Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Opportunities and challenges of autonomous vehicles: Role of governments? (February 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71249 71249-17794043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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

A discussion on the chemistry of our biology.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 16:42:53 -0500 2020-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Bulgarian vineyard
HET Brown Bag | The Large-Misalignment Mechanism for Compact Axion Structures (February 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72413 72413-18000398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dinner is served!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:59:15 -0500 2020-02-13T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Donia Human Rights Center Lecture with Wai Wai Nu
Lecture by Macarena Gómez-Barris (February 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71642 71642-17851291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Presentations and conversations will include:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ABSTRACT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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

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

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

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

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

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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

Tau Beta Pi Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

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

featuring Professor Chad Jenkins

Monday, February 17, 2020

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

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Image credit: Double Jeopardy, GIF, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:10:20 -0500 2020-02-18T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Screen-shot from “Waking the Green Sound: a dance film for the trees,” directed by Wobbly Dance
Genetics Training Program / CMB Short Course (630) (February 18, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72320 72320-17974673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

Welcome to the Exciting World of Tandem and Interspersed DNA Repeat Elements
Presented By Jayakrishnan Nandakumar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology University of Michigan Medical School
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
3:00 p.m.
West Lecture Hall, Med Sci II

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:25:19 -0500 2020-02-18T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Nandakumar GTP / CMB Short Course Flyer
“Modulating kidney development: from cells to signals and transcriptional regulation” (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71238 71238-17794026@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

Dr. O'Brien is an Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology
UNC Kidney Center from the University of North Carolina.

The talk is entitled, “Modulating kidney development: from cells to signals and transcriptional regulation”.

Trainee Host: Rosa Menijvar, Ph.D. Candidate- Pasca di Magliano Lab

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:12:36 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Daniel Herwitz, the Fredrick G.L. Huetwell Professor of Comparative Literature, Philosophy and History of Art, Professor, Art and Design, Inaugural Lecture (February 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70037 70037-17499533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Daniel Herwitz will be presenting an essay on the current and controversial topic of repatriation: the return of objects from European and American museums to their sites of origin. France has recently committed itself to the return of a significant number of objects to African nations, Greece has long demanded the return of the Elgin Marbles and not got them, the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology has repatriated native American burial remains back to Native American communities. The question of repatriation is--the essay will show--a window into larger and more luminous issues of intellectual and cultural property, demanding cosmopolitan negotiation in the name of historical justice.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:04:40 -0500 2020-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion poster image
Eye on Detroit presents (February 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72385 72385-17998201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

In the ten years since the Citizens United ruling, more "dark money" has leaked into political campaigns. As the corporate dollar has started impacting elections, and super PACs are changing the field - how will things continue to evolve? Are we looking at the end of truly fair elections? Join us as we discuss this and more at the upcoming Eye on Detroit discussion: Voting by the Dollar.

Moderator: Dr. Jenna Bednar
Panelists: Sheila Cockrel, Eric Foster, Tony Manning, Sam Riddle, Eric Welsby

Program:

6:00 - 6:30 pm
Check-in and hors d'oeuvres

6:30 - 8:00 pm
Panel Discussion

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:06:33 -0500 2020-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Eye on Detroit presents Voting by the Dollar
"The Disruption of Traditional Food Media" (February 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72673 72673-18044327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Nicole A.Taylor is a nationally acclaimed cookbook author, food writer, and expert on Southern food. She is Executive Editor of Food at Thrillist. She was the host of the food podcast Hot Grease, the author of The Up South Cookbook, and contributed recipes to The Last O.G. Cookbook. She also serves on the board of the Edna Lewis Foundation and EATT (Equity At The Table). She contributed to Women on Food, a compilation that illuminates the notable and varied women who make up the food world.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 08 Feb 2020 16:12:53 -0500 2020-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Nicole Taylor
Food Literacy for All (February 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566458@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-18T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Professional Autobiography (February 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72925 72925-18094771@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: HSSP

Have you ever wondered how health care professionals end up in their careers? Professional Autobiographies are excellent opportunities for students to hear directly from health care professionals in an informal setting. During these talks, students will learn about speakers' motivations for their career choices, how their interests and experiences influenced their career trajectories, and how they’ve worked to align their passion(s) with their work. These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to connect with professionals who may be able to provide valuable advice during your Michigan career.

All HSSP-sponsored Professional Autobiographies are open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:41:54 -0500 2020-02-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-18T20:00:00-05:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Leon Golson
HET Brown Bag | SYK, Chaos, and higher-spin (February 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72542 72542-18015954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss two related topics in the talk. In the first part, I will discuss a 2-dimensional SYK-like model whose moduli space consists of both a chaotic regime and corners with emergent higher-spin symmetry. This model provides a manifest realization of the widely believed connection between SYK-like models and higher-spin theories. In the second part, I will discuss a general class of coupled quantum systems that share a somewhat surprising property: their ground states approximate the thermofield double state to very good accuracy. This provides a practical way to prepare the thermofield double state.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:37:44 -0500 2020-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (February 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68430 68430-17080063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 16:37:52 -0400 2020-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Integrating and Enforcing Labor Rights in Trade (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72452 72452-18007186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Check back here right before the event for viewing details.

This Harry A. and Margaret D. Towsley Foundation Lecture will examine the nexus between labor rights and trade—a crucial topic as U.S. and global trade arrangements are being renegotiated. It will feature a conversation between two experts who have long worked to advance worker’s rights in the context of global trade—Dr. Bama Athreya, a visiting policy expert at the Weiser Diplomacy Center, and Ford School Professor of Practice Sander Levin. They will discuss historical challenges to including labor clauses in trade agreements and enforcing them. They will also review the labor clauses in recent trade deals, including the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, and analyze the keys to implementing them effectively.

About the speakers:

Bama Athreya has more than twenty years’ experience on international labor issues, gender and social inclusion, and business and human rights. She is currently a Fellow at Open Society Foundations and an advisor to C&A Foundation. Most recently she worked for the US Agency for International Development as Senior Specialist for Labor, Gender and Social Inclusion, where she led the development of new guidance and internal training on gender and social inclusion, and assisted field Missions around the world to develop new programming to address labor rights, counter human trafficking and promote women’s economic empowerment. She was also one of USAID’s principal points of contact on Business and Human Rights. Previously she worked for the Solidarity Center, International Labor Rights Forum and Fontheim International and has been a consultant for the International Labour Organization. She has developed and led multi-country projects in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia on the rights of working women, on forced and child labor, and on ethical business practices. She has developed and led multi-stakeholder initiatives with global corporations on labor compliance, and has worked and written extensively on labor and gender in US trade policy. She served as one of the founding Board members of the Sweatfree Purchasing Consortium, an entity serving state and city governments in the United States who have adopted legislative or executive commitments to ethical procurement. In 2009 she was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to a special Consultative Group on Forced and Child Labor. She speaks French, Spanish, Chinese and Indonesian. She holds a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

The Honorable Sander "Sandy" Levin is a professor of practice at the Ford School, with support from the Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence program. For over 35 years, Levin represented residents of Southeast Michigan in Congress. In that time, Levin was actively involved in the major debates confronting our nation including welfare reform, the auto industry rescue, China's entry into the World Trade Organization, the Iran Nuclear Agreement, and every critical economic policy issue. He chaired the House Ways and Means Committee including during passage of the Affordable Care Act, drafted the language to add enforceable labor and environmental standards in trade agreements for the first time, and successfully fought the privatization of Social Security. Born in Detroit, Levin earned a BA from the University of Chicago, an MA in international relations from Columbia University, and a JD from Harvard University. He developed a private law practice, served two terms in the Michigan State Senate, ran for governor, and served as an assistant administrator at the Agency for International Development before his election to Congress.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:53:22 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Weiser Diplomacy Center Lecture / Discussion
Settler Colonial Choreography and the Divided Body: Performing Masculinities Through the Switch Dance at a Native American Prison Powwow (February 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71853 71853-17894529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Native American Studies Program welcomes Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa, a rising scholar whose innovative work combines Native American Studies and Dance Studies. Wakpa is a scholar and practitioner of Indigenous contemporary dance, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language), martial arts, and yoga. Her research combines community-based, Indigenous and feminist methodologies with critical race theories to examine the politics and practices of dance and embodiment historically and contemporarily in educational and carceral institutions for Indigenous peoples. Her work has been published in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal and Dance Research Journal. Dr. Wakpa is also the co-founder and co-editor of the academic journal Race & Yoga and a former UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. We invite you to partner with us in supporting this rising scholar and connecting students and the university publics to learn about her current work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:56:43 -0500 2020-02-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tria Blu Wakpa Poster
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Hint: My Books Aren't Really about Sex and Drugs (February 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71759 71759-17879411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Dorota Masłowska is a novelist and playwright. She published her first novel, "Wojna polsko-ruska pod flagą biało-czerwoną" (Snow White and Russian Red) at 19. It won critical acclaim, was awarded the Paszport Polityki Prize, and was translated into over 20 languages. Her second novel, "Paw Królowej" (The Queen’s Peacock, 2005), won the most prestigious Polish literary prize, the Nike award. Masłowska’s first drama, "A Couple of Poor, Polish-speaking Romanians" (2006), was staged in Australia, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Poland, and her subsequent play, "No Matter How Hard We Try" (2008), garnered a Polish Ministry of Culture Prize. Masłowska’s most recent novel, "Inni ludzie" (Other People, 2018), will soon appear in German, French, and Russian. Her works in English have been translated by Benjamin Paloff, associate professor at U-M.

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 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 17:14:00 -0500 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Dorota Masłowska
Dinner with Mirabai Bush (February 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72477 72477-18009387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Mirabai Bush is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative practices into higher education, law, business, environmental leadership, the military, and social justice activism. She co-founded the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education.

She has been teaching workshops and courses on contemplative practice in life and work for 45 years, integrating her experience in organizational management, teaching, and consulting. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence; it has been attended by thousands of Google employees. Mirabai is on the board of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.

Mirabai is co-author with Ram Dass of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service; co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning; and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.

She has studied mindfulness and compassion with Shri S.N. Goenka; Neemkaroli Baba; and Tibetan lamas Kalu Rinpoche, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Kyabje Gehlek Rinpoche, Tsoknyi Rinpoche, and others. She studied aikido with Kanai Sensei and has practiced Iyengar and Sivananda yoga.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:48:58 -0500 2020-02-19T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI
Science Café: Something Fishy in Lake Michigan (February 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70934 70934-17757984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Great Lakes fisheries are managed intensively to reduce nutrients from fertilizer runoff and to increase game fish populations such as trout and salmon. When you add invasive species such as non-native mussels and the possibility of carp, we have a very fragile system. Join us to discuss the past, present, and possible futures of Lake Michigan fisheries with Bo Bunnell of the U.S.G.S. Great Lakes Science Center and U-M School for Environment and Sustainability, Yu-Chun Kao of MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and Ed Rutherford of the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab.

Science Cafés provide an opportunity for audiences to discuss current research topics with experts in an informal setting. Hors d’oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.; program 6:00-7:30 p.m. Seating is limited—come early.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 07:50:30 -0500 2020-02-19T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Fish in Lake Michigan
Under the Gun: Why is gun violence a public health issue? (February 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72742 72742-18070546@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Munger Graduate Residences
Organized By: Munger Graduate Residences

Why is gun violence a public health issue?

Learn about gun violence through public health and medical lenses. Hear from prominent researchers and physicians Dr. Rama Salhi and Dr. Patrick Carter about this fascinating topic while enjoying delicious food and inspiring conversation! Get a chance to network with other graduate and professional students from diverse fields in this intro session to a semester-long series on gun violence.

Food will be provided, so please RSVP!
-https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/22810

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:44:35 -0500 2020-02-19T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-19T21:00:00-05:00 Munger Graduate Residences Munger Graduate Residences Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer with date, time and location
BME Ph.D. Defense: Lauren L. Zimmerman (February 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72566 72566-18018159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering Final Oral Examination

Lauren L. Zimmerman

Investigating Neuromodulation as a Treatment for Female Sexual Dysfunction

Female sexual dysfunction (FSD) affects millions of women worldwide. FSD has a significant impact on quality of life and interpersonal relationships. The prevalence of at least one form of sexual dysfunction is 40-45% of adult women with 12% of women experiencing sexually related personal distress, yet there is no clear treatment option for a wide range of FSD deficits with high efficacy and low side effects.

Neuromodulation techniques using electrical stimulation of peripheral nerves have the potential to treat some forms of FSD. In clinical trials of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) and percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (PTNS) for bladder dysfunction, women have reported that their sexual dysfunction symptoms improved as well. Even though this effect has been observed clinically, very little research has been done to examine the mechanisms or the optimal method of treatment specifically for women with FSD. This thesis aims to bridge that gap by investigating neuromodulation as a treatment for FSD through both preclinical and clinical studies.

The first aim of this thesis is to investigate a possible mechanism of the improvement to sexual functioning in response to tibial nerve stimulation by evaluating vaginal blood flow responses in rats. In 16 ketamine-anesthetized female rats, the tibial nerve was stimulated for 30 minutes while vaginal blood perfusion was recorded with laser Doppler flowmetry. A novel signal analysis and quantification metric was developed for this analysis. I found that tibial nerve stimulation could drive prolonged increases in vaginal blood perfusion, typically after 20-30 minutes of stimulation. This result suggests that clinical neuromodulation may be improving FSD symptoms by increasing genital blood flow.

One question yet to be investigated by neuromodulation studies is whether tibial nerve stimulation could be an on-demand treatment for FSD, such as Viagra is for men, or is more appropriate as a long-term treatment with improvements over time, such as PTNS for bladder dysfunction. In this thesis I address this question by evaluating the sexual motivation and receptivity of female rats both immediately after a single stimulation session as well as after long-term, repeated stimulation sessions. I found that tibial nerve stimulation led to modest increases in sexual motivation in the short term, and larger increases in sexual receptivity in the long-term.

Lastly, this thesis evaluates a pilot clinical study of transcutaneous stimulation of the dorsal genital and posterior tibial nerves in nine women with FSD. The women received stimulation once a week for 12 weeks and their sexual functioning was measured using the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) at baseline, after 6 weeks of stimulation, after 12 weeks of stimulation, and at 18 weeks (6 weeks after the last stimulation session). The average total FSFI score across all subjects significantly increased from baseline to each of the time points in the study. Significant FSFI increases were seen in the sub-domains of lubrication, arousal, and orgasm, each of which is related to genital arousal.

This thesis provides evidence that peripheral neuromodulation can be an effective treatment for FSD. The stimulation is likely driving increases in genital blood flow, with greater effects observed when stimulation is repeatedly applied over time. This treatment has the potential to help millions of women worldwide.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:00:05 -0500 2020-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T11:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
The Dance of the Paint: Thoughts on an Interdisciplinary Practice (February 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72708 72708-18061837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Professor Sparling shares his late-career discovery of painting and how it has become a seamless translation of everything he’s learned as musician, poet, dancer/choreographer, and video artist. Six years ago, he began to translate his body knowledge via the stroke of the paint brush: to experience how that stroke issues from the same impulses that guide his dancing body. For him, there is no difference in their creative processes and in the essential act of making art.

Peter Sparling is Rudolf Arnheim Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Dance at the University of Michigan. A graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and the Juilliard School, Sparling danced with the companies of Jose Limon and Martha Graham and directed Peter Sparling Dance Company. His videos have been screened globally, including festivals in New York City, Lisbon, and Paris. He is a published poet/essayist and has shown his paintings in three solo exhibits.

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is the Power of Art. The next lecture will be February 27, 2020. The title is: The Art and Science of Creating a New Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:59:07 -0500 2020-02-20T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69651 69651-17376503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It was a vibrant and successful urban center built around the residential complex of a warlord (daimyo) who had seized power in the civil wars of the late 15th century. This presentation will introduce the history and archaeology of the city and its residents, then consider the implications of its complete destruction in 1573 as part of Japan’s “unification” process.

Morgan Pitelka is Professor of History and Asian Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. His publications include Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice (2003); Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (2005); What’s the Use of Art? Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context (2007); and Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability (2016).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:04:55 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
LRCCS and Asia Library Deep Dive Lecture | Localist Turns: A Data-Driven Approach to Chinese Local History (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73004 73004-18123110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The “Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies” series is co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies (LRCCS) and the Asia Library, and is co-directed by Mary Gallagher (Professor of Political Science and Director of LRCCS) and Liangyu Fu (Chinese Studies Librarian, Asia Library). Question about the series? Please email Liangyu Fu at liangyuf@umich.edu.

Free and Open to the Public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Every major Chinese dynasty experienced a localist turn in which the centralizing power of the founding gave way to increasing localism, but all localist turns were not the same. This talk will note the general phenomena and explore an influential localist turn that took place in Wuzhou (Jinhua) in Zhejiang province during the Mongols' Yuan dynasty, the consequences of which have continued into the present. This will also show how prosopographical, spatial, and network analysis can reveal key elements of elite social and cultural change.

Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th to the 17th century. He is the author of "This Culture of Ours": Intellectual Transitions in T'ang and Sung China, Neo-Confucianism in History, coauthor of Sung Dynasty Uses of the I-ching, co-editor of Ways with Words, and various journal articles in Chinese, Japanese, and English. He led Harvard’s university-wide effort to establish support for geospatial analysis in teaching and research; in 2005 he was named the first director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. As Vice Provost (2013/09-2018/10) he was responsible for HarvardX, the Harvard Initiative in Learning and Teaching, and research that connects online and residential learning. He also directs the China Historical Geographic Information Systems project, a collaboration between Harvard and Fudan University in Shanghai to create a GIS for 2000 years of Chinese history. In a collaboration between Harvard, Academia Sinica, and Peking University he directs the China Biographical Database project, an online relational database currently of 420,000 historical figures that is being expanded to include all biographical data in China's historical record over the last 2000 years. Together with William Kirby he teaches ChinaX course, one of the HarvardX courses.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:08:38 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Microfluidics Seminar: Dr. Xufeng Xue (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73026 73026-18129602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Neurulation is a key embryonic developmental process that gives rise to neural tube (NT), the precursor structure that eventually develops into the central nervous system (CNS). Understanding the molecular mechanisms and morphogenetic events underlying human neurulation is important for the prevention and treatment of neural tube defects (NTDs) and neurodevelopmental disorders. However, animal models are limited in revealing many fundamental aspects of neurulation that are unique to human CNS development. Furthermore, the technical difficulty and ethical constraint in accessing neurulation-stage human embryos have significantly limited experimental investigations of early human CNS development.
I leveraged the developmental potential and self-organizing property of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in conjunction with 2D and 3D bioengineering tools to achieve the development of spatially patterned multicellular tissues that mimic certain aspects of human neurulation, including neuroectoderm patterning and dorsal-ventral (DV) patterning of NT.
In the first section, I report a micropatterned hPSC-based neuroectoderm model, wherein pre-patterned geometrical confinement induces emergent patterning of neuroepithelial (NE) and neural plate border (NPB) cells, mimicking neuroectoderm patterning during early neurulation. My data support the hypothesis that in this hPS cell-based neuroectoderm patterning model, two tissue-scale morphogenetic signals, cell shape and cytoskeletal contractile force, instruct NE / NPB patterning via BMP-SMAD signaling. This work provides evidence of tissue mechanics-guided neuroectoderm patterning and establishes a tractable model to study signaling crosstalk involving both biophysical and biochemical determinants in neuroectoderm patterning.
In the second section, I report a human NT development model, in which NT-like tissues, termed NE cysts, are generated in a bioengineered neurogenic environment through self-organization of hPSCs. DV patterning of NE cysts is achieved using retinoic acid and/or Sonic Hedgehog, featuring sequential emergence of the ventral floor plate, p3 and pMN domains in discrete, adjacent regions and dorsal territory that is progressively restricted to the opposite dorsal pole.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:58:46 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
The History of the Future of Work: The Debate on the Impact of Technological Change in Historical Perspective (February 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72938 72938-18096966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Current debates about technological change and the future of work have a rich history. In his talk, Bachmann will be exploring some aspects of that history, drawing from his current research on James Boggs and Charles Denby, two black labor activists from Detroit. In the early 1960s, Boggs and Denby published insightful articles about the impact of automation and cybernation on the workers in Detroit's automobile plants and beyond. By teasing out some of the main ideas of their works, Richard will show that Boggs and Denby still have a lot to contribute to current discussions of the future of work.

Richard Bachmann is a first-year graduate student in the Department of History at U-M and a fellow of the Science, Technology, and Society Graduate Certificate Program. His current research focuses on the 1950s/60s debates in the U.S. and Europe about the repercussions of automation and cybernation for the labor market and society. Richard received both his B.A. (2012) and M.A. (2016) in American Studies from Leipzig University, Germany, and spent two semesters at Ohio University's Global Leadership Center in 2011 as a B.A. Plus Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:21:25 -0500 2020-02-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T13:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion The History of the Future of Work
Does Time Stop in the World of Talmud Torah? (February 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70134 70134-17538851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Longtime Lower East Side resident and veteran anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin will present his autoethnography of study at the neighborhood's last yeshiva. His paper will focus on the qualities of time in a world where, as his brother Daniel Boyarin once wrote, "A question asked in the sixteenth century can be answered in the twelfth." With a response by Boyarin's mentor and longtime collaborator Jack Kugelmass.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:03:38 -0500 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jewish New Year, Boy in Prayer Shawl
Catherine Lacey Roundtable Q&A (February 20, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69574 69574-17366254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Catherine Lacey’s short story collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their lives. The Chicago Tribune calls it "exactly what you would expect from Lacey: perfect sentences, penetrating insights, devastating epiphanies.”

Lacey is also the author of The Answers (FSG, 2017), a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2017, and Nobody is Ever Missing (FSG, 2014), a New Yorker Best Book of 2014. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists, and has been compared to both Don DeLillo and Margaret Atwood.

Writing about The Answers, The Los Angeles Times said, "Like the work of Clarice Lispector or Rachel Cusk, Lacey’s novels seem to be on the verge of inventing a new genre somewhere between prose poem and fugue state." Discussing The Answers with Interview Magazine, Lacey notes, “I want things to be both beautiful and readable. I’m not trying to alienate a reader, or make someone think they can’t read it because they like more commercial things. I hope that there’s room for any sort of mind to encounter the book.”

Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German. With Forsyth Harmon, she co-authored a nonfiction book, The Art of the Affair. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, and others.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 13:20:04 -0500 2020-02-20T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Catherine Lacey
"Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men" (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69536 69536-17357973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Héctor Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attention to the full arc of these men’s migration experiences, from their upbringing in Mexican cities and towns, to their cross-border journeys, to their incorporation into urban gay communities in American cities, and their sexual and romantic relationships with American men. These men’s diverse and fascinating stories demonstrate the intertwining of sexual, economic, and familial motivations for migration.

Professor Carrillo is the author of two books: The Night Is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS (University of Chicago Press, 2002), and Pathways of Desire: The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men (University of Chicago Press, 2017). His current research investigates the sexualities of straight-identified men who are sexually interested in both women and men, as part of a larger project on the paradoxes of sexual identity as a social construction.

Carrillo serves as a member of the editorial boards of Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and Sexualidad, Salud y Sociedad: Revista Latinoamericana. He is a past chair of the Sociology of Sexualities Section of the American Sociological Association, and he served as co-chair of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science track of the XVII International AIDS Conference. He also has a history of involvement in HIV/AIDS community based organizations.

Presented by the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:09:33 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Héctor Carrillo, Professor, Northwestern University
BME 500: Ruixuan Gao (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70421 70421-17594473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Investigation of the molecular basis of a complex biological system, such as the brain, can lead to fundamental understanding of its composition and function, and to a new strategy to repair it. Such investigation, however, requires a tool that can capture biological structures and their molecular constituents across multiple orders of magnitude—from nanometers to centimeters—in length. Electron microscopy offers nanoscopic resolution but lacks molecular information to differentiate endogenous biomolecules as well as imaging speed to cover millimeter-scale specimens. Light microscopy provides molecular contrast but is limited by optical diffraction and the tradeoff between imaging speed and photobleaching.

In this talk, I will first introduce an optical imaging pipeline named expansion lattice light-sheet microscopy (ExLLSM) and its application to multiplexed, volumetric imaging of molecular constituents in cells and intact tissues. Using ExLLSM, our study has revealed molecular-specific structures of organelles, synapses, myelin sheaths, and neurites in rodent and insect brains at ∼60 by 60 by 90 nm effective resolution across dimensions that span millimeters. Next, I will present two recently developed methods that further extend the resolution and throughput of ExLLSM: (1) a non-radical hydrogel chemistry that forms a homogenous polymer network and physically separates biomolecules or fluorescent labels up to 40-fold linearly, and (2) a multi-modal optical microscopy that enables rapid, high-resolution imaging of both expanded and live tissues. Lastly, I will discuss the significance of these imaging methods in the context of microanatomy and functional omics.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 10:34:18 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
EIHS Lecture: The Labors of Human Nurture: Breastfeeding for Love or Money in Brazil, 1899-1960 (February 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63593 63593-15808574@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

What kind of labor is breastfeeding? How have societies accorded value to those who undertake this potentially lifesaving work? By situating breastfeeding within the historiography of carework, this talk will address these questions, examining efforts directed at breastfeeding, wet nursing, and human milk donation in Brazil in the first half of the twentieth century. If Brazilian health officials in this period agreed that human milk was critical for infant survival, they did not see the efforts of all nursing women as equally valuable. Meanwhile many nursing women challenged these ideas, demanding recognition of their contributions.

Victoria Langland is Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil (Duke University Press, 2013) and the co-editor of The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics, 2nd edition, (Duke University Press, 2019), and Monumentos, Memoriales y Marcas Territoriales (Siglo XXI, 2003). Langland's current book project is a history of breastfeeding, wet-nursing and human milk banking in Brazil that looks at how public policies, national and transnational breastfeeding advocacy, and the actions of breastfeeding women have transformed understandings and practices about infant nutrition and women’s roles over time.

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, 13 Feb 2020 08:47:26 -0500 2020-02-20T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Victoria Langland
FAST Lecture | The Olynthos Project: Dirt on an Ancient Greek City (February 20, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72846 72846-18085918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Since 2014 a group of faculty, staff, and students from U-M has worked as part of an international team at the site of the Archaic and Classical city of Olynthos in northern Greece. Our goal has been to create a detailed and comprehensive picture of the settlement, its neighborhoods, and its households. In this lecture, we present a series of examples of the many different questions, methods, and data sets encompassed by the project.

*The Olynthos Project is a collaboration between the Greek Archaeological Service and British School at Athens, by permission of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.*

Reception at 4:30 PM, lecture to follow at 5:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:02:55 -0500 2020-02-20T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion excavation at Olynthos
"United States of Single Cells" (February 20, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72663 72663-18035617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

"The United States of Single Cells"

Technological developments have enabled high-throughput profiling of single-cell gene expression, epigenetic regulation, and spatial position within complex tissues, providing an opportunity to define the features that delineate cell types and states.

However, this task requires sophisticated computational methods for integrating diverse single-cell datasets from multiple experiments and biological contexts. This talk will cover how metagene factors inferred by integrative nonnegative matrix factorization provide quantitative definition of cellular identity and its variation across biological contexts, allowing robust and scalable integration of highly heterogeneous single-cell datasets.

Joshua Welch, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics and Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan.

He received dual undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Piano Performance from Ohio University. After completing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017, he performed postdoctoral research with Evan Macosko at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Dr. Welch's research focuses on developing computational approaches for single-cell genomics and applying these approaches to understand cellular differentiation and reprogramming, cancer and the brain. His work has been funded by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the National Institutes of Health.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:25:51 -0500 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Lecture / Discussion Joshua Welch, PhD
BLI Speaker Series: Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive, and Mindful Society (February 20, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71327 71327-17817095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Globally, nationally, locally—it is not hard to see that the world needs more compassionate leadership. But how do we do it? We are all leaders, and can learn to be more compassionate! Leading with compassion requires us to be aware of both the unique contributions of each person as well as what we all share as humans. Compassion goes beyond empathy to move us to relieve and prevent the suffering of others. Compassionate leaders inspire and energize others, attract collaboration and creativity, increase trust, make wiser choices. They cultivate the awareness, justice, inclusivity, and kindness we need to guide our actions as a society.

This evening will address the meaning and importance of compassionate leadership in the year 2020 and lead short but effective practices in developing these capacities.

Mirabai Bush is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center introduced contemplative practices into higher education, law, business, environmental leadership, the military, and social justice activism. She co-founded the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education.

She has been teaching workshops and courses on contemplative practice in life and work for 45 years, integrating her experience in organizational management, teaching, and consulting. She co-developed the curriculum for Search Inside Yourself for Google, the first program in mindfulness-based emotional intelligence; it has been attended by thousands of Google employees. She is on the board of Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute. A founding board member of the Seva Foundation, an international public health organization, she directed the Seva Guatemala Project, supporting sustainable agriculture and integrated community development.

She is co-author with Ram Dass of Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying and Compassion in Action: Setting Out on the Path of Service; co-author with Daniel Barbezat of Contemplative Practices in Higher Education: Powerful Methods to Transform Teaching and Learning; and editor of Contemplation Nation: How Ancient Practices Are Changing the Way We Live.

Co-sponsored by CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund

RSVP: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/22399

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:51:49 -0500 2020-02-20T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI Speaker Series: Compassionate Leadership: Creating a Just, Inclusive, and Mindful Society
David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70392 70392-17594439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Note: This presentation will take place at Rackham Auditorium, 915 Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI.

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:49:49 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Lang.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series Presents: David Lang: Music and Bad Manners (February 20, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72434 72434-18002781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

As one of America’s most performed composers, David Lang has “solidified his standing as an American master,” as The New Yorker puts it. His catalog of work is extensive, and his opera, orchestra, chamber, and solo works are by turns ominous, ethereal, urgent, hypnotic, unsettling, and emotionally direct. In 2008, the New York-based composer was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the little match girl passion, a score for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers, based on the children’s story by Hans Christian Andersen. Additionally, Lang’s score for Paolo Sorrentino’s film Youth received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, among others. Other recent work includes man made, a concerto co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony; the loser, an opera based on the novel by Thomas Bernhard, which opened the 2016 Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and prisoner of the state, an opera co-commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, De Doelen concert hall in the Netherlands, the Barbican Centre in London, l’Auditori concert hall in Barcelona, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra in Germany, the Concertgebouw in Belgium, and Malmö Opera in Sweden. Lang is co-founder and co-artistic director of Bang on a Can, a New York-based organization dedicated to the support of experimental music.

David Lang’s appearance is courtesy of the William Bolcom Guest Residency at the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance, with additional support from the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:17:30 -0500 2020-02-20T17:10:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (February 20, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
Catherine Lacey Reading & Book Signing (February 20, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69575 69575-17366255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Catherine Lacey’s short story collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their lives. The Chicago Tribune calls it "exactly what you would expect from Lacey: perfect sentences, penetrating insights, devastating epiphanies.”

Lacey is also the author of The Answers (FSG, 2017), a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2017, and Nobody is Ever Missing (FSG, 2014), a New Yorker Best Book of 2014. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists, and has been compared to both Don DeLillo and Margaret Atwood.

Writing about The Answers, The Los Angeles Times said, "Like the work of Clarice Lispector or Rachel Cusk, Lacey’s novels seem to be on the verge of inventing a new genre somewhere between prose poem and fugue state." Discussing The Answers with Interview Magazine, Lacey notes, “I want things to be both beautiful and readable. I’m not trying to alienate a reader, or make someone think they can’t read it because they like more commercial things. I hope that there’s room for any sort of mind to encounter the book.”

Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German. With Forsyth Harmon, she co-authored a nonfiction book, The Art of the Affair. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, and others.

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 12:18:50 -0500 2020-02-20T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Catherine Lacey
Emerging Urbanisms Keynote: Lester Spence (February 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72077 72077-17933535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Lester Spence, Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies, an award winning scholar, author, and teacher, has published two books (Stare in the Darkness: Hip-hop and the Limits of Black Politics winner of the 2012 W. E. B. Du Bois Distinguished Book Award, and Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics, winner of both the Baltimore City Paper and Baltimore Magazine 2016 Best Nonfiction Book Awards and was named to The Atlantic’s 2016 “Best Books We Missed” list), one co-edited journal, over a dozen academic articles and several dozen essays and think pieces in a range of publications including The American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, The New York Times, Jacobin, Salon, and The Boston Review. He is currently at work on two book length projects examining the contemporary AIDS crisis in black communities, and the growing role of police in major American cities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:48:24 -0500 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Lester Spence
Symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions (February 20, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72636 72636-18033415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Lester Spence is a Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and an award winning scholar, author, and teacher. He is currently at work on two book length projects examining the contemporary AIDS crisis in black communities, and the growing role of police in major American cities.

Professor Spence is an alumnus of the University of Michigan Department of Political Science.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:53:14 -0500 2020-02-20T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Lester Spence
FE Exam Overview and Student Forum (February 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72852 72852-18085924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Chi Epsilon presents Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) Exam Overview and Student Forum. This event will give you insight to the exam, available preparation materials, and you will have an opportunity to discuss the exam with graduate students who recently passed the exam.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Feb 2020 11:30:54 -0500 2020-02-20T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T20:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Civil and Environmental Engineering Lecture / Discussion I took this photo in a private school in Italy (Bologna) and I found beautiful these two girls studying together.
MAS Lecture | Bill Monaghan's Squash Seed (February 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72661 72661-18035613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This talk focuses on a single domesticated squash seed recovered from a deep trench dug during work in Windmill Park, south of Detroit. Dr. Lovis discusses how this millennium-old seed has shed light on the mode of distribution of some cucurbit plants utilized by prehistoric people in southeast Michigan.

William Monaghan was a respected geologist who died in the fall of 2018. He had worked closely with Dr. Lovis on a number of projects, providing expertise in sediment formation processes. His knowledge contributed to an understanding of how the lifeways of prehistoric peoples changed the landscape as reflected in archaeological sites and surrounding remnants of their activities.

This lecture is sponsored by the Michigan Archaeological Society.
To learn more about the MAS, please visit http://www.miarch.org/

MAS lectures are free and open to the public. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:16:56 -0500 2020-02-20T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-20T21:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion squash
AIM Extended Reality (XR) (February 21, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/71745 71745-17877258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 9:00am
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, February 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the Kuenzel Room at the Michigan Union (530 S State St) for AIM Extended Reality (XR). We’ll welcome Kavya Pearlman, founder of non-profit, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the very first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR. Kavya is the second of three speakers focused on XR scheduled throughout the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Please register below if you plan to attend.

Title: How to Build SAFE Virtual Worlds !?!

Description: We need to create SAFE immersive environments! Simply because, XR misuse by attackers can potentially lead to psychological, physical, reputational, social and economic harm. In this session, XRSI founder and CEO, Kavya Pearlman explores the potential of threats in XR systems, how to mitigate them and how to better protect end-users and enterprises moving forward. This session will approach the topic from multiple different directions. An introduction to XR domain, and discuss XR specific security challenges, concerns, constraints overlap and the types of threat XR is experiencing and may experience in the future. Discussion on issues of privacy and trust in the context of cyber-attacks, child safety, disinformation, and propaganda. Finally, framing how the industry can respond to these challenges: Actionable advice on how to create SAFE immersive environments in order to move from research prototypes and early demonstrators to secure, reliable and trustworthy systems that can play a more significant role in everyday life.

Speaker: Kavya PearlmanSpeaker: Kavya Pearlman, Founder, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI)

Bio: Well known as the “Cyber Guardian”, Kavya Pearlman is an Award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya is the founder of non-profit, XR Safety Initiative (XRSI), the very first global effort that promotes privacy, security, ethics and develops standards and guidelines for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MR) collectively known as XR.

Kavya is constantly exploring new technologies to solve current cybersecurity challenges. She has been named one of the Top Cybersecurity influencers for two consecutive years 2018-2019 by IFSEC Global. Kavya has won many awards for her work and contribution to the security community including 40 under 40 Top Business Executives 2019 by San Francisco Business Times, Rising Star of the year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series and Minority CISO of the Year 2018 by ICMCP. For her work with XR Safety Initiative, Middle East CISO Council awarded her – CISO 100 Women Security Leader award in Dubai and she has been nominated for being “Innovator of The Year 2019 by Women in IT Award Series. Kavya Pearlman is also the Cybersecurity Strategist at Wallarm, a global security company that uses artificial intelligence to protect hundreds of customers across e-commerce, fin-tech, health-tech, and SaaS via their application security platform.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 12:33:59 -0500 2020-02-21T09:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Event Series
Craft Lecture: Where does fiction come from, and where does it go? (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72718 72718-18061847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Catherine Lacey’s short story collection, Certain American States (FSG, 2018), portrays Americans tortured by the mundanity of their lives. The Chicago Tribune calls it "exactly what you would expect from Lacey: perfect sentences, penetrating insights, devastating epiphanies.”

Lacey is also the author of The Answers (FSG, 2017), a New York Times Top 10 Book of 2017, and Nobody is Ever Missing (FSG, 2014), a New Yorker Best Book of 2014. She has won a Whiting Award, was a finalist for the NYPL's Young Lions Fiction Award, was named one of Granta Magazine's Best Young American Novelists, and has been compared to both Don DeLillo and Margaret Atwood.

Writing about The Answers, The Los Angeles Times said, "Like the work of Clarice Lispector or Rachel Cusk, Lacey’s novels seem to be on the verge of inventing a new genre somewhere between prose poem and fugue state." Discussing The Answers with Interview Magazine, Lacey notes, “I want things to be both beautiful and readable. I’m not trying to alienate a reader, or make someone think they can’t read it because they like more commercial things. I hope that there’s room for any sort of mind to encounter the book.”

Her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and German. With Forsyth Harmon, she co-authored a nonfiction book, The Art of the Affair. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, The Paris Review Daily, The Atlantic, and others.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:06:54 -0500 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Catherine Lacey
U-M Structure Seminar: Hannah Foley (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65710 65710-16629971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Graduate Student, Keane Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:47:12 -0400 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
U-M Structure Seminar: Simone Brixius-Anderko, Ph.D. (February 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65711 65711-16629972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Research Fellow, Emily Scott Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:51:35 -0400 2020-02-21T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Getting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions (February 21, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72597 72597-18024700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:30am
Location:
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

GLOBAL CO2 INITIATIVE
CENTER FOR LOCAL, STATE, AND URBAN POLICY (CLOSUP)
presents

Getting to Net-Zero: Climate Challenges and Solutions

Karl Hausker Senior Fellow, Energy and Climate Program, World Resources Institute

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
11:45am-12:50pm (Pizza lunch available at 11:30am, talk begins at 11:45am)

Free and open to the public.
Pizza Lunch served at 11:30am.
Talk starts at 11:45am.

Description: Climate change is back on the national agenda with hearings, bills introduced, candidates’ plans, and discussion of a Green New Deal. Many policymakers are embracing the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050. Vigorous debates are occurring over questions including:
• Can renewables supply 100% of US electricity? 100% of all energy?
• What role should existing nuclear plants play in a clean energy economy? New nuclear plants?
• What role should carbon capture and storage play?
• How fast should the US aim to transition to 100% clean energy? What are the key policy levers that could achieve this?
• What roles should states, cities, and companies play in the clean energy transition?

Analysis and modeling of clean energy pathways can throw light on these questions. Everyone in the climate/energy policy community should understand how assumptions regarding the availability, performance, and integration of various technologies drive the energy, environmental and economic implications of pathways to deep reductions in emissions. Implications for energy policy and R&D portfolios are also critical.


Dr. Karl Hausker leads analysis and modeling of climate mitigation, electricity market design, and the social cost of carbon. He led the Risky Business study of clean energy scenarios for the U.S., and lectures widely on deep decarbonization. He has led climate policy analysis and modeling projects for USAID, USEPA, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the Western Climate Initiative, and the California Air Resources Board. Much of his work has focused on the energy and transportation sectors, and on low carbon, climate resilient development strategies. From 2007-2013, Karl was a Vice President at ICF International. His experience also includes: serving President Clinton as Deputy Assistant Administrator in EPA’s Policy Office where he represented EPA in interagency climate policy development and at COP-1; and serving as the Chief Economist for the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, where he worked on a diverse set of issues including electricity restructuring, CAFE standards, alternative fuels, western water policy, nuclear power, and energy security. Karl holds an M.P.P and Ph.D. in Public Policy from University of California, Berkeley, and received his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Cornell University.

Sponsored by: The University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Global CO2 Initiative

Co-sponsors: University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS), Graham Sustainability Institute, and Center for Sustainable Systems

For more information contact closup@umich.edu or call 734-647-4091.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:05:21 -0500 2020-02-21T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T12:50:00-05:00 Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion poster
American Institutions Group (AIG) (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70717 70717-17619598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

AIG is a group of graduate students and faculty who meet biweekly to discuss American institutions. For the first half of our meetings, we talk about current events and politics, and for the second, we discuss a recently published article or working paper.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:29:23 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Lecture / Discussion Lax
CSEAS Lecture Series. Becoming Brokers: Explaining Thailand’s Growing Brand in Global Health (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70968 70968-17760241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In areas ranging from universal healthcare to HIV prevention and access to medicine to health technology assessment and tobacco control, Thailand’s public health programs have come to be regarded as a model for the industrializing world. How is it that a resource-constrained nation on the global periphery has produced model policies that are critical to public health and human life so consistently amid such political turmoil? What has led these policies to travel abroad? And more generally, how has a small nation in Southeast Asia exercised such outsized influence in international affairs? Drawing on Fulbright-funded research with policymakers in Thailand and Geneva, this project examines the roots of Thailand’s surprising success.

Dr. Joseph Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston University and conducts comparative and historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, public policy, and global health. He is the author of Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism (Cornell University Press, 2017). Dr. Harris has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, most recently as Specialist on the Political Economy of Healthcare Reform for the Japan-World Bank Project on Universal Coverage. He is a past recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Henry Luce Scholarship and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and served as Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy Studies before joining the faculty at BU. In 2017, Dr. Harris received the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching and a Fulbright Scholarship for a project that explores the diffusion of Thailand’s model public health policies abroad. He serves as Associate Editor at Social Science and Medicine.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:17:36 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Culture contact dynamics in the Iron Age central Mediterranean: new approaches and new data (February 21, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73031 73031-18129630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

At the end of the Early Iron Age (8th-7th centuries BC), one of the most impactful migrations in Mediterranean history cast settlers from the Aegean as far as the Black Sea and Spain, transforming the geopolitical and economic landscape of the Mediterranean. However, its importance as a key case study for understanding how contact shaped the ancient world is proportional to the degree of controversy surrounding its interpretation. This has pitted traditional views of Aegean settlers as hegemonic conquerors of passive indigenous populations against postcolonial views of more complex processes of contact and integration. The most recent results of my two fieldwork projects in southern Italy bring new important data to this debate: (1) the excavation of the site of Incoronata, an indigenous center with strong evidence of co-existence between newcomers and the local community, allows us to identify how space, beliefs and know-how were shared at the site; (2) bioarcheological analyses conducted in the region provide us with much needed demographic information, upending many of the assumptions held so far and opening up new questions. Both lines of research identify local agency as the main driver for these interaction dynamics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 18 Feb 2020 10:11:15 -0500 2020-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (February 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70913 70913-17735218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 09:27:10 -0500 2020-02-21T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Johannes Urpelainen
Democratic socialism: lessons from Corporate Strategy (February 21, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70749 70749-17642220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In my recent book, The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism (Oxford UP) I explain why I think we need socialism and how it would work. I focus on six crises--economic irrationality, workplace disempowerment, government unresponsiveness, environmental degradation, social disintegration, and international conflict--and argue that the root cause of each lies in the capitalist nature of our economic system. I show why, so long as the core of the economy remains capitalist, neither voluntary corporate efforts nor government regulation can overcome these crises, even if sometimes they can be somewhat mitigated. To overcome them, we need to reorient production and investment to the needs of people and planet, rather than leaving such decisions in the hands of the top managers of enterprises driven by the need for profits. We must assert democratic control over the management of society’s productive resources, both within individual enterprises and across the entire national economy

No country has successfully implemented such a system in a way that would meet our expectations of democracy, innovativeness, efficiency, and motivation, but I argue that we can find something close to a working model in a surprising place--in the strategic management process used by some of our largest corporations. Many of these corporations operate internally like planned economies--coordinating their subunits’ production and investment through strategic management rather than relying on market-like competition among subunits--and in doing so, they face many of the same challenges as socialist planning would. This experience yields valuable lessons for socialism, because in some of these corporations, the strategic management process is remarkably participative, as well as delivering impressive levels of innovation, efficiency, and motivation.

Their success in this remains limited: under capitalist conditions, participation is restricted, the scope of strategy is largely limited to the individual firm, and the profit imperative constrains choices. But if we socialize the ownership of our economy’s productive resources, democratic councils at the local and national levels could use that strategic management process to decide on our collective economic, environmental, social, and international goals and on how to reach them.

Socialism is not a leap into the entirely unknown. Capitalist industry is building some of its material and managerial foundations.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 08:54:34 -0500 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Political Theory Workshop (February 21, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71097 71097-17777058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Theory Workshop (PTW)

Amir Fleischmann's work is focussed on critical and continental political theory. He is interested in questions concerning critical history, the history of capitalism, and democratic theory.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:10:40 -0500 2020-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Theory Workshop (PTW) Lecture / Discussion Amir Fleischmann
"Melancholy in Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities and Palermo Shooting" (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71972 71972-17905479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Bill Baker is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University where he completed bachelor’s degrees in German and Russian in 2013 followed by a master’s degree in German in 2015. His research interests include the history of German film, relationship of German film to Japanese and Russian film, and the use of aesthetic blandness in art. He is currently writing his dissertation, Melancholy and Aesthetic Apprehension in the Films of Wim Wenders, which explores the role of mediation and melancholy over the course of Wenders’ oeuvre.
2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 11:16:57 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Baker
Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71186 71186-17785588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Faced with mounting pressures and repeated, very public crises, social media firms have taken a new tack since 2017: to respond to criticism of all kinds and from numerous quarters (regulators, civil society advocates, journalists, academics and others) by acknowledging their long-obfuscated human gatekeeping workforce of commercial content moderators. Additionally, these acknowledgments have often come alongside announcements of plans for exponential increases to that workforce, which now represents a global network of laborers – in distinct geographic, cultural, political, economic, labor and industrial circumstances – conservatively estimated in the several tens of thousands and likely many times that. Yet the phenomenon of content moderation in social media firms has been shrouded in mystery when acknowledged at all. In this talk, Sarah T. Roberts will discuss the fruits of her decade-long study the commercial content moderation industry, and its concomitant people, practices and politics. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, at boutique firms and at major social media companies, she will offer context, history and analysis of this hidden industry, with particular attention to the emotional toll it takes on its workers. The talk will offer insights about potential futures for the commercial internet and a discussion of the future of globalized labor in the digital age.


Sarah T. Roberts is an assistant professor of Information Studies at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies, specializing in Internet culture, social media, and the intersection of media, technology and society. She is founding co-director, along with Dr. Safiya Noble, of the forthcoming UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry.

Roberts researches information work and workers, and is a leading global authority on “commercial content moderation,” the term she coined to describe the work of those responsible for making sure media content posted to commercial websites fit within legal, ethical, and the site’s own guidelines and standards. She is frequently consulted on matters of policy, worker welfare, and governance related to content moderation issues and the broader social media landscape.

She is a 2018 Carnegie Fellow and winner of the 2018 EFF Barlow Pioneer Award in recognition of her work on commercial content moderation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 15 Jan 2020 08:27:24 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion sarah
HistLing Discussion Group: "Austronesian-Hmong-Mien sound correspondences (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70211 70211-17547649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:18:01 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69538 69538-17357974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Interweaving the narratives of multiple family members, including parents and siblings of her queer and trans informants, Amy Brainer analyzes the strategies that families use to navigate their internal differences. In Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan, Brainer looks across generational cohorts for clues about how larger social, cultural, and political shifts have materialized in people’s everyday lives. Her findings bring light to new parenting and family discourses and enduring inequalities that shape the experiences of queer and heterosexual kin alike.

Brainer’s research takes her from political marches and support group meetings to family dinner tables in cities and small towns across Taiwan. She speaks with parents and siblings who vary in whether and to what extent they have made peace with having a queer or transgender family member, and queer and trans people who vary in what they hope for and expect from their families of origin. Across these diverse life stories, Brainer uses a feminist materialist framework to illuminate struggles for personal and sexual autonomy in the intimate context of family and home.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

There will be an instant-win raffle at the beginning of the event for 5 free copies of the book! Must be present to win!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:17:39 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan
SynSem Discussion Group (February 21, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72622 72622-18033397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Miki Obata and Professor Marlyse Baptista will give a talk titled "Asymmetrical Agreement: Evidence from Focus-Agreement in Cape Verdean Creole."

ABSTRACT
This presentation focuses on A’-movement in Cape Verdean Creole (CVC), spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, and demonstrates that asymmetrical focus-agreement takes place in wh-questions (full-agreement) and exclamatives (partial-agreement) in CVC based on Kato et al.’s (2014) Search-based agreement system. As a consequence, we show that our system can capture commonality between Focus-agreement in CVC and Subj.-Verb agreement in Standard Arabic discussed in Kinjo (2015).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:13:07 -0500 2020-02-21T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
HET Seminar | Conical singularities of G2-manifolds in mathematics and physics (February 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72414 72414-18000399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will first give an introduction to and brief history of G2 geometry, to compare and contrast it to Calabi-Yau geometry. G2 manifolds are important in physics because they admit parallel spinors. It is of interest to construct compact examples with singularities. I will then give a survey of some of my work that is related to conical singularities of G2 manifolds, including: desingularization, deformation theory, and a possible strategy to construct such G2 conifolds. This will include some (separate) joint works with Dominic Joyce and Jason Lotay. No previous exposure to G2 geometry will be assumed, but the focus will be more mathematical than physical. I am hoping that some of you can teach me more physics during the day.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 14:25:52 -0500 2020-02-21T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Smith Lecture: The Earth’s Hidden Ocean (February 21, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63137 63137-15578788@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Water, incorporated into minerals and melts at the high pressure and temperature conditions found in Earth’s deep mantle may constitute the planet’s largest geochemical reservoir of H2O, especially in the mantle transition zone at 410-660 km depth. At the atomic scale, hydration modifies the structure and physical properties of minerals through associated defects. At mesoscopic scales water influences diffusion, rheology and lattice preferred orientation. At geophysical scales, water cycling through the solid mantle plays a critical role in melt generation, plate tectonics, and may have acted to buffer the volume of Earth’s oceans over geologic time. I will focus on recent laboratory experiments, inclusions in diamond, and seismological observations that reveal clues about the distribution and origin of water in our habitable planet.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 13:07:31 -0400 2020-02-21T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Subjunctive Explorations of Fictive Vaiṣṇava-Sufi Discourse in Bengal (February 21, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71142 71142-17783439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This lecture is cosponsored by the U-M Center for South Asian Studies, the Global Islamic Studies Center, and the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum.

There is a vast body of imaginal literature in Bengali that introduces fictional Sufi saints into the complex mythological world of Hindu gods and goddesses. Dating to the sixteenth century, the stories—pir katha—are still widely read and performed today. The events that play out rival the fabulations of the Arabian Nights, which has led them to be dismissed as simplistic folktales, yet the work of these stories is profound: they provide fascinating insight into how Islam habituated itself into the cultural life of the Bangla-speaking world.

Tony K. Stewart is Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in the religions and literatures of early modern Bengal. His works include "The Final Word: The Caitanya Caritāmṛta and the Grammar of Religious Tradition," "Fabulous Females and Peerless Pirs: Tales of Mad Adventure in Old Bengal," and "Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination."

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, 06 Feb 2020 15:52:31 -0500 2020-02-21T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Talk | Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination
Distinguished Music Theory Speaker Series: Prof. Brian Hyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison (February 21, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70436 70436-17596541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Brian Hyer’s research involves the construction (and reconstruction) of historical modes of cognition for music of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, an initiative that blurs boundaries between music theory, music history, and music criticism. Since arriving in Madison, his main concern in the classroom has been to situate the study of music within the broader realm of the humanities, a commitment that has culminated in a new undergraduate music-theory curriculum, implemented in the fall of 1997.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:15:31 -0500 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series - Representative Sarah Anthony (February 21, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72592 72592-18024695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

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

For this TDLS event, we are beyond thrilled to welcome to the University of Michigan State Representative Sarah Anthony. State Representative Sarah Anthony is serving her first full term representing the 68th House District, parts of the city of Lansing and Lansing Township, as the youngest African American women to serve in this capacity in the United States. Throughout her time as commissioner, Anthony served in many leadership positions, including chating the Democtratic Caucus, FInance Committee, and Vice Chair of the board. Her fearless leadership to advocate for healthcare access, social justice, working families, and senior citizens, has made her a role model to many.

Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to hear from and meet Representative Sarah Anthony!

RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/51O1V

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 10:06:31 -0500 2020-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
Addiction, Violence, Insalubrity: How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? (February 21, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72670 72670-18039974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Koessler Room, Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

RSVP Here!What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist.   Research shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective, violent, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.However, as a burgeoning industry, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors, favorable policies, and the potential access to the Olympics, Esports, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games.   From game development, to corporate social responsibility, to higher education, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak, Professor Austin Yarger, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton. 

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:00:28 -0500 2020-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:00:00-05:00 Koessler Room, Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire? (February 21, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72732 72732-18068367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Michigan China Forum

What comes to your mind when you hear the word “Esports”? A billion-dollar empire being built? Causes of addiction and violence? Having come a long way from video gaming, Esports has evolved into a global phenomenon even though controversies persist.

Research shows that 65% of 8-12 years old teenagers play video games for more than 2 hours per day. About 41% of boys think they have spent too much time on video games. Being addicted to video games is only one of many reasons that people are against Esports. From many adults’ perspective, violent, bloody elements in video games are likely to negatively affect teenagers. Hence, Esports is an industry bearing prejudice and stereotypes.

However, as a burgeoning industry, Esports is gaining massive popularity across the globe in recent years. According to Newzoo, revenues of the global Esports industry exceeded $1.1 billion in 2019, which is an increase of 26.7% over the previous year. Asia-Pacific sees the highest proportion of Esports viewership (57%) and the major growth is being witnessed in China. North America is once again the largest Esports market where the major share is contributed by the United States. With more investors, favorable policies, and the potential access to the Olympics, Esports, a new era “gold rush” is redefining the world of games.

From game development, to corporate social responsibility, to higher education, how should Esports navigate the controversies? What factors have contributed to the rise of Esports? What is the future of this industry? Come join us at the Esports panel discussion with Professor Katherine Babiak, Professor Austin Yarger, Ph.D. student Luis Velazquez, Arbor eSports’ president Alexander Ball, and UM Esports program manager Cybbi Barton.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 11:27:09 -0500 2020-02-21T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Michigan China Forum Lecture / Discussion Present by Michigan China Forum: How Is Esports Building a Billion-Dollar Empire?
Emerging Urbanisms Keynote: Matthew Gandy (February 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72079 72079-17933537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Matthew Gandy is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and is an award-winning documentary film maker. His research interests span landscape, infrastructure, and biodiversity. His books including Concrete and clay: reworking nature in New York City (The MIT Press, 2002), Urban constellations (Jovis, 2011), The fabric of space: water, modernity, and the urban imagination (The MIT Press, 2014), The acoustic city (Jovis, 2014), and Moth (Reaktion, 2016). He is currently writing a book about urban biodiversity.

Professor Gandy's lecture is part of the symposium: Emerging Urbanisms in De-Industrializing Urban Regions.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 26 Jan 2020 22:42:11 -0500 2020-02-21T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-21T19:30:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Matthew Gandy
Science Forum Demo (February 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-22T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 22, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-22T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758031@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Radio Campfire: Town Square -- stories that unfold in public places (February 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68766 68766-17147154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Radio Campfire and UMMA present Town Square -- audio stories that unfold in public places   Set to the backdrop of artist Cullen Washington’s large scale abstract Agoras paintings, this Radio Campfire event will feature a series of creative audio stories, soundscapes, and sonic postcards that, like Washington’s paintings, tell us stories about the places where civic life ensues.  

Radio Campfire is a community listening event series based in southeast Michigan. Going to a Radio Campfire is “like going to the movies for your ears.” We gather, we dim the lights, and listen to a specially curated selection of creative audio stories on a theme. If you like podcasts, you’ll love Radio Campfire.   Inspired by the UMMA exhibition Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square (on view through May 17, 2020), Radio Campfire: Town Square will be hosted and produced by Stephanie Rowden and Juliet Hinely.   The event begins at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. The gallery is located on Floor 2 of the Alumni Memorial Hall building.    UMMA is wheelchair accessible.   This event is best for ages 14+

This program is co-sponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 18:17:41 -0500 2020-02-22T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-22T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Creation Sunday (February 23, 2020 9:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72979 72979-18120900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:45am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Collegians for Christ

Collegians for Christ is excited to partner with Ann Arbor Baptist Church to present a series of thought provoking lectures on the fundamental question: where did everything come from? Come hear the various theories about the origins of the universe. The speaker is Orlando Buria, Ph.D., a sought after scientist and instructor on the topics of universe origins, natural history, and biology. Dr. Buria is a published researcher who will present engaging and thought provoking lectures.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:56:24 -0500 2020-02-23T09:45:00-05:00 2020-02-23T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Collegians for Christ Lecture / Discussion Creation Sunday Graphics
Science Forum Demo (February 23, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-23T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 23, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-23T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Science Forum Demo (February 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, February 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-23T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-23T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Making Prevention the Nation’s Top Health Policy Priority (February 24, 2020 11:15am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72657 72657-18035605@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 11:15am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

In his new book, Prevention First – Policymaking for a Healthier America, Anand K. Parekh, MD, MPH, argues that disease prevention must be our nation's top health policy priority. Building a personal culture of prevention, he writes, is not enough; elected officials and policymakers must play a greater role in reducing preventable deaths. Drawing on his experiences as a clinician, public servant, and policy advisor, Dr. Parekh provides examples of prevention in action from across the country, giving readers a view into why prevention-first policies are important and how they can be accomplished. Throughout the book, he demonstrates that, in order to optimize health in America, we must leverage health insurance programs to promote disease prevention, expand primary care, attend to the social determinants of health, support making the healthier choice the easy choice for individuals, and increase public health investments. Prevention First not only sounds the alarm about the terrible consequences of preventable disease but serves as a rallying cry that we can and must do better in this country to reduce preventable deaths.

Anand Parekh is the Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) chief medical advisor providing clinical and public health expertise across the organization, particularly in the areas of aging, prevention, and global health. Prior to joining BPC, he completed a decade of service at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As deputy assistant secretary for health from 2008 to 2015, he developed and implemented national initiatives focused on prevention, wellness, and care management. Parekh is a board-certified internal medicine physician, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, an adjunct assistant professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and an adjunct professor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. He has spoken widely and written extensively on a variety of health topics such as chronic care management, population health, value in health care, and the need for health and human services integration. A native of Michigan, Parekh received a B.A. in political science, an M.D., and an M.P.H. in health management and policy from the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:31:39 -0500 2020-02-24T11:15:00-05:00 2020-02-24T12:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Lecture / Discussion Anand Parekh, M.D., M.P.H.
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (February 24, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72212 72212-17957420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Hyesue Jang, U-M graduate student in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, will give a talk titled "Losing money and memory: The effect of loss incentives on working memory in young and older adults."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:05:39 -0500 2020-02-24T14:30:00-05:00 2020-02-24T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Hyesue Jang
Gender Violence, Immigrant Vulnerability, and the State: A Symposium (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71768 71768-17879420@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Speakers:

Ruby Robinson
Managing Attorney, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center and Winter Faculty, U-M Law

Adriana Mancillas
Counseling and Advocacy Services Coordinator, SafeHouse

Debotri Dhar
Faculty, Women's Studies

While globalization is understood as a contemporary moment marked by an unprecedented volume of travel – goods, capital, labor, images, ideas, knowledge – what is perhaps unprecedented is not so much the travel itself, but that “world travelers” were historically white and male. With an increase in postcolonial migrations – whether forced, voluntary, or in between – of individuals and communities from the Global South to the Global North, has colonialism’s unidirectional plunder under the guise of a “civilizing mission” now given way to immigrants of color being framed as invaders, pollutants, and burdens on the state in order to maintain discursive hierarchies of race, social class, and nation? In this post/colonial era, what, then, is the relationship between immigrant vulnerability and gender violence?

In the United States, a plethora of individuals and institutions have advocated for the rights of vulnerable immigrants, resulting in Acts such as VAWA and related remedial measures for low income victims of gender-based violence (including domestic violence and sexual assault.) What are some of the strengths and challenges of these legal mechanisms? With many citizen female victims of violence already ending up as defendants in the criminal justice system, where does it leave vulnerable immigrant women, especially in cases where the perpetrators are not “their” men but members of an elite white citizenry? What about the immigrant men of color, who are already framed as violent in the nation’s political imagination? And transgender and queer immigrants - even more marginalized, seldom talked about? In other words, can the gender, race, social class, and immigration status of victims and perpetrators of gender-based violence have an impact on legal outcomes? As the nation debates its immigration policies, what services can local and national organizations for survivors of gender violence offer, in more practical terms, to immigrants and vulnerable others?

The 3 panelists of this small 2-hour symposium will address the above interdisciplinary themes in their presentations. The discussion will be followed by audience Q+&A and an Indian dinner. The event will be free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:13:32 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Symposium flyer
Honors Stowe Lectures (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70515 70515-17602798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he covers economics and culture. He is the founder and host of the technology podcast Crazy/Genius. A news analyst with NPR, Derek appears weekly on the national news show “Here and Now” and is also a contributor to CBS News. Derek is the recipient of several honors, including the 2016 award for Best Columns and Commentary from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. His first book, the national bestseller "Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction," has been translated into more than a dozen languages and was named the 2018 Book of the Year by the American Marketing Association. Derek lives in Washington, D.C. Read more about the author and speaker under Website Links.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:12:50 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) LSA Honors Program Lecture / Discussion Hit Makers Cover
Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650 (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69539 69539-17357976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

-Peggy McCracken, Director, Institute for the Humanities; Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities; Professor of French, Women's Studies and Comparative Literature
-Valerie Traub, Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies
-Basil Duffalo, Professor of Classical Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Department of Comparative Literature
-Yopie Prins, Chair, Department of Comparative Literature; Irene Butter Collegiate Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Panel discussion of “Ovidian Transversions: ‘Iphis and Ianthe’, 1300-1650,” Edited by Valerie Traub, Patricia Badir, Peggy McCracken

Medieval and early modern authors engaged with Ovid’s tale of ‘Iphis and Ianthe’ in a number of surprising ways. From Christian translations to secular retellings on the seventeenth-century stage, Ovid’s story of a girl’s miraculous transformation into a boy sparked a diversity of responses in English and French from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. In addition to analysing various translations and commentaries, the volume clusters essays around treatments of John Lyly’s Galatea (c. 1585) and Issac de Benserade’s Iphis et Iante (1637). As a whole, the volume addresses gender and transgender, sexuality and gallantry, anatomy and alchemy, fable and history, youth and pedagogy, language and climate change.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

There will be an instant-win raffle at the beginning of the event for 5 free copies of the book! Must be present to win!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:55:13 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Ovidian Transversions
Panel: One Hundred Years of Women Voting: The Nineteenth Amendment's Legacy and Current Implications (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68966 68966-17203248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Corrine McConnaughy, "Hidden Politics: Women’s Organizing and the Shape of American Democracy"

Professor McConnaughy is Associate Professor of Political Science at George Washington University. Her research interests are in identity politics, focusing primarily on the roles race and gender play in American politics, and in the development of political institutions.

Angela X. Ocampo, “Political Pioneers: Women of Color as Candidates and Elected Officials”

Angela X. Ocampo is a LSA Collegiate Fellow at the University of Michigan. Ocampo’s research examines the political incorporation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities both as every-day participants and as political leaders within American institutions.

Mara Ostfeld, "Why Women Oppose Policies that Support Women"

Mara Cecilia Ostfeld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research broadly focuses on the relationship between race, media and political attitudes.

Christina Wolbrecht, "Popular views of women voters over the past 100 years, and what the evidence actually tells us about them"

Christina Wolbrecht is professor of political science, director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, and C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program. Her forthcoming co-authored book, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage (Cambridge 2020), examines how women voted across the first 100 years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

Jenna Bednar, Moderator

Jenna Bednar is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. Her research is on the analysis of institutions, focusing on the theoretical underpinnings of the stability of federal states. Her most recent book,The Robust Federation demonstrates how complementary institutions maintain and adjust the distribution of authority between national and state governments.

This event is part of the U-M Department of Political Science Rubin Speaker Series and U-M Suffrage 2020 event series.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:07:44 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion nineteen
Public-Facing Scholarship on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Multimedia and Digital Approaches (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72125 72125-18009360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

This lecture and Q&A session will offer an overview LSA Alum Rachel Willis' public-facing humanities project, a multi-media DAAS Gallery exhibit entitled *Il faut se souvenir*, we must not forget: memorializing slavery in Detroit and Martinique. Combining archival research with digital technology, this project allows us to generate new ways of thinking about story-telling and visualizing historical movement to reach audiences outside of the academy.

This presentation is part of the RLL DEI Committee Beyond the Academy Initiative, in conjunction with the Rackham Faculty Diversity Allies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:52:53 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Modern Languages Building
STS Speaker. Catastrophic Thinking in Science and Culture: Geo-Eschatology and the Anthropocene (February 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70128 70128-17538846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The specter of extinction looms large in the late-modern Western psyche. As a cultural "imaginary," extinction is perhaps the distinctive post-WWII anxiety. Since the 1950s, visions of nuclear annihilation, mass famine, environmental collapse, biodiversity loss, and other self-inflicted catastrophes have haunted literature, art, film, popular media, and political discourse as central preoccupations. Indeed, one of the main imagined consequences of the ongoing climate crisis is the production of a "Sixth Extinction"--a collapse of biological diversity that may rival the great mass extinctions of the geological past and threaten the future of human civilization.

Not coincidentally, the second half of the 20th century also saw a dramatic revival among geologists and paleontologists of theories involving catastrophic mass extinctions as central agents in the history of life. This talk will explore the interpenetration of these scientific and cultural discourses during the 20th century. In particular, I will argue that our current cultural fascination with the so-called Anthropocene is a direct consequence of the fusion of the geological and the eschatological meanings of extinction: extinction thinking may in fact be the bridge between the deep past and imagined future of our species and our planet.

David Sepkoski is the Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science and Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published widely on histories of biology, the earth and environmental sciences, and data. His most recent book is Catastrophic Thinking: Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 07 Jan 2020 08:31:13 -0500 2020-02-24T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. David Sepkoski
Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: Great Lakes Histories - Indigenous Cultures through Common Futures (February 24, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70289 70289-17564363@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 24, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 20 Dec 2019 11:48:15 -0500 2020-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-24T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan Union Great Lakes Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion GLTS
[MISC Talk] David Nemer (February 25, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73147 73147-18147049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. David Nemer will discuss how WhatsApp became a potent tool for the spread of misinformation during the 2018 Brazilian general election.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Feb 2020 11:22:46 -0500 2020-02-25T11:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion David Nemer
LHS Collaboratory (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72208 72208-18035597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 1027 E. Huron Building
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

"Value Proposition of Learning Health Systems"
Erik Gordon, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 – 12 pm–1:30 pm
Great Lakes Room, Palmer Commons (Lunch is included)

Professor Gordon's areas of interest are entrepreneurship and technology commercialization, venture capital, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the biomedical industry (pharmaceuticals, devices, healthcare big data, and biotechnology), IoT, FinTech, and digital and mobile marketing. He also served on the faculty of University of Michigan Law School. He has served on the faculty and as Associate Dean and Director of the Graduate Division of Business & Management (Carey Business School) at Johns Hopkins University, where he taught in the business and medical schools and at the University of Florida, where he also served as director of the Center for Technology & Science Commercialization Studies and as Director of MBA Programs. He has served as an adviser or co-founder to numerous companies. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and other outlets, is a regular contributor to Marketplace Morning Report (in NPR's Morning Edition), Bloomberg Radio, and appears on PBS's Nightly Business Report. His degrees are in economics and law.
Please register in advance, dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory.
Email: LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:07:52 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 1027 E. Huron Building Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE) (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70227 70227-17550032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk is a preliminary investigation into a large set of sources pertaining to the some of the first encounters between Indian Buddhist and native Chinese thought: the Chinese translations of Indian Buddhist literature dating from the Han and Three-Kingdoms period. Often written using a technical vocabulary that was later largely abandoned (and is hence sometimes quite difficult to understand), these texts have rarely been studied systematically by modern scholars interested in Chinese religious or intellectual history. Professor Greene presents some preliminary findings from this corpus concerning the way that the earliest Chinese Buddhist translators tried to render the sophisticated Indian Buddhist vocabulary of sense perception and its relationship to desire. Both the ways that they succeeded and the ways they failed may allow us to see the presuppositions concerning these topics on both sides in this dialog in a new light.

Eric Greene is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Yale, where he has taught since 2016. He received his BA (Mathematics), MA (Asian Studies), and PhD (in Buddhist Studies) from UC Berkeley, and specializes in the history of medieval Chinese Buddhism. His research focuses on topics including Buddhist meditation in China, Chinese Buddhist rituals of confession and atonement, the history of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, Buddhist image worship in China, and the history of translation within Chinese Buddhism.

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, 13 Feb 2020 09:01:25 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Eric Greene, The Language of Emotion: Chinese Translations of the Buddhist Terminology of Sense Perception and Desire in the Han and Three Kingdoms Period (ca. 150-280 CE)
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (February 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67996 67996-16977590@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

Roya Talibova is a dual degree PhD student in Political Science and Statistics at the University of Michigan. She is interested in political violence and the dynamics of armed conflict. Her research focuses on state repressions, civil wars, insurgencies and terrorism.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 22 Jan 2020 13:12:30 -0500 2020-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Roya Talibova
FellowSpeak: "Community Carillon/Corporate Carillon" (February 25, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69994 69994-17491338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Throughout the twentieth century, carillons such as the bells in Burton Memorial Tower were erected by institutions on the promise of uniting harmonious communities and elevating the Everyman’s taste with Western classical music. Thanks to the invisibility of carillonists and of their agency, carillon concerts remain an uncontested musical practice on the social, cultural, architectural, and sonic landscape, while their power to construct exclusionary sonic communities functions in plain view and hearing. This work challenges the racialized and gendered boundaries that have constructed the carillon as a spatio-sonic tool for social harmony. Carillons served governments and corporations in Cold War-era technology development, cultural diplomacy, and corporate expansion, and if we listen carefully, we can hear their colonial entanglements.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:09:44 -0500 2020-02-25T12:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Construction of the Philips Carillon for Philips Electronics in Eindhoven, the Netherlands (1966)
Rachel Rosen DEI Workshop (February 25, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72646 72646-18059645@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Office of Enrollment Management

Rachel Rosen joins us to explore our progress. Rosen will help us learn to act with intentionality, discover how unconscious biases and blind spots can impact performance and results, and create and sustain conditions that lend to an inclusive organization culture.

Rachel Rosen supports communities to come together across differences and will introduce the S.P.A.R.K. interactive card game, the game where everyone belongs. Staff are encouraged to participate in this special two-hour workshop.

Register here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MFOwShk2Bi5QCIEW14T05WjEf88mUufTt7I2fO26fw4/edit#gid=0

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:02:57 -0500 2020-02-25T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 Student Activities Building Office of Enrollment Management Lecture / Discussion Student Activities Building
Webinar: Resilience Dialogues: Strategies for Conflict Management in Collaborative Science (February 25, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72777 72777-18072777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Resilience dialogues are conversations that occur among people with diverse perspectives who have agreed to work together to increase community and ecological resilience. Planning and facilitating resilience dialogues requires skills in collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and conflict management.

The Resilience Dialogues project looked across a decade of collaborative science projects to distill key lessons learned and best practices used to build resilience. This webinar shares successful collaborative techniques that worked to engage the diverse expertise of stakeholders, develop a shared language around commonly held values, and craft solutions-based science that respected local knowledge and the concerns of vulnerable communities. Results of the project have been used to develop training and resources for facilitators of collaborative processes and to guide the transfer of collaborative science projects to new audiences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 18:59:50 -0500 2020-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
“Embryonically Informed Tendon Regeneration Strategies” (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71239 71239-17794030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

Dr. Kuo is an Associate Professor,of Biomedical Engineering, and Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester.

Trainee Host: Kevin McGowan, Ph.D. Candidate-Samuelson Lab

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 10 Jan 2020 12:17:45 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Kuo Flyer
Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72567 72567-18018160@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event is part of the *O Menelick 2Ato*: Art, Culture and Society From the Perspective of Contemporary Brazilian Black Press series.

Luciane Ramos Silva and Nabor Jr, editors of the Afro-Brazilian magazine O Menelick 2Ato, will discuss historical and current relations between Brazilian and American black presses. By discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, Luciane and Nabor will propose the black arts as a fundamental channel of critical engagement in contexts of social and political cleavage.

Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.

Co-sponsors: Romance Languages and Literatures Department, UM Hatcher Graduate Library, UM Library Mini Grant, Women’s Studies, Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), Language Resource Center (LRC), Department of History, African Studies Center, Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies – Brazil Initiative, Department of Communication and Media, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 15:18:37 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Black Art, Politics and Visibility: “Printed” Challenges for the Black Community in Brazil and the US in Times of Totalitarianism
DAAS Africa Workshop (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73072 73072-18138330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Ethiopia in Theory, Theory as Memoir, Elleni Centime Zeleke

In the Invention of Africa, Valentine Mudimbe argues that when the social scientist asks about the local in Africa she inevitably ends up situating Africa as a sign of something other than itself. For Mudimbe, the social sciences are a paradigmatic cultural model that leaves the African social scientist with limited choices. Alternatively, Mudimbe advises that if we document the invention of this cultural model we can demonstrate the limits of social studies in Africa as a mode of knowledge production.
In my talk, I try to show how the commitment to science limited the capacity of the Ethiopian student movement of the 1960s and 1970s to describe what Mudimbe calls the ‘chose du texte’ of living and breathing Africans. By highlighting a link between the writings of the Ethiopian student movement and the social conditions of knowledge production I then try to connect the history of the west in Africa to the limitations in the writings of the student movement. This has provided me with a path towards a ‘recit pour soi’ – an account of myself as a path towards personal survival.
Centime Zeleke received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought at York University (Toronto) in 2016. Her research interests include student movements in the Horn of Africa, 20th-century state formation in Africa, as well as comparative social and political theory.

Elleni’s forthcoming book is titled Ethiopia In Theory: Revolution and Knowledge Production,1964-2016. The hardcover will be published by the Historical-Materialism Book Series at Brill in the fall of 2019. A paperback version will also be published by Haymarket Books in 2020. Ethiopia In Theory asks: what does it mean to write today about the appropriation and indigenisation of Marxist and mainstream social science ideas in an Ethiopian and African context; and, importantly, what does the archive of revolutionary thought in Africa teach us about the practice of critical theory more generally?

Elleni’s work has also appeared in the Journal of NorthEast African Studies and Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.

Elleni teaches courses on the Horn of Africa, African Political Thought, Critical Theory, and Histories of Capitalism.

Zeleke teaches courses on African Political Thought, Critical Theory, and Histories of Capitalism.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:58:28 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Professor Fred C. Adams, the Ta-You Wu Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture (February 25, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70341 70341-17584116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

The fundamental constants of nature must fall within a
range of values in order for the universe to develop structure and
ultimately support life. This talk considers current constraints on
these quantities and assesses the degree of tuning required for the
universe to be viable. In the realm of particle physics, the relevant
parameters are the strengths of the fundamental forces and the
particle masses. Additional astrophysical parameters include the
cosmic energy density, the cosmological constant, the abundances of
ordinary matter and dark matter, and the amplitude of primordial
density fluctuations. These quantities are constrained by the
necessity that the universe lives for a long time, emerges from its
early epochs with an acceptable chemical composition, and successfully
produces galaxies. On smaller scales, stars and planets must be able
to form and function. The stars must have sufficiently long lifetimes
and hot surface temperatures. We also consider potential fine-tuning
related to the triple alpha reaction that produces carbon, the case of
unstable deuterium, and the possibility of stable diprotons. For all
of these issues, the goal is to delineate the range of parameter space
for which universes can remain habitable. In spite of its biophilic
properties, our universe is not optimized for the emergence of life,
in that the proper variations could result in more galaxies, stars,
and potentially habitable planets.

Further Information: This collegiate professorship was named in honor
of Ta-You Wu, a graduate of the Michigan Physics Department and
recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University. He was
one of the central figures of the 20th century in both the Chinese and
Taiwanese physics communities. Adams received his PhD at U. C.
Berkeley, where his advisor was Professor Frank H. Shu, who in turn
has close ties to Ta-You Wu and his family. Naming this Collegiate
Professorship after Ta-You Wu honors Prof. Wu, the Michigan Physics
Department, and Adams' PhD mentor (Shu).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:41:33 -0500 2020-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 Palmer Commons The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Events Calendar
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Dictator's Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987 (February 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70681 70681-17617502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Dictator’s Modernity Dilemma: Development and Democracy in South Korea, 1961-1987 aims to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory views regarding Korea’s path to modernity and democracy. At first blush, South Korea illustrates the basic premise of modernization theory: economic development leads to democracy. However, under Park Chung Hee (1961-1979) and Chun Doo Hwan (1980-1988), Korea’s political system became increasingly authoritarian alongside the growth of the national economy. These South Korean autocrats sought legitimacy of their coup-born regimes by holding legislative elections and investing in economic development. I argue and demonstrate that the structural foundations of modernization (industrial complexes and higher education in particular) had an initial stabilizing effect on authoritarian rule by increasing regime support, but also contributed to the development of mobilizing structures for anti-regime protests in the 1970s and 1980s by various social movement groups, most importantly workers and students. By highlighting the differential impacts of modernization structures over time, my research shows how socioeconomic development acted as a “double-edged sword” by stabilizing the regimes at first, but destabilizing the dictatorship over time.

Dr. Joan Cho is an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and an Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Government at Wesleyan University. Cho specializes in authoritarianism, democratization, social movements, and authoritarian legacies in Korea and East Asia. Her research on authoritarian regime support, South Korean democracy movement, and electoral accountability in post-transition South Korea are published in Electoral Studies, Journal of East Asian Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, and Routledge Handbook of Korean Culture and Society. Her additional writings

Dr. Cho received her PhD and AM degrees in Political Science from the Department of Government at Harvard University and a BA (cum laude with honors) in Political Science from the University of Rochester. She is an Associate-in-research of the Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University, Executive Secretary of the Association of Korean Political Studies, and a 2018-2019 US-Korea NextGen Scholar. Cho previously held visiting fellow positions at the Asiatic Research Institute at Korea University, Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, and the Center for International Studies at Seoul National University.

This lecture is cosponsored by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:30:39 -0500 2020-02-25T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Joan Cho, Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies and Government, Wesleyan University
From the Great Lakes to the Global Water Crisis: Writers on Water (February 25, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68812 68812-17155480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join us for an evening of poetry and prose dedicated to water in Michigan and beyond.

A part of the semester-long campus-wide conversation about the Great Lakes, the evening will include readings from Great Lakes area writers and Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR) contributors Donovan Hohn, Anna Clark, Keith Taylor, and Margaret Noodin. The event will celebrate MQR's Summer 2011 issue "The Great Lakes: Love Song and Lament," guest edited by poet and retired University of Michigan writing professor Keith Taylor (featuring writing from Margaret Noodin), and introduce the Spring 2020 issue "Not One Without: A Special Issue on Water," guest edited by environmental journalist and author Anna Clark (U-M, 2003).

As we take a semester to consider the global implications, challenges, and transformative opportunities of the Great Lakes, we are making space for the literature of the lakes which helps shape their future.

This event is hosted in conjunction with the Winter 2020 Great Lakes Theme Semester: Lake Effects, the Michigan Quarterly Review, flagship literary journal of the University of Michigan, and the Hopwood Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 13:43:09 -0500 2020-02-25T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T19:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Lake Effects
"The Hidden Plight of Modern Growers" (February 25, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72674 72674-18044328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:29:51 -0500 2020-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
Food Literacy for All (February 25, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-02-25T18:30:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
#twitterstorians (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73006 73006-18123112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan History Club

Historians around the world are utilizing the tag #twitterstorians, pushing academic conversations into the public sphere and triggering questions about history in the digital age. During this event, we will explore the connections that historians have with Twitter and the site’s role in historical research and public engagement with history. We are excited to have Dr. Melanie Tanielian, Dr. Juan Cole, Dr. Paula Curtis, and Ms. Molly Brookfield to share their perspectives with our audience.

There will be light refreshments provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 15:47:36 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall University of Michigan History Club Lecture / Discussion Twitterstorians
Bioethics Discussion: Overpopulation (February 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52727 52727-12974161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on one to(o) many.

Readings to consider:
1. Having Children: Reproductive Ethics in the Face of Overpopulation
2. The Ethics of Controlling Population Growth in the Developing World
3. Overpopulation and the Threat of Ecological Disaster: The Need for Global Bioethics
4. Threats and burdens: Challenging scarcity-driven narratives of “overpopulation”

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/041-overpopulation/.

If it's not too crowded, consider the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:56:30 -0500 2020-02-25T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-25T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Overpopulation
CREES Noon Lecture. The Environmental Impacts of Mass Housing in Post-Socialist Europe (February 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70637 70637-17611220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

The goal of this lecture is to explore mass housing in the cities of post-socialist Europe and its impacts on the environment. The lecture focuses on the scale of post-socialist mass housing, its inhabitants as users of the living environment, and the challenges of urban renewal, which are increasing the environmental impacts on cities. The presentation will analyze these environmental changes, which began in the cities of post-socialist Europe after 1989 and the post-Soviet urban environment after 1991. The challenges of inhabitants’ participation and urban renewal strategies have slowed urban development. Professor Chabanyuk argues that during the last three decades of post-socialist transition, the living environment of prefabricated mass housing has faced redevelopment challenges due to socio-political and economic change. This question requires efficient and sustainable responses in order to consider the environmental impacts in future urban change.

Oksana Chabanyuk is an associate professor of architecture at Kharkiv National University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine. For the 2019-20 academic year she is a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. Her research at CREES and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia focuses on the contribution of American specialists to the development of industry and cities in 1920-30s Eastern Ukraine. Dr. Chabanyuk’s academic interests include standardization and early industrialization in the USSR, influence of foreign specialists, prefabrication in industry and housing, post-socialist housing, social housing, and regeneration of residential areas. She is an architect and received her bachelor’s degree in architecture, MA in urban planning (2000), and PhD at the National University Lviv Polytechnic, Ukraine (2004). Her dissertation was entitled “Regeneration of the Residential Environment of High-rise Housing Areas of the 1970-80s (Lviv Case Study).” She has participated in various international competitions, programs, and workshops including: exchange study at Coventry University, UK (1996); Visiting Teachers Program at the AA School of Architecture, London (2010); visiting researcher at the University of Lisbon, Portugal (2014-15); visiting staff at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland (2015); and Lublin University of Technology, Poland (2016-18). Professor Chabanyuk has also participated at international conferences, roundtables and seminars in Germany, Portugal, Austria, Poland, UK, USA, and Ukraine.

This lecture is part of the WCEE environment series.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to 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 Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:46:48 -0500 2020-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Oksana Chabanyuk
HET Brown Bag | Binary Black Holes and Scattering Amplitudes (February 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72746 72746-18070550@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

We develop a systematic framework for describing binary dynamics using modern tools from quantum field theory. Our approach combines onshell methods such as generalized unitarity and the double-copy construction with effective field theory methods for integration and matching. As a first application, we derive a new result in general relativity: the third post-Minkowskian correction to the conservative two-body Hamiltonian for spinless black holes. Prospects and challenges for applying quantum field theory for the gravitational wave physics program are discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:35:40 -0500 2020-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Rethinking Foundational STEM Courses: Pulling Weeds or Growing Deep Roots? (February 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72540 72540-18015964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

For students dreaming of careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields, at public research universities like the U-M, introductory courses in these subjects are the first steps on a path to a STEM degree.

The class sizes are huge. They also can be challenging, causing many students to stumble on these first steps.

As a result, students often shift course, abandoning their dreams of working in a STEM discipline, researchers say.

University of Michigan Engineering is excited to welcome Dr. Timothy McKay to our DEI lecture series for the month of February. His lecture will be focused on the Sloan Equity and Inclusion in STEM Introductory Courses (SEISMIC) project – a multi-university initiative to tackle equity and inclusion in STEM.

He will discuss ways that institutions can collaborate to ensure courses are diverse, equitable and inclusive for students.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:26:29 -0500 2020-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T13:00:00-05:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Timothy A. McKay. Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Physics, Astronomy, Education, and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education. U-M LSA
SUSTAINABLE FUNDING (February 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72474 72474-18009382@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Educational Outreach

We are excited to invite you to our next CEO Faculty Forum on Outreach and Engagement - Sustainable Funding: Engaging Directly with Foundations on February 26th from 3-5pm. We will focus on the intersection of education, youth, and key insights from leaders of Foundations working both in Detroit and the K-12 outreach field. Our wonderful guest speakers will share their perspectives, and wisdom when adopting effective engagement practices and strategies as it relates to sustainable funding.

We will have a panel moderated by Dr. Rosario Ceballo, Associate Dean for Social Sciences from the College of LSA with leaders from four foundations. Join us to learn from Punita Thurnman, the Vice President of Program & Strategy at the Skillman Foundation; Lynette Dowler, the President of the DTE Energy Foundation; Wendy Jackson, the Managing Director of the Detroit Program - Kresge Foundation and Mike Schmidt, Director of Education and Global Development from the Ford Fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 15:29:08 -0500 2020-02-26T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T17:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Center for Educational Outreach Lecture / Discussion Flyer for FF Feb 2020
New frontiers: Labor, immigration, and foreign policy (February 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72000 72000-17914109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be livestreamed. Check back here just before the event for viewing details.

Please join us for a talk with Denis McDonough, former White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama in conversation with Associate Professor John Ciorciari, director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center and International Policy Center. McDonough will speak about transforming labor markets and the new economy, as well as leading interagency coordination and crisis responses in the White House.

About the speaker:
Denis McDonough served as White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama from February 2013 until January 20, 2017. He managed the White House staff, as well as Cabinet Secretaries and agency leaders. He also advised the President on domestic policy and national security challenges facing the country, management issues facing the federal government, and devised and enforced plans and accountability for performance and goals, maintaining the Obama Administration’s reputation for effective, ethical operation. In the first term of the Obama Administration, he served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. Throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign, McDonough served as Senior Foreign Policy Advisor for Obama for America. Prior to his eight-year tenure in the White House, McDonough served in senior leadership and policy-making positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
McDonough is currently an Executive Fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, teaching a global policy seminar for graduate and undergraduate students. He also serves as Senior Advisor for Technology and Global Policy for Macro Advisory Partners, as well as Senior Advisor at the Markle Foundation.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:36:58 -0500 2020-02-26T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Denis McDonough
Mohler Prize Lecture (February 26, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70223 70223-17549993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

James Webb Space Telescope: What Happens after the Hubble Space Telescope?

The Hubble Space Telescope has delivered beautiful images and great results for far more years than originally planned. NASA is working on a successor, JWST, which will be launched in 2021. Many technical challenges have had to be overcome to make this telescope a reality. Many of these challenges stem from the large size of JWST and its unique architecture. The science that it promises to deliver ranges from characterizing the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars to finding the most distant galaxies.

Lecture: Michigan League - Michigan Room (2nd Floor)
Reception Following: Michigan League - Kalamazoo Room (2nd Floor)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Dec 2019 14:40:29 -0500 2020-02-26T19:00:00-05:00 2020-02-26T20:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Marcia Rieke
The Art and Science of Creating a New Museum (February 27, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72709 72709-18061838@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Lynne Friman, is a Museum Gypsy who creates museums, exhibits and contributes to the statewide cultural community. At U-M’s new Museum of Natural History she plays the role of the plate spinner from the Ed Sullivan Show, while creating compelling experiences and staying on time and under budget. As a lifelong learner, Lynne is adept at combining her passion for the arts with the math and science that vexed her in high school. Join us to learn more about Lynne’s journey at UMMNH.

Ms. Friman, Capital Project Manager, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History & LSA Facilities, has more than 30 years’ experience working for arts and cultural organizations, Lynne Friman’s focus has been on management, strategic planning, museum development and exhibition design for museums and community arts organizations, including the DIA, UMMA and The Henry Ford. She is the former President of the National Association for Museum Exhibition, was Acting Director of Metro Detroit’s CultureSource, Board Chair of Ann Arbor’s Arts Alliance and current President of Salt Valley Arts in Saline.

Lynne Friman, Capital Project Manager, University of Michigan Museum of Natural History & LSA Facilities, has more than 30 years’ experience working for arts and cultural organizations, Lynne Friman’s focus has been on management, strategic planning, museum development and exhibition design for museums and community arts organizations, including the DIA, UMMA and The Henry Ford.
She is the former President of the National Association for Museum Exhibition, was Acting Director of Metro Detroit’s CultureSource, Board Chair of Ann Arbor’s Arts Alliance and current President of Salt Valley Arts in Saline.

This is the second of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be March 12, 2020. The title is: Beyond the Studio: Exploring How Artists Work With Communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:22:43 -0500 2020-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Lecture: The Hundred Years Against Palestine (February 27, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72626 72626-18033404@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 11:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Professor Khalidi will discuss his latest work on the last century of US policy on Palestine and attempts to finalize that history by the proposed “deal of the century.”

Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1970, and his D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1974. His latest book is The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 (2002).

Professor Khalidi's other works include: Brokers of Deceit: How the US has Undermined Peace in the Middle East (2013); Sowing Crisis: American Dominance and the Cold War in the Middle East (2009); The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (2006); Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (2004); Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (1997); Under Siege: PLO Decision-making during the 1982 War (1986); and British Policy towards Syria and Palestine, 1906-1914 (1980). He is the co-editor of Palestine and the Gulf (1982) and The Origins of Arab Nationalism (1991) and has written over 110 scholarly articles.

Professor Khalidi has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, Vanguardia, The London Review of Books, and The Nation. He has been interviewed in Le Monde, Haaretz, Milliyet, al-Quds, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He has been a guest on radio and TV shows including All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, The News Hour, The Charlie Rose Show, GPS with Fareed Zakaria, Amanpour on CNN International, and Nightline, and on the BBC, Radio France Inter and France Culture, the CBC, al-Jazeera, al-‘Arabiyya, Russia Today, and the Voice of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 Feb 2020 10:35:37 -0500 2020-02-27T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Rashid Khalidi
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (February 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69649 69649-17376501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is metaphorically analogous to aspects of theater. The text subverts the reliability of visual cues for identification, dissociating the reincarnating being from its physical shell in a way that resembles the relationship between an actor and a role. Hamamatsu also de-emphasizes one’s agency in the karmic cycle, instead portraying it as an inevitable unfolding of narrative along predetermined paths, much like a script for a play. Through the presentation of reincarnation in these theatrical terms, the text produces a dimensional, layered subjecthood.

Terry Kawashima is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She specializes in literature and culture of the Heian and medieval periods in Japan (800-1500), with a particular interest in how texts envision and contribute to the construction of authority, legitimacy, and power in social, political, religious, and gendered arenas. She is the author of two books: Writing Margins: The Textual Construction of Gender in Heian and Kamakura Japan, about gendered discourses of marginalization in poetry and prose, and Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan, about narrative strategies of movement, such as representations of exile and divine travel. She is currently working on a project on tropes of rebirth in premodern and modern Japan.

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, 21 Nov 2019 09:10:27 -0500 2020-02-27T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Astronomy Colloquium Series Presents (February 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70221 70221-17549990@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

“The Next Step in Deep Extragalactic Surveys”

The original rationale for the James Webb Space Telescope was detecting the first light in the Universe, meaning the first stars and galaxies. This goal has remained as one of the key drivers for the hardware development albeit with the footnote that only the first galaxies, not literally the first individual stars, can be detected. Two of the instruments teams, the NIRCam and NIRSpec Teams, have joined forces to produce a legacy survey with both multi-wavelength imaging and multi-object spectroscopy
using JWST. Expected results as illustrated by a mock catalog and a data challenge will be presented.


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

Tea will be served beforehand from 3:00-3:30pm in Serpens.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:05:14 -0500 2020-02-27T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion Dr. Marcia J. Rieke
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Michael Craig of U-M SEAS (February 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72980 72980-18120898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Prof. Michael Craig of U-M SEAS will give a lecture as part of the CLASP Seminar Series. Please join us!

Title: Decarbonizing Electric Power Systems under Economic, Regulatory, and System Constraints

Abstract: Aggressively limiting global temperature increases will require massive greenhouse gas emission reductions from the electric power system. Many low-carbon electric generation technologies exist that we can use, but the value of these technologies depends on economics, policies, local environments, and the larger systems in which they are embedded. In this seminar, I will explore how these factors can affect the value of three technologies: carbon capture and sequestration (CCS), run-of-river hydropower, and grid-scale electricity storage. CCS includes three distinct processes - capturing, transporting, and sequestering CO2 - that are highly constrained by spatially-variable laws and regulations, which I will discuss. I will then present work on optimizing the operations of a series of run-of-river hydropower facilities in California to maximize their revenues while limiting downstream flow impacts, enabling profitable deployment while mitigating local environmental impacts. Finally, while grid-scale electricity storage is seen as a key enabling technology for high-renewable futures, studies indicate it can increase CO2 emissions in the near-term. To conclude the seminar, I will quantify near- and long-term CO2 emission (dis)benefits of grid-scale storage under varying power system conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 17 Feb 2020 12:01:16 -0500 2020-02-27T15:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "A Game and Control Framework for Modeling and Mitigating Advanced Persistent Threats on Cyber-Physical Systems" (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73044 73044-18131837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. Shana Moothedath
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Washington

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are sophisticated attacks mounted by intelligent and resourceful adversaries who gain access to a targeted system and gather critical information over an extended period of time. APTs consist of multiple stages, including initial system compromise, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration, each of which involves strategic interaction between the APT and the targeted system. While this strategic interaction can be viewed as a game, the stealthiness, adaptiveness, and unpredictability of APTs imply that the information structure of the game and the strategies of the APT are not readily available. In this talk, we will present a game-theoretic approach to characterize the trade-off between effectiveness for detecting APTs and resource efficiency. Our approach to modeling APTs is based on the insight that the persistent nature of APTs introduces information flows in the system that can be monitored. One monitoring mechanism is Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which taints and tracks suspicious information flows through a system and performs security analysis on the tainted flows at designated locations. Since performing security analysis on all the flows will incur significant memory and performance overhead, efficient defense policies are needed to maximize the probability of detecting the APT while minimizing resource costs. In this work, we develop a multi-stage game framework for modeling the interaction between an APT and a DIFT, as well as designing an efficient DIFT-based defense. Our model is grounded on APT data gathered using the Refinable Attack Investigation (RAIN) flow-tracking framework. We will present the current state of our formulation, insights that it provides on designing effective defenses against APTs, and directions for future work.

About the Speaker...
Shana Moothedath is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. She received her B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Kerala University, India, in 2011 and 2014 respectively, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India, in 2018. She was awarded the Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis Award 2017-2019 at IIT Bombay and selected as an EECS Rising Star in 2019. Her research interests include network security analysis, structural analysis of large-scale control systems, and applications of systems theory to complex networks.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:35:46 -0500 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion System View of APT attacks
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Grassroots Perspectives on Business & Human Rights: Insights from "Tethered Fates" (February 27, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70600 70600-17609143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Global supply chains link consumers, brands, manufacturers, workers, and local community members as “stakeholders” with significantly different levels of risk and benefit. When harm occurs in the course of business activity, prevailing approaches to stakeholder consultation are typically driven by companies, without significant input from people at the grassroots level. This talk reveals where stakeholder consultation is taking place globally; how the process unfolds at the community level; and what types of innovation might be possible but are currently missed by “top-down” approaches to consultation. Hertel’s talk features analysis of quantitative data from over 7,000 companies worldwide; she finds extractive companies across all regions tend to consult more heavily than light manufacturing companies, and corporations determine the mode, scope and content of the practice regardless of sector or region. The talk also features original interview data from paired case studies in two manufacturing towns in the Dominican Republic where collegiate apparel is produced. Hertel reveals local peoples’ insights on the limits of existing approaches to stakeholder dialogue along with their ideas for how better to diagnose problems, predict future challenges, and forge solutions to ongoing violations of economic rights.

Co-sponsor: U-M President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights.

Shareen Hertel is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, jointly appointed with the university’s Human Rights Institute. Drawing on 20 years of policy work with United Nations agencies, foundations, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the United States, Latin America and South Asia, her scholarship focuses on economic rights, social movements, and global supply chains. Hertel is Editor of The Journal of Human Rights; co-editor of the Routledge International Studies Intensives book series; and serves on the editorial boards of Human Rights Review and Human Rights and Human Welfare. Her published work includes Tethered Fates: Companies, Communities and Rights at Stake (Oxford University Press 2019); Activists Beyond Borders: Conflict & Change Among Transnational Activists (Cornell University Press, 2006); Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement & Policy Issues (Cambridge University Press 2007 with Lanse Minkler); Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011 with Kathryn Libal); along with multiple articles and book chapters. Hertel holds a doctorate in Political Science (2003), Master’s degrees in Political Science (1999) and International Affairs (1992) all from Columbia University, as well as a BA in International Relations (1988) from The College of Wooster.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 16:08:27 -0500 2020-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Shareen Hertel, associate professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
95th Henry Russel Lecture & Reception (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73173 73173-18149244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Office of University Development

This annual event celebrates recipients of the Henry Russel Award, among the highest honor U-M bestows on faculty.

U-M physics professor Stephen Forrest delivers this year's lecture, entitled "Carbon vs Carbon Dioxide: Using Carbon-Based Organic Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet".

Additional honorees: Carrie R. Ferrario (Medical School), Xianzhe Jia (Engineering), Corinna S. Schindler (Literature, Science, and the Arts), Megan E. Tompkins-Stange (Public Policy).

Rackham Amphitheatre, 4th floor. Reception immediately following. Free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Office of University and Development Events at 734-647-7900.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Feb 2020 16:07:13 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T18:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Office of University Development Lecture / Discussion 2020 Henry Russel Lecturer Stephen R. Forrest
Henry Russel Lecture 2020 | Carbon vs. Carbon Diaoxide: Using Carbon-Based (Organic) Electronics for a More Sustainable Planet (February 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73069 73069-18138327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Professor Forrest is also the
Paul G. Goebel Professor of Engineering
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Professor of Professor of Material Science and Engineering.

Please see more information here: https://record.umich.edu/articles/russel-lecture-fighting-climate-change-with-organic-electronics/

Reception immediately following the lecture.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 09:59:15 -0500 2020-02-27T16:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Image of Stephen Forrest
What Are We Talking About When We Talk About Early Medieval Cities? (February 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72230 72230-17963868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Abstract: More than 30 years ago, a debate that took place in the journal Archeologia Medievale marked a turning print in the study of post-Roman urbanism. The subject was: can we consider Europe's late antique and early medieval cities as "proper" cities? After some decades, and many archaeological investigations, our perception of this subject has become much different from that pioneering starting point. Are "discontinuity" or "continuity" (in respect to the past) still useful terms to label that segment of European urban history? The presentation will explore the most recent data and discuss new perspectives on urban landscapes during late antiquity and the early middle ages. 

Andrea Augenti has taught medieval archaeology at the University of Bologna since 2000. He has carried out investigations in many Italian sites and directed the excavation of the monastery of San Severo in Classe (Ravenna). Andrea Augenti is also editor of the journal Archeologia Medievale and member of the International Advisory Board of the journal Medieval Archaeology. He is a member of Scientific Committee of the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum (Rome) and of the RavennAntica Foundation. He is the author of several publications, including Archeologia dell'Italia medievale (2016) and A come Archeologia (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 07:55:25 -0500 2020-02-27T17:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (February 27, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-02-27T17:30:00-05:00 2020-02-27T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
Lake Sturgeon: Past, present, and future of an ancient fish (February 27, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71565 71565-17842669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Natural History
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

6:00 p.m. - Hors d’oeuvres reception and gallery visit to Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon temporary exhibition with live music performed by an ensemble from the U-M School of Music, Theater, and Dance. Museum of Natural History Lower Level
7:00 p.m. - Panel discussion, Room 1060 Biological Sciences Building

Sturgeon are ancient fishes, tracing their lineage back more than 100 million years. In the Great Lakes system, lake sturgeon are not only the largest indigenous freshwater fishes, they are also important players in complex aquatic food webs. Their remarkable past has given way to a tenuous future as overfishing, habitat loss, and pollution threaten their survival. Today, there is hope in efforts to restore lake sturgeon populations and spawning grounds, as well as in public awareness initiatives that share the cultural and ecological significance of this species. Thanks to the leadership of Michigan Native American Tribes and other organizations, lake sturgeon are beginning to make a comeback. Join a panel of experts as we explore the past, present, and future of this extraordinary endemic fish:

Matt Friedman, Director, U-M Museum of Paleontology and Associate Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Karen Alofs, Assistant Professor, U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
Doug Craven, Director, Natural Resources Department, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians

This program and the temporary exhibition, Survivor: The long journey of lake sturgeon, are offered as part of the LSA Great Lakes Theme Semester, https://lsa.umich.edu/greatlakes.

This event honors the memory of Dr. William R. Farrand, who served as director of the U-M Exhibit Museum of Natural History for seven years (July 1993-June 2000), and who enjoyed a long career as a professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Geological Sciences. Numerous friends, colleagues, and family members contributed to an endowment fund to ensure that this annual honorary lecture will be offered in perpetuity.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:49:40 -0500 2020-02-27T18:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Natural History Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Sturgeon
Control of electromagnetic fields for energy applications (February 28, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72340 72340-17974691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 11:00am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Electromagnetic fields represent a fundamental aspect of nature, and serve as the primary carrier of energy. New abilities to control electromagnetic fields, as enabled for example by the developments of metamaterials and nanophotonic structures, can therefore have profound implications for energy technology. In this talk we will discuss some of our recent efforts in applying the concepts of electromagnetics towards developing new energy technologies, with examples including radiative cooling, and robust dynamic wireless power transfer.

Bio

Shanhui Fan is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, a Professor of Applied Physics (by courtesy), a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and the Director of the Edward L. Ginzton Laboratory, at the Stanford University. He received his Ph. D in 1997 in theoretical condensed matter physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research interests are in fundamental studies of solid state and photonic structures and devices, especially photonic crystals, plasmonics, and meta-materials, and applications of these structures in energy and information technology applications. He has published over 500 refereed journal articles, has given over 350 plenary/keynote/invited talks, and was granted 62 US patents. Prof. Fan received a National Science Foundation Career Award (2002), a David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2003), the National Academy of Sciences W. O. Baker Award for Initiative in Research (2007), the Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America (2007), and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the U. S. Department of Defense (2017). He is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in Physics since 2015, a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the SPIE.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:47:26 -0500 2020-02-28T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Multifocality and State Fragility in Iron Age Central Italy (February 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73247 73247-18181861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Western central Italian states have had a peculiar role in our intellectual history, starting with the most famous of them, the “eternal” city of Rome. With evident teleology, the narrative about the emergence of the earliest agglomerations in the early first millennium BCE has taken the form of an ascending curve. While there is no denying that this regional phenomenon has produced cities with 3000 years of uninterrupted occupation, recent archaeological and historical research have revealed how precarious the process was in its early stages. At various points in their trajectories, many of these centers were abandoned, moved or shrunk. Even more importantly, they all came together in a slow and hesitant way. It is now clear that they were the result of many distinct elite-led groups settling separately within the same defensible location. Such multifocality remained a long-term trait of these agglomerations, shaping their settlement patterns, their institutions and their sociopolitical life. Arguably, participating elites saw the city as a truce space to mitigate their conflicts and as a vehicle to further their long-range ambitions, but they never fully identified with it. This made all these polities inherently weak and impermanent, even when they lasted for centuries.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:23:48 -0500 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion NT
Psychology Methods Hour: Outliers Among Us: How to Identify and Deal with Extreme Data Points (February 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69619 69619-17368334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:59:40 -0500 2020-02-28T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Grant
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (February 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (February 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71175 71175-17785580@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Htet Thiha Zaw is a doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research interest lies in political economy of development. He is particularly interested in how the provision of public goods, particularly education, interacts with state building and political behavior in developing countries. Before coming to Michigan, he contributed to research projects on education policies in Syria, Iraq, Indonesia, and Myanmar (Burma).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:20:19 -0500 2020-02-28T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Htet Thiha Zaw
Cultural Diversity Broadens Social Networks (February 28, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70750 70750-17642221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

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Migration and mobility increase cultural diversity. Does this diversity have consequences for how a culture’s members interact, even in a new community? We hypothesized that people from regions with greater present-day and historical cultural diversity would forge more diversified social ties in a newly formed community, connecting otherwise unconnected groups. In other words, that they would become social brokers. We tested this prediction by characterizing the social networks of eight Master of Business Administration cohorts (N=2,250). Here we show that international students (N=776) from populations with diverse long-history migration were more likely to become social brokers than international students from less ancestrally diverse nations. American students’ (N = 1,464) brokerage scores were also positively related to their home counties’ indices of international connectivity (calculated from aggregate Facebook data). The results of this study suggest that more culturally diverse social environments — defined here at multiple geographic and temporal scales — endow people with socially adaptable behaviors that help them connect to new, heterogeneous communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:38:05 -0500 2020-02-28T13:30:00-05:00 2020-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
SoConDi Discussion Group (February 28, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72537 72537-18015947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 28, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 08:55:29 -0500 2020-02-28T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Science Forum Demo (February 29, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70939 70939-17758019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:18:04 -0500 2020-02-29T11:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T11:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Science Forum Demos
Scientist in the Forum (February 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69901 69901-17758041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:32:50 -0500 2020-02-29T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Scientists in the Forum, most weekends at 1:00 p.m.
Black Classicisms (February 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73093 73093-18140509@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Contexts for Classics

A panel presentation to mark Black History Month and the release of Classicisms in the Black Atlantic (Oxford University Press), by Ian Moyer of the University of Michigan, Heidi E. Morse of the Ann Arbor District Library, Michele Valerie Ronnick of Wayne State University, and Patrice D. Rankine of the University of Richmond.

The event is FREE and open to the public. Accessible parking is available outside of the Cass Ave. entrance. Free parking is available in our staff parking lot on Putnam St. Entrance to the Library is through either the Woodward Ave. or Cass Ave. doors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:31:13 -0500 2020-02-29T14:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Contexts for Classics Lecture / Discussion Black Classicisms
Science Forum Demo (February 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70941 70941-17758032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, February 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:50:16 -0500 2020-02-29T15:00:00-05:00 2020-02-29T15:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion UMMNH Science Forum
Stories Behind the Images (March 2, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71947 71947-17903305@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 2, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Office of the Vice President for Communications

Photographer, cinematographer Corey Rich will speak about his new book, “Stories Behind the Images, Lessons from a Life in Adventure Photography,” during a free lecture on March 2 at 7 p.m. in Robertson Auditorium. Corey will talk about his early days working out of his college dorm room to becoming a Nikon Ambassador and capturing iconic photos of adventure superstars for more than two decades. Corey will also take time to autograph copies of his book. The lecture is sponsored by Nikon and the Office of the Vice President for Communications.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:38:21 -0500 2020-03-02T19:00:00-05:00 2020-03-02T20:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Office of the Vice President for Communications Lecture / Discussion Corey Rich: Stories Behind the Images
“Engineered kidney models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells” (March 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73334 73334-18199520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

Dr. Musah is an Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Duke University.

The talk is entitled, “Engineered kidney models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells.”

Trainee Host: Eun-Kyeoung Choi, Ph.D.-The Seo Lab

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:19:07 -0500 2020-03-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Musah Flyer
ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: William D Lopez, PhD (March 4, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73220 73220-18179627@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 4, 2020 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Presents:

"Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid" by William D. Lopez.

In "Separated," Dr. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals.

Dr. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health. Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Lopez and his work from his time in RCGD a few years ago. Dr. Lopez is also Faculty Director of Public Scholarship at the National Center for Institutional Diversity.

Limited copies of the books are available NOW to be signed out at ISR Thomson HR Office #1078 and the Perry Receptionist desk.

It is a pleasure to host Dr. Lopez at ISR for a visit on March 4th to present on his book! This is a special opportunity to meet the author and have your book signed!

Special Author Visit & Talk
Wednesday, March 4th
ISR Thompson 1430
10:00am-11:30am

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

To purchase Dr. Lopez's book: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=%099781421433318

If you have any questions or require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:18:25 -0500 2020-03-04T10:00:00-05:00 2020-03-04T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion poster
How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions (March 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72083 72083-17937811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

We are pleased to welcome Dionna M. Kasper, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine to the Kahn Auditorium in BSRB on Thursday, March 5, 2020.

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:49:59 -0500 2020-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions