrained by the 2017 Constitution. Taking an assumption that part of the NCPO’s reluctance to exit power is their realization of their many violations of the very law they claim to enforce, this lecture outlines how and on what charges General Prayuth Chan-ocha and other members of the NCPO could be indicted and prosecuted under domestic criminal law and with respect to Thailand’s international human rights violations. Reflecting on such a possible prosecution within the context of Thai and global histories of human rights and impunity, Haberkorn also explicates both the urgency of justice and potential obstacles to it.

Tyrell Haberkorn is an associate professor of Southeast Asian studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work is primarily focused on state violence and dissident cultural politics in Thailand. She is the author of "Revolution Interrupted: Farmers, Students, Law and Violence in Northern Thailand" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011), which rethinks the meaning of revolution in terms of legal rather than armed struggle, and "In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018), a new history of post-absolutist Thailand written through the lens of impunity. Tyrell also writes and translates frequently about Southeast Asia for a broad, public audience, including "Dissent," "Foreign Affairs," "Los Angeles Review of Books," "openDemocracy," and "Prachatai." Her work has been funded by fellowships from Fulbright, the Australian Research Council, the Association for Asian Studies, the Radcliffe Institute, and the Einstein Forum. She can be reached via email at tyrell.haberkorn@wisc.edu.

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, 29 Nov 2018 16:04:44 -0500 2019-02-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-05T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Tyrell Haberkorn
Food Literacy for All (February 5, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-05T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-05T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Love Beyond Bounds (February 5, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60052 60052-14814816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Spectrum Center

SAPAC, in co-sponsorship with Spectrum Center and CEW+, are bringing Corey Kempster and Jari Jones to talk about their relationship and love. The event is specifically near Valentine's Day, a holiday that is often very heteronormative and hurtful for people who hold marginalized identities. We hope that by creating an affirming and inclusive space that is a great representation of love and healthy relationship norms we can promote inclusivity and respect in all relationships on our campus!
Jari Jones is an actress/model/singer/activist who channels her talents into powerful trans-centric storytelling. She has been featured on FX’s Pose, starred in an Off-Broadway show called “The Sex Myth,” and just finished filming a movie with Leyna Bloom, directed by Martin Scorsese. Corey Kempster is a counselor for LGBT youth who are experiencing homelessness in addition to doing some modeling and acting. Together they have become an icon for healthy, positive queer relationships and have done numerous speaking and activism events around the country.

Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 13:54:51 -0500 2019-02-05T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-05T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion image of stars and pink and orange planet surrounding text about the event
CREES Noon Lecture. The Polish Athens: Zakopane as a Center of Polish Culture (February 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59379 59379-14737031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The Zakopane of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a period referred to as “The Young Poland,” is of particular importance in Polish culture. It was the freest place in Poland at the time, partitioned by three neighboring empires – a place where artists, scientists, social, and political activists met. They went there to rest and rejuvenate; they roamed the Tatra Mountains, discussed, created, and conspired. Visitors at this time included the statesmen Józef Piłsudski and Roman Dmowski; writers Henryk Sienkiewicz and Stefan Żeromski; doctor Kazimierz Dłuski; and aristocrat Władysław Zamoyski. Anyone who meant anything in the spiritual life of the Poles frequented Zakopane, adding to the aura of this extraordinary place. Among the visitors were also people who became well-known in America: Helena Modjeska, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Artur Rubinstein, Bronisław Malinowski, and Joseph Conrad. Thanks to all of them, this small highlander village became known as the "Polish Athens” at a time when Zakopane achieved its spiritual peak.

Maciej Krupa, a journalist and mountain guide who lives and works in Zakopane, will discuss the importance of this time and place in Polish culture and history. Krupa has authored numerous publications related to Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains and is the co-founder of the local weekly newspaper "Tygodnik Podhalanski."

This lecture is related to “100 Years of Polish Independence: Zakopane 1918,” an exhibition of photographs from the archives of the Tatra Museum in Zakopane, Poland. The Copernicus Program in Polish Studies has curated the exhibit and organized public lectures in collaboration with the Tatra Museum, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, and Culture.pl as part of POLSKA 100, an international cultural program commemorating the centenary of Poland regaining Independence. It is financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland as part of the multi-year program NIEPODLEGŁA 2017-22.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@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, 24 Jan 2019 15:22:22 -0500 2019-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Maciej Krupa
UROP Brown Bag (February 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Critical Conversations -- Publics (February 6, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54732 54732-13638590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series for 2018-19 organized by the English Department. 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.

Please kindly RSVP below (see website link)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:32:10 -0500 2019-02-06T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Sociology of Health and Medicine: Rethinking Autonomy? (February 6, 2019 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60210 60210-14849101@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 6:15pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Dr. Stonington will share stories from around the world that call into question the pervasive use of individual autonomy as the organizing framework of bioethics. Cases will include: cancer care in Thailand, obesity prevention in Mexico City, primary care for diabetes in Ypsilanti, MI, and others. The goal of these stories will be to challenge assumptions about how people do and/or should engage with their bodies, their health, and health interventions.

Dinner provided, RSVP Required: https://myumi.ch/aVA37

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:40:00 -0500 2019-02-06T18:15:00-05:00 2019-02-06T19:15:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
He is Still Israel? Conversion and Jewish Identity in the Middle Ages (February 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57447 57447-14193519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the Middle Ages, Jews often faced pressure to convert to Christianity or Islam. While some did so out of conviction and others out of practical convenience, many in the Christian world converted as a response to pressure or force. A small number also sought conversion to Judaism. How did fellow Jews view converts and apostates in their midst? Did they distinguish between Jews who chose to leave the fold and those who were anusim, or "forced ones”? A traditional rabbinical theme that “Even though he sinned, he is still Israel” (BT Sanhedrin 44a) often guided discussion of how to deal with conversion, and not all were in agreement about the rights of a Jew to return to the fold. By the same token, not all could agree on the status of one who left his own religion to claim a Jewish faith and identity. This talk will present the stories of a variety of converts, including one story of forced “conversion” from Karaism within the Jewish community itself—to explore how changing religion affected the understanding of Jewish identity in the Middle Ages.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:25:20 -0500 2019-02-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-06T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Szpiech
Cognitive Science Community (February 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60743 60743-14961645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The next student-led discussion will feature Colleen Frank, who will lead a discussion on the effectiveness of brain-training games. Interventions targeting primary cognitive functions are becoming increasingly popular, but are the results of these programs all that they seem to be? Discussion will include topics such as the potential of cognitive training, ethical considerations, and limitations of research and the claims being made.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 09:21:09 -0500 2019-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-06T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Cog Sci Community logo
BUILD A WORKPLACE PEOPLE LOVE - JUST ADD JOY (February 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58456 58456-14502338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Menlo Innovations CEO, Rich Sheridan, had one thought during a difficult mid-career in the technology industry: ...things can be better -- much better! Ultimately, Rich and co-founder James Goebel invented Menlo Innovations in 2001 to “end human suffering in the world as it relates to technology.” Their unique company—which creates custom software--is so interesting that almost 4,000 people a year travel from around the world to see it. Rich is author of Joy, Inc. - How We Built a Workplace People Love. His second book, Chief Joy Officer, is due in December.

Rich will explore what an intentionally joyful work culture must choose as its focus. He will discuss what a joyful workplace looks and feels like, and how it is organized. You will see paradoxical approaches: How workplace noise increases productivity, how two people at one computer outperform hero-based organizations, how rigor and discipline emanate from a shared-belief system, how transparency conquers fear, and how quality can be a natural result of a team built on trust.

This is the last in a six-lecture series. The subject is The Future of Work. How Will Your Grandchildren Make a Living? The next lecture series will start February 14, 2019. The subject is: History of Comedy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:59:29 -0500 2019-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
Coffee with the Curators: Written Culture of Christian Egypt (February 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60746 60746-14961647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us to learn more about the exhibit Written Culture of Christian Egypt: Coptic Manuscripts from the University of Michigan Collection. Evyn Kropf and Pablo Alvarez will give you a tour of this extraordinary exhibit.
https://events.umich.edu/event/56679

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:33:46 -0500 2019-02-07T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T11:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Shenoute of Atripe (ca. 348-465). Content: Canon 7. Acephalos work A13: 79: i.1-ii.32. Is Ecclesiastes Not Wise: 80: i.2-ii.33. Parchment, 1 leaf, 380 x 288 mm. Verso. Origin: White Monastery (Atripe, Egypt). 8th AD. Mich. Ms. 158. 14 b: White Monastery Codex YR 79/80
ChE Seminar Series: Suchol Savagatrup (February 7, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60031 60031-14814797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Imitating Nature’s Gentle Approach: Molecular Engineering of Soft Materials for Energy and Sensing”

ABSTRACT

While conventional electronic devices are composed of hard materials, the pliability and chemical reactivity of soft organic materials may afford new solutions to pressing scientific challenges for applications in energy and environmental monitoring. Here, I will present two examples of molecular engineering of soft materials for (1) mechanically robust organic photovoltaics (OPVs) and (2) bioinspired chemical sensors. OPVs hold promises to produce devices with performance approaching that of silicon-based electronics, but with the mechanical stability of conventional plastics. However, obtaining both “plastic” deformability and high energy conversion efficiency has proven challenging. I will discuss the relationships between mechanical compliance and charge transport in polymeric systems, and the rational design principles that lead to intrinsically stretchable OPVs, allowing for the co-optimization toward the “best of both worlds.” In addition, I will discuss the fabrications of chemical sensors based on complex liquid colloids. These dynamic, multicomponent emulsions behave as a natural sensor with reconfigurable morphologies that are extremely sensitive to the chemical environment. Specifically, their unique coupling between chemical, morphological, and optical properties can be leveraged to detect different classes of biomolecules. These nature-inspired examples serve as an important step in demonstrating the possibility of translating chemical principles to practical devices.

BIO

uchol Savagatrup obtained his Bachelor of Science from UC Berkeley in 2012 and his Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2016, both in Chemical Engineering. At UC San Diego, Suchol worked in the laboratory of Prof. Darren Lipomi and was supported by several competitive fellowships including the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, the ARCS scholarship, and the Kaplan Dissertation Year Fellowship. Suchol is currently a Ruth L. Kirschstein NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Timothy Swager’s lab at MIT. His research interests sit at the interface of soft materials science and device fabrication for applications in energy, human health, and environmental sustainability.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:57:54 -0500 2019-02-07T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Refuge Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Ontological Security in Japan’s Declining Yoseba (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60505 60505-14901382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the economic bubble’s collapse, Japan’s former yoseba (day labor ghettos) have transformed into concentrations of homelessness, welfare-subsidized housing, and supportive social services. However, many of the former pay-by-the-day hotels (doya) now cater to foreign and domestic budget travelers and the neighborhoods are seeing large scale redevelopment. How are residents, especially the poor, experiencing this advancing gentrification? Do these neighborhoods retain their function as neighborhoods of refuge (kakikomi chi’iki), buffering residents from the most extreme forms of urban marginality? I will explore these questions by drawing on ethnographic research in Tokyo’s San’ya and Osaka’s Kamagasaki conducted over a 25-year period.

Matthew Marr is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociocultural Studies and Asian Studies at Florida International University. His research focuses on homelessness in the US and Japan, showing how urban inequality is shaped by social conditions operating at multiple levels, from the global to the individual.

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, 28 Jan 2019 13:19:51 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Marr, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociocultural Studies and Asian Studies,Florida International University
LSI Seminar Series: Nika Danial, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59352 59352-14734789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Chronic inflammation is linked to diverse disease processes, including impaired function and survival of insulin-producing beta-cells housed within pancreatic islets. While major efforts are focused on the immune cell component of islet inflammation and insulitis in diabetes, the nature of beta-cell-intrinsic mechanisms that can modulate islet inflammation are incompletely understood. Among these mechanisms are the beta-cell’s unique metabolic features, such as the low affinity glucose phosphorylating enzyme glucokinase (GK, hexokinase IV) and close coupling of glycolysis to mitochondrial pyruvate handling. Glucose imparts protective or toxic effects on beta-cells depending on the extent and duration of the increase in glucose flux through GK; however, our mechanistic understanding of these effects and their influence on the beta-cell response to inflammation is limited.

We investigated the contribution of glucose metabolism to beta-cell survival during islet inflammation by performing detailed metabolomics, biochemical and functional analyses comparing toxic versus protective GK activation in human donor islets. These integrative analyses uncovered a previously unappreciated link between mitochondrial pyruvate handling, amino acid metabolism and the extent of oxidative stress through nitric oxide synthesis. The mechanistic underpinnings of protective versus toxic glucose signaling in beta-cells and their translational utility for enhancing functional beta-cell mass in diabetes will be discussed.


Speaker:
Nika Danial, Ph.D., is an associate professor of cell biology at the Harvard Medical School and an associate professor of cancer biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University before completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on deciphering the molecular determinants of cellular fuel choice and their functional consequences, including metabolic adaptation and metabolic control of cellular stress responses. This research program has led to discoveries linking fuel metabolism to cellular fate and function that have relevant implications for diseases such as diabetes, seizure disorders and cancer.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:01:46 -0500 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Nika Danial, Ph.D.
UROP Brown Bag (February 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722897@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Rackham North: Procrastination—How to Recognize It and How to Manage It (February 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58388 58388-14494056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

We have all been in situations where procrastination has hurt our productivity. This panel of graduate students and postdocs will discuss and share best practices on how to identify, prevent, and manage procrastination. If you attend this event, consider taking the time management workshop on March 14.
Pre-registration is requested at https://myumi.ch/65ZGd.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:16:29 -0500 2019-02-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Pierpont Commons
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents (February 7, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58569 58569-14511743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

“Mergers of compact objects in the Gravitational Wave Era”

The observation of gravitational waves has opened a new, unexplored window onto the Universe. Among the sources of gravitational wave transients, compact objects such as neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) play the most important role. In this talk, I will focus on the expected gravitational wave signal when two compact objects (NS-NS and NS-BH) in a binary merge. These events are believed to be accompanied by a strong electromagnetic signature in gamma-rays, followed by longer-wavelength radiation. I will discuss what can be learned from the complementary observations of the electromagnetic and the gravitational wave signals during these events.

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 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:25:04 -0500 2019-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T16:20:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Rosalba Perna
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. Dustin Schroeder (February 7, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60139 60139-14840453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Prof. Dustin Schroeder of Stanford University.

Title: "Ice Penetrating Radar: A Window into the Physical Processes of Ice Sheets"

Abstract: Radio echo sounding is a uniquely powerful geophysical technique for studying the interior of ice sheets, glaciers, and icy planetary bodies. It can provide broad coverage and deep penetration as well as interpretable ice thickness, basal topography, and englacial radio stratigraphy. However, despite the long tradition of glaciological interpretation of radar images, quantitative analyses of radar sounding data are rare and face several technical challenges. These include attenuation uncertainty from unknown ice temperature and chemistry, clutter and losses from surface and volume scattering, and a lack of problem-specific radar theory. However, there is rich, often underexploited, information in modern radar sounding data, which is being collected over terrestrial and planetary ice at an unprecedented rate. The development and application of hypothesis-driven analysis approaches for these data can place observational constraints on the morphologic, hydrologic, geologic, mechanical, thermal, and oceanographic configurations of ice sheets and glaciers. These boundary conditions – and the physical processes which they express and control – are filling a fundamental gap our ability to understand the evolution of both marine ice sheets and icy moons. These include the subglacial hydrology of marine ice sheets and the thermophysical structure of planetary ice shells.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:21:42 -0500 2019-02-07T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion clasp logo
"The Rational Design of Affinity-Controlled Protein Delivery for Tissue Repair" (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60041 60041-14814807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Tissue repair requires a carefully orchestrated series of events in which
numerous cell populations, proteins, and matrix molecules participate under precise spatiotemporal control. Disruptions in these signaling events can cause aberrant healing, leading to impaired function. Biomaterials developed to deliver cells and proteins to tissue often fail to recapitulate the complex, endogenous healing response to injury, and lack the ability to control the bioactivity and local presentation of therapeutics in the injury site. I aim to engineer affinity interactions between therapeutic proteins and biomaterials to create delivery vehicles that can exert precise control over protein bioactivity and delivery. This seminar will demonstrate how novel approaches in protein engineering, computational bio-transport modeling, and directed evolution can be used to overcome the limitations of typical biomaterial delivery vehicles and advance clinically relevant treatment strategies for both musculoskeletal and central nervous system injuries.

Marian Hettiaratchi, Ph.D., is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Shoichet Lab at the University of Toronto.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:21:49 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Biomedical Engineering
Chair's Distinguished Lecture Series - Harnessing Hypersonics: A Multi-Physics Frontier (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60816 60816-14970671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Jack J. McNamara
Professor
Director: Multi-Physics Interactions Research Group
Director: AFRL-University Collaborative Center in Structural Sciences
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
The Ohio State University

Recent technological advancements and expanding investments worldwide place us on the cusp of a hypersonics revolution. Yet the hypersonic environment remains largely untamed, and routine operations within it, elusive. Prominent issues are difficulty in comprehensively replicating the environment during testing and a broad set of potential multi-discipline interactions that are not sufficiently understood. These obfuscate nearly all aspects of hypersonic vehicle development, and often lead to underachievement in performance objectives, catastrophic failure, or cancelled programs. The structural system plays a key role in the future of hypersonics by impacting vehicle robustness, survivability, agility, guidance/control, and propulsion. In this context, established challenges on fluid-thermal-structural interactions are briefly reviewed. A more focused discussion is then provided on a long-standing problem: namely deep understanding and modeling of loads transmitted from a turbulent boundary layer to a compliant structure. Key points covered are characteristic parameters that dominate energy transfer, the degree of coupling between turbulence and an aerothermoelastic structure, and how to efficiently capture dominant interactions for relevant thermo-structural response scales.

About the speaker...

Jack J. McNamara is a professor in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the Ohio State University. His research interests are broadly in the areas of computational fluid-structural interactions and model reduction of high-dimensional dynamical systems. A core application target is air vehicle operation in high-speed flow regimes, where there is a potential for complex interactions at both the component (fluid-thermal-structural-material) and vehicle (aero-servo-thermo-elastic-propulsive) levels. Other application areas include fluid-structural centric problems associated with ship airwakes, wind turbines, flapping wing air vehicles, automobiles, and turbomachinery. He is the director of the Multi-Physics Interactions Research Group at the Ohio State University and the seven-year AFRL-University Collaborative Center in Structural Sciences. The latter represents a partnership between the Air Force Research Laboratory Aerospace Systems Directorate, Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, Arizona State University, and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:19:50 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion McNamara photo
Communication and Media Speaker Series (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56313 56313-13878512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Communication and Media

Dr. Meredith D. Clark is a former newspaper journalist whose research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power. Her award-winning dissertation on Black Twitter landed her on The Root 100, the news website's list of the most influential African Americans in the country, in 2015. She's a regular contributor to Poynter.org's diversity column, and her research has been published in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, the Journal of Social Media in Society, and New Media & Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 09:51:45 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion North Quad
Donia Human Rights Center Special Lecture to Launch the Robert J. Donia Graduate Student Fellowship. Human Rights in the Neoliberal Maelstrom (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56182 56182-13841868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In his provocative new book, "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World," Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice.

This event is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan: Department of History, Department of Sociology, and Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and Professor of History at Yale University. His areas of interest in legal scholarship include international law, human rights, the law of war, and legal thought, in both historical and current perspective. In intellectual history, he has worked on a diverse range of subjects, especially twentieth-century European moral and political theory.

He has written several books in his fields of European intellectual history and human rights history, including "The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History" (2010), and edited or coedited a number of others. His most recent book, based on Mellon Distinguished Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in fall 2014, is "Christian Human Rights" (2015). A final book of human rights history, "Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World," appeared from Harvard University Press in April 2018. Over the years he has written in venues such as Boston Review, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Dissent, The Nation, The New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to 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, 18 Jan 2019 14:29:37 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Samuel Moyn
Prometheus and Contemporary Concerns (February 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60261 60261-14855604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

Anna Cornel: Danielle Allen, World of Prometheus: Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens
Syd Riley Brown: Danielle Allen, Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael S.
Megan Wilson: Prometheus and prison

Organized by Francesca Schironi and Netta Berlin. Free & open to the public. Coffee & cookies served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:16:18 -0500 2019-02-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Contexts for Classics Lecture / Discussion prometheus
Juliana Huxtable: Post (February 7, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58873 58873-14569981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

The iconic Juliana Huxtable is an American artist, writer, performer, and musician. Exploring the intersections of race, gender, queerness, technology, and identity, Huxtable uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media. Huxtable references her own body and history as a transgender African American woman as she challenges the socio-political and cultural forces that inform normative conceptions of gender and sexuality. Huxtable’s art and performance work has been featured at Roskilde Festival, Denmark (2018), Rewire Festival, Netherlands (2018); Park Avenue Armory, New York (2018); Reena Spaulings, New York (2017); Project Native Informant, London (2017); MoMA PS1, New York (2014); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); Frieze Projects, London (2014); and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2015), among other venues. Huxtable’s work is featured in Art in the Age of the Internet: 1989 to Today, on view at UMMA through April 7, 2019. She will stage a performance presented by the U-M School of Social Work on Wednesday, February 6 at 5 pm in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Huxtable lives and works in New York, where she is the founder and DJ for Shock Value, and part of House of Ladosha a nightlife collective run by artists, DJs, writers, and fashion icons.

Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan School of Social Work with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA); the Institute for Research on Women and Gender; and the Spectrum Center. This event is part of the 2019 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Symposium.

Photo: © Juri-Hiensch.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:23:25 -0500 2019-02-07T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/huxtable.jpg
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Juliana Huxtable: POST (February 7, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58544 58544-14510866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The iconic Juliana Huxtable is an American artist, writer, performer, and musician. Exploring the intersections of race, gender, queerness, technology and identity, Huxtable uses a diverse set of means to engage these issues, including self-portraiture, text-based prints, performance, nightlife, music, writing, and social media. Huxtable does not privilege any method over another, and the lines between different forms of her work are often fluid. This approach aids Huxtable in her ongoing critiques of existing social norms and categorical distinctions while indicating alternate, more hopeful possibilities. Huxtable references her own body and history as a transgender African American woman as she challenges the socio-political and cultural forces that inform normative conceptions of gender and sexuality. Huxtable’s Art and Performance work has been featured at Roskilde Festival, Denmark (2018), ReWire Festival, Netherlands (2018), Park Avenue Armory, New York (2018), Reena Spauldings, Solo show, New York (2017), Project Native Informant, London UK, (2017) MoMA PS1, New York (2014); “Take Ecstasy with Me,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); Frieze Projects, London (2014); and 2015 Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2015); among other venues. She lives and works in New York, where she is the founder and DJ for Shock Value. And part of House of Ladosha a nightlife collective run by artists, DJs, writers, and fashion icons.​

Huxtable’s work is included in Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today on view at the University of Michigan Museum of Art from December 15, 2018 to April 7, 2019. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the exhibition examines the radical impact of internet culture on visual art since the invention of the web in 1989. This exhibition presents more than forty works across a variety of media—painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and web-based projects. It features work by some of the most important artists working today, including Judith Barry, Juliana Huxtable, Pierre Huyghe, Josh Kline, Laura Owens, Trevor Paglen, Seth Price, Cindy Sherman, Frances Stark, and Martine Syms.

Major funding for Ms. Huxtable's residency was provided by The Faculty Alliance for Diversity at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
 
Michigan Social Work gratefully acknowledges for their support, the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Institute for Research on Woman and Gender, and The Spectrum Center.


Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:17:17 -0500 2019-02-07T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Ada Limon Poetry Reading and Booksigning (February 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58273 58273-14452827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Ada Limón is the author of five books of poetry, including Bright Dead Things, which was named a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award, and one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her other books include Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. Her new collection, The Carrying, was released by Milkweed Editions in August of 2018 and has been called “her best yet” by NPR, “remarkable” by The New York Times, “exquisite” by the Washington Post, and one of the Ten Titles to Pick Up Now by O Magazine. She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer in Lexington, Kentucky.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 15:54:01 -0500 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Ada Limon
LanguageMatters Lab (February 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58464 58464-14849047@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The LanguageMatters initiative at U-M is interested in issues of language diversity on and around campus, linguistic discrimination, social justice, inclusivity, and equality, how different dialects and languages are treated on campus and in the classroom, and the ways in which intentional language can be used for positive social impact.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:54:15 -0500 2019-02-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (February 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

The Webster Reading Series, which remembers the poetry and life of Mark Webster, presents two second-year MFA student readers (one poet and one fiction writer) from the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. Each reader is introduced by a fellow poet or fiction writer.

Webster Readings are free and open to the public and are hosted in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. This is a wonderful opportunity to hear from emerging writers in a warm and relaxed setting.

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 Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-02-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-07T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
U-M Structure Seminar (February 8, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55752 55752-13777524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Ben McIlwain, Research Fellow, Randy Stockbridge Lab, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:01:45 -0400 2019-02-08T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T11:30:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
My Brothers Empowerment Series (February 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58117 58117-14737077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

My Brothers is a monthly dialogue series focused around the success and cross-cultural development of self-identified men of color at the University of Michigan. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to this space.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:59:32 -0500 2019-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T13:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Event
Phondi Discussion Group (February 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:26:33 -0500 2019-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Workplace Bullying, Mobbing, and Harassment: Demographic and Diversity Perspectives (February 8, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57984 57984-14383895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This talk will examine bullying, mobbing, and harassment at work, with an emphasis on demographics and diversity. It will briefly sketch out some basics, a sort of “Workplace bullying 101.” It will then look at the demographic and diversity dynamics of these behaviors overall, especially pertaining to aggressors and targets, especially in the context of organizational cultures. Finally, it will take a closer look at gendered aspects of bullying and related behaviors at work, including (1) linkages between bullying and sexual harassment in the midst of the #MeToo movement and (2) complicated issues of bullying-type behaviors between women at work. Plenty of time will be reserved for comments and questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:44:10 -0500 2019-02-08T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HistLing Discussion Group (February 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59356 59356-14734852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 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). Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:48:47 -0500 2019-02-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58466 58466-14734942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:54:39 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Cooperation without Submission: The Juris-diction of Significance in Hopi-U.S. Relations" (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56314 56314-13878513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

The founding principles of U.S. law regarding Native Americans, first articulated in the 1830s, define them as “domestic dependent nations” who retain powers of self-government but who are also in a “state of pupilage” to the federal government, in a relationship like that of a “ward to its guardian.” This ambiguous status has offered cover for the shifting winds of U.S. political sentiment, leading sometimes to calls for the assimilation of Native peoples, sometimes for their rights to self-determination. Despite these shifts, tribes like the Hopi Nation in Arizona persist in their claims to being sovereign nations who nonetheless enjoy a unique trust relationship with the U.S. Since the 1990s, and passage of laws like Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, this relationship has been executed pursuant to rules requiring “meaningful tribal consultation” whenever U.S. agencies or their grantees propose actions that may impact Native peoples and their resources, particularly those of substantial natural and/or cultural significance. Disagreement persists about meaningful tribal consultation and its efficacies however. This paper deploys insights from indigenous studies, and legal and linguistic anthropology to analyze the details of the consultations I have observed, since 2012, between Hopi Nation officials and their non-native counterparts in the U.S. Forest Service and the Field Museum of Natural History. Unpacking those interactions in light of Hopi theories of knowledge and authority, through a theory of legal language as juris-diction, I argue that these consultations enact Hopi and Anglo-legal norms of “significance” in complex, contradictory ways. I suggest that understanding “meaningful tribal consultation,” and the settler legal status of Native Nations more generally, requires understanding how indigenous nations enact the conditions of their authority through juris-diction and the relations and refusals to settler colonialism this inevitably entails.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:26:11 -0500 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
The Search for Axion Dark Matter (February 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62642 62642-15416701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Dark matter is the dominant source of matter in our Universe. However, while dark matter dictates the evolution of large-scale astrophysical systems through its gravitational effects, the particle nature of dark matter is unknown. This is despite the significant effort that has gone into the search for particle dark matter over the past decades. In this talk I will review the current status of the search for particle dark matter. I will focus specifically on a dark matter particle candidate called the axion, which is both well-motivated theoretically and also relatively unexplored experimentally. I will outline the near-term program for searching for axion dark matter and show that if this theory is correct, then we will probably know soon.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:36:31 -0400 2019-02-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: Using Cr-Redox Systematics in Basaltic Liquids and Olivine to Decode the Oxidation State of Planetary Basaltic Magmas and their Mantle Sources (February 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52678 52678-12927432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The evaluation and interpretation of redox (i.e, fO2) “messages” carried by silicate liquids and their crystallization products, both terrestrial and planetary, has been a major theme and active field of petrologic research for the last 40 years. Chromium is a minor, yet consequential, multi-valent element that is present at dilute concentrations in nearly all basaltic magmas. Recent work has shown that synchrotron μ-XANES measurements of Cr valence in early liquidus olivine phenocrysts can be exploited to yield quantitative information on the prevailing fO2 conditions of primitive mantle-derived basaltic liquids. Spatially resolved measurements of Cr valence in olivine are also unique in that they can be placed into the context the growth history of the phenocryst, thus potentially revealing a wealth of information about temporal variations in the oxidation state of the magmatic system as a function of crystallization and the compositional evolution of the residual liquids. In this way, olivine phenocrysts may serve as high fidelity recorders of magmatic fO2 that can provide new insights into the connection between the oxidation state of basaltic magmas and their mantle sources. Decoding the Cr2+/ΣCr of natural olivine phenocrysts and exploiting this information as a redox “chronometer” is a challenging petrologic problem that requires a multifaceted experimental, analytical, and thermodynamic modeling approach to understand how Cr2+/ΣCr values are dictated by temperature, fO2 and melt chemistry.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:34:29 -0500 2019-02-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-08T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The Painted Face: Artistry, Design, and Voice in Chinese Opera (February 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60581 60581-14910395@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

A panel to further explore the artistic depth of the jing role will be held on Friday, February 15 at 5:00 pm, Weiser Hall, Rooom 555, 500 Church St., Ann Arbor.

Supported through the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, The Confucius Institute, the International Institute, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:43:04 -0500 2019-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-08T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Painted Face: Artistry, Design, and Voice in Chinese Opera
String Preparatory Academy Master Class: Anthony Elliott, cello (February 9, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58156 58156-14435422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 9, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

SMTD Prof. Anthony Elliott provides a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a young artist.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:15:23 -0500 2019-02-09T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
In Conversation: Beyond GAFA: A Tour of the Deep Web (February 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60083 60083-14816987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

The Internet structures most aspects of our lives today. Beyond just allowing us to access infinite amounts of information at lightening speed, it has also altered the way we interact with each other and our environment. While Google, Amazon, Facebook, & Apple (GAFA) remain the predominant gatekeepers of the how we access the Internet, a large portion of the web remains hidden to most of us. In this interactive tour Abhishek Narula, MFA student at the Stamps School of Art & Design, will lead us through exploration of the hidden parts of the Internet. In this discussion, in dialogue with a selection of artworks in the UMMA exhibition of Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Narula will help uncover the conceptual inner workings of the Internet at large. Culminating in a curated tour of the Deep Web, we will explore parts of the web that one cannot access through GAFA. Visitors are encouraged to bring their smart phones.

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and curated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator.

Major support is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

​UMMA gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their generous support:

Lead Exhibition Sponsors:
Candy and Michael Barasch, University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Ross School of Business, Michigan Medicine, and the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs

Individual and Family Foundation Donors:
William Susman and Emily Glasser; The Applebaum Family Compass Fund: Pamela Applebaum and Gaal Karp, Lisa Applebaum; P.J. and Julie Solit; Vicky and Ned Hurley; Ann and Mel Schaffer; Mark and Cecilia Vonderheide; and Jay Ptashek and Karen Elizaga  

University of Michigan Funding Partners:
School of Information; College of Literature, Science, and the Arts; Michigan Engineering; Institute for Research on Women and Gender; Institute for the Humanities; Department of History of Art; Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning; Department of American Culture; School of Education; Department of Film, Television, and Media; Digital Studies Program; and Department of Communication Studies
 

Student programming at UMMA is generously supported by the University of Michigan Credit Union Arts Adventures Program, UMMA's Lead Sponsor for Student and Family Engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 18:17:24 -0500 2019-02-10T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-10T16:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Material Conversations (February 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60674 60674-14937157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: University Library

Join us for the first in a brownbag series highlighting materials research at the university. Our speaker will be Shannon McDevitt, Materials Developer at Herman Miller and U-M Materials Science & Engineering Science alumna.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:16:28 -0500 2019-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center University Library Lecture / Discussion Materials conversation flyer
MES Lecture Series (February 11, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60936 60936-14990927@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Panel discussion with:

Carol Bardenstein, Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture

Cameron Cross, Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies

Katherine Davis, Lecturer in Egyptology

Adi Raz, Director of the Modern Hebrew Language Program

This panel is dedicated to sharing pedagogical approaches, including philosophies, course ideas, and classroom activities. The panelists offer multiple perspectives including teaching languages, ULWR, literature, cinema, and culture classes in both the ancient and modern Middle East.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 16:31:43 -0500 2019-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T14:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59561 59561-14752320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 11, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Politics of Personal Responsibility and the Health Consequences for Black Americans of Working Twice as Hard to Get By.”

By Darrick Hamilton, PhD
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:18:41 -0500 2019-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
STS Speaker. Back to the Future: An STS Approach to Markets (February 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58153 58153-14433289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

As the late Leigh Star noted, infrastructure is that often invisible stuff all around us that is both relational and ecological. I employ the tools of STS in an attempt to unpack infrastructure with respect to markets. Markets may be examined as (1) institutions, (2) the sum of particular sorts of economic transactions and (3) places where politics is enacted. Contemporary economists have focused on the sum of transactions, largely ignoring institutions and politics. However, given the performative character of economics, I need also to examine how economics, in its theoretical treatment of markets, has influenced the development of actual markets. Finally, any ecological study must also include standards, a relatively new form of infrastructure taken for granted by most economists. Based on preliminary investigations, I propose three hypotheses: First, actual markets (must) fail to deliver distributive justice. Second, economics as a discipline lags behind the actual changes in the nature of markets. Third, standards have taken on an increasingly important position as infrastructural devices that shape markets, first supporting and then undermining neoclassical approaches. Institutional economists of a century ago understood that a pragmatic approach, emphasizing the evolutionary character of markets, allowed construction of perspectives that change with the times. A re-reading of their work opens new vistas for STS approaches to markets.

Biosketch: Larry Busch is University Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at MSU. Dr. Busch's current interests include the use of standards in public and private policy making, biotechnology and nanotechnology policy, agricultural science and technology policy, higher education in agriculture, and public participation in the policy process and the consequences of neoliberal policies for democratic governance. His most recent book is Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education. MIT Press, 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:50:59 -0500 2019-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Busch
A Half Century of Michigan Memories … and Some Thoughts About the Future (February 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58937 58937-14586677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

For the past 50 years the Duderstadts have served the University in many ways as partners in faculty activities, leadership roles, community building, and historians. In this discussion they will draw upon these past experiences to explore some of the challenges the University will face in the future.

This is the sixth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2018-19. A total of ten lectures will be presented covering a variety of topics. The next lecture will be March 12, 2019. The topic will be: Macroeconomics Prospects for US and the Globe.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 22 Dec 2018 14:56:39 -0500 2019-02-12T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | "Heaven and Earth are Within One's Grasp": The Healer's Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59303 59303-14728388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Marta Hanson is an Associate Professor of the history of East Asian medicine in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University (2004-present). Her book is titled "Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine: Disease and the Geographic Imagination in Late Imperial China" (Routledge, 2011). She is currently writing a book titled: “‘Heaven and Earth are Within One’s Grasp’ (Qian Kun zaiwo 乾坤在握): The Healer’s Body-as-Technology in Classical Chinese Medicine.” This book uses evidence from the seventh to seventeenth century to illustrate how Chinese healers instrumentalized their bodies as mnemonic aids, time-keeping devices, calculating devices, and medical instruments before instruments became considered to be external to physicians’ bodies, calculators substituted for our brains, and computers became surrogates for our memory in the modern period.

She was senior co-editor of the journal "Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity" for five years (2011-16). She currently is President of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (ISHEASTM, 2015-2019), is on the Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung IKGF (International Consortium for Research in the Humanities), project on “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication,” at Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg (2016-20), and on the Council Member of the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM, 2017-19). Her publications are available via academia.edu and other information about her is on her department website.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/martahanson/research/publications.htm

https://www.hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/content/marta-hanson

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, 05 Feb 2019 15:53:47 -0500 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries
UROP Brown Bag (February 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
FellowSpeak: "Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction" (February 12, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58288 58288-14452847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Associate Professor of Anthropology and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Richard and Lillian Ives Faculty Fellow Michael Lempert will give a 30 minute talk followed by Q & A.

"Small Talk: Talk Therapy and the Microscopic Science of Face-to-Face Interaction"

When the sciences of face-to-face interaction became a boom industry in postwar and early Cold War America, many grew convinced that interaction was small: a micro-sociological world knowable through mechanical recording, painstaking transcription, and fine-grained analysis. The most feverishly microscopic researchers tried to catch the subtlest verbal and nonverbal signs that people gave off, as if straining to touch the nerve of interpersonal life. This microscopy arose from an intimate dialogue between psychiatry and communication science that began in the 1930s with the study of psychoanalysis using dictation machines. Recording-based talk therapy research left the sciences of conversation with a microscopic sensibility and a conviction about the scale of their object of knowledge.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:21:04 -0500 2019-02-12T12:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Photopolygraph
RNA Innovation Seminar, Theme: Transcriptome analysis (February 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59718 59718-15036276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

1.) "RAS-AGO2 interaction-What’s the RISC?"
Sunita Shankar, Ph.D. Research Investigator from Arul Chinnaiyan lab
2.)  "A Urine RNA-based NGS Assay for Prostate Cancer Early Detection"
Andi Cani, Ph.D. candidate from Scott Tomlins lab

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:34:09 -0500 2019-02-12T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Special Lecture: Decoupling Tooth Loss from the Origin of Baleen in Whales (February 12, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60029 60029-14814796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts lectures that bring in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:05:04 -0500 2019-02-12T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Arthur Aiton Lecture (February 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60745 60745-14961646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Scholars generally associate the nineteenth-century rise of liberal imperialism with the European “civilizing mission” in Africa and Asia. They tend not to link its rise with U.S. intervention in Latin America. This talk considers Latin America’s role in the spread of liberal imperialism by exploring how U.S. settler colonists sought to forge an “empire of liberty” in Central America during the 1850s. While this imperial endeavor was fiercely contested by many Central Americans, it enjoyed strong support among some Central American liberals. Such support raises new questions about both liberal imperialism and Latin America’s transition from colonies to nation-states.

Michel Gobat is an associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests focus on modern Central America, U.S.-Latin American relations, and international history. His latest book is Empire by Invitation: William Walker and Manifest Destiny in Central America (Harvard, 2018), which traces Central America’s encounter with U.S. settler colonialism during the mid- nineteenth-century era of global imperial expansion. His other publications include Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial Rule (Duke, 2005), which explores how Nicaragua was transformed by the U.S. occupation of 1912-1933; and “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational History of Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review (2013).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:29:09 -0500 2019-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Kerning Cultures: A Podcast Listening Party (February 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57967 57967-14383888@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Media surrounding the Middle East does not speak for its youth. And youth make up 65% of the region's population. That's 140M people between the ages of 15-35 who are largely rejecting the traditional media of their parents' generation because of its political nature.

Kerning Cultures is the premier Middle East podcast network, quoted by The Guardian as "This American Life for the Middle East." Kerning Cultures is partnering with the University of Michigan to give Middle Eastern-American students & allies the opportunity to share their experiences, learn about the current state of Middle Eastern media representation, and how they can make an impact.

On Tuesday, February 12th, 2019, The University of Michigan Global Islamic Studies Center will be hosting a Kerning Cultures listening party in 1010 Weiser Hall. We will listen to a Kerning Cultures episode and discuss it into the night with their Marketing Lead, Bella Ibrahim.

The event is free and open to the public, RSVP at http://myumi.ch/J9DzE. Light refreshments will be provided.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to islamicstudies@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.

Sponsored by the Global Islamic Studies Center, with support from the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, and LSA Honors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:07:00 -0500 2019-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Kerning Cultures
“Closing Critical Gaps in Women’s Healthcare Around the World: The Story of Medicines360, A Nonprofit Pharma Company,” (February 12, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60772 60772-14963944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

How innovative business models can make a positive social impact by improving access to quality medicines for women regardless of where they live, their insurance status, or whether they can pay will be the topic for the Feb. 12 WDI Global Impact Speaker Series. Sally Stephens, chief business officer of Medicines 360, will discuss the organization's global focus and how it is driven to meet an unmet need for women around the world, including in the U.S. That is, affordable, long-acting contraceptives. Medicines360 has the only nonprofit pharmaceutical company with a marketed product in the U.S. Its first product is a hormonal intrauterine device, or IUD, which had been out of reach for many women because of the high cost of the sole brand on the market. Medicines360 offers its FDA-approved Liletta at a discounted price to public sector clinics across the U.S. to increase access to this important family-planning product. Additionally, Medicines360 has been working with international health organizations to offer the product, branded as Avibela in low- and middle-income countries, to also increase access to these markets. Avibela was launched in Madagascar in 2018. Sales of Liletta in the U.S. help fund research and development efforts by the company to bring contraceptives to countries such as Madagascar. Stephens will discuss the history of Medicines360, its successes and its plans to expand access to its affordable medicines and products for women.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:32:04 -0500 2019-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Medicines360
Preparing the Next Generation of Nonprofit Board Leaders (February 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59285 59285-14728138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

The nonprofit sector is in a time of generational change. The U.S. baby boomer population has comprised the majority of board leadership roles across the country, but as they leave these positions, there is a significant challenge (and opportunity) for nonprofits to recruit the next generation of nonprofit board leaders. Currently, individuals under the age of 40 make up less than 17% of nonprofit board positions. To reduce this gap, nonprofits will need to employ a number of strategies to recruit and retain younger members.

Panelists will discuss the value of a younger perspective on nonprofit boards and the efforts in place to adapt to this generational shift.

This event is free and open to the public. Food will be served.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/preparing-the-next-generation-of-nonprofit-board-leaders-tickets-52910883878

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 12:49:50 -0500 2019-02-12T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Board Fellows Forum
Bees in New Zealand (February 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58241 58241-14444080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Long-time Lansing-area beekeeper Steve Tillman talks about beekeeping Down Under. Program also includes a mini-workshop on building and using a Styrofoam nuc. A nuc is a small honeybee colony created from a larger one.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:01:59 -0500 2019-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Food Literacy for All (February 12, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-12T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Circumcision (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49431 49431-11453775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on health, tradition, and mutilation.

Readings to consider:
"Male circumcision"
"Female genital alteration: a compromise solution"
"Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework"
"Rationalising circumcision"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/025-circumcision/.

Feel free to visit the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:30:45 -0400 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Circumcision
Virginia Martin Howard Stearns Lecture: Mariko Anno (February 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56683 56683-13963067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Mariko Anno is associate professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Toyota Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies (2018–19). Anno holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from Tokyo University of the Arts and a DMA in flute performance and literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a specialist in the nohkan (Noh flute) and is well versed in all aspects of Noh having trained with professional Noh masters in Japan. Her research examines the traditional form of Japanese Noh drama in a contemporary transnational context through the emerging form, English-language Noh, which she performs with the English-language Noh troupe, Theatre Nohgaku. She has won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for Asian Performance and is a certified Alexander Technique teacher.

The 2018-19 Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series, sponsored by the Stearns Collection of Music Instruments, features presentations by distinguished international scholars and performers focus work in the areas of ethnomusicology, historical musicology, and organology. Lecture topics range from instrument restoration and conservation to African one-string fiddles to vintage music synthesizers. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:15:20 -0500 2019-02-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Proteostasis in dendrites: Regulating endosomal flux for lysosomal degradation (February 13, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59113 59113-14684210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Roman Giger and Bing Ye

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:13:40 -0500 2019-02-13T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Bettina Winckler
Inter-Group Relations (IGR) (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60907 60907-14988666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Stephanie Hicks and Cesar Vargas-Leon will introduce the English faculty to Inter-Group Relations (IGR). IGR is a social justice education program. IGR blends theory and experiential learning to facilitate students' learning about social group identity, social inequality, and intergroup relations. How can they help you in your courses? Why invite them into your classes? Does it matter what subject or topic you are teaching? Come and learn!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 08:01:59 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Learning New Physics from a Machine (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61022 61022-15018179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss how to use neural networks to detect data departures from a given reference model, with no prior bias on the nature of the new physics responsible for the discrepancy. The algorithm that I will describe returns a global p-value that quantifies the tension between the data and the reference model. It also allows to compare directly what the network has learned with the data, giving a fully transparent account of the nature of possible signals. The potential applications are broad, from LHC physics searches to cosmology and beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:46:20 -0500 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
UROP Brown Bag (February 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
EER Seminar Series led by Dr. Erin Cech (February 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60022 60022-14812584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

TIME: 3:00 – 4:00 PM
(with EER social from 4:00-4:30 pm)
DATE: FEBRUARY 13, 2019
LOCATION: 1180 DUDERSTADT
NORTH CAMPUS

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 08:56:08 -0500 2019-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Cech Photo
Ling.A.Mod Discussion Group (February 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59362 59362-14734860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Language Across Modalities discussion group provides a space for students, faculty, and community members to discuss research that spans the modes of human communication - speech, sign, gesture, and more. Our group meets to discuss research articles and to informally present ongoing research. All meetings have captioning or ASL-English interpreting.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:06:32 -0500 2019-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T15:50:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (February 13, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61039 61039-15024925@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The psycholinguistics discussion group is a meeting of several lab groups from Linguistics, Psychology, and other departments that all share common interests in language processing, including comprehension, production, and acquisition. The discussion group is an informal venue for presenting research findings, for developing new ideas, and for connecting with the many language scientists across the University who are interested in the psychology and neuroscience of human language.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:16:11 -0500 2019-02-13T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T16:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
DCMB Seminar on Wed 13 Feb || Michael Feig, PhD (Prof. of MSU) (February 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60987 60987-15000014@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Biological macromolecules function in dense, crowded cellular environments. Early studies of crowding effects have emphasized volume exclusion effects, but it is becoming clear that frequent non-specific interactions between proteins, nucleic acids, and metabolites may be the more important factor in modulating the structure and dynamics of biomolecules. Computer simulation studies at different scales of a series of models ranging from concentrated homogeneous protein solutions to models of bacterial cytoplasms are presented to explore the effects of non-specific quinary protein-protein interactions on protein stability and dynamics. One focus is on the formation of transient clusters that determine diffusive properties and lead to liquid-liquid phase transitions. The computational results are related to existing experimental data and the challenges and opportunities to expand the current studies to whole-cell modeling in molecular detail are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:11:52 -0500 2019-02-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Water Lightning Talks (February 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60346 60346-14866437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Hosted by:
Paul Seelbach (SEAS)
Karen Alofs (SEAS)
Dick Norton (TCAUP)

Featured speakers:

Joan Nassauer, Professor, SEAS
Dick Norton, Professor, TCAUP + PitE
Catherine Riseng, Associate Research Scientist, SEAS
Hernan López-Fernández, Associate Professor + Associate Curator, Museum of Zoology
Sarah Adlerstein, Associate Research Scientist, SEAS
Casey Godwin, Assistant Research Scientist, CIGLR
Michael Moore, Professor + Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, SEAS
Paul Seelbach, Professor of Practice, SEAS
Maria Arquero, Associate Professor + Director, Master of Urban Design, TCAUP
Jennifer Haverkamp, Director, Graham Sustainability Institute + Professor from Practice, Michigan Law
Lutgarde Raskin, Professor, Civil + Environmental Engineering
Drew Gronnewald, Associate Professor, SEAS

Reception will follow in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:51:52 -0500 2019-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T19:30:00-05:00 Dana Building School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
Black Body: All Scars Aren't Seen (February 13, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61087 61087-15033951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Black Mental Health and Self Love with Demetrius Harmon

Must have a valid MCard to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:01:48 -0500 2019-02-13T18:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Black Body Flyer
Landscape for Life (February 13, 2019 6:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58256 58256-14450647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:45pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Julie Conley, landscape architect, discusses a national program developed by the US Botanical Garden called “Landscape For Life” that empowers homeowners to create a more earth-friendly garden at home. Presented by Wild Ones Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:03:58 -0500 2019-02-13T18:45:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Sephardi Perspectives on the Medieval Muslim World: Benjamin of Tudela and His "Book of Travels" (February 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57448 57448-14193520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will offer a fresh look at the best-known Jewish traveler of the Middle Ages: Benjamin ben Jonah from the city of Tudela, in modern Spain’s northeast. Focusing on selected passages from Benjamin’s twelfth-century Book of Travels, Jacobs will address the following questions: what does it mean to be a Sephardi Jew during the time of the Crusades? How does a Jewish traveler from medieval Iberia describe the Middle East? What images does he paint of Iraq, Iran, and crusader-ruled Jerusalem? Does Benjamin share certain “Western” perceptions of Islam with his Christian contemporaries? How does he portray Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations, respectively? To what extent is his Book of Travels a reliable account of his personal observations on the road, where does he take poetic license, and why? Through the lens of Benjamin’s fascinating travel account, the audience will learn about a pre-modern Jewish world spanning from Iberia to the Middle East and beyond.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:25:00 -0500 2019-02-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Jacobs
IMPROV AND HUMOR: A PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL STORY (February 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60439 60439-14892522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

David Fessell, M.D., Professor of Radiology at the University of Michigan, is a certified executive coach, and a Faculty Associate at the Ross School of Business, Center for Positive Organizations. He lectures nationally and internationally on a variety of topics in Radiology, Leadership, and Communications. He has an M.D. degree from the University of Michigan, a B.A. from Harvard University, and is a graduate of the Second City Improv Conservatory. Sharing Improv training with U. of M. medical students, and with others, brings him great joy.

What is Improv? How has it influenced our culture? Why do people do it.…and come to see it? What is the role of humor and comedy in Improv? These are just a few of the topics we’ll explore together. In addition, corporations like Google, medical schools, and individuals are using Improv training to develop key skills, teamwork, and a creative perspective. Come see why, and experience what Improv is all about. Beware: it might just bring a spark to your life!

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in Everyday Life and Beyond. The next lecture will be February 21, 2019. The subject is: Laughter is Good Medicine – Mindful Laughter.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:07:26 -0500 2019-02-14T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
ChE Seminar Series: Jovan Kamcev (February 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60032 60032-14814798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

University of California – Berkeley
“Advanced Polymeric Materials for Water and Energy Applications: Relating Molecular Structure to Macroscopic Properties”

ABSTRACT

Securing adequate, sustainable supplies of energy and water at affordable costs is an enormous challenge facing humanity. Due to the interconnected relationship between these two vital resources, often termed the Water-Energy Nexus, a shortcoming in one could negatively impact the availability of the other. Technologies based on polymeric materials (e.g., membranes and sorbents) will play a key role in addressing our water and energy needs due to their efficiency, simplicity, and small footprint. The success of such technologies hinges on developing new materials with improved functionality. However, despite a longstanding interest in this research area, significant fundamental and practical challenges remain. This presentation will focus on two such challenges: (1) the lack of fundamental understanding of the influence of polymer structure on ion/water transport in dense polymer membranes and (2) the need for materials with exceptional selectivity for neutral contaminants (e.g., boron) that are ubiquitous in natural waters and difficult to remove with conventional technologies.

The first part of the presentation will introduce a theoretical, unifying framework for ion partitioning and diffusion in ion exchange membranes (IEMs), a class of materials that has attracted significant interest for various membrane-based technologies. The framework, based on counter-ion condensation theory for polyelectrolyte solutions, accurately predicted ion transport properties of IEMs from basic structural knowledge, in some cases with no adjustable parameters. The experimental and modeling results elucidate key membrane structural properties that influence ion transport in IEMs and provide guidance on how to rationally design high performance materials. The second part of the presentation will describe the synthesis of novel porous aromatic frameworks (PAFs) with specific functionality for removing boron from aqueous solutions. Due to their exceptionally high porosity and robust chemical structures, the PAFs exhibited high boron adsorption capacities, remarkably fast kinetics, and good reusability. Notably, the boron-selective PAFs removed trace amounts of boron from synthetic seawater solutions at unprecedented rates, demonstrating the promise of this relatively new class of microporous polymers for water treatment applications.

BIO

Jovan Kamcev, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. Jeffrey Long in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering and Applied Math & Statistics from Stony Brook University and his master’s and doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin under the guidance of Profs. Benny Freeman and Donald Paul. His graduate research entailed fundamental studies of ion and water transport in ion-containing polymer membranes for water and energy applications. His current research focuses on developing novel porous organic frameworks for various applications, including selective ion removal from aqueous solutions and energy storage.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:56:02 -0500 2019-02-14T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
A Bioethical Lunch on Neural Interfaces (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54452 54452-13585503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion right on the surface of what we think. Special guest, Dr. Parag Patil will regale us with a tale or two.

Please note the location of the event is now at NCRC B10 G065. Sorry about any confusion.

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/JS1HIhzL79diKn1H2

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:16:45 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Neural interfaces
CJS Lecture Series | Motivations of Job Crafting: Evidence from Japan and China (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60814 60814-14970669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This research contributes to our understanding of job crafting by investigating the role of enjoyment of work and driven to work as job crafting motivations. 154 Supervisor-Employee dyads were surveyed. Enjoyment of work and driven to work were supported as motivators of job crafting. An interaction effect was observed, with low driven to work weakening the relationship between enjoyment of work and job crafting. Job crafting mediated the relationship between the two motivators and job performance. We add to researchers’ understanding of motivations for job crafting while making the first attempt to explore the job crafting phenomenon in East Asia.

Dr. Greg Laurence teaches negotiation, organizational behavior, and HR in graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Michigan-Flint. His research revolves around employee well-being, including phenomena such as workspace personalization, workaholism, and job crafting. Greg earned his PhD, MBA, and MA in International Relations from Syracuse 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, 05 Feb 2019 16:38:36 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Sheraton Orlando North Hotel
Sweetland ❤️'s Transfers (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60911 60911-14988669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Please join us in the Peer Writing Center (G219 Angell) for a transfer student panel on writing at UM. Whether you're a confident writer already, or worried about how your previous writing experiences have prepared you for work at UM, you can learn from fellow transfer students and from Sweetland faculty about how to maximize your writing success--and the resources available to support you. Lunch provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:31:10 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion flyer
The Transition to Cultural Adaptations in the Middle Stone Age in East Africa (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61043 61043-15024929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Middle Stone Age began over 300 thousand years ago in East Africa. It marks the beginning of the Revolution that wasn’t in the evolution of modern behavior. Binford characterized the transition to cultural adaptations as the development of a “culturally-constructed” environment or “niche” that was strategically exploited with advanced planning. Gamble proposed that this transition involved the development of intergroup social interaction and information exchange networks to extend the social landscape beyond the boundaries of the local home range. Cultural niche construction using social information for planning is a key feature of the transition from primate troop to human tribal organization. I will present new archaeological evidence from Middle Stone Age sites in the Kenya Rift Valley for this troop-to-tribe transition.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:22:35 -0500 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion ambrose
UROP Brown Bag (February 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Informing America’s Citizenry (February 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57868 57868-14365961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Barbara L. McQuade, is a law professor. From 2010 to 2017,
Ms. McQuade served as the U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the first woman to serve in her position. She also served as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. As U.S. attorney, she oversaw cases involving public corruption, terrorism,
corporate fraud, theft of trade secrets, civil rights, and health care fraud, among others. Before becoming U.S. attorney, Professor McQuade served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit for
12 years, serving as deputy chief of the National Security Unit, where she handled cases involving terrorism financing, export violations, threats, and foreign agents. She is a frequent
guest commentator on MSNBC and other news media.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:17:53 -0500 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Informing America’s Citizenry (February 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57873 57873-14365962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Ms.McQuade, is a law professor. From 2010 to 2017, she served
as the U.S attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she was the first woman to serve in her position. She also served as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee and co-chaired its Terrorism and National Security Subcommittee. As U.S. attorney, she oversaw cases involving public corruption, terrorism,corporate fraud, theft of trade secrets, civil rights, and health care fraud, among others. Before becoming U.S. attorney, Professor McQuade served as an assistant U.S. attorney in Detroit for 12 years, serving as deputy chief of the National Security Unit, where she handled cases
involving terrorism financing, export violations, threats, and foreign agents. She is a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC and other news media.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:25:57 -0500 2019-02-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
ASC Lecture. 2018-19 UMAPS Colloquium Series (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56362 56362-13887671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: African Studies Center

This monthly series features the UMAPS fellows and their scholarly work. The talks prepared and presented by each visiting scholar are designed to promote dialogue on topics, and to share their research with the larger U-M community.

Thursdays, 3:00-5:30 pm // Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor
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October 18 (Koessler Room)

Tebaber Chanie Workneh. “The Roles and Status of Indigenous Medicine for Primary Health Care Services in the Amhara National Regional State (ANRS), Ethiopia”

Christina Osei-Asare. “Formulation of Solid Dosage Form of Lippia Multiflora for Managing Stress and Hypertension”
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November 15 (Kalamazoo Room)

Uhuru Phalafala. “Restless Natives, Indigenous Languages, and Revolution: Keorapetse Kgositsile’s Critical Biography”

Okechukwu Nwafor. “The Ubiquitous Image: Obituary Photographs in South-Eastern Nigeria and the Allure of Public Visibility”

Kholekile Malindi. “An Investigation of the Labour Market Determinants of Income Dynamics for a Highly Unequal Society: The South African Case”
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December 13 (Koessler Room)

Patrick Cobinnah. “Climate Change Adaptation in Africa's Urban Planning Context”

Faida Zacharia. “Small-scale Groundwater Irrigated Agriculture and Livelihoods in Drylands Areas: A Case of Dodoma Region, Tanzania”

Demis Mengist Wudeneh. “Implications of Large-scale Agricultural Investment for Livelihood Security and Regional Development: The Case of Gambella Region, Southwest Ethiopia”
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January 17 (Koessler Room)

Zerihun Birehanu. “Politics, Performance, and Governance in Ethiopia”

David Tshimba. “Transgressing the State: An Inquiry into Violence in the Rwenzori Borderlands, ca.1830-1998”

Jacqueline Adongo. “Rethinking Childhood: Child Identity Formation in Post-War Northern Uganda”
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February 14 (Koessler Room)

Adélaïde Nieguitsila. “Microbial Water Quality and Biological Contamination in Lakes of the Moyen-Ogooué Region”

Kabir Otun. “Iron Carbide Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts for the Conversion of Biomass to Liquid Transportation Fuels”

Lemlem Beza Demisse. “Knowledge and Practices of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Factors that Influence Treatment Seeking Behaviors at Black Lion Hospital of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:14:49 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Michigan League African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion umaps_image
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. James Kasting (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60140 60140-14840454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Prof. James Kasting of Penn State University.
Please join us!

Title: "The Search for Life on Planets Around Other Stars"

Abstract: Planets have now been found around several thousand stars. Some of these are thought to be rocky, and a handful of those lie within the habitable zone of their parent star, where liquid water is stable on the planet’s surface. Two years from now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope should launch, and it may be able to do spectroscopy on transiting rocky planets around nearby M stars, if good targets are identified by NASA’s TESS mission, which launches a year earlier. The best opportunity to study Earth-like planets will come 15-20 years later, however, if NASA chooses to build one of its proposed direct imaging space telescopes, currently called LUVOIR and HabEx. With such a telescope, one could identify and characterize non-transiting planets around the very nearest stars. This could provide information not only about other Earth-like planets, but also about the existence, or non-existence, of extraterrestrial life.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:22:28 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion clasp logo
Rackham North: DEI Conversation—Intersectionality (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58389 58389-14494057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Join your Rackham peers for a DEI conversation about intersectionality. Everyone has multiple visible and invisible identities that influence their experiences and create a lens in which they view others and perceive themselves. During this session, we will discuss identities in the context of intersectionality. During this DEI Conversation, we will 1) define intersectionality and discuss how we experience it, 2) talk about how DEI initiatives at U-M can enhance students’ understanding of intersectionality, and 3) discuss how moving forward notions of intersectionality can foster understanding and inclusivity.
Pre-registration is requested at https://myumi.ch/6nEVo.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:16:30 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Pierpont Commons
Webinar: New technology for old problems: Exploring the use of eDNA in the reserve system (February 14, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60401 60401-14875126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Environmental DNA (eDNA), or DNA present in an environmental sample, is emerging as a powerful tool to detect species present in an ecosystem without having to actually capture and identify individual organisms. Fish, invertebrates, and other animals shed DNA, through fragments of tissue and reproductive and waste products, into the environment in which they live. We will present initial results from a pilot environmental eDNA monitoring program being developed and tested at several National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) sites in New England and Oregon. Sampling is conducted in coordination with traditional monitoring programs to validate species identification and detection limits.

This webinar is an opportunity for the research team to engage reserves that are considering eDNA monitoring, and compare notes with other researchers and natural resource managers that are using eDNA approaches.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Jan 2019 13:27:02 -0500 2019-02-14T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents (February 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58571 58571-14511744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

Details to be announced

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Dec 2018 14:42:20 -0500 2019-02-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T16:20:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60258 60258-14855601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 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. Umayyah Cable, Assistant Professor of English at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York and Aaron Dennis, producer, editor, videographer, and founder of Stone Hut Studios will be our presenters. Cable and Dennis will explore how educational filmstrip and documentary filmmaking become sites of political and social activism that disrupt mainstream media production practices, content, and forms of distribution.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:23:09 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Mutualisms on the tree of life: a set of Valentine's love stories (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49662 49662-11487547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Mutualisms (species interactions that mutually benefit interacting species) are tremendously prevalent and diverse. However, the evolutionary causes and consequences of mutualisms remain relatively under-explored compared to that of competitive or exploitative interactions. This Valentine’s day, join me for a talk exploring the macroevolution and ecology of some of my favorite mutualistic interactions!

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/xTwquMjT3iw

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:16:05 -0400 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Valentine's interaction
Q and A Session with a Michigan Alum (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60617 60617-14921276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Earl Lewis Room, Rackham
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Ever wondered how it is to work at Facebook, Twitter, Google or Amazon? Join GRIN to meet and discuss with Dinkar Jain, a 2006 Michigan alumnus, about his experiences working for these companies. Mr. Jain has a MBA from Harvard Business School, which he earned after getting his engineering degree at UM.

Please RSVP here

Date: February 14th
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Earl Lewis Room, Rackham

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:00:13 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T18:00:00-05:00 Earl Lewis Room, Rackham Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
The Secret Music of Glaciers (February 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58492 58492-14510813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Matthew Burtner's research explores the spectral identity of glaciers through ecoacoustic methods, discovering their changing dynamic as a music of climate change. In this lecture he will discuss works such as “Sonic Physiography of a Time-Stretched Glacier,” “Sound Cast of Matanuska Glacier,” and “Syntax of Snow,” all works featured on his new album, "Glacier Music."

Matthew Burtner is an Alaskan-born composer, sound artist and eco-acoustician whose music and research explores embodiment, ecology, polytemporality and noise. First-Prize Winner of the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Czech Republic), a 2011 IDEA Award Winner, and a recipient of the Howard Brown Foundation Fellowship, Burtner’s music has also received honors and awards from Bourges (France), Gaudeamus (Netherlands), Darmstadt (Germany) and The Russolo (Italy) international competitions. He is Professor of Composition and Computer Technologies (CCT) at the University of Virginia, and Director of the environmental arts non-profit organization, EcoSono (www.ecosono.org).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:54:46 -0500 2019-02-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion glacier music
Carrie Mae Weems: A History of Violence, Heave (February 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58874 58874-14569982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

For over thirty years Carrie Mae Weems, through the use of image, text, film, and video, has created a complex body of work that centers on her overarching commitment to helping us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past. As a result of this work, Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur “Genius” Grant the US State Department’s Medal of Arts; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among many others. Her artwork is included in public and private collections nationally and internationally including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. She lives and works in Syracuse, NY. Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Past Tense, a new performance-based work by Weems will be presented by UMS on Friday, February 15 and Saturday, February 16 at the Power Center.

Presented with support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) and the University Musical Society (UMS).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:23:47 -0500 2019-02-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-14T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/weems2.jpg
Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series: Carrie Mae Weems: A History of Violence, Heave (February 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58547 58547-14510869@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

For over thirty years Carrie Mae Weems, through the use of image, text, film, and video, has created a complex body of work that centers on her overarching commitment to helping us better understand our present moment by examining our collective past.  As a result of this work, Weems has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships including the MacArthur “Genius” grant; US Department of State’s Medals of Arts; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the National Endowment of the Arts; and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, among many others.   Her artwork is included in public and private collections nationally and internationally including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Tate Modern, London, England; the Museum of Modern Art, NY and Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, SF, CA. Weems is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 18:16:12 -0500 2019-02-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-14T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Major Jackson Reading & Booksigning (February 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58274 58274-14452828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Major Jackson is the author of four books of poetry, including Roll Deep (2015), Holding Company (2010), Hoops (2006) and Leaving Saturn (2002), which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. He is the editor of Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He has published poems and essays in American Poetry Review, Callaloo, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Tin House, and included in multiple volumes of Best American Poetry. Major Jackson lives in South Burlington, Vermont, where he is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold University Distinguished Professor at the University of Vermont. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:01:05 -0500 2019-02-14T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-14T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Major Jackson
Guest Master Class: Anthony Dean Griffey, tenor (February 14, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60496 60496-14901371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 14, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Anthony Dean Griffey is a two-time Grammy Award winner, Musical America award recipient, and has been heard around the world at the Paris Opera, in Firenze, Rome and Japan, and nationally at the Metropolitan, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Fe, and Houston Operas, among many others. In 2015, he joined the faculty at the Eastman School of Music.

This UMS sponsored master class will feature Prof. Griffey working with six of our SMTD voice students, followed by a question and answer period. Griffey may then be heard in the UMS presentation of Britten’s War Requiem on Saturday, Feb. 16, 2019 in Hill Auditorium.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 12:15:27 -0500 2019-02-14T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
U-M Structure Seminar (February 15, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55754 55754-13777526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Sarah Keane Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:56:12 -0500 2019-02-15T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
U.S. Science and Technology Policy: Past, Present and Future (February 15, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60658 60658-14937073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments provided.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing details. Join the conversation: #policytalks.

About the event:

Thomas Kalil, Chief Innovation Officer at Schmidt Futures, will discuss some of the science and technology policy priorities of President Obama – including STEM education, identifying and pursuing 21st-Century Grand Challenges, such as the BRAIN Initiative, and increasing R&D in critical technologies such as robotics, advanced materials, and Big Data. He will also discuss “lessons learned” from his service at the White House and address future challenges for U.S. science and technology policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:26:42 -0500 2019-02-15T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T12:50:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Thomas Kalil
Psychology Methods Hour: Meta-Analyses in the Replication Crisis Era: Steps, Challenges and Best Practices (February 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59125 59125-14686291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In recent years, discourse in psychology has been substantially affected by the 'replication crisis' - the realization in our field that many of its most prominent studies do not reliably replicate. Although large scale replication efforts and highly publicized failures to replicate have been the most notable ways of assessing and showcasing the reproducibility of psychological research, meta-analyses can be a useful option for evaluating the rates of replicability in a population of studies in the literature. However, since their inception, meta-analyses have also been the subject of censure. There is the issue of publication bias causing inflated effects, the problem of the inclusion of the results of under-powered studies and the overlooked complication of heterogeneity. In this talk, Dominic and Sammy show how meta-analyses can be improved, including the use of p-curve analyses and continuously cumulating meta-analysis. They then go on to discuss how meta-analyses can serve as diagnostic tools for assessing statistical power, selective reporting bias, and between-study heterogeneity and ultimately, how meta-analyses can themselves be used as way quantify the degree of replicability in psychological science.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:02:33 -0500 2019-02-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Kelly-Ahmed
Phondi Discussion Group (February 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:26:33 -0500 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (February 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58726 58726-14544831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Friday, February 15, 2019, 1:00-3:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: The promise and peril of evidence-based activism
By: William Darity
Professor, School of Public Policy, Duke University

Round table discussions with noted scholar activists to follow keynote:
-Kristie Dotson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @DrBlkFeminist
-Alexes Harris, Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Washington, @AlexesHarris ‏
-Mary Romero, Professor, Dept of Sociology, Arizona State University
-Kyle Whyte, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @kylepowyswhyte
-Camille Wilson, Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

After the keynote and brief panel presentations, each of the speakers will lead a round table discussion, facilitated by ISR's RacismLab members, on how we can integrate action for equality into our roles as researchers and educators. Round table discussion participation is limited and available through sign up. If you would like to participate, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/46rQzoLYni48V0h62

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:13:46 -0500 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Disclosure Dilemmas: Hidden Benefits of Revealing Not So Hidden Stigmas at Work (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60661 60661-14937076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This talk will present findings from three sets of studies demonstrating the potential benefits of disclosing hidden stigmas at work. The first examines how vocal cues can differentiate heterosexual and non-heterosexual individuals, and how these distinctions can ultimately lead to job-related discrimination. The second study examines how disclosing a non-heterosexual identity can improve interpersonal outcomes when stigmas become known through indirect cues. The third study meta-analytically examines both the intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits of disclosing/expressing a stigmatized identity, as well as the boundary conditions of these effects. These studies are representative of my general program of research in that they identify subtle forms of workplace discrimination as well as potential strategies that stigmatized targets can engage in to remediate these barriers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 12:47:59 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Messianic Minimalism: Anecdotes of the Coming World (Benjamin, Bloch, Blumenberg) (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60669 60669-14937151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Hans Blumenberg's 1988 book The Saint Matthew Passion, while ostensibly concerned with the possible, secular reception of Bach’s masterpiece, pursues a series of 'theological lines of flight' via anecdotes, insights, and apercus generated by often heterodox theological debates and their literary receptions. One such line of flight is the retraction of the passion itself in Gersholm Scholem’s anecdote about the advent of the messiah in which almost nothing changes, as retold by Benjamin, Bloch, and now Blumenberg. Here Blumenberg returns to his earlier concerns with Gnosticism (Legitmacy, 1966) and considers a different answer to what has gone so wrong with creation that it needs to be destroyed.

Paul Fleming is Professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies as well as the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities. He has published monographs on Exemplarity and Mediocrity: The Art of the Average from Bourgeois Tragedy to Realism (2009) and The Pleasures of Abandonment: Jean Paul and the Life of Humor (2006) along with edited volumes on Hans Blumenberg, Siegfried Kracauer, the scholars around Stefan George, and Ulrich Peltzer. He is currently co-translating Blumenberg’s The Saint Matthew Passion for Cornell Press as well as completing a book-length project that examines the use of the anecdote in and as theory with respect to questions of exemplarity, evidence, history, and rhetoric.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:44:54 -0500 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Messianic Minimalism
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61086 61086-15033950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 2:00pm
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 Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:36:29 -0500 2019-02-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Building bulk observables in AdS/CFT (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61024 61024-15018180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The AdS/CFT correspondence relates a theory of gravity in anti-de Sitter space to a CFT on the boundary. A natural question is how local fields in AdS can be expressed in terms of the CFT. In the 1/N expansion this can be done by (i) identifying suitable building blocks - free bulk fields - in the CFT, (ii) assembling the building blocks to make interacting bulk fields. I'll present an approach where the first step is carried out using modular flow in the CFT and the second step is driven by requiring bulk causality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:34:19 -0400 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Comp Lit Colloquium (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52983 52983-13168221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Prof. Maya Barzilai and 1st-year Júlia Irion Martins will be presenting.

Infrastructures of Belonging: Visible Citizenship and Place in Eliane Caffè’s The Cambridge Hotel (2016), Júlia Irion Martins

Sacred Translations: Geshom Scholem, S. Y. Agnon, and the Unearthed Synagogue, Prof. Maya Barzilai.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 08:30:30 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60364 60364-14866462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at U-M and from neighboring universities can informally present or just discuss and share their ongoing research in these domains.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:07:39 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Figure (of Personhood) Drawing: Pictorial Representations of Signing and Signers in Nepal" (February 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51729 51729-12214205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Nepali Sign Language (NSL) has primarily been represented in print through pictorial images of signing persons. This talk draws on long-term ethnographic research with Nepali signers to explore the affordances of drawings for representing and generating linguistic form, reference, connotation, and entanglement with other modes of semiosis. I focus specifically on post-Maoist Civil War changes in visual representations of the figures of personhood portrayed performing signs in NSL texts; the role of both drawings and the act of drawing in recent initiatives to include previously marginal elderly novice signers into deaf life; and my own efforts to follow deaf artists in incorporating drawings into my toolkit for recording, analyzing, and sharing representations of signing practices. Across these contexts, how does the production and interpretation of pictorial images function as a resource for creating indexical icons that can performatively call forth new conditions? In addition to analyzing social change among deaf networks in Nepal, this talk shows that ethnographic attention to drawing can contribute to conversations about how linguistic anthropology can forge connections with visual anthropology in order to help our research processes and products embody our commitment to analyzing multimodal total semiotic facts."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 09:11:06 -0500 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: Hydrologic Science and Uncertainty Assessment (February 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52679 52679-12927433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Dr. Gronewold will present findings from research focused on improving data sets and forecasting tools for a variety of topics related to hydrologic science and uncertainty assessment. Specific examples include regional customization of state-of-the-art land surface hydrology models, along with the development and application of novel statistical methods for improving management decisions that depend on environmental conditions ranging from the areal extent of seasonal coastal ice cover, to risk-based assessments of drinking water quality in remote regions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 10:34:54 -0500 2019-02-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics Colloquium (February 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59272 59272-14726033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics Winter 2019 Colloquium Series continues February 15 with a presentation by U-M's Natasha Abner, Assistant Professor of Linguistics. All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.

ABSTRACT

Handmade Events

Events in the world unfold in different ways and the way we use language to talk about the world reflects these differences. However, a central tenet of contemporary linguistics is that language is not an “anything goes” kind of system. In this talk, I’ll present a series of studies that explore communicative (and, to a lesser extent, cognitive) biases in how we talk about events, focusing on what happens when how we talk about events is with our hands. These studies examine (a) abstract linguistic structures that underlie both sign and speech, (b) modality effects that shape how these structures are manifested in signed versus spoken languages, and (c) patterns in gesture that suggest certain phenomena may be driven by broader communicative biases and not restricted to language.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 11:51:46 -0500 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Natasha Abner
NERS Colloquium: Jennifer Uhle, US Nuclear Energy Institute (February 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61049 61049-15024935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Jennifer Uhle, PhD
Vice President of Generation and Suppliers
US Nuclear Energy Institute

Abstract: The nation’s energy grid is more diverse than it has ever been as the interest in clean energy and efforts to combat climate change have grown. Even as coal plants closed last year at a record pace, carbon emissions increased more than three percent, the second-largest increase in two decades. Nuclear energy can and should play a key role in addressing climate change. Nuclear energy provides about 20% of the electricity in the United States but approximately 60% of the clean energy. Other characteristics of nuclear energy can help address additional concerns of today, such as energy resiliency, energy security, and boosting the U.S.’s geopolitical influence. From an economic perspective, the nuclear energy industry provides a large source of skilled, high paying jobs and contributes approximately 60 billion dollars to the gross domestic product. The nuclear industry plays an important if not fully recognized role in our society. To preserve and sustain a robust nuclear energy industry, some of its attributes must be recognized by the energy market, and efforts underway have resulted in positive action at both the state and federal level. At every plant in the nation, efficiencies are being implemented and innovative technologies are being deployed to help maintain the safety of the plants while concurrently reducing costs. Attributes of the nuclear energy industry as well as industry-led initiative

Bio: Dr. Jennifer Uhle is Vice President of Generation and Suppliers at the Nuclear Energy Institute. Prior to joining NEI, Jennifer was the Director of Reactor Safety Programs at Jensen Hughes, a consulting company to the nuclear industry where she worked in the area of advanced reactors, thermal-hydraulics and regulatory affairs. Prior to joining JENSEN HUGHES, she served at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for 23 years in several positions including the Deputy Director of the Offices of Nuclear Regulatory Research and Nuclear Reactor Regulation and the Director of the Office of New Reactors. Jennifer obtained her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1991 and 1996, respectively, with a specialization in reactor systems and design. She served as the U.S. representative to the IAEA’s first fact finding mission to Fukushima in 2011. She has over 24 years of experience in the nuclear industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:37:33 -0500 2019-02-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer for NERS Colloquium speaker: Jennifer Uhle
Cyprus Now: A Conversation with Ambassador Marios Lysiotis (February 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60067 60067-14814835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

Cosponsored by the Hellenic Student Association and AHEPA District #10

Ambassador Lysiotis will talk on his vision for Cyprus today. UM students will lead a Q & A with the larger community. A reception will follow.

Marios Lysiotis is Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to the United States. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Lysiotis served as Diplomatic Advisor to the Minister of Defense and as Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus to France; to the Permanent Delegate to UNESCO; to Austria and to the Permanent Representative to the United Nations Organization in Vienna. He was also Permanent Representative to the OSCE; Deputy Director of the Diplomatic Office of the President of Cyprus; Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe; Member of the Diplomatic Office of the President of Cyprus; Deputy Director, Cyprus Question Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Counsellor, Permanent Delegation to the European Union; Attaché, Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden; Member of the Cabinet, Office of the Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Diplomatic Advisor to the President of Cyprus.

Ambassador Lysiotis holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and in Political Science, a Master's degree Political Science, and a D.E.A. in Political Studies. He speaks Greek, French, and English. He is married to Eleni Michaelidou-Lysioti and has a daughter, Sophia.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:41:01 -0500 2019-02-17T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-17T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion
LGBTQ Affirming Doctors and Navigating the Process (February 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59959 59959-14806082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Join the Spectrum Center, Rackham Graduate School and OutMD for a conversation with LGBTQ affirming physicians and health care providers who will discuss how they approach their services to LGBTQ patients and offer reflections on navigating the health care system. Their insights may be useful for individuals are potentially seeking health care, as well as current/future providers who want to become more LGBTQ+ affirming.

This event is apart of LGBTQ Health and Wellness Week, and will take place in Rackham Assembly Hall. Food will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:17:29 -0500 2019-02-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion the healthcare symbol in front of the rainbow flag
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59562 59562-14752321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 18, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Perinatal Mental Health: racial disparities and rural mental health needs.”

By Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Illinois

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:26 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
'Like Your Favorite Auntie and Uncle Visiting': Podcasts, Social Media, and Black Digital Enclaves (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61243 61243-15061054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Sarah Florini is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University. Her research explores the intersections of Black American cultural practices and emerging technologies.

Among the first scholars to publish on Black Twitter and Black podcasting, her work has appeared in New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Television and New Media. Her current monograph, Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks, is under contract with New York University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:37:39 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion Sarah Florini speaker
Brazil Initiative Lecture. From Hope to Hate: The Rise of Conservative Subjectivity in Brazil (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61038 61038-15024924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Brazilians have recently elected a far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain. The talk introduces the general panorama of Brazilian macro and micro politics from ‘Lula-ism’ to ‘Bolsonaro-ism’, marked respectively by the rise and fall of economic growth as well as by democratic collapse. These changes in national development have also shaped the individual self and the capacity to aspire to a better life, as well as ways of doing politics and understanding the world. An examination of these processes can help us understand how the very citizens that exemplified Brazil's rise as a global democratic power came to support military intervention and Bolsonaro.

Pinheiro-Machado will draw on her longitudinal ethnography (with Dr. Lucia Scalco) on consumption and politics among young people from Morro da Cruz, the largest favela of Porto Alegre. In an effort to understand the conservative subjectivity that has emerged amongst low income groups (especially amongst male voters) the researchers have been following youth since 2009, through the political polarization that took place in Brazil after 2013, to the recent transformations that resulted in the election of Bolsonaro.
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Rosana Pinheiro-Machado is a social scientist and an anthropologist at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM, Brazil). Previously, she was a Lecturer at the Department of International Development at University of Oxford, and held visiting positions at University of São Paulo and Harvard University. She is the author of the award winning book ‘Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South (Routledge 2017) as well as numerous peer-review journal articles. With Dr Lucia Scalco, Pinheiro-Machado has been carrying out ethnographic research on the ‘politics of the poor’ since 2009. They are currently completing a book manuscript entitled: From Hope to Hate: Poverty and Politics in Brazil’s Lula and Bolsonaro. Funded by the Australian Research Council, she is part of a team examining the new consumer practices in the Global South (Mexico, Brazil, China, and Philippines). Pinheiro-Machado also acts as a public intellectual and writes for The Intercept Brasil.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:15:01 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Rescheduled: Representatives Debbie Dingell and Fred Upton: Voices from across the aisle (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60585 60585-14910402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 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.

The event will be webstreamed. Please check website for viewing details.

Join the Ford School and WeListen for a Conversations Across Difference event with U.S. Representatives Debbie Dingell (link is external) (D-MI 12th District) and Fred Upton (link is external) (R-MI 6th District) moderated by Brendan Nyhan, professor of public policy at the Ford School. The conversation will consider the opportunities for and obstacles to bipartisan cooperation, while also tackling in thoughtful dialogue some of the most pressing issues currently dividing the two parties, such as immigration policy, the government shutdown, and health care.

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by WeListen and the Program in Practical Policy Engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:44:02 -0500 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Event Picture
Anishinaabe Theatre Exchange Residency | Carolyn Dunn Public Talk (February 18, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59752 59752-14786512@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:30pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Scholar, poet and playwright Dr. Carolyn Dunn will lecture on the aesthetics of Native and Indigenous Theater. Dunn was born in Southern California and is of Cherokee, Muscogee Creek, Seminole, Cajun, French Creole, and Tunica-Biloxi descent. She earned a BA from Humboldt State University, an MA from UCLA, and a PhD from the University of Southern California. Her collections of poetry include Outfoxing Coyote (2001) and Echolocation: Poems and Stories from Indian Country L.A. (2013). She has edited the anthologies Through the Eye of the Deer (1999) and, with Paula Gunn Allen, Hozho: Walking in Beauty: Native American Stories of Inspiration, Humor, and Life (2001). Dunn is the coauthor, with Ari Berk, of the nonfiction book Coyote Speaks: Wonders of the Native American World (2008). Her play The Frybread Queen was produced by the Montana Repertory Theater in Missoula, Montana, and Native Voices at the Autry in Los Angeles.

Dunn’s scholarly work focuses on American Indian women’s literature and American Indian identity. She has taught at Humboldt State University, Four Winds Indian School, and California Polytechnic State University. A founding director of the American Indian Theatre Collective, she is also a member of the female Native American drum group the Mankillers. She is director of the American Indian Resource Center at UC Santa Cruz.

All events are free and open to the public. Visit www.lsa.umich.edu/world-performance for more info.
If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Center for World Performance Studies, at 734-936-2777, at least one week in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

This residency is co-sponsored by the U-M Residential College, CEW+, Institute for Research on Women & Gender, SMTD Department of Theatre & Drama, Institute for Humanities, SMTD Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Department of American Culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:08:36 -0500 2019-02-18T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Center for World Performance Studies Lecture / Discussion Three Sisters Poster
LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week 2019 Featured Speaker Ignacio Rivera (February 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60545 60545-14908148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

In collaboration with several units and student organizations, Spectrum Center is excited to invite Ignacio Rivera (they/them pronouns) as a Featured Speaker to campus for the 4th annual LGBTQ Health & Wellness Week. Ignacio G. Hutiá Xeiti Rivera is a trans and queer activist of color with over 20 years of experience in anti-oppression and sexual liberation work -- including topics of consent, sexual survivorship, and sex after sexual violence. Ignacio’s work continues to center those at the margins, in particular, people of color, and those with queer and trans identities.

This event will take place in the School of Social Work Educational Conference Center. It is free and open to the public. Please contact spectrumcenter@umich.edu with any accessibility needs.

Thanks to our co-sponsors: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC), Trotter Multicultural Center, Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA), School of Social Work DEI, Coalition for Queer and Trans People of Color

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:53:28 -0500 2019-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion a brown background with an illustration of the speaker and various logos
What Are Your Rules? (February 18, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61048 61048-15024934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

The LSA Student Honor Council invites you to attend the speaker event “Your Life, Your Rules” with Professor Mika LaVaque-Manty. Please save the date!

Who: Mika LaVaque-Manty is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, with a courtesy appointment in Philosophy. He is also the Director of the LSA Honors Program. A philosopher by training, he is a political theorist who explores the nature and meaning of political action and the relationship between individuals and institutions. He is working on a book titled “The Games We Play,” on incentives in the age of the internet.

What: “Your Life, Your Rules,” will describe how people often think of rules in purely instrumental way — “Can I get away with this now?” — but the rules by which we govern our lives, in small and big things, fundamentally reflect our character and our identity.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:08:40 -0500 2019-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T20:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons LSA Honors Program Lecture / Discussion What Are Your Rules Event Poster
The Complex Environmental Web of Northern Lower Michigan: Climate, Soils, Forests (February 18, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58242 58242-14444082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Randy Schaetzl, professor in the Michigan State University Department of Geology, discusses the process of soil formation in conjunction with climate and plant communities in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Presented by Michigan Botanical Club.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:09:07 -0500 2019-02-18T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
19th Distinguished University Professorship Lecture Series - Animal Pharm: The Ecology and Evolution of Medication Behaviors in Animals (February 19, 2019 4:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60224 60224-14849126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: University and Development Events

Lecture abstract
Plants vary substantially in their quality as food for herbivores. The availability of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates differ markedly from one plant species to the next. Moreover, plants contain a dazzling array of “secondary metabolites” that are often toxic to consumers. However, in low doses, plant toxins can also serve as medicines, protecting herbivores from agents of disease. Like humans, many other animals exploit the natural pharmaceuticals in plants to mitigate the effects of parasite infection. This lecture will explore the ecology and evolution of medication behaviors in animals. As herbivores forage for food, they must manage the competing demands of gaining adequate nutrition, avoiding their predators, and choosing appropriate medicines from the Great Green Pharmacy. Medication behaviors can be therapeutic, in which medicines are consumed only after infection, or prophylactic, in which medicines are consumed prior to infection. Medication behaviors can also serve to protect the individual actor (self-medication) or their relatives (kin or social medication). Examples will show how different ecological conditions favor the evolution of different medication behaviors. Concentrations of toxins in plants also vary substantially based on environmental conditions, including soil quality, air quality, and biotic interactions. Therefore, the forces of global environmental change threaten the pharmaceutical use of plants by animals. Conservation of the Great Green Pharmacy is vitally important to the biological diversity of life on Earth.

About the professor
Mark Hunter is the Earl E. Werner Distinguished University Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. He received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford in England. After serving as a NATO International Fellow and an NSERC International Fellow, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia, where he served as Professor in the Institute of Ecology and as founding Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes. He joined the University of Michigan in January 2006. His research interests include plant-animal interactions, ecosystem ecology, biodiversity, and population dynamics. Professor Hunter has published over 150 research articles and written or edited six books. He is the recipient of both a CAREER Award and an OPUS award from the National Science Foundation, and in 2014 was elected a Fellow of the Ecological Society of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 13:42:52 -0500 2019-02-19T04:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T06:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) University and Development Events Lecture / Discussion Mark Hunter
EER - Work-in-Progress: "Open" Research Study Advising (February 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60780 60780-14963961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Round table open discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 09:21:45 -0500 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
Engineering Education Research Community-Led Research Discussions (February 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60777 60777-14963953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

This series of discussions is open to all who are interested in learning about engineering education and engineering education research (EER) These sessions include both:
* Work-in-Progress Presentations - a member of the EER community will present their own EER work in progress, and then participants will provide feedback to help develop the project. *Guided Discussions: a member of the EER community will overview research on a particular topic, after which participants will engage in discussion about this topic with other attendees.

Please RSVP for all events here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-EYcU-gXjzpeTB7was-bJbCRrQpAQ42oUv4HeQNvEhvYGeQ/viewform

These events are put on by the EER program in cooperation with ASEE as part of ASEE's Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia CoE Graduate Student Community Grant.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:00:36 -0500 2019-02-19T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
“Suffering and Bleeding As Though You Was Killing Hogs”: Mass Incarceration and Black Women’s Health (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60404 60404-15099304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In 1911, Mary Dykes was tried for vagrancy and sentenced to twelve months hard labor on a Georgia chain gang. A few months later she “became insane” and “unable to work.” In 2016, Sherry Richburg’s leg was amputated after a prison physician denied her access to antibiotics. Mary and Sherry exemplify the historical abuses of the prison health care system and its mistreatment of black female patients. The medical lives of black women in America's jails and prisons is the focus of this presentation.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Talitha LeFlouria is the Lisa Smith Discovery Associate Professor in African and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia and an Andrew Carnegie Fellow. She is a scholar of African American history, specializing in mass incarceration; modern slavery; and black women in America. She is the author of Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South (UNC Press, 2015). This book received several national awards including: the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians (2016), the Philip Taft Labor History Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations & Labor and Working-Class History Association (2016), the Malcolm Bell, Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award from the Georgia Historical Society (2016), the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize from the Association of Black Women Historians (2015), and the Ida B. Wells Tribute Award from the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (2015). Her work has been featured in the Sundance nominated documentary, Slavery by Another Name, as well as C-SPAN and Left of Black. Her written work and expertise have been profiled in The Atlantic, Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, The Nation, Huffington Post, For Harriet, and several syndicated radio programs.

Professor LeFlouria is the co-director of the Public Voices Fellowship Program at the University of Virginia. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Historians Against Slavery and on the editorial board of the Georgia Historical Quarterly and International Labor and Working-Class History journal.

Presented by IRWG's Black Feminist Health Studies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:16:55 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Talitha LeFlouria
Comparative Politics Workshop (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CUTS: CRLT Players (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58424 58424-14496145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Though many universities aspire to cultivate a climate that is welcoming to the members of their diverse student, faculty, and staff bodies, we know that the lived experiences of many in our communities don’t always align with these aspirations. In this CRLT Players session, participants will think together about the many forces that shape campus climate and work toward developing or refining a skill set that will allow them to respond productively and compassionately to individuals who have negative experiences of climate at their universities.
Pre-registration is required at https://myumi.ch/J7XAK.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 16:31:40 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Litigating Trump's Environmental Deregulation (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60985 60985-15000012@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the ELPP Lecture Series, featuring Sean Donahue of the law firm Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sean Donahue, of Donahue, Goldberg & Weaver, LLP, a small DC-based firm whose practice focuses on representing environmental organizations in Clean Air Act and federal climate litigation, as well as cases involving state climate and clean energy initiatives. Donahue will discuss some of the major Trump Administration deregulatory actions in which he and his colleagues are involved: proposed repeal of Clean Power Plan and revision of carbon dioxide standards for new power plants; rollbacks of greenhouse gas emissions standards and fuel economy standards for motor vehicles and withdrawal of California’s authority to adopt and enforce separate greenhouse gas standards, and EPA’s proposed finding that Clean Air Act that regulation of mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from power plants is not appropriate or necessary. Donahue will address recurring legal issues and practical challenges involved in litigating such cases, some cross-cutting features of the Trump Administration’s deregulatory efforts in the environmental area, and what to look for as the Administration’s major initiatives move from agency rulemaking to the courts. While dealing with complex administrative law questions and daunting health and environmental hazards, the talk may be punctuated by moments of uplifting humor and cautious optimism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:05:22 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59913 59913-14797378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Touted as a representative of the “Me” generation of documentary makers in 21st-century Taiwan, Wuna Wu has frequently appeared as both the filmmaker and a major social actor in her documentaries. This talk examines her first-person positioning in three prize-winning films: “Happy or Not” (2002), “Farewell 1999” (2003), and “Let’s Fall in Love” (2008). I argue that Wu has experimented with a broad variety of first-person positionings, which underscore the question of documentary ethics, the importance of mediation for self-identity, and the opportunities for building sociality and community through documentary.

Tze-lan Deborah Sang is Professor of Chinese Literature and Media Studies at Michigan State University. Among her major publications are “The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China” (2003), “Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries” (2012), and a forthcoming book on the “Modern Girl in Early 20th-century China.” She is currently at work on a study on Taiwanese women documentary makers as public intellectuals and innovative artists.

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, 05 Feb 2019 15:54:25 -0500 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries
UROP Brown Bag (February 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Black God, White Devil: Herzog and the Slavery Film (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60103 60103-14838288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What are the dominant relations between race, capitalism and history in the slavery film? In this lecture Lund explores the possibilities and limits of this question, with special attention paid to Werner Herzog's unusual contribution to the genre, Cobra Verde (1987).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:50:44 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Conversations on Europe/CREES Lecture. Making a New Europe: A Transnational Ethnography of Far-right Activism (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59373 59373-14734949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Contemporary far-right activists in Europe are often portrayed as anti-European. Given that “Bruxelles” is one of their chief enemies, such a portrayal might seem legitimate. The far-right critique of the European Union, however, ought not to be read as a simple rejection of Europe. Numerous far-right groups represent themselves as Europe’s defenders, faithful “believers” and “practitioners” of the “true” – white, Christian – Europe, and consider the EU to be their Europe’s enemy.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among far-right activists in Italy, Poland, and Hungary, Pasieka examines how far-right actors conceptualize regional and national sovereignty vis-à-vis a broader European context; how they perceive individual, civic, and social rights; and how they relate those to the widely debated issues of migration and multicultural diversity. Her multi-sited ethnography sheds much needed light on the challenges far-right movements and parties address, and the reasons why they are increasingly compelling to many.

Agnieszka Pasieka holds an M.A. in sociology (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) and a Ph.D. in social anthropology (Martin Luther University, Halle). Her first monograph, "Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland" (Palgrave 2015), discussed the situation of religious and ethnic minorities in the context of church-state relations in Poland. She was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (2007-11); the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna (2011-12); the Polish Academy of Sciences (2012-15); and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Vienna (2015-18). Currently she is Elise Richter Research Fellow at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna, where she carries out a research project entitled "Living right: an anthropological study of far-right activism."

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 11:48:36 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Pasieka
DAAS Africa Workshop “Get Along without It”: Contested Domestic Desires in Imperial Sudan (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59211 59211-14717515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In recent scholarship and past imperial logic, the colonial marital home has stood as a symbol of civility, stability, and imperial order. However, a close examination of British civil servants’ domestic desires and relationships in Sudan reveal domesticity as a site of instability and persistent negotiation. Never formally declared a colony, Sudan’s marginal position within the British Empire resulted, in turn, in a marginalization of domestic desires, which were hidden, ignored, or relegated to “back-home” in England. Working with an expanded understanding of “domestic,” this paper traces complex and contested intimacies through a homosocial culture of bachelors, shifting relationships with Sudanese household help, and a generous yet disruptive annual leave policy. It reanimates the experiences of male and female civil servants, recasting them from fixed models of state power and instead recognizing their much more vulnerable position as desiring subjects in search of domestic care and comforts.


Marie Grace Brown (B.A., Bryn Mawr College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Professor of Middle East History at the University of Kansas. Her award-winning first book, Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Stanford University Press, 2017), argues that Sudanese women used fashion and their bodies to mark and make meaning of the shifting sociopolitical systems of imperial rule. Before her career in academia, Brown worked at a nonprofit providing legal assistance to immigrant women fleeing gender-based violence. Her research has been supported by grants and fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 10:21:36 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Animals and Capture" (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58926 58926-14578312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Animals and Capture." U-M faculty explore the concept of capture in relation to animals: how do we represent animals and animality, and what meanings do captures of animals—in images, in texts, in concepts—convey?

With:

Antoine Traisnel (comparative literature, English)
Bénédicte Boisseron (Afroamerican and African studies)
Joseph Trumpey (art & design)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:28:29 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Thomas Eakins, "Horse (Chalk Grid Drawn on Body)" (ca. 1895), Platinum Print on Cream Wove Paper.
LanguageMatters Lab (February 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61434 61434-15099357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The LanguageMatters initiative at U-M is interested in issues of language diversity on and around campus, linguistic discrimination, social justice, inclusivity, and equality, how different dialects and languages are treated on campus and in the classroom, and the ways in which intentional language can be used for positive social impact.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:26:10 -0500 2019-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Looking through the 2018 Winter Olympics: The Complexity of Contemporary Korean Nationalism and National Identity Politics (February 19, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58072 58072-14401072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Due to the Japanese colonialism, the Korean War and the partition of the nation, the nature of Korean national identity becomes complicated and often incurs a political dispute. The 2018 Winter Olympic Games offers a useful occasion through which this complexity of Korean nationalism can be examined. I observed at least four distinctive discourses on Korean identity being displayed via the winter sporting competition: pan Korean ethno-nationalism, South Korean state patriotism, post-colonialism, and cosmopolitanism. Some of these nationalist views are mutually exclusive, and this situation gave rise to the tensions and divisions between political parties and pressure groups in South Korea during the sports mega-event. This indicates that the characteristics of Korean nationalism are constantly in flux, and each nationalist ideology is continually campaigning for securing a dominant position in Korean culture and politics. This also suggests that it is necessary to consider the intersection between primodialism and constructionism, and between civic and organic national identities in order to draw a more accurate picture of the spectrum of Korean nationalism today. It that sense, I argue that sport is not simply a physical contest between athletes but more importantly is a field of the hegemonic struggle between adherents of different nationalism.

Jung Woo Lee is Programme Director of MSc Sport Policy, Management and International Development, and Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Policy at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. He received a PhD in the sociology of sport from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. He is an editor of Sport in Society Asia Pacific Special Issue.

Dr Lee is also a special contributor to a British current affair magazine, New Statesman. His research interests include sport media and communication, semiotics, sport mega-event studies and globalisation of sport. He has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals, including "Sociology," "International Review for the Sociology of Sport", the "Journal of Sport and Social Issue," the "International Journal of Sport Communication," "Communication and Sport" and "Sport in Society." Recently, he published with two co-editors an edited volume of the "Routledge Handbook of Sport and 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 Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:17:19 -0500 2019-02-19T16:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Jung Woo Lee, Lecturer, Sport and Leisure Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Black History Month: Anti-Racism Teach-In (February 19, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61091 61091-15033957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:00pm
Location: West Quadrangle
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Anti-Racism Teach In
5-6:30pm in the West Quad connector!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:45:09 -0500 2019-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 West Quadrangle Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Anti Racism Flyer
Upcoming Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series Discussion on Immigration (February 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61326 61326-15074633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series is welcoming John Sandweg to campus to have a discussion on immigration with Professor Mara Cecilia Ostfeld. John Sandweg previously served as the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and as the Acting General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 16 Feb 2019 20:17:44 -0500 2019-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series Lecture / Discussion TDLS Flyer Feb 2019
Food Literacy for All (February 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Food Literacy for All is a community academic partnership course at the University of Michigan.  UM students can enroll in the course for credit and community members can attend the series for free. Every Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8pm in Winter 2019.

The course is co-led by Lesli Hoey (Taubman College), Jerry Ann Hebron (Oakland Ave. Farm) and Lilly Fink Shapiro (Sustainable Food Systems Initiative). In partnership with Detroit Food Policy Council and FoodLab Detroit.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Arachnids: No Need for Phobias (February 19, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58243 58243-14444083@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Cara Shillington, professor of biology at Eastern Michigan University, discusses her research, which includes observations of spider behavior in cold and heat, what they eat, how they move and how they reproduce. Program includes an opportunity to directly observe some specimens. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:17:25 -0500 2019-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Design of optogenetic tools for monitoring and manipulating neuronal activity (February 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59118 59118-14684214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Melanie Ohi

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:14:05 -0500 2019-02-20T09:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Wenjing Wang
Black God, White Devil: Herzog and the Slavery Film (February 20, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60103 60103-15054321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 11:00am
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

What are the dominant relations between race, capitalism and history in the slavery film? In this lecture Lund explores the possibilities and limits of this question, with special attention paid to Werner Herzog's unusual contribution to the genre, Cobra Verde (1987).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:50:44 -0500 2019-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
energy condition, modular flow, and AdS/CFT (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62591 62591-15407992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In recent years, substantial progresses has been made in understanding and proving a number of energy conditions in quantum field theories (QFTs), which played very important roles for constraining quantum corrections to black hole dynamics in general relativity. In this talk, I will discuss proof of the quantum null energy condition (QNEC), both in holographic CFTs based on AdS/CFT, and in generic CFTs using techniques related to the entanglement structure. Furthermore, I will discuss the connection between the two approaches, and in doing this, deep relations between boundary modular flow and bulk RT surface dynamics will be revealed.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:50:56 -0400 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
UROP Brown Bag (February 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Black History Month: FGM: Beyond Borders (February 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61093 61093-15033959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Mosher-Jordan Hall
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

FGM: Beyond Borders

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 10:31:54 -0500 2019-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T14:30:00-05:00 Mosher-Jordan Hall Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion FGM Flyer
DCMB Weekly Seminar (February 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61211 61211-15052055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Nephrotic syndrome (NS), a kidney disease caused by failure of the glomerular filtration barrier, leads to substantial morbidity and mortality due to infection, clotting, and progression to chronic kidney disease. Our ability to effectively care for our patients with NS is hampered by a limited understanding of its underlying molecular mechanisms. Major progress has been made through the discovery of more than 50 single-gene causes of NS. But altogether these explain less than 15% of cases in the U.S. To gain a more complete picture of the genetic architecture of NS, we need to go beyond Mendelian gene discovery. In this seminar, I will present work done by our group to achieve this goal, with a particular focus on unique opportunities that result from integrating genome-scale omics datasets with deep phenotypic data in the longitudinal NEPTUNE NS cohort.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:57:44 -0500 2019-02-20T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Donia Human Rights Center Panel. Human Rights in North Korea: Crimes Against Humanity, Advocacy for Change, and Future Prospects (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60102 60102-14838287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

As negotiations for denuclearization continues between the US and North Korea, the severe state of human rights situations in North Korea has again been de-emphasized by the international community. Yet the persecution of real or imagined dissenters continue, as do the systematic human rights abuses of the Kim regime, which has been classified by the United Nations as crimes against humanity. Activists in South Korea and abroad have advocated for these concerns to be given top priority but those calls have largely been unheeded by leaders engaging with North Korea. What exactly is happening in North Korea, what kinds of activism has emerged to address these concerns, and what might be the ways forward to improve the lives of the North Korean people? This panel features three prominent experts of human rights in North Korea who will share their perspectives on these questions as a legal expert, an NGO advocate, and a defector who survived one of North Korea’s infamous prison camps, respectively.

This event is co-sponsored by: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, International Policy Center, Law School, and Nam Center for Korean Studies.

Panelists:

Kang Cheol Hwan
Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, North Korea Strategy Center

Kang Cheol Hwan is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of North Korea Strategy Center U.S., Inc. and the founder of North Korea Strategy Center (“NKSC”) in Seoul, South Korea. Mr. Kang is a journalist, author, and North Korean defector. Born in 1968 in Pyongyang, North Korea, at the age of nine, he and his entire family were imprisoned in the Yodok concentration camp by the government of dictator Kim Il Sung after Kang’s grandfather was accused of treason. For ten years, Mr. Kang was subjected to the brutal conditions of the camp, where he and some members of his family endured starvation, torture, and the threat of execution. After he was released from the camp, Mr. Kang bought an illegal radio receiver to listen to broadcasts from South Korea. In 1992, he made the decision to defect and escaped North Korea by crossing the Yalu River into China, eventually immigrating to South Korea. In 2000, he published “The Aquariums of Pyongyang,” a description of his experiences and the very first survivor account of North Korea’s concentration camps. Mr. Kang is a staff writer for the South Korean newspaper, the Chosun Ilbo. In 2003, he was awarded the National Endowment for Democracy’s “Democracy Award” and in 2006, he was selected as one of Times’ “Asian Heroes”. After years of North Korean human rights activism, Mr. Kang came to the conclusion that expecting change from the North Korean government was not feasible. Without change and enlightenment of the North Korean people, without bridging the gap between the two Koreas, peaceful unification is not possible. Based on this belief, in 2007, Mr. Kang founded NKSC with the goals of disseminating uncensored information in North Korea, empowering North Korean defectors to become advocates of democracy, and raising awareness on North Korean human rights issues.

Jared Genser
Managing Director, Perseus Strategies

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm. Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor,” he is also Founder of Freedom Now, a non-governmental organization that works to free prisoners of conscience worldwide. Genser was previously a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. He has taught at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. His pro bono clients have included former Czech Republic President Václav Havel and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was an Alumni Public Service Fellow, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. Genser is author of "The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice" (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2019). In addition, he is co-editor of "The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights" (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and "The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times" (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is the recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award and the Liberty in North Korea’s Freedom Fighter Award.

Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett
President, Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice

Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett serves as President of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, established in 2008 to continue the legacy of her father, the late Congressman Tom Lantos, who served as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and was the only Holocaust survivor ever elected to the US Congress. Congressman Lantos was the founder of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and was widely acknowledged as one of our nation’s most eloquent and forceful leaders on behalf of human rights and justice. Under her leadership, The Lantos Foundation has rapidly become a distinguished and respected voice on key human rights concerns ranging from advancing rule of law globally and fighting for Internet freedom in closed societies to combatting the persistent and growing threat of antiSemitism and Holocaust denial. Dr. Lantos Swett is the former Chair and Vice-Chair of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) and teaches Human Rights and American Foreign Policy at Tufts University. She currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and the Budapest based Tom Lantos Institute. Dr. Lantos Swett also serves on the Advisory Board of UN Watch, the annual Anne Frank Award and Lecture, The Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Policy, and the Brigham Young University Law School. Lantos Swett earned a Political Science degree from Yale University at the age of 18, a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and a PhD in History from The University of Southern Denmark.

Moderator:
Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Professor, Sociology
Director, Donia Human Rights Center

Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Donia Human Rights Center, and Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and other social science journals. His book publications include "Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights" and "Minority Social Movements in Japan" (Oxford University Press 2018), and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) "Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World" (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, National Science Foundation grants, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship, Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010, 2013), Human Rights (2017), Asia and Asian America (2018), and Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018).

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. Please email: umichhumanrights@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 10:30:32 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion banner
Positive Links Speaker Series (February 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58848 58848-14567885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Positive Emotional Culture: How Positive Emotions at the Heart of Corporate Culture Affect Your Well­-Being and Your Company’s Bottom Line
Mandy O'Neill

Wednesday, February 20, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

Michigan Ross Campus
Ross Building
701 Tappan
Robertson Auditorium
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234

Register: http://myumi.ch/6xE2E

Positive Links:
The Positive Links Speaker Series, presented by Michigan Ross’ Center for Positive Organizations, offers inspiring and practical research-based strategies for building organizations that are high performing and bring out the best in its people. Attendees learn from leading positive organizational scholars and connect with our community of academics, students, staff, and leaders.

Positive Links sessions take place at Michigan Ross, and are free and open to the public.

About the talk:
What aspect of corporate culture is so deep that it affects our hearts, minds, and the organizational bottom line? In this session, O’Neill introduces the undiscovered domain she calls “emotional culture” and demonstrates how cultures comprised of positive emotions such as love, joviality, and awe have benefits not only for employees’ own individual well-being, but also for teams, clients, and the corporate bottom line. Building on her Harvard Business Review article, “Manage Your Emotional Culture,” O’Neill will highlight real-world case studies from across different industries and share practical tips for how managers, HR business partners, and individual change agents can diagnose, manage, and change their emotional cultures.

About O’Neill:
Olivia (Mandy) O'Neill, PhD, is a Visiting Scholar at the Haas School of Business, University of California (2018-2019). She is also Associate Professor of Management at the George Mason University School of Business and Senior Scientist at the university’s Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. She holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow.

O’Neill is an expert on organizational culture, emotions in the workplace, gender, and careers. She consults and conducts academic research across a wide range of organizations and industries including Fortune 500 corporations, global semiconductor firms, major medical centers, and emergency response teams. Her work has been published in a variety of scholarly and practitioner journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.

O’Neill, with co-author Sigal Barsade, earned the Center for Positive Organization’s 2017 Award for Outstanding Published Article in Positive Organizational Scholarship for their Administrative Science Quarterly paper “What’s love got to do with it? A longitudinal study of the culture of companionate love and employee and client outcomes in the long-term care setting.”

Host:
Jane Dutton, co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations; Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Business Administration and Psychology

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2018-19 Positive Links Speaker Series.

Register: http://myumi.ch/6xE2E

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 10:56:39 -0500 2019-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Mandy O'Neill
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Eduardo Monteiro, piano (February 20, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59584 59584-14754456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Considered one of the great pianists on the Brazilian scene, Eduardo Monteiro gained international recognition after winning first prize, and special jury award for best performance of Beethoven, at the 1989 Cologne International Piano Competition in Germany. He was also a prize winner at the Dublin International Piano Competition in 1991 and at the Santander International Piano Competition in 1992. Monteiro is currently vice-director of the School of Arts & Communications at the University of Sao Paulo, where he is professor of piano in the Music Department. His students have received numerous awards at piano competitions in Brazil and abroad. In September 2013 one of his students was awarded first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 14:55:33 -0500 2019-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Eduardo Monteiro
Dreaming a disabled, queer of color future: A poetic keynote by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (February 20, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60569 60569-14910389@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Spectrum Center

LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA is a queer disabled femme writer, organizer, performance artist and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. They are the author of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice , Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home (short-listed for the Lambda and Publishing Triangle Awards, ALA Above the Rainbow List), Bodymap (short listed for the Publishing Triangle Award), Love Cake (Lambda Literary Award winner), and Consensual Genocide, and co-editor of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities. Their next two books, Tonguebreaker and Exploring Transformative Justice: A Reader (co-edited with Ejeris Dixon) are forthcoming in 2019. A lead artist with Sins Invalid, her writing has been widely published, with recent work in PBS Newshour, Poets.org's Poetry and the Body folio, The Deaf Poets Society, Bitch, Self, TruthOut and The Body is Not an Apology. She is a VONA Fellow and holds an MFA from Mills College. She is also a rust belt poet, a Sri Lankan with a white mom, a femme over 40, a grassroots intellectual, a survivor who is hard to kill.

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is part of a series of keynote speakers Spectrum Center is hosting on campus covering radical queer advocacy and activism work in collaboration with several departments and student organizations at University of Michigan.
This program is presented by the U-M Spectrum Center, and co-sponsored by Trotter Multicultural Center, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Center for Campus Involvement (CCI), University Housing Diversity and Inclusion, Institute for the Humanities, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Residential College, School of Social Work DEI, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:33:49 -0500 2019-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion an image of the speaker smiling in front of flowers. they are wearing lipstick and their hair is tinted green.
The Vanished Synagogues of Medieval Seville (February 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57450 57450-14193522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In 1388, Ferrán Martínez, a cleric at the Cathedral of Seville, complained that there were twenty-three synagogues in the city and threatened to demolish them all if given a chance. A few years later, in 1391, Martínez’s threat became reality when hundreds of Seville’s Jews were massacred during a violent riot, and the community’s synagogues were destroyed or converted into churches. How were Seville’s Jews able to construct many new houses of worship in the city, dodging secular and ecclesiastical prohibitions? Why did synagogues become the focal point of Martínez’s anti-Jewish campaign? The talk will attempt to answer these questions while examining Jewish life in the kingdom of Castile just before the tragic events of 1391 changed it forever.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:24:34 -0500 2019-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion WBLS.Soifer
Cognitive Science Community (February 20, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61346 61346-15090331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

The next professor talk will take place on Wednesday, February 20, starting at 7:30 p.m. Professor Chandra Sripada will be joining the group to discuss "Empirically Investigating the Stream of Consciousness." His talk is about spontaneous streams of thought -- ideas, images, and memories -- that meander across the mind when otherwise unoccupied. Professor Sripada will report on new studies from his lab that shed light on how these streams are constructed. He will also discuss agency in the stream of consciousness: Do we actively construct streams of thought or do they passively “pop” into our minds?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:55:21 -0500 2019-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T20:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSci Community logo
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (February 20, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61466 61466-15110246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

An open small group discussion around issues of life and faith. All are welcome. Led by Rev. Evans McGowan, Presbyterian pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, MI.  Reach us at campus@firstpresbyterian.org.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 18:00:16 -0500 2019-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 2019-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
LAUGHTER IS GOOD MEDICINE -- MINDFUL LAUGHTER (February 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60440 60440-14892523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Terry Clark-Jones has been a Senior Extension Educator with Michigan State University Extension for over 35 years. Her areas of specialty are housing, financial management, and social emotional education. Terry received a BS in and a MS from Eastern Michigan University. She is a Certified Family Life Educator and has been a MSHDA and NCHEC (HUD) Certified Housing Counselor since 2001.
Hanna Hotchkiss has been a Program Instructor with Michigan State University for three years. Her area of expertise is in social emotional health. Hanna received her BS degree from Michigan State University.

“Laughter is Good Medicine” is about the importance of humor in a person’s life to help maintain good health. As a result of attending this lecture participants will:
• Learn physical, mental and social benefits of laughter
• Experience laughing for the health of it
• Learn ways to include laughter in your life.
This program is part of a series on mindful practices as a way to manage stress in a constructive way.

This is the second in a six-lecture series. The subject is Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in Everyday Life and Beyond. The next lecture will be February 28, 2019. The subject is: Political Cartooning in the Era of Trump.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:25:49 -0500 2019-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
ChE Seminar Series: Maciek Antoniewicz (February 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/54514 54514-15063361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Centennial Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
University of Delaware

ABSTRACT
“Towards a Holistic Understanding of Cellular Metabolism”

Measuring intracellular fluxes by 13C metabolic flux analysis (13C-MFA) has become a key activity in metabolic engineering, biotechnology and medicine. Here, I will present important new advances that have extended the scope of this technology to more complex biological systems, including dynamic, interacting, and evolving systems. One of the key 13C-MFA technical advances that was pioneered in our lab centers on the use of parallel labeling experiments for metabolic pathway discovery. In this presentation, I will describe several surprising new metabolic pathways that we have discovered in central carbon metabolism in microbes, including E. coli, as well as mammalian cells using this new powerful technology. These metabolic pathways have been ”hidden” from our view so far because they cannot be estimated using traditional experiments. Only through the use of carefully selected tracers and parallel labeling experiments are we able to visualize these pathways. Applications in cancer medicine, phermaceutical production, and synthetic biology will be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:25:21 -0500 2019-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T12:30:00-05:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Response to the ‘US-China Cold War (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59102 59102-14677982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit.

A strong and wealthy America meets Japan’s security as well as economic interests. In this sense Tokyo prefers Trump’s type of leadership to Obama’s. However, as the U.S.-China relations become confrontational, Japan has to make sure that they will not spill over to itself. Trade war between Washington and Beijing will affect Japanese trade and eventually its economy. Military tensions in the South China Sea may prevent Japan’s vital trading route from safe use. China is conducting “smile diplomacy” for Japan and is trying to drive a wedge between Japan and the United States. Japan should sustain the strong alliance with the United States in this triangular relationship.

President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, which he assumed in 2006. A graduate of Kyoto University (BA) and a holder of an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He was Professor of International Relations at the National Defense Academy in 1977-2000 and served as President of the Academy in 2000-2006.

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, 15 Feb 2019 12:32:44 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masashi Nishihara, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Japan
HET Seminars | *To Be Confirmed* (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61331 61331-15088051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: HET Seminars

*To Be Confirmed*

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 09:39:40 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 West Hall HET Seminars Lecture / Discussion West Hall
How 20 Words and an Emoji Led Me to the Front Line of Saving Democracy (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61081 61081-15027220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Part of the Department of Sociology's Law, Justice, and Social Change Speaker Series

Two days after the 2016 elections, 27-year-old Katie Fahey, a political novice, posted on Facebook, “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan. If you’re interested in doing this as well please let me know. {smiley face emoji}.” What began as a Facebook group, turned into an army of volunteers in a matter of weeks. The massive nonpartisan citizen campaign, now named Voters Not Politicians, gathered over 400,000 signatures to put redistricting reform on the Michigan ballot. The ballot initiative sought to create an independent commission to determine voting districts in Michigan. Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved the ballot measure in November 2018. The success of Fahey’s campaign has made it a model for anti-gerrymandering campaigns—and citizen organizing—across the nation. As Tina Rosenberg wrote in the New York Times, “If you doubt that a private citizen can make a difference, meet Fahey.”

RSVP REQUIRED: https://myumi.ch/65kpB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:37:47 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Katie Fahey
UROP Brown Bag (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722961@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

The UROP Brown Bag Speaker Series are informal discussions on a topic pertaining to an aspect of research. All UROP students must register for and attend one Brown Bag presentation during the 18-19 academic year. Please follow the link to search for the best Brown Bag Series Speaker and Topic that suits your research pursuits.
https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/undergrad/?s=urop+brown+bag&submit=Search

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. Mika Tosca (February 21, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60728 60728-14957192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Prof. Mika Tosca of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Please join us!

Title: "A continent on the brink: How climate change and wildfire are reconstituting life in Africa"

Abstract: Human-set wildfires have long been a defining characteristic of the open savannas and grasslands of Africa. During the dry season, farmers and land managers burn small plots of land to eliminate expired crops, return nutrients to the soil, or to clear trees and brush for planting. In this talk, I present remote sensing observations which establish a cyclical link between drought and wildfire, and discuss how climate change has made (and will make) Africa hotter, and drier, and therefore more susceptible to destructive fire.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:19:28 -0500 2019-02-21T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
Angela Naimou Lecture (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51294 51294-12041250@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Can modes of lamentation in poetry contribute to current thought on international border regimes? How do literary forms and temporalities of grief rework our understanding of border regimes as they bind and fracture political collectivities? This talk takes up such questions in readings of Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria (2016) and Sara Uribe’s Antígona González (2012, transl. 2016). It considers how Girmay and Uribe each construct a poetics of citation and assemblage that rework grief over the violence of border regimes, from the militarized deportation regime for African migrants in Israel to the U.S.-led transnational drug war that both prompts and exploits border politics. Such poetry incorporates ancient Greek narratives and contemporary geopolitical realities to press against humanitarian and citizenship-centered understandings of mourning, justice, and sovereignty. The talk explores how Girmay and Uribe’s poetry of grief envision a future-oriented politics of the living in a time of war and global apartheid on the right to move.


Angela Naimou is Associate Professor of English at Clemson University and co-editor of the journal Humanity. She is the author of Salvage Work: U.S. and Caribbean Literatures amid the Debris of Legal Personhood (Fordham University Press 2015), which won the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP) Book Prize and received Honorable Mention for the MLA’s William Sanders Scarborough Award. Her current book project examines contemporary literature as it reconceptualizes migrant and refugee futurity. In addition to co-editing the journal Humanity, she also serves on the board of ASAP and is an associate editor of the journal Contemporary Literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:51:44 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Leaving the fitness landscape (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49664 49664-11487548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The fitness landscape analogy has been transformative for evolutionary genetics, providing a conceptual bridge between genotype-phenotype maps and the mechanisms of molecular evolution. In this seminar, I explain my plans to abandon the concept, arguing that modern technology and the nature of cutting edge problems in evolutionary genetics are beyond the scope of its capabilities. In the process, I summarize the range of projects related to the fitness landscape that I’ve recently explored on the brink of my departure, including clonal interference, the context-dependence of higher-order epistasis, and the drugability of antibiotics. In closing, I introduce several new conceptual tropes that are better equipped to address modern questions in evolutionary biology.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/3dq3kXLA4K0

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:16:58 -0400 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion graph of poem to last
EIHS Lecture: White Nationalists Dream of the Ethnostate (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52319 52319-12631419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This talk traces the genealogy of the ethnostate, often envisioned by white nationalists in the United States as the ultimate destination in a racially reordered world. Professor Stern will explore expected and unexpected origins of this place concept, including eugenics and bioregionalism, and discuss how white nationalists grapple with the slippery category of whiteness in constructing criteria for inclusion and exclusion. She will also examine the affective dimensions of the ethnostate as an antidote for perceived rootlessness, and ask questions about how this concept is mobilized to vitiate civic nationalism and promote ethnonationalism and racism in America.

Alexandra Minna Stern, PhD, is a professor in American Culture and History, with appointments in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. Currently she chairs the Department of American Culture. She also is a core faculty member in the Latina/o Studies Program and the Science, Technology, and Society Program. Her research has focused on the uses and misuses of genetics in the United States and Latin America. She is the author of the award-winning Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America which was published in second edition by University of California Press in 2015. Her latest book, Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) was a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title in Health Sciences. She leads the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, which studies qualitative and quantitative patterns of eugenic sterilization in twentieth-century California; this research is informing policy efforts to provide redress to survivors of compulsory sterilization. Stern has held grants for her work in medical history and health policy, including from the National Endowment for the Humanities, National Institutes of Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Her book Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-right is Warping the American Imagination will be published by Beacon Press in 2019.

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 Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:59:38 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Alexandra Minna Stern
FAST Lecture | University of Michigan's Gabii Project: Excavations of a Central Italian Urban Community (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60939 60939-14990928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Presented by Field Archaeology Series on Thursday; sponsored by the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, the Department of Classical Studies, and the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.

Reception at the Kelsey Museum 4:00 p.m., lecture to follow at 5:00 p.m. at the UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (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, 07 Feb 2019 14:16:15 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion FAST poster
LCTP Second Annual Public Lecture (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59239 59239-14719624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Physics

We now know that the overwhelming majority of matter throughout our galaxy and the universe is something other than what we are made of. All ordinary matter - gas, dust, stars, planets - is a small fraction of the mass of the universe. We remain profoundly ignorant of what this missing universe is. In this talk, we will describe the range of ideas that have arisen as to what this mysterious stuff might be, where it came from, and how to look for it. We will detail the progress made in the search to understand the nature of dark matter, and what questions this era hopes to answer, including perhaps the central one: what does the dark universe have to do with the one we can see?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:08:09 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Department of Physics Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
The 2nd LCTP Public Lecture - "Illuminating Dark Matter" (February 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61166 61166-15045284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

We now know that the overwhelming majority of matter throughout our galaxy and the universe is something other than what we are made of. All ordinary matter - gas, dust, stars, planets - is a small fraction of the mass of the universe. We remain profoundly ignorant of what this missing universe is. In this talk, we will describe the range of ideas that have arisen as to what this mysterious stuff might be, where it came from, and how to look for it. We will detail the progress made in the search to understand the nature of dark matter, and what questions this era hopes to answer, including perhaps the central one: what does the dark universe have to do with the one we can see?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:53:53 -0500 2019-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
3D Printing and Tissue Engineering (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60144 60144-14840458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Please join us for this lecture and Q&A by David Zopf, MD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Zopf is a leader in the use of 3D printing for clinical applications and surgical simulation.

3D printing is revolutionizing the healthcare field, with foundational, groundbreaking work in the field being conducted at University of Michigan. In Dr. Zopf’s talk, he will provide an overview of additive manufacturing/3D printing, the achievements that have occurred, and the exciting future horizon for 3D printing and tissue engineering in medicine.

The lecture, to be held at the Danto Auditorium at U-M's Frankel Cardiovascular Center, is free and open to all. A reception will light refreshments will follow from 6-7 pm.

Please register to help us with catering estimates.

Taubman Technology Talks is sponsored by the Taubman Institute to inform the U-M community about ongoing advances in tools and technologies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Jan 2019 13:35:41 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60360 60360-14866456@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

This week's speaker is Federico Cella, who will present "Social generics; inferential asymmetry, negative framing and cross-linguistic evidence."

The Cognitive Science Seminar Series provides space for presentations of research at any stage of development, academic workshops, and professional development opportunities. The series offers an opportunity for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to network and engage with scholars from multiple disciplines and units across campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:58:26 -0500 2019-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Clyde Petersen Alternate Realities, Intentional Histories and Queer Survival: Building Your own Worl (February 21, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58875 58875-14569983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Clyde Petersen is a Seattle-based artist working in film, animation, music, installation, and spectacle. A proud member of the transgender and queer communities in Seattle, Petersen’s work explores identity and narrative form. Petersen’s autobiographical stop-motion animated feature film Torrey Pines, a queer punk coming-of-age tale, premiered in October 2016 and toured the world with a live score. Petersen is also the leader of Your Heart Breaks, an internationally touring queercore punk band founded in 1998, and the host of the internet film series Boating with Clyde. His work has been featured around the world in museums, galleries, and other venues. Petersen is currently working on two new feature films and has a solo exhibition at the Bellevue Arts Museum titled Merch and Destroy, featuring a life-size Ford Econoline van built entirely out of cardboard and a series of fantasy guitars.

Presented with support from the Ann Arbor Film Festival and the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:24:02 -0500 2019-02-21T17:10:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/petersen.jpg
LanguageMatters Lab (February 21, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61433 61433-15099355@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The LanguageMatters initiative at U-M is interested in issues of language diversity on and around campus, linguistic discrimination, social justice, inclusivity, and equality, how different dialects and languages are treated on campus and in the classroom, and the ways in which intentional language can be used for positive social impact.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:22:56 -0500 2019-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2019-02-21T18:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
How 20 Words and an Emoji Led Me to the Front Line of Saving Democracy (February 21, 2019 5:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61081 61081-15027221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:45pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Part of the Department of Sociology's Law, Justice, and Social Change Speaker Series

Two days after the 2016 elections, 27-year-old Katie Fahey, a political novice, posted on Facebook, “I’d like to take on gerrymandering in Michigan. If you’re interested in doing this as well please let me know. {smiley face emoji}.” What began as a Facebook group, turned into an army of volunteers in a matter of weeks. The massive nonpartisan citizen campaign, now named Voters Not Politicians, gathered over 400,000 signatures to put redistricting reform on the Michigan ballot. The ballot initiative sought to create an independent commission to determine voting districts in Michigan. Michigan voters overwhelmingly approved the ballot measure in November 2018. The success of Fahey’s campaign has made it a model for anti-gerrymandering campaigns—and citizen organizing—across the nation. As Tina Rosenberg wrote in the New York Times, “If you doubt that a private citizen can make a difference, meet Fahey.”

RSVP REQUIRED: https://myumi.ch/65kpB

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:37:47 -0500 2019-02-21T17:45:00-05:00 2019-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Katie Fahey