Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Fall Health Communicators Forum (October 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67814 67814-16952011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Center for Interprofessional Education

Speakers giving short presentations include:

Kelly B. Sexton, Ph.D., Associate Vice President for Research, Technology Transfer and Innovation

Chris Fick, Ph.D., Senior Director, Business Engagement Center

April Pepperdine, Conflict of Interest Manager, U-M Office of Research

June Anne Insco, Conflict of Interest Manager, U-M Medical
School

Rsvp at https://doodle.com/poll/87zzk4u9txbp2m8u

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 14:57:47 -0400 2019-10-17T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Center for Interprofessional Education Lecture / Discussion science translation and communication
CLASP Seminar Series: Bryan Hampton (October 17, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66316 66316-16727894@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Bryan Hampton, Senior Software Engineer at Toyota.

Mr. Hampton will give a presentation titled:
"From defense to automated driving, the fun career path of an MEng grad."

Abstract: Bryan received his Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, and stayed to get his Master of Engineering in Space Systems in 2000. His career started in Tucson, AZ working for Raytheon in the Operations Research department under the Systems Engineering directorate. After 10 years there he moved to Huntsville, AL, otherwise known as Rocket City USA, to work as a NASA contractor for a small engineering firm. After 17 years in Aero it was time for a change to robotics, so next up was Palo Alto, CA to work at the Toyota Research Institute on the automated driving team. Finally relocating with TRI back to Ann Arbor to continue the work. The presentation will cover highlights of projects worked on, various technologies, processes used to get projects done, how modeling and simulation play a large role in all modern engineering endeavors, and more.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:42:12 -0400 2019-10-17T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar: "Future Directions for the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics" (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63902 63902-15985744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Daniel Hastings
Department Head, MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Cecil and Ida Green Education Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

The MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been undertaking a strategic assessment of its directions. This is motivated by three forcing functions. First the creation of the College of Computing at MIT and the vision that computing broadly defined now infuses all of modern engineering. Second, the aerospace enterprise is thriving and has been undergoing a burst of entrepreneurial activity in the past few years. This is driving the democratization of air and space at scales and applications that universities can approach. Third, as the undergraduate population in the nation has become more diverse, aerospace writ large has dramatically lagged behind.

The talk will explore changes in directions to address these forcing functions and position the Department for the future.

About the speaker...
Prof. Daniel Hastings is the Department Head of the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Previously he was the CEO and Director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART).

Professor Hastings earned a PhD and an SM, from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1980 and 1978 respectively, and received a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University in England in 1976. He joined the MIT faculty in 1985. With almost 30 years of experience in academia, Professor Hastings was MIT’s Dean of Undergraduate Education from 2006 to 2013, head of the MIT Technology and Policy Program and director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division.

Professor Hastings was US Air Force Chief Scientist From 1997-1999 and chair of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board from 2002-2005. He currently serves on the Board of the Aerospace Corporation, the Board of the Draper Corporation and the Advisory Board of MIT Lincoln Lab. He has served on several US National Research Council committees including the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and the Government University Industry Interactions Roundtable.

Professor Hastings is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He served on the NASA Advisory Council, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, the Defense Science Board, the National Science Board and several ad-hoc committees on space technology as well as on Science and Technology management and processes. He has published over 120 papers, written a book on spacecraft environment interactions and won 5 best papers awards. His recent research is focused on Complex Space System Design. His previous work was on spacecraft environment interactions and space propulsion.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:38:10 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:15:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Hastings picture
Against Hungry Listening (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67620 67620-16907165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Native American Studies

What are the ways in which settler colonial and Indigenous ontologies structure perception, and listening in particular? This presentation provides an overview of forms of extractive or “hungry” perception, and alternatives to these that emerge from Indigenous sensory engagement. The range of such listening practices are necessarily multiple and dependent upon the specificities of Indigenous and settler epistemes at play, it is nonetheless possible to discern historical patterns of “civilizing” the attention of Indigenous people, and ongoing settler listening practices oriented toward the instrumentalization Indigenous knowledge. In contrast, forms of Indigenous listening resurgence refuse the anthropocentrism of listening, and instead proceed from intersubjective experience between listeners and song-life.

Dylan Robinson is a xwélméxw artist and writer (Stó:lō Nation, Sqwa), and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts at Queen’s University. His current work focuses on the re-connection of Indigenous songs with communities who were prohibited by law to sing them as part of Canada’s Indian Act from 1882-1951. Robinson’s previous publications include the edited volumes Music and Modernity Among Indigenous Peoples of North America (2018); Arts of Engagement: Taking Aesthetic Action in and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2016); and Opera Indigene (2011). His monograph, Hungry Listening, is forthcoming with Minnesota University Press in early 2020. Additionally, Robinson is curator of the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts in Kingston, and along with Candice Hopkins, is curator of the internationally touring exhibition Soundings featuring “scores for decolonial action” by Indigenous artists.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 11:49:53 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo
Ancient Philosophy: Gail Fine (Cornell University) (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63894 63894-15979780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

In Parmenides 133a8-134b5, Plato discusses the ‘greatest difficulty’ for the, or a, theory of forms. One of its conclusions (and the one I focus on) is that we can’t know forms. Elsewhere, Plato offers an epistemological argument for the existence of forms: we can have knowledge only if we know forms; knowledge is possible; hence forms can be known. GD threatens this argument. How should we understand the ‘greatest difficulty’ argument? How should we, and how might Plato, respond to it?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:02:42 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61388 61388-15097061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Guest Speaker Dianne Pinderhughes (Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow and Professor, Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame)

Reception follows the lecture in the ISR Atrium

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:10:17 -0500 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61398 61398-15097072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Racial Dynamics in the American Context: A Second Century of Civil Rights and Protest?

This lecture will explore the factors shaping electoral and policy developments in the wake of late 20th century civil rights reform, and the growing political incorporation of African Americans into electoral politics.  Drawing from a set of collected papers compiled for publication as Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution, social and political scientists recognized the gradual increase in African American political participation, the increasing numbers of elected officials of color, and perhaps most remarkably, the election in 2008 and 2012 of Barack Obama to the Presidency.  The unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016, posed a direct challenge to that framing of reaching the mountaintop and the evolution of successful racial reform. The lecture considers the possible alternative explanations for the Obama and Trump Presidencies in sequence, and whether these changes in early 21st century politics reflect those in previous eras. 

The Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture is sponsored by the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research and occurs in the autumn of odd-numbered years, in honor of Hanes Walton, Jr.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:02:00 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Pinderhughes
Lauren Bon: Life is Abundant (October 17, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65259 65259-16559489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Lauren Bon is an environmental artist from Los Angeles, CA. Her practice, Metabolic Studio, explores self-sustaining and self-diversifying systems of exchange that feed emergent properties that regenerate the life web. Some of her works include: Not A Cornfield, which transformed and revived an industrial brownfield in downtown Los Angeles into a thirty-two-acre cornfield for one agricultural cycle; 100 Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 240-mile performative action that aimed to reconnect the city of Los Angeles with the source of its water for the centenary of the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Her studio’s current work, Bending the River Back into the City, aims to utilize Los Angeles’ first private water right to deliver 106-acre feet of water annually from the LA River to over 50 acres of land in the historic core of downtown LA. This model can be replicated to regenerate the 52-mile LA River, reconnect it to its floodplain and form a citizens’ utility.

Co-presented with the Community of Food, Society and Justice Conference, October 17-18. This conference will engage students, faculty, staff, farmers, and the community in rigorous dialogue around the challenges of meeting the nutritional needs of our communities, while also protecting the planet, promoting healthy lives, and ensuring food justice. The conference is free and open to the public, thanks to its co-sponsors: the U-M Residential College, East Quad Garden, Michigan Dining, U-M Sustainable Food Systems Initiative, U-M Sustainable Food Program, U-M Campus Farm, Knight Wallace House, U-M Program in the Environment, Michigan Law Environmental Law and Policy Program, U-M Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Penny Stamps Distinguished Speakers Series.

Image: One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct, 2013. Photo by Joshua White.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-10-17T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-17T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/bon.jpg
Weekly Bible Study - "Final Exhortations" (October 17, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66643 66643-16770089@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for prayer, worship, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Final Exhortations from Philippians 4:2-23.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:00:21 -0400 2019-10-17T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Spectrum Center- Allyhood Development Training (October 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66767 66767-16776782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

This session is open to the entire U-M community.

The Spectrum Center's LGBTQ Allyhood Development Training Program, started in 2005, seeks to support an individual or organization’s process of development as it relates to LGBTQ inclusivity and advocacy. Allyhood Development Training (ADT) uses a social justice framework to illustrate the lived experiences of LGBTQ identified people to workshop participants.

Through active engagement in the training, participants will:
Grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work.

Audience:
This session is open to the entire U-M community.

Presenter: Elizabeth Gonzalez, Education & Training Program Manager, Spectrum Center



Through active engagement in the training, participants will grow in their personal awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions as it relates to their engagement in doing ally work. The purpose of having the Allyhood Development Training is to promote a campus community in which everyone is treated with respect and dignity.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:10:54 -0400 2019-10-18T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
U-M Structure Seminar: Debashish Sahu, Ph.D. (October 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65698 65698-16629904@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

BioNMR Director
University of Michigan
https://bionmrcore.umich.edu/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 14:54:45 -0400 2019-10-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
AIM Research (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67293 67293-16831270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, October 18 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Tribute Room in the School of Education for the first AIM Research talk of the 2019-2020 academic year. Maggie Safronova, Associate Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching, Research, and Learning at UC Santa Barbara, will share insights gained from running ECoach in foundational courses. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event below if you plan to attend.

AIM Research (formerly AIM Analytics) is a monthly seminar series for researchers across U-M who are interested in research and learning analytics. The field of learning analytics is a multi and interdisciplinary field that brings together researchers from education, learning sciences, computational sciences and statistics, and all discipline-specific forms of educational inquiry.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:48:07 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 School of Education Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Research
Health and Poverty: The Toll of Living with Less (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66030 66030-16684566@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Bridgette Brawner, associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a talk titled "Health and Poverty: The Toll of Living with Less" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:07:33 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Bridgette Brawner
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67239 67239-16829000@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:31:05 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Psychology Methods Hour: Integrating the Reference Point Effect into Normative Decision Theory: Purpose-Based Utility Functions (October 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67773 67773-16949868@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

His presentation will introduce the Prescriptive Utility Reference POint (PURPOse) as a reference point which induces risk-aversion when the individual's true utility function is concave and risk-seeking when the utility is convex. When the individual utility function has multiple inflection points, this leads to a form of hedonic adaptation. When an individual has sufficiently exceeded their purpose, they adopt a new more demanding purpose and focus on achieving that purpose. But when an individual has sufficiently fallen short of that purpose, they switch to a less aggressive purpose. As a result, the utility function implicitly specifies a series of purposes which serve as milestones as the individual's maximizes their utility function. So, by integrating elements of prospect theory into utility theory, Dr. Bordley will demonstrate how utility theory can provide its own normative alternative to using goals to guide decision making.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:46:43 -0400 2019-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operation History (October 18, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68420 68420-17080053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Author William H. Garzke Jr. will be present to discuss his newest work, Battleship Bismark: A Design and Operation History, a marine forensics analysis and engineering study of the design, operations, and loss of Germany's greatest battleship.

Biography: Garzke is a 1960 UM NAME graduate who was cited by SNAME as one of the 100 notable naval architects of the twentieth century in 1993. He has written five definitive works on battleships from WWII as well as Titanic Ship, Titanic Disasters, a forensic analysis of what really caused the demise of the Titanic, Britannic and Lusitania.

The department has a copy of the book in room 222 for students to check out if interested.

As always, lunch will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:02:03 -0400 2019-10-18T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 Naval Arch. & Marine Engineering Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion Battleship Bismark
EIHS-Women's Studies Lecture: Can Marriage Save the Race? Ideas About African-American Marriage from W.E.B. Du Bois to Our Own Times (October 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63589 63589-15808570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

The state of African-American families, of marital status in particular, has been subject to debates going back centuries. Slavery was ground zero for explaining black familial impairments and has figured prominently in popular and scholarly assessments ever since. W. E. B. Du Bois was the first scholar to study the family and make this claim. This talk will take a critical look at his influential work and examine some of the contemporary debates about what marriage can and cannot do to redress the ills of racial oppression.

Tera W. Hunter is the Edwards Professor of American History and Professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University. She is a scholar of labor, gender, race, and Southern history. Her most recent book is Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017). The book is the winner of the Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History; Mary Nickliss Prize, Organization of American Historians; Joan Kelly Memorial Prize and the Littleton-Griswold Prize, American Historical Association; Willie Lee Rose Book Award, Southern Association of Women’s Historians; and the Deep South Book Prize, from the Frances S. Sumersell Center for the Study of the South. It was also a finalist for the Lincoln Prize, Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute. To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War (Harvard University Press, 1997), received several awards as well. Hunter co-edited with Sandra Gunning and Michele Mitchell, Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas (Blackwell Publishing, 2004) and with Joe W. Trotter and Earl Lewis, African American Urban Studies: Perspectives from the Colonial Period to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Hunter has engaged in public history projects as a consultant for museum exhibitions and documentary films and worked with public school teachers. She has written op-eds for the New York Times, Washington Post, among other media outlets. She graduated from Duke University (BA) and Yale University (PhD). She is a native of Miami, Florida.

Free and open to the public.

This event presented by the Department of Women's Studies and the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies. It is made possible in part by a generous contribution from Kenneth and Frances Aftel Eisenberg.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 10:38:46 -0400 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tera Hunter
Phondi Discussion Group (October 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 66303-16725829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:57:38 -0400 2019-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Epistemic Exclusion of Faculty of Color: Academic Gatekeeping through Scholarly Devaluation (October 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65289 65289-16565508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Underrepresented minority faculty (URM; i.e., Black, Hispanic, and American Indian) remain underrepresented within academia, with each of these groups holding fewer than 4% of full-time faculty positions according to 2013 data (U.S. Department of Education, 2013). Further, their representation declines as rank increases. Epistemic exclusion may act as a barrier to the number, retention, and advancement of URM faculty in the academy. Epistemic exclusion (Dotson, 2012, 2014) is the devaluation of URM scholars and the research they do (often on marginalized groups) as illegitimate, lacking value, and outside of disciplinary norms. These disciplinary norms are established and maintained by those who hold power and prestige due to their success working within the dominant discourse. These individuals are often resistant to changing norms either because of narrow views of the field, self-interest, or personal biases towards URMs. In this talk, I use data from 118 faculty interviews, 3 faculty focus groups, and a large faculty survey to illustrate formal and informal ways in which epistemic exclusion operates, and the consequences it has for the psychological well-being, job outcomes, and career trajectories of faculty of color.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:02:04 -0400 2019-10-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
2019 Borer Lecture: Laurie Goodyear, PhD (October 18, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65756 65756-16654032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Brehm Tower
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

This year's Katarina T. Borer Lectureship in Exercise Endocrinology and Metabolism guest speaker is Laurie Goodyear, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Section Head, Joslin Diabetes Center, at Harvard Medical School. She will present "Why Moms and Dads Should Exercise: Molecular Discoveries of the Beneficial Effects of Parental Exercise on Offspring Health."

Friday, October 18, at 2:30pm
Brehm Tower, Oliphant-Marshall Auditorium (1st floor)
1000 Wall St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Reception to follow

RSVP at http://myumi.ch/errk2!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:54:36 -0400 2019-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Brehm Tower School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion Borer Lectureship: Laurie Goodyear, PhD
Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Kyle Bruckmann (October 18, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67613 67613-16902921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Composer/performer Kyle Bruckmann’s work extends from a Western classical foundation into gray areas encompassing free jazz, electronic music and post-punk rock. A busy and varied performance schedule and appearances on more than 80 recordings have led to his recognition as “an excellent composer, striking the right balance between form and freedom” (Signal to Noise), “a modern day renaissance musician” (Dusted) and “a seasoned improviser with impressive extended technique and peculiar artistic flair” (All Music Guide).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:16:34 -0400 2019-10-18T14:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Kyle Bruckmann
Department Colloquium: Gail Fine (Cornell University) (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63895 63895-15979781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

It’s well known that Plato uses truth terminology in a variety of ways. The two main (perhaps the only) uses are ontological and semantic (or propositional): Plato speaks both of e.g. forms being true, and of e.g. sentences being true. But it’s not always clear which use is at issue where; nor is it clear how the two uses are connected. However, on one familiar view, in central epistemological and metaphysical passages in the middle dialogues the key use is ontological; and the ontological use grounds the semantic use. I assess this view.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:00:46 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
HET Seminar | "Quantum Superposition of Massive Bodies" (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67321 67321-16837721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

We analyse a gedankenexperiment previously considered by Mari et al. that involves quantum superpositions of charged and/or massive bodies ("particles'') under the control of the observers, Alice and Bob. In the electromagnetic case, we show that the quantization of electromagnetic radiation (which causes decoherence of Alice's particle) and vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field (which limits Bob's ability to localize his particle to better than a charge-radius) both are essential for avoiding apparent paradoxes with causality and complementarity. We then analyze the gravitational version of this gedankenexperiment. We show that the analysis of the gravitational case is in complete parallel with the electromagnetic case provided that gravitational radiation is quantized and that vacuum fluctuations limit the localization of a particle to no better than a Planck length. This provides support for the view that (linearized) gravity should have a quantum field description.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 10:38:08 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65544 65544-16611717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology. 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, 21 Aug 2019 11:48:57 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Copts and Christian-Muslim Mediation: The Social Life of Theology in Egypt" (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62987 62987-15528499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"For Egypt's Coptic Orthodox, image theology is central to mediating human-divine relations. From the Arab uprisings to Sisi's military coup, varying theologies of material imagination have enabled communal critique and minoritarian identification. This talk navigates the social life of theology to understand how visual images organize relations between Christians and Muslims toward national and sectarian ends. In doing so, it considers the communicative aesthetics of religion and the creative making of religious difference within the terms of national unity."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 14:54:51 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
TRANSLATION IN A MOBILE WORLD: On language, justice and social cohesion (October 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67392 67392-16846427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Friday, October 18, 2019
3 pm in 2435 North Quad
Free and open to the public

Globalization, migration, sustainable development are some of the key issues in today’s world and they appear as recurring keywords in cultural debates. The role played by languages in all of these areas, however, is often underestimated, with little attention paid to how translation and interpreting can support social cohesion and social justice in increasingly multilingual communities. Drawing on the experience of working with different constituencies, from migrant artists in the US and Australia to health specialists in Namibia and Zambia, this talk will draw attention to translation as a constitutive practice of our everyday lives and to translation awareness as a vital "citizenship skill."

Loredana Polezzi is Professor of Translation Studies in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, and President of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS). Her work focuses on how geographical and social mobilities are connected to the theories and practices of translation, self-translation and multilingualism. With Rita Wilson, she is co-editor of leading international journal The Translator.

This event kicks off the annual Translate-a-thon on October 18-19 coordinated by the Language Resource Center and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature. For more information on Translate-a-thon 2019, and to register, see http://myumi.ch/J2V8B

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:54:17 -0400 2019-10-18T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 North Quad Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Speaker
Smith Lecture: The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project (HSPDP): How lakebeds are reshaping our understanding of the environmental context of human origins (October 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63120 63120-15576728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

For over 100 years scientists have debated the possible role environmental history may have played in shaping the evolution, dispersal and extinction of our species and our close relatives (Hominins). Records of this history can be derived from the fluvial, cave and paleosol deposits in which the fossils and stone tools are typically found, from deep sea offshore marine drill cores, or from drill cores collected from the deposits of ancient lakes that span the African rift valley. In this talk I will describe recent findings from HSPDP, a large international consortium focused on the latter approach, as well as finding from other lake drilling projects of relevance to hominin history. Lake beds drilled by HSPDP have provided highly resolved records of environmental and climatic change. We have targeted sites in close proximity to important fossil hominin and archaeological sites, which span critical intervals in hominin evolutionary history, and which are providing a regional scale view of the ecological and climatic conditions experienced by our species and close relatives over the last ~3.5 Ma. I will also discuss future plans for extending lacustrine drill core records back through the entire span on hominin history, since the Late Miocene.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:17:04 -0400 2019-10-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-18T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
“If you are going to walk the walk, you gotta talk the talk” (October 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66585 66585-16761656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Council for Disability Concerns

Discrimination frequently occurs due to stereotypes about people's languages, dialects, and ways of speaking. Part of diversity is linguistic diversity and part of inclusivity is linguistic inclusivity. Discrimination frequently occurs due to stereotypes about people's languages, dialects, and ways of speaking. Efforts to include different languages in public spaces and to create a more inclusive public discourse are sometimes perceived as inappropriate policing of other people's language, even by people who generally support diversity and inclusion initiatives.


Linguistics Professors Natasha Abner and Robin Queen discuss ideas about language that can lead to discrimination, as well as the merits and the criticisms of inclusive language efforts, drawing from specific cases that have received national attention as well as significant attention on the University of Michigan campus.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 13:05:22 -0400 2019-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Council for Disability Concerns Lecture / Discussion University of Michigan campus- aerial view
Linguistics Colloquium (October 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67597 67597-16900787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

U-M Anthropology Professor Judith Irvine will be the featured speaker.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:07:27 -0400 2019-10-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-18T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Detroit School Series: DIA Midtown Cultural Connections – Detroit Square (October 18, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68036 68036-16986102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In 2017, the Detroit Institute of Arts and Midtown Detroit, Inc. launched Midtown Cultural Connections (MCC), an international design competition to reimagine a cohesive cultural district for Detroit. The organizers sought to create a sense of urban dynamism by linking some of city’s most significant and diverse institutions, including the iconic Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, and the Detroit Public Library, among others. In response to the prompt, the multi-disciplinary design team Agence Ter, Akoaki, rootoftwo, and Harley Etienne conceived the winning entry, Detroit Square. The project is a framework that adapts the unique expression of each institution and is intent on generating a sense of radical inclusivity within the rapidly changing city. The Detroit School Series is proud to host a conversation with Anya Sirota – Associate Professor of Architecture, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College, and founding partner of Akoaki– to discuss the opportunities and predicaments of urban design and the public realm in the aftermath of Modernity.

Speaker: Anya Sirota, Associate Professor of Architecture, Associate Dean of Academic Initiatives at Taubman College, and founding partner of Akoaki

This event is co-sponsored by the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:15:33 -0400 2019-10-18T16:15:00-04:00 2019-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Detroit Square
Distinguished Lecture Series in Musicology: Prof. Alessandra Campana, Tufts University (October 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65625 65625-16623831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Long takes, those uncommonly protracted stretches of uncut film, have been celebrated, imitated and collected since film’s beginnings as markers of virtuosic cinematography and of directorial style. This paper will reopen the matter of the long take in terms of aurality: the space defined by the camera is also always a place of sound, which establishes precise economies of hearing and seeing.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 12:15:29 -0400 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Guest Master Class: Kristian Nyquist, fortepiano (October 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64836 64836-16460973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kristian Nyquist leads a master class of classical keyboard works featuring students of Prof. Matthew Bengtson

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:15:33 -0400 2019-10-18T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Kristian Nyquist
Guest Master Class: Kristian Nyquist, harpsichord (October 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64837 64837-16460974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Kristian Nyquist leads a master class of Baroque keyboard works featuring students of Prof. Joseph Gascho.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Kristian Nyquist
Scientist in the Forum (October 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66401 66401-16734188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 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 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:55:59 -0400 2019-10-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-19T13:15:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (October 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66399 66399-16734181@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 19, 2019 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 around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Saturdays and Sundays, 3:00 p.m.

Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized! How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:44:57 -0400 2019-10-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-19T15:20:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (October 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66401 66401-16734192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 20, 2019 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 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:55:59 -0400 2019-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-20T13:15:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (October 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66399 66399-16734176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 20, 2019 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 around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Saturdays and Sundays, 3:00 p.m.

Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized! How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:44:57 -0400 2019-10-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-20T15:20:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Structural models of psychopathology and its relation to personality across the lifespan (October 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68350 68350-17069159@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Personality traits emerge early in life and appear to reflect liability for various forms of psychopathology. At the same time, the nature and specificity of these associations remains unclear. I will present data establishing rapprochement between contemporary models of personality and psychopathology, integrating empirically based, hierarchically organized structural representations of both at phenotypic and etiologic levels. This work emphasizes the utility of broad higher-order factors (or spectra) of psychopathology (i.e., internalizing, externalizing), but not necessarily the p-factor or individual diagnostic entities, as valuable foci for targeting transdiagnostic mechanisms undergirding psychopathology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:58:12 -0400 2019-10-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion AWatts_2019
Mindfullness-based Dementia Care (October 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64758 64758-16444912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A free, 7-week program designed for family caregivers of persons with dementia. Info and to register: 734.936.8803.

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:03:34 -0400 2019-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
"An Ingenious Way to Live": Fostering Disability Culture in Higher Education (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67670 67670-16911463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Council for Disability Concerns

"Disability is not a great struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live." -Neil Marcus

In this panel event, scholars and practitioners discuss opportunities for ingenuity as a growing number of higher education institutions shift toward an intersectional cultural model of disability.

Panelists:

Dr. Stephanie Kerschbaum (she/hers), a U-M National Center for Institutional Diversity scholar in residence and associate professor of English at the University of Delaware whose work includes understanding experiences of disability and difference within academic and institutional culture.

Lloyd Shelton (he/him), U-M School of Social Work alumnus who founded Students with Disabilities and our Allies Group (SDAG) and received the 2014 Neubacher Award for his contributions to advancing disability inclusion on U-M’s campus.

Piotr Pasik (he/him), Director of Adaptive Recreation at Michigan State University who teaches courses on integrated wheelchair sports, uses adaptive sports to cultivate disability inclusion, and has helped propel MSU's adaptive sports facilities to the top of the Big Ten.

liz thomson (they/them), University of Minnesota-Morris's Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Director of Equity, Diversity, and Intercultural Programs with 20+ years of higher education experience, including teaching women's studies and Asian American studies, whose current research focuses on the new phenomenon of disability cultural centers in US higher education.

Moderated by Ashley Wiseman, Co-Chair of Disability Culture at U-M, with welcoming remarks from Dr. Robert Adams, Director of U-M Initiative on Disability Studies.

This event is co-presented by Disability Culture at U-M and the Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Our generous cosponsors include the UM Initiative on Disability Studies, Voices of the Staff, and the Council for Disability Concerns.

Accessibility information:
The RSVP form (myumi.ch/QAnrZ) includes an opportunity for you to tell us about your access needs and how we can ensure you are able to access the event. You can also reach out to Ashley Wiseman (wisemana@umich.edu).

Please refrain from wearing strong scents, such as perfume/cologne. The building, event space, and restroom are wheelchair accessible. A lactation room (room #2521) and gender-inclusive restroom (third floor, east wing) are available on site. The nearest reflection room is in the Michigan League (room #347). CART and ASL services will be available. This event will be video-recorded, as well as live-streamed via (the link will be provided when available and to those who RSVP).

The Palmer Parking Structure is the closest public parking structure (two blocks away); it is free for U-M employees with a blue pass and $1.70 per hour for anyone else. It includes parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

About Disability Culture at U-M
In the University of Michigan's 2016 campus climate survey, 48% of disabled students, nearly a third of disabled staff, and a quarter of disabled faculty reported experiencing at least one incident of discrimination based on their disability identity. Our cross-disability group is dedicated to bringing disabled students, staff, and faculty together in order to build a prideful community that centers disability culture, as it intersects with our other identities. We foster friendships, coordinate events (e.g., our recent panel on disability inclusion that drew 500 attendees), and work toward the establishment of a Disability Cultural Center at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 18:42:59 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Council for Disability Concerns Lecture / Discussion A digital event sign displaying the event title, time, location, and RSVP information. The text is on a blue background, bordered by a canvas of diagonal paintbrush strokes in vibrant reds, oranges, blues, and teals.
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
ASC/MSW Reading Group: Stephen Best (October 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63742 63742-15845253@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In preparation for Prof. Stephen Best's visit to UM to deliver the keynote lecture at the "African American Literature and Culture Now" symposium (October 31st-November 1st), the American Studies Consortium and the Modernist Studies Workshop will be hosting a reading group for None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke, 2018). We invite you to join us for a lively discussion of Prof. Best's book.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:21:04 -0400 2019-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Cover of None Like Us
CMENAS Colloquium Series. The Reshaping of Persian after the Seventh-Century Arabian Conquest and Colonization (October 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64320 64320-16316265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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

This presentation discusses the reshaping of the Persian language in the seventh and eighth centuries, conditioned by the settlement patterns of the coalition of conquering Colonists (muhājirūn) from Arabia. Breakthroughs in contact linguistics combined with traditional historical linguistics and philology provide new insights into the demographic history of premodern populations and shed light on how the Persian language still used today first emerged. In this analysis, modern narratives of Persian ethnic or national continuity with the ancient past give way to a history of discontinuity and colonial rupture.

About the Speaker:
Kevin van Bladel is Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Yale University. He is the author of The Arabic Hermes (2009) and From Sasanian Mandaeans to Sabians of the Marshes (2017), as well as numerous articles on the languages and learned traditions of the classical Near East.

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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: jessmhil@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 15:54:26 -0400 2019-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (October 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67487 67487-16864386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Dr. Mara Bollard, Assistant Director of the Weinberg Institute, will present "In defense of distinctively moral anger."

ABSTRACT

Anger is thought by many philosophers to be central to morality. Anger often occurs as a response to wrongdoing and seems to play an important role in the blaming and punishing of wrongdoers. As such, it’s neither uncommon nor surprising for anger to be referred to as a moral emotion, though what precisely is meant by the term “moral anger” is not always clear: does generic, garden variety anger, which is likely familiar to us from computer malfunctions or heavy traffic, also show up in the moral domain, perhaps as a morally appropriate, fitting, or epistemically reliable response to (certain features of) wrongdoing? Or is there a distinctive psychological state of moral anger that is differentiable from generic anger, and from other emotion types? I defend the claim that there is a distinctively moral kind of anger. I argue that moral anger counts as distinctively moral primarily in virtue of its action tendencies, which are typically triggered by perceived injustice against oneself or others and aim to satisfy two moral goals: a communicative goal, and a retributive goal.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 13:21:06 -0400 2019-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Great Waters, Great Economy (October 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68155 68155-17020437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

In partnership with the Center for Michigan and its statewide water campaign, the U-M Library is pleased to host a town hall conversation about Michigan’s waters and the range of economic activities and outcomes they enable. In advance of LS&A’s planned Winter 2020 theme semester on the Great Lakes, this conversation is intended to reflect and gather all viewpoints on stewardship of our bodies of water and their role in our understanding of social justice and economic circumstances that affect state residents. All are invited to share their views on the Great Lakes, water preservation needs, and social and economic priorities.

This event is part of the Center for Michigan’s Your Water, Your Voice campaign and perspectives will inform a Citizens’ Agenda report, reflecting state residents’ water priorities, concerns, and goals

Open to all. Please RSVP by October 18, or contact Lib-GreatLakes-2020@umich.edu with any questions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:33:03 -0400 2019-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Your Water, Your Voice
Richard T. Rodríguez Lecture (October 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64334 64334-16318429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

This talk will examine the politics of fantasy in relation to representations of Latino male sexuality in contemporary independent and queer cinema. Primarily focusing on Miguel Arteta’s 1997 film Star Maps, the talk reads the film as a critique of Hollywood’s racially exclusive practices while illustrating how fantasy helps make sense of protagonist Carlos’s American dream of becoming an esteemed film and television star who also finds himself ruled by the sexual desires and labor demands of others.

Richard T. Rodríguez is associate professor of Media & Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes in Latina/o literary and cultural studies, film and visual culture, and queer studies with additional interests in transnational cultural studies, popular music studies, and comparative ethnic studies. The author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics (Duke University Press, 2009), he is completing two book projects: “Fantasies of Latino Male Sexuality” and “Latino/U.K.: Transatlantic Intimacies in Post-Punk Cultures.”

This event is sponsored by the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop and the Lesbian-Gay-Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 09:36:21 -0400 2019-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
RNA Innovation Seminar, Ruslan Afasizhev, Boston University Medical Campus (October 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65138 65138-16539449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Ruslan Afasizhev, PhD, Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, Boston University Medical Campus

Abstract: Parasitic protist Trypanosoma brucei causes African human and animal trypanosomiasis, a spectrum of diseases affecting the population and economy in sub-Saharan Africa. These digenetic hemoflagellates belong to Kinetoplastea, a taxonomic class distinguished by possession of a kinetoplast. This nucleoprotein body contains mitochondrial DNA of two kinds: ~25 maxicircles (each ~23kb) encoding ribosomal RNAs, two guide RNA (gRNAs), ribosomal proteins and subunits of respiratory complexes, and approximately 5000 of ~1kb minicircles bearing the majority of gRNA genes. Relaxed maxicircles and minicircles are interlinked and packed into a dense disc-shaped network by association with histone-like proteins. Both maxicircle and minicircle genomes are transcribed by a phage-like RNA polymerase from multiple promoters into 3′-extended precursors which undergo 3′-5′ exonucleolytic trimming. To function in mitochondrial translation, pre-mRNAs must further proceed through 3′ adenylation, and often gRNA-directed uridine insertion/deletion editing, and 3′ A/U-tailing. Ribosomal and guide RNAs are typically 3′ uridylated. Historically, the fascinating phenomenon of RNA editing has attracted major research efforts, but more recent developments provided insights into pre- and post-edited processing events and identified key players in transforming primary precursors into functional RNAs and regulating their turnover. I will present a forward-looking model that integrates known modalities of mitochondrial RNA metabolism.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 10:59:39 -0400 2019-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Agrippina: “I, Me, Mine”? (October 21, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68146 68146-17018310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Who was Agrippina, what did she do and how was she constrained, and what belonged to her? To write a biography of Agrippina the Younger presents a Roman historian with significant challenges, including the limited number of primary sources, even for this most notorious Roman woman; authors’ clear biases against a woman aiming for power and “sex positive”; and the versions of Agrippina created through time. Just as important are point-of-view and ultimate aim. Carandini assumes the first-person voice in his Io, Agrippina, but the personal voice is at odds with his book’s emphasis on spatial and historical contingency as a way to understand Agrippina. Barrett’s account in Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire offers a thick description of facts relating to her, illuminating the times in which Agrippina lived but doing little to make her come alive. My illustrated lecture covers such issues as well as some important insights gained from investigating a woman who was remarkable for many reasons, not the least of which is the legacy constructed for her by others.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 14:57:11 -0400 2019-10-21T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-21T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion agrippina
DELAYED - The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women (October 21, 2019 4:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66604 66604-16767944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 4:45pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

This talk explores the world of names, naming, and namelessness in troubadour songs and in the manuscripts that transmit them. I show how the manuscript lyric anthologies known as *chansonniers *participate in the name games that are an integral part of troubadour lyric poetics. While names in manuscripts can be important evidence, they do not correspond neatly to modern notions of the author as an individual with a fixed historical identity. By shifting the focus of inquiry to manuscript attributions, and particularly to female author attributions, I demonstrate the complexity of medieval understandings of lyric authorship. I challenge especially certain modern (and often gendered) assumptions about the authorship of troubadour songs, and critique those book historical methods that can reinforce such assumptions. My conclusions are grounded in a new approach to troubadour manuscripts of the 13th and 14th centuries, but the central issues of textual stability and authorial identity that I address are significant more broadly to both medievalists and modernists. My approach, elaborated in my larger book project, makes possible new ways of understanding the authorship of troubadour song.

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Forum on Research in Medieval Studies, Department of Musicology, and the College of Literature, Science and the Arts

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:45:52 -0400 2019-10-21T16:45:00-04:00 2019-10-21T18:15:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion The Lyric Authority of Goats and Women
Guest Lecture in Musicology: Prof. Juan Velasquez, University of Michigan (October 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68366 68366-17071273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

In this paper, I analyze and contrast the aural epistemology beneath birdwatching in contemporary Colombia with the birdsongs in Ana Maria Romano’s “El Suelo desde el Viento” (The land from the Wind). Such comparison suggests that listening to birds can be sensorial means to study understandings of nature and environment in relation with hegemonic notions of biodiversity and alternative experiences of acoustic ecology and listening.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:52:26 -0400 2019-10-21T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Juan Velasquez
Be a Good Sport (October 21, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68473 68473-17086374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Campus Involvement

Want to learn about social justice in sports? Join us for Be a Good Sport! On October 21 from 7:00pm-8:30pm in the Hussey Room in the Michigan League to learn about how we can create a level playing field for everyone. Featuring a panel of student athletes discussing their experiences, dialogue around equity and equality in sports, free food, and more!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:33:58 -0400 2019-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion An ad for Be a Good Sport. The ad features an image of people playing soccer. The ad reads "Be a Good Sport: Equity and Equality. October 21st, 7:00pm-8:30pm, Michigan League Hussey Room. Discussion, free food, and more!"
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disabled Students Leading Campus Change (October 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68249 68249-17035294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join liz thomson (they/them) and Lloyd Shelton (he/him) for a conversation about the growing trend of Disability Cultural Centers on college campuses, and current efforts to establish a DCC at the University of Michigan.

Accessibility for Hatcher Library: The best accessible entrance is on the south side of the building. There is limited Blue Permit accessible parking near this entrance. Fragrance free space. Communication access real-time translation provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 10:20:41 -0400 2019-10-21T19:30:00-04:00 2019-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Nothing About Us Without Us
"The Causes and Consequences of Human Obesity" (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68210 68210-17026817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute

Dr. O'Rahilly, considered the preemiment obesity researcher of this generation, is a clinician-scientist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He will receive the Taubman Prize for his contribution to new understanding of obesity and metabolic diseases.
The Taubman Institute symposium will kick off with a poster session and continental breakfast at 8:30 a.m. in the BSRB lobby; Dr. O'Rahilly will be awarded the Taubman Prize aware and deliver his keynote from 10 a.m. to noon in the Kahn Auditorium at the BSRB.
All are welcome, no registration is required.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:37:17 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Lecture / Discussion Professor Sir Stephen O'Rahilly, 2019 Taubman Prize recipient
Escape from Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to Shanghai (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65430 65430-16597564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Hitler came to power in 1933. At that time there were approximately 500,000 Jews in Germany and approximately 180,000 Jews in Austria. They were loyal to their country, were part of the government, and fought for Germany in World War 1. Hitler had a plan to annihilate the world’s Jews. Jews were stripped of their citizenship, their property taken over and their means of a livelihood destroyed. Jews were given an X amount of time to find a country that would take them, otherwise they would be thrown into concentration camps. Aside from the Dominican Republic, Shanghai was the only place that remained open to these refugees without requiring a visa. Approximately 20,000 German, Austrian and Polish Jews were able to make the trip.

Berl Falbaum, is a former political reporter for the Detroit News. His family was among those that made the journey. In his presentation, for those 50 and over, Mr. Falbaum will describe his family’s experiences and those of other Jews. He has compiled and edited a book “Shanghai Remembered: Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Germany”.

This is the second in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2019-20. A total of ten lectures are presented covering a variety of topics. Lectures are held on Tuesday mornings once each month. The next lecture will be held November 12, 2019. The title is Actual Innocence in Michigan: An Update from the Michigan Innocence Clinic.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:19:14 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
BIONIC Lunch: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63777 63777-15873595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion as we assess the computational engines assessing us.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/5t6UjXWNA1VSW4fr9

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:00:08 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63871 63871-15955824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Coastal smuggling has been a thorny problem for successive governments in modern China. But, while smuggling might have operated on the margins of the law, it was far from marginal in driving important historical changes. Introducing his new book, Philip Thai explores how campaigns against smuggling transformed everyday economic life and amplified state power, thereby offering new insights into modern Chinese social, legal, and economic history.

Philip Thai is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Northeastern University. He received his PhD from Stanford University, and he specializes in modern Chinese, East Asian, legal, economic, and Cold War history. His book “China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965” was published by Columbia University Press in 2018, and his interdisciplinary research has been supported by many organizations including the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).

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 May 2019 14:35:03 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State
Mallosteric Misfolding and Rhomboidal Retrotranslocation: Lessons from Regulated ERAD- Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67922 67922-16966903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Randy Hampton, Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of California San Diego, will present the Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:52:11 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Hampton
Political Economy Workshop (PEW) (October 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67989 67989-16977584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Political Economy Workshop (PEW)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:56:42 -0400 2019-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:20:00-04:00 Haven Hall Political Economy Workshop (PEW) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
FellowSpeak: “'He’d be a good rhymer': Polish Hip-Hop and the Legacy of Romanticism" (October 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66073 66073-16686695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow Alena Aniskiewicz gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In 2012, the Polish rapper Doniu told *The New York Times*, “If Mickiewicz was alive today; he’d be a good rhymer.” Identifying Adam Mickiewicz—a nineteenth-century Romantic poet—as a precursor to the “rhymers” of contemporary hip-hop, Doniu’s assertion speaks to Polish hip-hop communities’ efforts to locate the international genre within national cultural traditions. This talk will examine the Romantic legacies of “freestyling” and politically engaged lyrics as they are referenced and performed in the work of Polish hip-hop artist Peja and his group Slums Attack. Capitalizing on the resonance between national and genre ideals of authenticity and speaking to and for marginalized communities, Peja positions himself as heir to the Romantic poets whose work has shaped ideas of Polishness for two hundred years. In so doing, he performs a vision a Poland that remains defined by its national past, even as it embraces a modern global music.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:27:03 -0400 2019-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Hip-hop at a record store.
Prediction Error & Model Evaluation for Space-Time Downscaling: case studies in air pollution during wildfires (October 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68191 68191-17026797@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Public Health I (Vaughan Building)
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

ABSTRACT:
Public Health Scientists use prediction models to downscale (i.e., interpolate) air pollution exposure where monitoring data is insufficient. This exercise aims to obtain estimates at fine resolutions, so that exposure data may reliably be related to health outcomes. In this setting, substantial research efforts have been dedicated to the development of statistical models capable of integrating heterogenous information to obtain accurate prediction: statistical downscaling models, land use regression, as well as machine learning strategies. However, when presented with the tasks of choosing between models, or averaging models, we find that our understanding of model performance in the absence of independent statistical replications remains insufficient. This lecture is motivated by several studies of air pollution (PM 2.5 and ground-level ozone) during wildfires. We review the basis for cross validation as a strategy for the estimation of the expected prediction error. As these performance measure play a crucial role in model selection and averaging we present a formal characterization of the estimands targeted by different data subsetting strategies, and explore their performance in engineered data settings. A final analysis and a warning about preference inversion is presented in relation to the a 2008 wildfire event in Northern California.

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Dr. Telesca is Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of California Los Angeles. He received a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington and spent two years at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include Bayesian methods in multivariate statistics, functional data analysis, statistical methods in bio- and nano-informatics. Dr. Telesca is a member of the California NanoSystems Institute, the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and principal data scientist at Lucid Circuit Inc.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:51:07 -0400 2019-10-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Public Health I (Vaughan Building) Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Donatello Telesca Environmental Statistics Day Lecture
ChE Seminar Series: Eric Shusta (October 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65576 65576-16615783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

>This Seminar will be held in the North Campus Research Complex, Building 32, Auditorium

ABSTRACT

Antibody Engineering Strategies to Overcome the Blood-brain barrier

Millions of people worldwide are afflicted with neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, brain cancer, and cerebral AIDS. Although many new drugs are being developed to combat these and other brain diseases, few new treatments have made it to the clinic.  The impermeable nature of the brain vasculature, also known as the blood-brain barrier (BBB), is at least partially responsible for the paucity of new brain therapeutics.  As examples, approximately 98% of small molecule pharmaceuticals do not enter the brain after intravenous administration, and the BBB prevents nearly all protein and gene medicines from entering the brain.  Our research group is therefore focused on developing tools for the analysis of the brain drug delivery process and identifying novel strategies for circumventing this transport barrier.  This presentation will detail our recent work focused on overcoming BBB restrictions on brain drug delivery. To this end, we are mining large antibody libraries to identify antibodies that can target and act as artificial substrates for endogenous receptor-mediated BBB nutrient transport systems and ferry drug cargo into the brain. In addition, the BBB can be disrupted in certain disease conditions such as brain tumors. For these applications, we are identifying antibodies capable of targeting brain extracellular matrix to leverage this pathological BBB disruption for drug accumulation.   After conjugation to drug payloads that can include small molecules or biologics, we have demonstrated that both classes of antibodies have the potential to deliver medicines to the brain.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:03:38 -0400 2019-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T14:30:00-04:00 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (October 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65186 65186-16547457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 09:38:59 -0400 2019-10-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Navigating the Legal Career Climate (October 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68528 68528-17096920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

What can you do with a law degree? How secure is the legal job market? Join us for a Q&A session with Assistant Dean for Career Planning at UM Law, Ramji Kaul, as he talks us through the current legal job landscape and emerging fields within the industry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:40:00 -0400 2019-10-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T16:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Lecture / Discussion Newnan Advising Center Pre-Law
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Writing Western Nicaragua's Colonial and Post-Colonial LGBTQ Histories (October 22, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67275 67275-16831241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Dr. González-Rivera's research on western Nicaragua's pre-1979 LGBTQ histories reveals a complex story. She documents a long-standing Indigenous “transgender” tradition in open-air markets, which rests on pre-colonial economic opportunities for women in tiangues and Nicaragua’s unique association between commerce and femininity. Dr. González-Rivera further contends that contemporary Nicaraguan negative attitudes towards trans women, while less prevalent than in other parts of the world, do exist and are highly steeped in racism and classism due to the association made between trans women and indigeneity. This project thus concludes that working-class women’s continuous economic participation in Nicaragua is a symbol of indigenous resistance to colonialism as is the continued existence of trans women. This presentation also documents the invention of indigenous sodomy in Nicaragua and the ways in which the Spanish contributed to the creation of the contemporary Nicaraguan “cochon,” the term used in the last hundred years to refer to presumably “passive” [“feminine”] male partners in same sex relations between men.

Co-sponsors: Department of History; Rackham Graduate School; Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CRSI) in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG); Women's Studies; Institute for the Humanities

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 13:04:55 -0400 2019-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T17:15:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Nam Center Colloquium Series | North Korean Art: Discovering Chosonhwa's Hidden Creativity (October 22, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65610 65610-16621813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Cosponsored by the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design and the Department of Art History.

Since North Korea has been closed off from the world for more than seven decades and has been considered a pariah state, when art from the DPRK trickled out to the world through small exhibitions and auctions, most of those who evaluated the works were already inclined to judge them with preconceptions.

This talk by Professor BG Muhn will explore these outside perspectives on North Korean art, specifically focusing on perceptions of chosonhwa, the North Korean name for Oriental ink wash painting. We are familiar with the concepts of “art for art’s sake,” “free expression,” and “art created in accordance with an artist’s unconstrained free will.” Considering the context of the DPRK, many people ask: Can art in a true sense exist in a socialist state? Professor Muhn will address the complexities embedded in the answer to this and other questions about North Korean art.

A professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University, BG Muhn is also an accomplished painter who has achieved substantial and noteworthy professional recognition through solo exhibitions in venues such as Stux Gallery in the Chelsea district of New York City, Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul and the American University Museum in Washington, DC. Muhn has received several awards for his artistic merits, including the Maryland State Arts Council’s Individual Artist Award and Best in Show at the Bethesda Painting Awards competition. His artwork has been collected in museums and galleries, which include the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in South Korea. He also has received acclaim in reviews in "The New York Times," "The Washington Post," and "Art in America."

In addition to actively showing his artworks, Muhn has taken a strong interest in and researched the relatively unknown field of North Korean art, particularly chosonhwa or ink wash painting on mulberry paper. He made numerous research trips to Pyongyang, North Korea, over the last six years and visited art institutions such as the Choson National Art Museum, the Mansudae Art Studio and the Pyongyang University of Fine Arts. His research is comprised of reviewing a prodigious amount of North Korean artwork in person and interviewing artists, art historians, museum staff, faculty and students. Based on his work, he has delivered lectures on North Korean art at academic venues and cultural centers including Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Ohio State universities; the Watermill Center in Long Island; the Korea Society in New York; and the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.

His research on North Korean art culminated in the book, "North Korean Art: The Enigmatic World of Chosonhwa" (to be released in the fall of 2019), which was first published as "Pyongyang misul: chosonhwa neonun nugunya" in Korean by Seoul Selection in the spring of 2018.

Professor Muhn has curated two major North Korean art exhibitions, one at the American University Museum in Washington, DC, in 2016 and the other at the Gwangju Biennale in 2018. The catalogue "North Korean Art: Paradoxical Realism" was published in English in conjunction with the Gwangju Biennale.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:54:21 -0400 2019-10-22T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion B.G. Munh, Professor, Art and Art History, Georgetown University
CSE Distinguished Lecture (October 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68104 68104-17011785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

Abstract: After more than 30 years in academia researching in the area of AI, as a student and as a faculty, I joined JPMorgan to create and head an AI research group. In this talk, I will present several concrete examples of the projects we are pursuing in engagement with the lines of business. I will focus on areas related to data, learning from experience, explainability, and ethics. I will conclude with a discussion of my current understanding of the transformational impact that AI can have in the future of financial services.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:01:43 -0400 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Manuela Veloso
DEI & Faith in Secular Spaces (October 22, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68012 68012-16983967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

This first-of-its kind panel discussion brings together diverse and diverging student perspectives on the meaning of faith and practice - from liberal to conservative to orthodox - on a largely secular campus. Refreshments will be served.

RSVP: myumi.ch/yKx7j

Sponsors: Center for Campus Involvement/Student Life, Islamophobia Working Group, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:11:27 -0400 2019-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion DEI & Faith event flyer
Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America (October 22, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68547 68547-17096952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

Speaker: Thomas Mackaman
Assistant Professor of History, Kings College; and writer for the World Socialist Web Site

Co-author of the recent pamphlet "The New York Times' 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of US and world history" published on the World Socialist Web Site

Author of the book New Immigrants and the Radicalization of American Labor, 1914-1924



The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in the US and its youth and student movement, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE), is holding a three-part series of meetings on “Race, Class and the Fight for Socialism: Perspectives for the Coming Revolution in America.”

This series is the socialist answer to the New York Times “1619 Project,” which has been accompanied by an unprecedented publicity blitz, including at schools and campuses throughout the country. The occasion they cite for the publication of this project is the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 African slaves at Port Comfort, Virginia.

The Times project raises the question: Is race the driving force of history, as the Times insists? Or, as Karl Marx analyzed, is it class? Is “anti-black racism … in the very DNA of this country” as the Times writes? Or is the history of the United States fundamentally the history of class struggle? As social inequality reaches record levels, is America heading toward race war or socialist revolution?

The promotion of the 1619 Project takes place under conditions of expanding class struggle internationally and a growing interest in socialism among workers and youth in the United States. Its aim is to block the development of a united movement of workers across all races by cultivating racial divisions.

These meetings will refute the historical falsifications advanced in the 1619 Project, explain their underlying political motivations and present the strategy for socialist revolution in America today.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:17:33 -0400 2019-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion Thomas Hovenden's "The Last Moments of John Brown"
Professional Autobiography (October 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67465 67465-16857939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 8:00pm
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 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:06:17 -0400 2019-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T21:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Gabriel Johnson
Professional Autobiography (October 22, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67464 67464-16857938@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 8:00pm
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 Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:59:29 -0400 2019-10-22T20:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T21:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Ben Hsu
The Past, Present, and Future of Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination in Japan (October 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68129 68129-17011969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Yukio Maeda, Professor of Political Science at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, will outline past practices and the present situation in social science data preservation and dissemination in Japan. He will explain the new initiative by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), “Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:58:14 -0400 2019-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T11:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
AIM Spotlight (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67294 67294-16831271@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Wednesday, October 23 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Vandenberg Room at the Michigan League for an AIM Spotlight as we welcome in Dragan Gasevic, Professor of Learning Analytics in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event below if you plan to attend.

AIM Spotlight is an all new speaker series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation. This series will feature speakers external to the University of Michigan, focused on topics center around innovation in higher education and is tailored to a broad audience. Topics may include but are not limited to online learning, residential learning, research, technology, extended reality (XR), and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:47:28 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Spotlight
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Fine probes of quantum chaos (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68274 68274-17037498@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Quantum chaotic dynamics manifests itself in transport, thermalization, and the butterfly effect. Hydrodynamics is the universal effective description of transport in the long distance, late time regime. We can gain insight into the process of thermalization from the time evolution of entanglement entropy, for which I introduce an effective theory valid in the hydrodynamic regime. I derive this theory in the special case of holographic gauge theories, and present strong evidence for its validity in any chaotic system. I discuss the interplay between this effective theory and chaotic operator growth that is responsible for the butterfly effect, and present new general results on the Lyapunov exponent characterizing this phenomenon. I conclude with some exciting implications for quantum gravity through gauge/gravity duality.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 14:57:03 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
PhD Defense: Daniel Nunez (October 23, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68698 68698-17138820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: High-Resolution Experiments of Momentum and Buoyancy-Driven Flows for the Validation and Advancement of Computational Fluid Dynamics Codes

Abstract: Over the past decade, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an important simulation tool to properly predict 3D effects in nuclear power plant systems and reduce the uncertainty in design safety margins. Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) formulations are commonly used to predict fluid flows due to their robustness and their relatively low computational cost in comparison to higher fidelity models such as Large Eddy Simulation (LES). However, because of the various approximations at the basis of RANS turbulent models, validation for the specific applications need to be carried out to assess the models’ capabilities to predict a given phenomenon of interest.
The primary goal of this thesis is to develop a high-resolution high-fidelity experimental database for the development and improvement of CFD codes, and to gain physical insight into complex phenomena relevant to nuclear power applications. Two applications of interest are addressed: a) mixing and interaction of multiple jets in a uniform environment, and b) propagation of stratified fronts in presence of positive and negative density gradients. When assessing the performance of CFD models, it is important to determine whether, for the specific phenomenon of interest, the CFD predictions would lead to a conservative or non-conservative result. For example, in the case of a PWR Main Steam Line Break (MSLB) accident, an over-estimation of thermal stratification would lead to non-conservative results, since the resulting core reactivity insertion will be under-estimated.
High-resolution data collected from two experimental facilities designed and built to address jets interactions and propagation of stratified fronts will be discussed, together with CFD validation results. Shortcomings of the current RANS models and efforts to understand the reasons for the inaccuracy of the simulations will be summarized as well. The data presented consists of experiments and CFD simulations under constant and variable density conditions, and are accompanied with the uncertainties due to geometries, algorithms, reproducibility and repeatability of the measurements.

Chair(s): Prof. Annalisa Manera

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:25:50 -0400 2019-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer for David Nunez defense
EER Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67813 67813-16952010@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Every instance of a design process can be represented with a design signature – a tracing of design activities over time that can be represented as a timeline. Design signatures can differ across levels of expertise of the designer(s) in significant ways. These representations have been shown to be effective for teaching undergraduate engineers about the complexities of design processes.

In this talk, I will review the research findings from an analysis of verbal protocols from 177 individuals with a wide range of expertise (from beginning undergrads through expert professionals in industry) who solved 401 separate design problems. We found that individuals with more expertise 1) use processes that demonstrate a higher level of complexity, 2) consider a broader set of information and objects during their design process, 3) spend longer solving the problem they were given, and 4) are more likely to demonstrate a cascade pattern in their tracing across design activities. I will also discuss several teaching activities that are derived from the research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:45:24 -0400 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Cindy Atman
Putting the Ace in Sex Ed (October 23, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67043 67043-16796477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Event navigation details - http://bit.ly/32AcHXv

Most sexual education is not ace-friendly, much less ace-focused, and we're going to take a stab at fixing that! This interactive workshop will focus on defining terms like consent, desire, and arousal, communication in relationships, setting boundaries, and being proud of your identity! You will be invited to reflect on how you experience your sexuality and have the opportunity to learn from asexual and ace-spectrum experiences.

Check out the other Asexual Awareness Week events at http://bit.ly/AsexualAwareness19

Spectrum Center Accessibility Statement
If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accommodation Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, but we will always attempt to dismantle barriers as they are brought up to us. Any questions about accessibility at Spectrum Center events can be directed to spectrumcenter@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:10:59 -0400 2019-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Times, dates, and locations for all three Asexual Awareness Week events from the Spectrum Center in the colors of the asexual flag - black, gray, white, and dark purple.
“‘In the Future, Robots will Speak Chickasaw’: Indigenous Language Futurism and the Temporalities of Language Reclamation” (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66069 66069-16686689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

The revitalization or reclamation of Indigenous and endangered languages is often driven or shaped by what Debenport (2015) calls ‘hopeful nostalgia,’ where if “read through the lens of nostalgia, language revitalization can be seen as both a symptom and a cure, a way to diagnose the amount of cultural loss and a way to reinstate what has gone missing, what has been taken, and what is seen to be vital to the health of the community." By definition then, language reclamation looks to the past in order to understand the present and to imagine radical linguistic futures. While the past is often privileged in discussions of language revitalization as an anchor of authenticity and cultural continuity, present day language use in revitalization contexts also utilizes comics, gaming, memes, and other creative and technological domains that position Native American languages as always simultaneously ‘once and future,’ quondam and futurus. In this talk, I consider the role of these Indigenous linguistic and cultural temporalities in understanding Indigenous language activism with particular interest in linguistic futurisms, or the imagining of Indigenous languages in Indigenous perspectives of the future.

Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she is the director of the Native American and Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab and an affiliate faculty of American Indian Studies and Gender & Women’s Studies. She is the 2019-2021 Chancellor's Fellow of Indigenous Research & Ethics, and serves as the UIUC campus NAGPRA officer.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:37:06 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Nittak fokhama Tali’ hattakat chikashanompala’chi! ‘In the future, robots will speak Chickasaw,’" Labaachi’ Noah Hinson
CDB Seminar: Torsin and other nuclear envelope proteins: Structural biology on a roller coaster (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67428 67428-16849200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Kristen Verhey, PhD

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:52:52 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Schwartz
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68168 68168-17020453@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: "Chromatin accessibility signatures of immune system aging"

Abstract: Aging is linked to deficiencies in immune responses and increased systemic inflammation. To unravel regulatory programs behind these changes, we profiled peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from young and old individuals (n=77) using ATAC-seq and RNA-seq technologies and analyzed these data via systems immunology tools. First, we described an epigenomic signature of immune system aging, with simultaneous systematic chromatin closing at promoters and enhancers associated with T cell signaling. This signature was primarily borne by memory CD8+ T cells, which exhibited an aging-related loss in IL7R activity and IL7 responsiveness. More recently to uncover the impact of sex on immune system aging, we studied PBMCs from 194 healthy adults (100 women, 94 men) ranging from 22-93 years old using ATAC-seq, RNA-seq, and flow cytometry technologies. These data revealed a shared epigenomic signature of aging between sexes composed of declines in naïve T cell functions and increases in monocyte and cytotoxic cell functions. Despite similarities, these changes were greater in magnitude in men. Additionally, we uncovered male-specific decreases in expression/accessibility of B-cell associated loci. Trajectory analyses revealed that age-related epigenomic changes were more abrupt at two timepoints in the human lifespan. The first timepoint was similar between sexes in terms of timing (early forties) and magnitude. In contrast, the latter timepoint was earlier (~5 years) and more pronounced in men (mid-sixties versus late-sixties). Unexpectedly, differences between men and women PBMCs increased with aging, with men having higher monocyte and pro-inflammatory activity and lower B/T cell activity compared to women after 65 years of age. Our study uncovered which immune cell functions and molecules are differentially affected with age between sexes, including the differences in timing and magnitude of changes, which is an important step towards precision medicine in older adults.

3:45 pm - Light refreshments served
4:00 pm - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 15:12:18 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. The Due Process of Cruelty: Trump’s Immigration Policy and the Rule of Law (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66498 66498-16742862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Most legal efforts to stop anti-immigrant policies adopted by the Trump Administration have, at most, slowed their implementation, and have just as often failed entirely. According to polls, public opinion seems to have rejected the Trump approach to immigration, and yet the political process seems unable to change it. This lecture by a scholar and advocate at the frontlines addresses these apparent failures, and in the process identifies gaps in international law, administrative law and constitutional norms that have left immigrants uniquely exposed to harm at a time of rising nationalism and xenophobia.

Michael Kagan (J.D. Michigan 2000), is Joyce Mack Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is Director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic. As a scholar, Prof. Kagan has written extensively about the intersection of immigration law with civil liberties and administrative law, and is the author of some of the most widely cited articles in international refugee law. As a legal advocate, Prof. Kagan started his career developing legal aid for Sudanese, Somali, Iraqi and other refugees in the Middle East. He now directs a clinic that defends people facing deportation in Las Vegas, Nevada. In a private capacity, Prof. Kagan was a plaintiff in Kravitz v. Department of Commerce, one of the lawsuits that ultimately prevented a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 United States Census.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please contact us at umichhumanrights@umich.edu, we'd be happy to help. As you may know, some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange, so please let us know as soon as you can.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:03:21 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion sign
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

New, experienced, and future teachers of creative writing are invited to join an ongoing conversation about the art and craft of teaching creative writing. As a group, we will ask and answer questions, share resources and experiences, and try out exercises. Hopwood Teaching Roundtables are primarily intended to support new teachers of undergraduate creative writing, but all those interested in the teaching of creative writing are welcome to join the conversation.

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

*Rebecca Manery earned a Ph.D. in English and Education from the University of Michigan, an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College, and an M.A. in Literacy Education from Northeastern Illinois University. She is the co-editor of Can Creative Writing Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy, 10th Anniversary Edition (Bloomsbury, 2017) and the author of a poetry collection, View from the Hotel de l’Etoile (Finishing Line Press, 2016).*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Listening to Strengthen Democracy (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66775 66775-16776790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Our democracy suffers from a lack of listening and an overabundance of people not feeling heard. In her talk, Dr. Cramer will explain what she heard while inviting herself into the conversations of people in small communities in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. That project led to a collaboration with a team of technology experts at MIT and partner nonprofit, Cortico. Kathy will talk about the community-driven listening network they invented, the Local Voices Network, and share what they've learned so far from chapters in Wisconsin, New York, Massachusetts, and Alabama.

Katherine Cramer (B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1994, Ph.D. University of Michigan 2000) is a Professor of Political Science and the Natalie C. Holton Chair of Letters & Science. During the 2018-2019 academic year she is a Visiting Professor with the Laboratory for Social Machines at the MIT Media Lab. She is an affiliate faculty member in the UW-Madison Elections Research Center, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, LaFollette School of Public Affairs, Institute for Research on Poverty, Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, and Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. She is known for her innovative approach to the study of public opinion, in which she uses methods like inviting herself into the conversations of groups of people to listen to the way they understand public affairs. Her award-winning book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, brought to light rural resentment toward cities and its implications for contemporary politics, and was a go-to source for understanding votes in the 2016 presidential election (University of Chicago Press, 2016). She has also published as Katherine Cramer Walsh and is the author of Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2007), and Talking about Politics: Informal Groups and Social Identity in American Life (University of Chicago Press, 2004). She was named a Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters in 2018 and is the recipient of the 2018 APSA Heinz Eulau Award for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics (with Benjamin Toff), the 2017 APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book developing or using qualitative methods published in 2016; a finalist for the 2017 APSA Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs; the 2012 APSA Qualitative and Multi-Methods Research Section award for the best qualitative or multi-method submission to the American Political Science Review; a 2006 UW-Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award; a 2012-2014 UW-Madison Vilas Associate Award; a 2015-17 Leon Epstein Faculty Fellowship; and a 2017-2022 UW-Madison Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Researcher Award. In 2019 she was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sponsored by The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy and The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:08:25 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Kathy Cramer
What a 12th Century Muslim says to a 21st Century Christian in Andalusia: Inheriting a Complex Religious Identity (October 23, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68509 68509-17094814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

From the late 19th century to the present, many Spaniards—particularly those residing in the nation’s south—have come to feel that contemporary Andalusia is linked in vitally important ways with al-Andalus (medieval Islamic Iberia), and that the challenges faced by Spaniards today—and by Europeans more broadly—require a recognition of that historical identity and continuity. Discovering themselves to be inheritors of an historical identity deeply marked by the Islamic tradition (an identity insistently denied and erased within Spanish nationalist discourse), these men and women have found Islam to be integral to their lives in ways that upset their coordinates of identity, as Europeans, Spaniards, or Andalusians. In this talk, and keeping in mind the theme of this workshop, I want to think about historical memory as a medium of religious communication, or more precisely, of a religious interpellation addressed to a subject outside the bounds of that religion. While it is common to think about the legacies of al-Andalus as “cultural” rather than religious, neither of these modern terms, I argue, can do justice to the disruptive impact of the Iberian past on those who listen to its call. Drawing on the archive of Andalucismo, this talk asks: what does it mean for a modern European Christian to be the inheritor of a Muslim past?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:09:39 -0400 2019-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Hirschkind Lecture Poster
Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors (October 23, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65326 65326-16571519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

This presentation will address the surge of urban social actors who have changed the traditional criollo city of La Paz into a newly-born cholo/mestizo city shaped after the influence of new socio-economic sectors of mainly Aymara ethnic origins.

It is during the second half of the past century that the long underprivileged and belittled Quechua/Aymara merchants of the city of La Paz opened the doors to smuggling and to the informal economy that has neither been taxed nor monitored by any form of government. Quechua/Aymara merchants, often stigmatized as troublesome and unmanageable, expanded rapidly to challenge the formal economy ran by merchants of diverse European as well as Middle-Eastern origins (mainly Croatian, Lebanese, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and German).

Gastón Gallardo’s presentation will explore the spatial consequences that rose from the “physical” creation of a Quechua/Aymara black market that commercialized with clothing and other imported goods. This black market created a vast ambulant commerce of informal nature that dramatically changed La Paz, the site of Bolivia’s government. What did this mean symbolically? How should we conceptualize the enormous changes the city is encountering today between the rationalized European spatial models of the past and the new mestizo baroque architectural forms of the present? What are the connections between commerce and the vibrant mestizo festivities that have conquered artistically the traditional criollo city of the past?

Gastón Gallardo is a well-known Bolivian architect and urban planner. Professor Emeritus of the School of Architecture at Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, the most important public university in Bolivia, Gallardo has also been its Dean of the School of Architecture, Arts, Design and Urbanism, from 2015 until 2018. He is also a founder member of the School of Architecture at Universidad Católica Boliviana, and has taught at the postgraduate level at several other universities. He holds degrees from Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and Collegio d’Ingenierie della Toscana, Firenze, Italy, and has done postgraduate work in territorial and urban planning, in Italy and Argentina. Gallardo in widely published in Bolivia and Latin America, and is currently Vice President of the Bolivian Association of History.

Gallardo’s presentation will be in Spanish.

This event is co-sponsored by Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:36:20 -0400 2019-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Andean Space and City Modified by New Social and Economic Bolivian Actors
Wellness in Color (October 23, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68152 68152-17018327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

As students of color at the University of Michigan, some experiences can cause or worsen stress, anxiety, and isolation. Everyday experiences of racism, discrimination, or just subtly being made to feel “different” or like we don’t belong can cause our academics and social lives to suffer. This negatively impacts our mental wellbeing. Many students of color face the challenge of finding supportive and trusting resources that relate to their mental health experiences. Finding the solution to this lack of support has been a conversation that's been halted on campus for too long. At Wellness in Color, we aim to tackle this challenge by facilitating dialogues to initiate the mental health conversation in our community.

We invite you to join us to talk about how students of color have persevered despite difficult moments at Michigan and how faculty and staff can play a role in creating a learning environment where students of color can thrive.

This student pre-conference is designed and facilitated by U-M students of color as part of the national Young, Gifted, @Risk, and Resilient Conference which aims to promote the mental health and well being among students of color.

Sponsors:
The Steve Fund, National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID), Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR), Trotter Multicultural Center (TMC), and the Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA) office.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 11:52:08 -0400 2019-10-23T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Image says "Wellness in Color"
Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability: A Talk from Fables and Futures (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67283 67283-16831255@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In this talk, award-winning poet and memoirist George Estreich will draw from his new book, Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves (MIT Press, 2019).

From Francis Galton's “Essays in Eugenics” to the announcement of the first gene-edited babies, the dream of human improvement has been entwined with persuasion. Looking at contemporary and historical examples, from the famous allegorical drawing of the “Eugenics Tree” to Chinese scientist He Jiankui's YouTube announcement of gene-edited twins, Estreich will explore the literary aspects of persuasion, with particular attention to metaphor. What values do these persuasive acts embody? Whose purposes do they serve? And whom do they obscure, dehumanize or erase? The literary content of these persuasive acts suggests a necessary role for writers, literary critics and scholars of disability studies, as we seek to guide the use of new and powerful biotechnologies in human beings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 07:57:21 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion All News All Events Search Events Helen Zell Writers Program Events Mark Websters Reading Series Helen Zell Visiting Writers Series Persuasion, Human Improvement, and Disability
Torn Asunder: Faith, Higher Education, Politics and the Davidson family during the Civil War (October 23, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65587 65587-16619785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Davidson family of Indianapolis is a near perfect microcosm of the United States during Civil War. With roots in the South, but living in the North the family's ties to religious, education, and political leaders and institutions cast new light on the loyalties Americans felt towards their region, nation and the institution of slavery.

Central to the story is Preston Davidson, a Hoosier by birth, who fought for the Confederacy alongside his Virginian cousins. On the other side, stands his brother Dorman, who fought to preserve the Union. How these two ended up on opposing sides of the greatest conflict in American history is the story of how familial expectations, faith, higher educational opportunities, and political loyalties all played into the struggle over if the nation would be divided or united and whether or not slavery would flourish or be abolished.

A native Hoosier, Jason S. Lantzer holds a BA, MA, and PhD all from Indiana University. His research and writing interests center on the intersection of religion, politics, and law in American History. His book, "Rebel Bulldog: The Story of One Family, Two States, and the Civil War" was published in 2017. Dr. Lantzer serves as the Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 11:08:30 -0400 2019-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Dr. Jason S. Lantzer
The Chinese Art of Penjing -- Taking Bonsai to a World Stage (October 23, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64777 64777-16444934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Chicago-based bonsai artist Jennifer Price discusses the art of penjing. Jennifer has apprenticed with multiple renowned bonsai artists, she was the first female artist invited to Generation Bonsai in Germany, and she represented the U.S. at Zhongguo Feng Penjing Exhibit in China.

Presented by Ann Arbor Bonsai Society

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:38:47 -0400 2019-10-23T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Guest Master Class: Julia Bullock, soprano (October 23, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67929 67929-16969017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

“A musician who delights in making her own rules” (New Yorker), Julia Bullock has appeared with opera companies and symphony orchestras around the world.  Described as "heady, fascinating and avant garde" she serves as 2019/20 Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Symphony, opera-programming host of new broadcast channel All Arts, is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), and 2018-19 Artist-in-Residence of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chosen as one of WQXR’s “19 for 19” artists to watch this year, she is also a prominent voice of social consciousness and activism.

Bullock will work with select SMTD singers. Bullock may also be seen in the UMS presentation of Zauberland, October 24 and 25 in the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 13:11:18 -0400 2019-10-23T19:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Julia Bullock
BME Seminar: Jason Papin, Ph.D. (October 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68620 68620-17105386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

New experimental technologies to characterize microbes result in voluminous data on the genotype-phenotype relationship under diverse conditions. Computer models have become indispensable tools to integrate such data and facilitate the generation and testing of hypotheses. We will discuss recent methods to construct and test computer models of microbial metabolism that are being used to identify novel drug targets and characterize the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 15:23:24 -0400 2019-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T10:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
When Your Childhood Favorites are Problematic: Robinson Crusoe and Our Ongoing Relationship with Troubled Media (October 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68293 68293-17043862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: DEIA, University of Michigan Library

Daniel Defoe’s novel “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” lives in the popular imagination as a heroic adventure story; but amid the adventure, the novel presents a worldview that is explicitly racist, imperialist, and hypermasculine. This is true for other items in popular culture like television, movies, and music.

Join the Library Diversity Counsel and the U-M Library DEIA team as we have a structured conversation around Robinson Crusoe and other forms of media that have popular or favorable legacies, but contain problematic messages and content.
For more information and questions, please contact Thomas Dickens, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program Manager at dickenst@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 10:00:39 -0400 2019-10-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T10:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library DEIA, University of Michigan Library Lecture / Discussion Robinson Crusoe
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66265 66265-16725776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics. However, this is a relatively new political phenomenon. In this lecture, I provide a brief overview of the changes in the role of prime ministers and the power of public opinion over the past fifty years. I also show how changes in methodology and more frequent polls further accelerated prime ministers’ dependence on their approval ratings. Finally, using available survey data, I demonstrate how much the impact of prime ministerial approval on individual voting behavior has increased over time.

Professor Maeda earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 2001. His research interests include (1) public opinion, (2) methodologies in survey research, and (3) data sharing in the social sciences. He has worked for the Japanese committees for many international surveys, including the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and World Value Survey.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:05:07 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo
Yale Law School Information Session (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68529 68529-17096921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center

A visiting admissions representative from Yale Law School will host an admissions information session for interested applicants from the University of Michigan community. The session will include a short presentation and Q&A/discussion about Yale Law’s programs.

Students will also have the opportunity to sign-up for 1-on-1 informational interviews with Yale Law Director of Admissions, Todd Rothman. Registration for interviews is required, space is limited: https://calendly.com/todd-rothman/meet-todd-rothman-director-of-admissions-on-c-clone?month=2019-10&date=2019-10-24

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:43:13 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Newnan LSA Academic Advising Center Lecture / Discussion Newnan Advising Center Pre-Law
Dealing with the Practical Challenges of Downsizing (October 24, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65915 65915-16670245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Senior Citizens often have the problem of moving to smaller quarters and experience the problem of downsizing. This session will provide some useful advice.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:09:42 -0400 2019-10-24T12:15:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Black Women's Gaming Practices as Intersectional Counterpublics (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64249 64249-16266503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

"I am unable to detangle, in any analytic or actual way, my gender, race, or sexuality from the vitriol and symbolic violence levied upon me after the discovery of my physical identities in digital spaces." Misogynoir, a core facet of Black feminist discourse and an integral part of intersectionality, acknowledges that Black women’s experiences inside the matrix of domination is echoed by the many ways that Black women are dehumanized in popular culture. Misogynoir also expands the scope of examination and provides an inclusive focus on not just anti-Blackness and White supremacy, but also intraracially, in exploring how Black masculinity and Black patriarchy contribute to the objectification of Black women. To gain a sense of the interracial and intraracial experiences of Black women in gaming, this talk will interrogate ethnographic observations and interviews with Black women and other women of color in online gaming communities. While these examples highlight the continued devaluation of women in public spaces, my observational narratives weave together a simultaneous engagement with being a Black woman while online, while gaming, and while consuming mediated content about Black women in “the real world.” This transmediated engagement illustrates intersectional tech,
exploring the entanglements of visual, textual, and oral engagements of the Black body in both the digital and physical realms.


Kishonna Gray is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Previously, she served as an MLK Scholar and Assistant Professor at MIT in the Women & Gender Studies Program as well as a Faculty Visitor at the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research (Cambridge).

Her work broadly intersects identity and digital media with a particular focus on video games and gaming culture. By examining game context and culture in her most recent book, Race, Gender, & Deviance in Xbox Live, examines the reality of women and people of color in one of the largest gaming communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:37:59 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion kishonna
MedChem Seminar (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68815 68815-17155485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Trimming the C-terminal tail of alpha-tubulin: What is it good for?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:36:22 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
MedChem Seminar (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68815 68815-17155486@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Trimming the C-terminal tail of alpha-tubulin: What is it good for?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:36:22 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
MedChem Seminar (October 24, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68815 68815-17155487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Trimming the C-terminal tail of alpha-tubulin: What is it good for?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:36:22 -0400 2019-10-24T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T14:00:00-04:00 Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
Annual UMRA meeting and Benefits Discussion (October 24, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65896 65896-16670221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Mr. Holcomb is Associate Vice President for Human Resources and serves as the university's chief human resource officer. He has over 20 years in human resources. He will provide an update on health benefits for UM retirees for 2019-20 and will answer questions from the audience.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:28:02 -0400 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
What a Diary Confers: Children in the Zambezi Valley (October 24, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68478 68478-17086379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:30pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Pamela Reynolds will speak about her book The Uncaring, Intricate World: A Field Diary, Zambezi Valley, 1984-85 (Duke 2019). Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor at the University of Cape Town, Reynolds is author of War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State. As U-M Presidential Professor she conducted the 2001-02 Mellon Seminar: Contested Childhood in a Changing Global Order. Following her talk, she is available for further conversation at a reception and book signing held in her honor. Reception RSVP at lizgoode@umich.edu

Free and open to the public

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 10:18:19 -0400 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Lecture poster
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Danica Lombardozzi (October 24, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67731 67731-16926540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Dr. Danica Lombardozzi of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Dr. Lombardozzi will give a presentation titled:
"Linking leaves to global climate: Understanding terrestrial ecosystems in changing environments"

Abstract: Terrestrial ecosystems play an integral role in regulating Earth’s climate through their cycling of carbon, water, and energy. Humans are altering these fluxes by perturbing terrestrial ecosystems through land use change, land management, and climate change. In this talk, I explore how terrestrial processes, ranging from leaf-level to global scales, respond to human perturbations and, in turn, how changes to terrestrial ecosystems impact climate. Insight into the interactions between terrestrial ecosystems and climate is fundamental to understanding the future of our planet and the natural resources and ecosystem services it provides. This is vital to creating policies effective in regulating perturbations and improving the quality of life for human society.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:09:11 -0400 2019-10-24T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
CCPS Lecture. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Politics of History in Today’s Poland (October 24, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65640 65640-16627843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its core exhibition less than five years ago, but it has already attracted millions of visitors and massive and favorable media attention both in Poland and internationally, and earned the major European museum awards. However, since it opposed the so-called Holocaust complicity law in early 2018 and organized a large public program for the 50th anniversary of the 1968 “anti-Zionist campaign” in communist Poland, it has become an object of media attacks and criticism by the government. This lecture will present the processes that had led to the establishment of the museum and its remarkable success. It will examine how these processes have changed under a culture war dividing the country; a tendency for expansive government control; and a memory policy, which rejects critical coming to terms with difficult pasts as a “pedagogy of shame” and calls for a glorious vision of national history, focusing on heroism and victimhood.

Dariusz Stola is a historian and professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles on the history of Polish-Jewish relations, the Holocaust, international migrations and communist regime, as well as on Polish debates about these pasts. In 2014-2019, he was the Polin Museum director.

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 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:42:40 -0400 2019-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Dariusz Stola
Marilyn Minter: In Person (October 24, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65260 65260-16559490@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Appropriating the aesthetics of fashion editorials and advertising, New York-based Marilyn Minter’s photorealist paintings examine banal realities, such as frozen peas or kitchen floors, often relegated to a hyper-feminized realm in popular culture and marketing, as well as contemporary notions of beauty and sensuality. Adding sweat, spit, hair, and dirt to the high-gloss veneer of advertising campaigns, Minter juxtaposes in-your-face beauty with the down-and-dirty reality of being human. Minter first gained popularity in the early 1990s, and has been featured in major solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain, and the Deichtorhallen in Germany. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA, and was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard and in Times Square. Most recently, her retrospective Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; the Orange County Museum of Art; and the Brooklyn Museum.

Supported by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:50:51 -0400 2019-10-24T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/minter.jpg
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Marilyn Minter: In Person (October 24, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65663 65663-16629872@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Appropriating the aesthetics of fashion editorials and advertising, New York-based Marilyn Minter’s photorealist paintings examine banal realities, such as frozen peas or kitchen floors, often relegated to a hyper-feminized realm in popular culture and marketing, as well as contemporary notions of beauty and sensuality. Adding sweat, spit, hair, and dirt to the high-gloss veneer of advertising campaigns, Minter juxtaposes in-your-face beauty with the down-and-dirty reality of being human. Minter first gained popularity in the early 1990s, and has been featured in major solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo in Spain, and the Deichtorhallen in Germany. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA, and was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard and in Times Square. Most recently, her retrospective Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver; the Orange County Museum of Art; and the Brooklyn Museum.

Supported by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:17:17 -0400 2019-10-24T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Language Matters (October 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68147 68147-17018311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Please join the Language Matters initiative for their Second Annual Lightning Talk Workshop and Roundtable Conversation, which will focus on the topic of "Coming Together: Many Voices On Language."

Featured speakers include Danielle Labotka (Ph.D. student in Developmental Psychology), Kendon Smith (Ph.D. student in Englsih and Education), and Yourdanis Sedarous (Ph.D. student in Linguistics). Talks will be followed by an open roundtable conversation with all presenters and attendees.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:17:27 -0400 2019-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Language Matters flyer
The Via Pumpaiiana: a Biography (October 24, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63978 63978-16051359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: History of Art

Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Society of the Archaeological Institute of America

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the Kelsey Museum Education Office (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, 03 Sep 2019 14:21:53 -0400 2019-10-24T17:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T19:30:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology History of Art Lecture / Discussion poster
Paani: Kashmir Teach-In (October 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68401 68401-17075835@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Annenburg Auditorium
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Kashmir - Rightly termed as the 'Heaven on Earth,' yet synonymous with violence and bloodshed. The ongoing crisis has been represented from the Pakistani and Indian political perspectives in local and international media, but the humanitarian lens from the Kashmiri view point has almost always been silenced. Paani and Stand With Kashmir are proud to present a Kashmir Teach In, an in depth, politically neutral dialogue focused on the humanitarian crisis in the region, headed by Safwaan Mir and Nishita Trisal. Join us in learning more about human rights abuses in the Kashmir Valley, as well as the status of the region following the repeals of Article's 370 and 35a and the ongoing military curfew. Food will be provided!Sponsored By: South Asian Awareness NetworkTricontinental Solidarity NetworkPakistani Student AssociationIndian American Student AssociationMuslim Students' Association

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:00:12 -0400 2019-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T21:00:00-04:00 Annenburg Auditorium Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Weekly Bible Study - "Introduction" (October 24, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66644 66644-16770090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for prayer, worship, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Introduction to Colossians from Colossians 1:1-14.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:00:09 -0400 2019-10-24T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
How Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology Can Inform Clinical Science: From Measurement to Minority Health (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68479 68479-17086380@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Dimensional models of psychopathology, that transcend diagnostic boundary, have gained traction within the clinical science literature as a means of overcoming the drawbacks of traditional psychiatric diagnostic systems. In this talk, I illustrate the ways in which my research program—aimed at understanding core dimensional factors of psychopathology—can transform clinical science research and practice. I additionally discuss how transdiagnostic dimensional models of psychopathology can inform understanding of health disparities among populations defined by marginalization and stigma.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:45:56 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion C.Rodriguez-Seijas
P&PW Ecopoetics Reading Group (October 25, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67784 67784-16949878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Part of the Poetry & Poetics Workshop roundtable series. For the pre-circulated reading material—“Intimacy: The Poetics of Thick Time,” the first chapter of David Farrier’s Anthropocene Poetics: Deep Time, Sacrifice Zones, and Extinction (University of Minnesota Press, 2019)—please contact Zoey Dorman (zdorman@umich.edu) or Talin Tahajian (taltahaj@umich.edu). We’ll also provide you with Farrier’s introduction, “Life Enfolded in Deep Time.” Coffee and bagels will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:15:03 -0400 2019-10-25T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Distinguished Alumni Lecture: "25 Years of Ceramic Research, Teaching, and Service: A Look at Life’s Decisions that Create a Past but Lead to the Present" (October 25, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68648 68648-17130515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 10:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Materials Science and Engineering

My goal for the first part of this seminar is to take you on my journey through the field of materials science and engineering, from the day that I discovered this amazing field to today. Together, we will briefly overview the tough decisions that life throws at us, often in unexpected ways; we will discuss what “work hard, play hard” means and why that’s at least one proven method for how to approach a reasonable work/life balance; and we will discuss why you should give back to the professional organizations that support you.

The remainder of the presentation will focus on the current research in my group, concentrating largely on ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs). UHTCs are an emerging class of structural materials capable of withstanding extreme environments, which is allowing them to be used in applications ranging from hypersonic flight and rocket propulsion to advanced nuclear reactors, electrodes for metal production, and more. These applications involve temperatures, heat fluxes, radiation levels, strain rates, chemical reactivities, or other stresses that are beyond the capabilities of existing materials. This presentation will review recent research on UHTCs, focusing on mechanical and thermal behavior at temperatures up to 2000°C, or higher. The presentation will overview the MS and PhD research of the current graduate students in the group and take a deeper dive into one or two key projects related to improving the elevated temperature thermal and mechanical properties of boride and carbide based UHTCs. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of some emerging trends and future needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:31:53 -0400 2019-10-25T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T11:20:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Materials Science and Engineering Lecture / Discussion MSE
CSEAS Lecture Series. Last Flight to Bangkok: Reflections on 60 Years in Southeast Asia (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65089 65089-16515513@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In this lecture, Professor Gayl Ness will reflect on his sixty year career in Southeast Asian Studies, which has focused on development, environment-social organization, and human ecology. Specifically, he will discuss how rice production generates large empires with state-like political administration, and how the river systems in Vietnam encouraged strong political centralization in the North and political decentralization in the South. Further, Prof. Ness will detail how Southeast Asian geography relates to the high degree of independence of women throughout the region.

Gayl Ness is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Michigan. His work focuses on how geography or land forms affect social organization. He retired in 1997, but continues to teach a first year seminar on Population, Development, and Environment.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:46:41 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
The Road to Hell: Why Serving the Poor Does Not Eliminate Poverty (October 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66033 66033-16684581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

The Rev. Faith Fowler, executive director of Cass Community Social Services, will give a talk titled "The Road to Hell: Why Serving the Poor Does Not Eliminate Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:12:22 -0400 2019-10-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Faith Fowler
AIG (American Institutions Group) (October 25, 2019 12:05pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67609 67609-16900798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 12:05pm
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 Sep 2019 15:51:13 -0400 2019-10-25T12:05:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Phondi Discussion Group (October 25, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 66303-16725830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:57:38 -0400 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Masculinity Contest Culture (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65151 65151-16541459@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Cultural norms prescribe “real men” to prove their masculinity by dominating others, fostering a Masculinity Contest (MC), a perceived zero-sum competition to prove masculinity. The newly developed and validated Masculinity Contest Culture (MCC) scale assesses four norms: (1) Show No Weakness (e.g., showing “soft” emotions, seeking advice, or admitting doubt are seen as weak), (2) Physical Strength (e.g., preferring “jocks” even in white collar jobs, valorizing work stamina), (3) Put Work First (e.g., working extreme hours, not letting family “interfere” with work), and (4) Dog Eat Dog (a hypercompetitive environment where coworkers cannot be trusted). Factor analyses show the four norms as distinct, though correlated subfactors that represent facets of an overarching latent construct (MCC). Items on the MCC scale do not specifically reference masculinity or male gender, with the notion that MC norms are legitimized simply as “the way we do business,” their origins in masculinity obscured. As a result, both female and male employees may be judged by how well they fit MCC prescriptions, creating obstacles to women’s leadership. The more strongly respondents (both male and female) viewed their work environment as fitting MCC norms, the more dysfunction they reported, from the organization to individual level. Specifically, MCC scores correlated with (a) poor organizational climate and leadership (e.g., toxic leaders, sexist climate, low psychological team safety), (b) negative behaviors (e.g., bullying, gender and ethnic harassment), and (c) poorer individual outcomes (burnout, job dissatisfaction, turnover intentions, lower organizational dedication, poorer psychological health). Although the evidence is correlational, the MCC seems a likely culprit as a cause of organizational dysfunction, breeding toxic leadership and misconduct that, in turn, leads to poor individual outcomes for employees. I suggest that mission-based interventions can mitigate MC norms by focusing instead on more productive ways to work.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:04:15 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Sustainable Systems Forum (October 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68204 68204-17026815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

A panel of alumnae share insights from their careers in the energy space. Participants include: 

Allison Clements, Energy Foundation, Program Director-Clean Energy Markets

Kerry Duggan, RIDGE-LANE LP, Partner in Sustainability Practice; Office of Vice President Joe Biden, Former Deputy Director for Policy

Kate Elliott, Tesla, Regional Manager of Charging

Shoshannah Lenski, DTE Energy, Director of Productivity & Work Standards

Trisha Miller, Gates Ventures, Senior Director of Advocacy & Government Relations

Moderated by Shelie Miller, U-M Program in the Environment (PitE), Director

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:41:00 -0400 2019-10-25T13:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion Women in Energy panel of alumnae
HET Seminar | Two-loop mixed EW-QCD corrections to Drell-Yan lepton pair production (October 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68269 68269-17037493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Drell-Yan lepton pair production is a key process for precision physics at the Large Hadron Collider. In this talk I will consider the two-loop amplitudes required for the full O(\alpha \alpha_s) corrections to this process and discuss the calculation of the required Feynman integrals. While algebraic linear combinations of the integrals fulfill $\;epsilon$ decoupled differential equations, the symbol letters are provably non-rationalizable. I will show that they can nevertheless be integrated in terms of conventional multiple polylogarithms with algebraic arguments, which allow for fast and stable numerical evaluations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 14:06:55 -0400 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Shifting the Lens in Today's Society: Leadership in Journalism - A Conversation with Peter Bhatia (October 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67905 67905-16966878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Join us for an afternoon discussion with Peter Bhatia, a multiple Pulitzer Prize winning editor. Peter has spearheaded meaningful journalism and digital advances at numerous news sites across the country. He is currently the Editor and Vice President of the Detroit Free Press.

RSVP: https://myumi.ch/VPl9z

Food will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:05:25 -0400 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
SynSem Discussion Group (October 25, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66692 66692-16770213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The syntax-semantics group provides a forum within which Linguistics students and faculty at 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 Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:32:03 -0400 2019-10-25T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion SynSem graphic
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (October 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67241 67241-16829002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:33:16 -0400 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Special Lecture: What Really Happened in the Continental Realm During the First of Three Great Global Extinctions?: The Chronostratigraphy of Beaufort Group Strata Deposited Across the Permian/Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa? (October 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63121 63121-15576729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The commonly held, decades old model for the terrestrial response to the end-Permian extinction crisis is based on a turnover in the vertebrate-fossil record first documented in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, and since extrapolated globally. This model requires that the systematic loss exhibited by an abrupt turnover from the Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (DAZ) to the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone (LAZ) is coincident with the timing of mass extinctions in the oceanic realm. Understanding the timing of these inferred environmental changes in the Karoo Basin, from Late Permian to possibly Early Triassic (?) time, as recorded in Beaufort Group strata, requires robust chronostratigraphic information, including high quality unequivocal magnetic polarity stratigraphy for sections previously interpreted to encompass end-Permian extinction events. The preservation of an early-acquired remanence in Beaufort strata is required for a valid magnetostratigraphy, yet is difficult to prove due to thermochemical effects related to the Early Jurassic (ca. 183 Ma) Karoo Large Igneous Province (LIP) and the NE to SW increase in burial diagenesis attending Cape Fold Belt tectonism. My very fond wonderings in parts of the Karoo Basin, along with several tremendous colleagues, have allowed me to collect well over 2500 independently oriented samples from several key inferred PTB sections, involving at least 240 distinct sites. At the well-studied Bethulie section, Free State Province, over 120 sites have been established in both Beaufort strata and several <2 m wide Karoo LIP dikes. Strata well-removed from dikes yield both normal and reverse polarity ChRM. The first-removed RM in sedimentary rocks is always a NNW seeking, moderate to steep negative inclination ChRM (normal polarity); NRM intensities are typically ~1 to 5 mA/m. A stratigraphic interval involving over ten sites in discrete beds, the top of which is located some 4 m below the often-cited “event bed” Permian/Triassic boundary interval is dominated by a well-defined reverse RM with a normal overprint RM unblocked below 400oC, implying elevated temperatures (i.e., ~ 100 to 250oC+) for ca. 1 Ma (+/-). The lower part of the section, extending close to the Caledon River, is exclusively of normal polarity. Contact tests are positive but complicated. Documentation of a primary RM in these strata, which appears in some areas to be preserved, requires careful laboratory- and field-based assessment. At Farm Nooitgedacht (“Neverland”), where previous workers have identified the position of the DAZ to LAZ boundary, we have, for the first time in upper Beaufort Group strata, a thin, pristine ash fall deposit. The high precision U-Pb zircon age data from this ash, in combination with magnetostratigraphic, palynostratigraphic, and geochemical observations are in a manuscript that has passed the first of two hurdles in Nature Communications. The new results have profound implications for previous interpretations of any turnover in vertebrates that may have occurred in relation to the end-Permian extinction event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:53:20 -0400 2019-10-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-10-25T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquium: Chan Bock Lee, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (October 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68681 68681-17136737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Energy in the Earth, and the Role of Nuclear Power

Abstract: Life can be described as the existence who can utilize the energy. Among life, human may be best in energy utilization and actually use too much energy. This talk will review what is the energy, how the energy is used in earth and ecology through diverse transformation, and history of human energy use including fossil fuels, renewables and nuclear energy. As there is nothing free, the effect of the immense energy use by human upon the ecology and the climate in earth will be reviewed. As nuclear energy is a source of all the energy in the universe, the role of nuclear energy will be discussed reviewing characteristics of nuclear energy, and the way to enhance the public acceptance for nuclear power plant and radiation, to emphasize that the nuclear energy, and in particular, electricity from nuclear power plant is essential to energy use of human in the future.

Bio: Dr. Chan Bock Lee received his BS and MS in Nuclear Engineering from Seoul National University in South Korea and his PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT. He has been working at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) since 1989. At KAERI, he has worked in fuel design, fabrication, irradiation testing and performance evaluation for diverse fuels such as UO2 fuel for commercial PWR, metallic fuel for SFR and research reactor, and TRISO fuel for VHTR. He served
as Division Director of Fuel Development at KAERI from 2011 to 2017 and Chair of Nuclear Fuel and Materials Division in Korea Nuclear Society from 2014 to 2016. This year he published “Energy Common Sense”, a book upon which will be the basis of this talk.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:23:49 -0400 2019-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 10-25-19 NERS Colloquium: Chan Bock Lee, PhD
Heather Igloliorte: Inuit Art Futures (October 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64160 64160-16171649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Heather Igloliorte is an Inuk scholar, curator, and art historian, leading the field of contemporary Inuit art curatorial practice and working to develop the next generation of Inuit leaders. Join us on Friday, October 25, to hear her public talk that kicks off the 2019 Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting on the last weekend of UMMA's exhibition The Power Family Program for Inuit Art: Tillirnanngittuq.

 

Heather Igloliorte holds the University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts at Concordia University, where she leads the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership Partnership Grant and Co-Directs the Initiative for Indigenous Futures Cluster (IIF) in the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology with Professor Jason Edward Lewis. Igloliorte currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Indigenous Circle for the Winnipeg Art Gallery, working on the development of the new national Inuit Art Centre; and sits on the Board of Directors for the Native North American Art Studies Association, the Inuit Art Foundation, and the Nunavut Film Board, among others. 

Please join us for a reception and opportunity to see the exhibition at 5:30 p.m. More information about the Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting can be found on their website at www.inuitartsociety.org.

 

 

 

This exhibition inaugurates the Power Family Program for Inuit Art, established in 2018 through the generosity of Philip and Kathy Power.

The Inuit Art Society Annual Meeting is organized by the Inuit Art Society with generous funding from the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Consul General of Canada, Detroit office.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18:03 -0400 2019-10-25T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T20:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano (October 26, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64834 64834-16460971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 11:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lane has sung with many of the world’s most prestigious ensembles, including the Metropolitan Opera, the Freiburger Barockorchester, and Les Art Florissants. She will present a masterclass focused on Baroque repertoire and the vocal works of G.F. Handel.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:15:33 -0400 2019-10-26T11:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Jennifer Lane
Scientist in the Forum (October 26, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66401 66401-16734189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 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 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:55:59 -0400 2019-10-26T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-26T13:15:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (October 26, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66399 66399-16734182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 26, 2019 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 around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Saturdays and Sundays, 3:00 p.m.

Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized! How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:44:57 -0400 2019-10-26T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-26T15:20:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (October 27, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66401 66401-16734193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 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 Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:55:59 -0400 2019-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-27T13:15:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Don Chisholm Jazz Vocal Masterclass with Sunny Wilkinson (October 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66788 66788-16778975@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Stearns Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Vocal students from the Departments of Jazz and Musical Theatre perform for guest clinician Sunny Wilkinson in a master class setting.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:15:45 -0400 2019-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 Stearns Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Sunny Wilkinson
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (October 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66399 66399-16734177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 27, 2019 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 around you in a whole new way. Demonstrations are appropriate for visitors ages 5 and above.

Saturdays and Sundays, 3:00 p.m.

Explore how fossils form and what parts of animals can become fossilized! How old are the earliest fossils? How old does something have to be before it is considered a fossil? You’ll touch some real fossils, learn the different types of fossil evidence, and discover what is necessary to become a fossil. Finally, we’ll discuss what kinds of things fossils can tell us, and how fossil casts are made in the museum!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:44:57 -0400 2019-10-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-10-27T15:20:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Mindfullness-based Dementia Care (October 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64758 64758-16444913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

A free, 7-week program designed for family caregivers of persons with dementia. Info and to register: 734.936.8803.

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:03:34 -0400 2019-10-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
TBD PSC Brown Bag (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68120 68120-17011959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 10/28/2019, 12:00pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Logan will speak on recent work in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PSC 2009-11.

His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. He is currently extending his historical research agenda to include topics such as childhood health, mortality, morbidity, and racial disparities in health.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:46:06 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Trevon Logan
The University of Michigan Initiative on Disability Studies (UMInDS) welcomes: (October 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67126 67126-16803028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Interdependent Pedagogies: Rethinking Access and Disability in Graduate Education

This talk draws from a small qualitative study of graduate students, exploring their experiences in coursework and how these experiences shape their teaching. Graduate students participating in the study grapple with ableist norms and offer insight into how disability studies as both content and approach influences their personal pedagogies.

Lauren Obermark is an assistant professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she teaches courses about rhetoric, writing, disability studies, and public memory to undergraduate and graduate students. At the heart of all her work is an ongoing investigation of how rhetoric informs 21st-century practices of civic engagement, social justice, and pedagogy. She has recently published articles on writing program administration, disability studies, and public rhetoric in/about Ferguson, Missouri.

Accessibility for Angell Hall: Accessible entrance through adjacent buildings, or the North-West corner ground-floor entrance of Angell Hall. From the North-West entrance, the elevators are down the hall on the left and right sides. The event is on the third floor in room 3222. Men’s and women’s restrooms are located on the third floor near the elevators. A gender-neutral restroom is located on the fifth floor around the corner from the elevator.

Communication access real-time translation (CART) is provided for this event.

For more information, please contact Melanie Yergeau at myergeau@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 11:09:36 -0400 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Conversation about Open Access (October 28, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68407 68407-17077950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Please join Kathleen Folger, Raya Samet, Nabeela Jaffer, Charles Watkinson, Bryan Skib and others at the U-M Library for a conversation about Open Access. The conversation will cover a range of topics, including open monographs and TOME, transformative agreements for journals, Open Infrastructure, Open Educational Resources, and faculty engagement. We look forward to an active exchange regarding these topics — please come with questions and a willingness to share your insights into Open Access at U-M.

Coffee and tea will be provided. After the open conversation and some time for Q&A, we plan to leave approximately thirty minutes for informal conversation among colleagues. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:17:24 -0400 2019-10-28T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
Comparative Literature Lecture Series 2019-20: Phronesis and Materialism (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67963 67963-16975352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

It is a commonplace to turn to Book 6 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics to find out what the ancient Greeks thought about practical judgment or phronesis. There is good reason for this: Aristotle’s is the lengthiest account of phronesis. We regularly fail to note, however, the importance of phronesis in epicureanism. He will explore how Epicurus’s conception of phronesis differs from Aristotle’s. He will also indicate how Epicurus’s conception influences political discourse in early modernity in materialists such as Machiavelli and Spinoza. Finally, he will indicate how the exclusion of Epicurus’s conception of phronesis in early twentieth century, for instance by Heidegger, resulted in the invention of a politics beyond instrumentality and calculation as a way of repressing the materialism of practical judgment.

Dimitris Vardoulakis is the deputy chair of Philosophy at Western Sydney University. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy (2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka’s Laughter (2016), Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (2018), and Authority and Utility: On Spinoza’s Epicureanism (forthcoming in 2020). He is the director of “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society,” and the co-editor of the book series “Incitements” (Edinburgh University Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:46:59 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Speaker
RNA Innovation Seminar, Luis Batista, Washington University in St. Louis (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65140 65140-16539450@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Luis Batista, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Developmental Biology, Washington University in St. Louis

Abstract: The overarching goal of the Batista lab is to understand the regulation and function of telomerase in tissue fitness, disease, and cancer. The Batista laboratory uses genome-wide methods to uncover alterations that drive cellular failure upon critical telomerase dysfunction, using the targeted differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to tissues of clinical relevance as a primary model. We combine in vitro biochemical and mechanistic studies with our ability to generate and differentiate pluripotent cells towards different fates to better understand the importance of correct ribonucleoprotein assembly and function in tissue fitness and to determine the events that lead from impaired RNA-protein assembly to disease in humans.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:00:45 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Vampire Trouble is More Serious Than the Mighty Plague: A Comparative Look at the History of Evil and Mischief, Inspired by Evliya Çelebi (1611 - ca. 1684) (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68122 68122-17011964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

A Curious and Most Wonderous Account of the Blood-Sucking Dead, or A Contribution to the History and Folklore of the Belief in Vampires in Light of the Metaphysics of Evil and Beliefs in Satan, with Particular Attention to the History of Fear and Terror in Ottoman Turkish Geography and to the Reception and Development of the Myth of Vampires in Western European Lands, from the Early Modern to Neo-Liberalism, as Drawn from Authentic Reports and Accompanied by Philosophical Reflections.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:42:07 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
WCED Lecture. Hegemon Risen: Turkey's Emergence as an Independent Authoritarian State (October 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67748 67748-16926558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

In 2000, leaders in the last Western-orientated Turkish government embarked on a strategic realignment and defense plan that encouraged more independent military actions and intensified the internal debate about Turkish identity. After the collapse of Turkey's policies toward Syria and ISIS and the renewal of hostilities with Kurdish insurgents, Turkish-American relations became ever more strained. Increasing violence along the border and inside Turkey culminated in July 2016 with an unsuccessful coup against President Erdogan. The coup’s failure cleared the way for Turkey to become the independent authoritarian state we recognize today, an independent regional hegemon increasingly restive in the NATO alliance and no longer closely allied with the U.S.

Michael Hickok received his PhD in Ottoman history at the University of Michigan and soon thereafter published his first book, which has been hailed as a pioneering work showing the Empire in the 18th century to have been a functioning, viable state with internal problems but robust legal and administrative institutions to contain them. After several years of teaching, he went to work for the CIA and then the FBI, where he was recognized for extraordinary service and valor during the failed anti-Erdogan coup. He has both written about and participated in these events over the course of a career in Turkish affairs. He is currently Las Vegas Division Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge.

Organized by the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies with support from the Donia Human Rights Center, Department of History, and Michigan War Studies Group.

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 Wed, 02 Oct 2019 10:34:15 -0400 2019-10-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Turkey demonstration
IOE 813 Seminar: Katie Esper, MPH, MHCDS (October 28, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68702 68702-17138822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Katie joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) in 2010 as a health systems engineer after a few years with a healthcare software company. She has worked directly with the military health system implementing multi-site healthcare delivery initiatives and data driven management systems. Katie’s interests are in population need assessments, practice variation studies, and system design for enterprise wide application. Katie is currently the Program Manager of Force Health and Readiness, overseeing the mission of ensuring a ready medical force, a medically ready force, and the delivery of safe reliable care across all operational settings. In this position, Katie is a strategic thought partner for military leaders and oversees a Warfighter Readiness Performance Improvement portfolio of work.

Katie holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master’s of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (with a focus in Quality, Patient Safety, and Outcomes Research), and a Master’s in Healthcare Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 15:03:56 -0400 2019-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Katie Esper
Book Signing by Dr. Dwight Lang (October 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68538 68538-17096931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

In his book, On Social Mobility, A Brief History of First Generation College Students@Michigan: 2007-2019, Dr. Dwight Lang examines experiences and conditions of student upward mobility in higher education, in general, and at the University of Michigan. The first 40 students to arrive get a free copy of his book.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:48:36 -0400 2019-10-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 Student Activities Building Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Cover of the book published by Dwight Lang. The cover includes the title of the book as well as an image of a group of first-generation college students talking to one another.
General Motors Tech Talk - Carbon Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Truck Bed (October 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67633 67633-16909299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Wilson Student Team Project Center

Come meet the engineering team and hear about General Motors industry leading application of carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastics in the GMC Sierra CarbonPro pickup truck box.

The GM team will also be available to discuss internship and full time engineering opportunities.

Food and beverage will be provided!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 25 Sep 2019 13:21:56 -0400 2019-10-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Wilson Student Team Project Center Lecture / Discussion 2019-GMC-Sierra-1500-Denali-CarbonPro
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66035 66035-16684583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Author Stephanie Land will give a talk on her book, titled "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive," as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:17:16 -0400 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Stephanie Land
The Art of Leaving: Language, Longing, and Belonging (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64904 64904-16485246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Author of the award-winning The Best Place on Earth and The Art of Leaving, Ayelet Tsabari will speak of growing up Mizrahi in Israel, about re-finding and reclaiming that identity through writing and through extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions. Tsabari will share some of the unique challenges she has faced as an immigrant author writing about Israel in English, her second language. This lecture will explore the many ways in which a writer's cultural background, mother tongue, and origins influence and inform her writing, in terms of both content and style.

Please note Literati Bookstore does not have an elevator. There is an accessible main floor entrance at our 4th avenue entrance. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:12:56 -0400 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion The Art of Leaving
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986095@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
Special event with authors Stephanie Land and Joy DeGruy (October 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66036 66036-16684584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Authors Stephanie Land and Joy DeGruy will discuss their work at this special event held as part of the annual Advocacy Symposium, hosted by the Center for the Education of Women+. The theme of this year's symposium is "rethinking leadership."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:24:33 -0400 2019-10-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T09:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Joy DeGruy
CDB Dissertation Defense: Ye Li (October 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68769 68769-17147156@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Medical Science Research Building 2
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

“Exploring neuronal heterogeneity in the Drosophila nervous system with novel neurotechnologies.”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:20:35 -0400 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 2 Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Ye Li Dissertation Seminar
How To Create High-Performing Teams (October 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68028 68028-16986103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Shared Services Center

U-M Professor and Researcher Dr. Scott E. Page, a leading thinker, writer, and speaker whose guidance and consultation are sought after around the country, makes an evidence-based, compelling case for diversity and inclusion in the workplace. His research findings presents overwhelming evidence that teams that include different kinds of thinkers outperform homogenous groups on complex tasks, producing what he calls “diversity bonuses.” These bonuses include improved problem solving, increased innovation, and more accurate predictions―all of which lead to better performance and results.

Drawing on research in economics, psychology, computer science, Dr. Page will speak to the U-M Community about how we can change the way we think about diversity in the workplace, and tap its power to create excellence.

Register here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/4794

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:48:49 -0400 2019-10-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Shared Services Center Lecture / Discussion Photo of Dr. Scott Page
Artist Lecture: Blood Underwater with Visiting Artist Elshafei Dafalla (October 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68776 68776-17147182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Elshafei Dafalla will be an artist in residence at the Residential College Art Gallery between October 28-November 1, working with RC students to realize new work for the exhibition, Blood Underwater (statement below), using the gallery as a studio space, and working primarily with pastels and canvas. There will be an opening reception November 1 from 6-8pm. The exhibition runs through November 22.

Eishafei Dafalla received a Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture from the College of Fine and Applied Art at Sudan University for Science and Technology in Khartoum, Sudan as well as a Diploma in Folklore from the Afro-Asian Institute at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan. Elshafei has participated in more than fifty exhibits worldwide, and his work is part of public and private collections in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States. He continues to lecture and to exhibit his work, holding artist residencies, participating in community building activities, and creating performative installation events around the U.S. and internationally.

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

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

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

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

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

The Blood Underwater artwork narrative will connect participants to one another, and to refugees, asylum seekers, political prisoners and others who have already died or are currently suffering in their own countries or in new lands. This collaboration and new knowledge will enable participants to reflect together about global suffering, and what can be done about it.

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

There will be an opening reception for Blood Underwater with Elshafei Dafalla in attendance on November 1 from 6-8pm, and refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:23:48 -0400 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Lecture / Discussion Blood Underwater
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Grindr to Cybersovereignty: The Loaded Interplay between Community, National, and Global Standards of Data Governance in China (October 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63872 63872-15955825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The Chinese government has become increasingly involved in global standards-making events such as the annual Internet Governance Forum and China’s Wuzhen Internet Summit (aka the World Internet Conference) that leverage China’s national standing in international standards-building events to shape global the future of global Internet governance. At the same time, Chinese regulators are also exporting standards not through national, or international governance frameworks, but through the community standards of individual platforms. This talk examines how the Chinese government is expanding its regulatory control over global consumer platforms through the expansion of Chinese-owned consumer platforms.

Aynne Kokas is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Her multiple-award-winning first book, “Hollywood Made in China” (University of California Press, 2017) argues that Chinese investment and regulations have transformed the US commercial media industry. Her next book project “Border Patrol on the Digital Frontier: The United States, China, and the Global Battle for Data Security” examines the policy implications of the transfer of consumer data between the United States and China. Her research has also appeared in “Information, Communication, and Society,” “Journal of Asian Studies,” “PLOS One,” and others. Her research has been funded by the Fulbright Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and others. Professor Kokas’ writing and commentary have appeared in forty-six countries and eleven languages. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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 May 2019 14:42:36 -0400 2019-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Aynne Kokas, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
FellowSpeak: “'We Sometimes Cut Good Tissue Along with Bad': Economies of Sacrifice and the Korean War in 'One Minute to Zero' and 'Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War'” (October 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66081 66081-16686707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Daniel Kim, associate professor of English and American studies at Brown University and 2019 Norman Freehling Visiting Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In this talk Kim examines two cinematic representations of the Korean War as a way of comparing how US and South Korean nationalist narratives attempt to justify the staggering loss of civilian life that took place during the conflict. At the dramatic center of *One Minute to Zero*, a Hollywood film from 1952, is a massacre of refugees. Kim contextualizes this depiction within the framework of what he terms Military Humanitarianism, an ideology that emerged in the United States during this period to frame its interventions as benevolent. Somewhat surprisingly this film openly foregrounds how US forces, in the course of saving Korean civilians from the menace of Communism, will also have to kill them. *Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War*, a South Korean blockbuster that appeared in 2004, similarly casts a spotlight on the atrocities that were inflicted upon civilians, though in this case by South Korean military and paramilitary forces. Both films sentimentally embed their viewers in an ethos of sacrifice, an affectively saturated biopolitical calculus, in which such deaths emerge as a tragic but ultimately necessary price for securing the nation’s future. Overall, this talk elaborates a transnational mode of analyzing such works that maintains a contrapuntal awareness of how critiques of the dominant narratives in one nationalist tradition might reinforce those in another and vice versa.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:29:47 -0400 2019-10-29T12:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion "Tae Guk Gi" and "One Minute to Zero" movie posters
Yiddish In and Out of Context (October 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64966 64966-16499240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Despite rumors of its demise, Yiddish continues to exert a powerful influence on Jewish culture and consciousness. Yiddish today performs a variety of new functions as a post- and trans-vernacular language in addition to its role as a language for daily communication. It is evoked, cited, and nostalgically remembered; it is used in art, music, theater, and literature; it is studied, theorized, spoken by enthusiasts, and admired by new generations who never spoke the language at home. In this symposium we explore Yiddish in both its traditional contexts and in these surprising new contexts. By considering Yiddish in and out context we hope to reach new understandings of how the role of Yiddish has changed and what these changes tell us about contemporary culture.

Symposium Schedule
Two panels that begin with the participants presenting their objects of analysis for around 10 minutes each, followed by a dialogue between all the panelists.
1:00 pm: First Panel with Eve Jochnowitz & Mikhail Kruitkov
3:00 pm: Second Panel with Justin Cammy, Sunny Yudkoff & Saul Zarrit

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The conference room is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:04:03 -0400 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Molly_Picon_in_Di_Tsvey_Kuni_Lemels,_1926
9th Annual Thomas D. Gelehrter M.D. Lecture in Medical Genetics (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65874 65874-16662158@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Department of Human Genetics

Helen H. Hobbs, M.D., is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a Professor of Internal Medicine and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Among Dr. Hobbs’ honors was her election to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004 and National Academy of Sciences in 2007. She received the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences and Passano Award (with Jonathan Cohen) in 2016 and the Harrington Prize for Innovation in Medicine in 2018. Dr. Hobbs is recognized for her contributions to the development of new lipid-lowering strategies by identifying genetic variants of large effect in humans. Importantly, her work created a new strategy using human genetics to identify new therapeutic targets for the treatment of complex cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.

This lecture honors Thomas D. Gelehrter, M.D., active emeritus professor and former Chair of the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Aug 2019 16:59:30 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Department of Human Genetics Lecture / Discussion Dr. Helen H. Hobbs
Diversity and Inclusion Counts: How Quantifying Diversity and Inclusion Can Influence Racial Inequality in Higher Education (October 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68908 68908-17194945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

A semester never goes by without news highlighting some aspect of racial inequality occurring on our campuses, such as disparities in graduation rates, who pursues different majors, interpersonal experiences such as microaggressions, or blatant racist actions that mark the campus climate. Many of our universities invest in promoting diversity and inclusion, including monitoring progress in different areas, but what if some of our approaches can hide or even reproduce racial inequality on campus?

W. Carson Byrd, a 2019-2020 NCID scholar-in-residence, will discuss a snippet of his current research examining how the processes and policies at universities can reinforce racial inequality on our campuses, particularly when campus units rely on numbers-driven approaches to both measure and monitor progress of diversity and inclusion.

W. Carson Byrd is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Louisville and a 2019 NCID scholar-in-residence. Dr. Byrd's research examines how colleges and universities can simultaneously operate as centers for social mobility and engines of inequality with particular attention to the reproduction of racial inequalities on college campuses. He is currently working on a new book tentatively titled Behind the Diversity Numbers: What Makes a University “Too White” and How to Change Racial Inequality in Higher Education that examines how universities’ uses of quantitative approaches to diversity and inclusion can shape racial inequality on campuses. He is also the author of Poison in the Ivy: Race Relations and the Reproduction of Inequality on Elite College Campuses (Rutgers University Press), an examination of how college students’ social interactions influence what they think about race and inequality, and co-editor of Intersectionality and Higher Education: Identity and Inequality on College Campuses (Rutgers University Press), a collection of intersectional studies of college students, faculty, and staff.

Sponsored by the National Center for Institutional Diversity, Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Sociology.

The National Center for Institutional Diversity Research and Scholarship Seminar Series features scholars who have furthered our understanding of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality — as they occur and affect individuals, groups, communities, and institutions. The series also highlights how research and scholarship can be applied to address current and contemporary diversity, equity, and inclusion issues in higher education and society.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:32:07 -0400 2019-10-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Image of Carson Byrd
MedChem Seminar (October 29, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68813 68813-17155482@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Pharmacy College
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

Understanding—and Overcoming—Therapy Resistance in Breast and Prostate Cancers

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:58:51 -0400 2019-10-29T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-29T15:30:00-04:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
Functional MRI Speaker Series (October 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67389 67389-16846424@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Title: Clinical Neuropsychologist and Professor of Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry University of Utah

Abstract: Rumination is a feature of major depressive disorder, that is considered a passive, negative, and recurrent thought patterns and habits. Like negative cognitive biases, rumination reflects the thought content (negative, potentially distorted) typical of depression. Unlike negative cognitive biases, rumination also includes habitual tendencies in responding to stressors (avoidance, passivity) which are not clearly or necessarily ascribed to negative thought patterns. As depressive rumination includes both content and habit it has been difficult to measure well. The fact that it may reflect a disengaged state from active cognitive processing means that it is often ascertained through the absence of certain mental states and behaviors, which also makes measurement challenging. The talk will focus on fMRI paradigms that are thought to capture the ruminative state and habit, behavioral correlates of increased rumination, and the relations of rumination to depression risk, poor treatment response, and frequent recurrence of depression. Moreover, it will cover strategies to intervene to change rumination, and resulting changes in resting state connectivity and task-based brain activation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:24:00 -0400 2019-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Langenecker Photo
Bioethics Discussion: Fear (October 29, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52720 52720-12974152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion of our deepest darkest depths.

Readings to consider:
1. Fear
2. A Method for Evaluating the Ethics of Fear Appeals
3. Does fear of retaliation deter requests for ethics consultation?
4. The Two Faces of Fear: A History of Hard-Hitting Public Health Campaigns Against Tobacco and AIDS
5. Professor Nobody’s Little Lectures on Supernatural Horror

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/034-fear/.

Please also don't be afraid to check out the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:38 -0400 2019-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Fear
CDB Seminar - Cargo Receptors in the ER: From Clotting Factors to Cholesterol Regulation (October 30, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67430 67430-16849214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Doug Engel, PhD

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:55:29 -0400 2019-10-30T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Ginsburg
Contemporary Issues Discussion: Dental Health (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67874 67874-16960534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:51:02 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Post-Show Discussion of Sense and Sensibility (October 30, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68659 68659-17130526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:21:39 -0400 2019-10-30T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Poetry, Politics and Mapuche Feminism: Readings and Dialogues with Daniela Catrileo.
13th Annual Susan B. Meister Lecture in Child Health Policy (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67523 67523-16890090@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Child Health Evaluation And Research Center (CHEAR)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:16:15 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Moment of Reckoning
Heberle Lecture (Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University) (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67740 67740-16926551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:37:07 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
WCED Lecture. The Authoritarian Origins of Dominant Parties in Democracies: Lessons from India (October 30, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66331 66331-16727909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 27 Sep 2019 15:50:56 -0400 2019-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Adam Ziegfeld, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University
BME Seminar: Raj Kothapalli, Ph.D. (October 31, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68891 68891-17188750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:51:53 -0400 2019-10-31T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
From Vote to Government: A Short Guide to the Complexity of the American Electoral System (October 31, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68340 68340-17052342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:52:15 -0400 2019-10-31T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64524 64524-16386875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:19:40 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)
Power of Mentorship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68544 68544-17096960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Student Activities Building
Organized By: First Generation Student Gateway

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

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

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

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

Abstract:

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

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

Speaker Biography

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:38:29 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Luke Stark
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Constraint and Possibility in Contemporary African American Literature (October 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68773 68773-17147183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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

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

Kevin Quashie
“Poetic Inclination, Black Subjunctivity”

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


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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:31:29 -0400 2019-10-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CLASP Seminar Series: Qusai Al Shidi (October 31, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67949 67949-16969037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

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

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

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

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

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

About the Speaker...

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:47:40 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Examples of Smart Additive Manufacturing
LRCCS Public Lecture Series | The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States? (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67953 67953-16975338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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

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

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

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

Visualizing Microbial and Cellular Chemistry in Situ

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:01:37 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T17:00:00-04:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Keynote Lecture: Stephen Best (October 31, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64103 64103-16147472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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

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

The End of Black Studies

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:56:53 -0400 2019-10-31T16:15:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Headshot of Prof. Stephen Best
Joe Caslin: Is Street art Capable of Advancing a Society? (October 31, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65261 65261-16559491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

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

Supported by the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:51:11 -0400 2019-10-31T17:10:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/caslin.jpg
CMENAS Event. Beyond Faith-based Humanitarianism: What Everyday Responses to Iraqi and Syrian Displacement Tell Us About Encountering Difference (October 31, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68475 68475-17086376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 18:00:24 -0400 2019-10-31T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
HistLing Discussion Group (November 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68670 68670-17136729@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:01:00 -0400 2019-11-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
U-M Structure Seminar: LRRK2, Rab GTPases, and Parkinson’s disease (November 1, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65766 65766-16654001@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Trinity College, The University of Dublin

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Aug 2019 13:46:03 -0400 2019-11-01T10:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Black Feminisms in the Archive (November 1, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68781 68781-17147187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 11:00am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

Panel #2: Black Feminisms in the Archive

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

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

Erica Edwards
“Extraliterature and the Black Feminist Imperative”

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


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


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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:29:45 -0400 2019-11-01T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T12:35:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Photo of "The Sisterhood"
Academic Innovation at Michigan (AIM) for DEI (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68804 68804-17155489@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

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

Abstract:

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

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

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

Tandem Team Bios:

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

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

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

AIM for DEI is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how technology and innovation impact the inclusivity and equity of the learning experiences we create for our residential, online and global learners.

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

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

AIM for DEI is an all new event series hosted by the Center for Academic Innovation that will explore how technology and innovation impact the inclusivity and equity of the learning experiences we create for our residential, online and global learners.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:51:28 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 North Quad Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DEI
The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy (November 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66037 66037-16684585@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:30:30 -0400 2019-11-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dorian Warren
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63912 63912-15987739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:03:13 -0400 2019-11-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T14:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Team and Leadership Training Interventions in Emergency Medical Teams (November 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67886 67886-16960561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Oct 2019 16:58:48 -0400 2019-11-01T13:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CMENAS Colloquium Series. Rights of Neighbourliness: Decolonising Responses to Mass Displacement. (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68136 68136-17011976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:15:39 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
The Alan J. Hunt Memorial Lecture (November 1, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68886 68886-17188747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Gérard Mourou is Professor Haut-Collège at the École polytechnique. He is also the A.D. Moore Distinguished University Emeritus Professor of the University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Grenoble (1967) and his Ph.D. from University Paris VI in 1973. He has made numerous contributions to the field of ultrafast lasers, high-speed electronics, and medicine. But, his most important invention, demonstrated with his student Donna Strickland while at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), is the laser amplification technique known as Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), universally used today. CPA revolutionized the field of optics, opening new branches like attosecond pulse generation, Nonlinear QED, compact particle accelerators. It extended the field of optics to nuclear and particle physics. In 2005, Prof. Mourou proposed a new infrastructure; the Extreme Light Infrastructure (ELI), which is distributed over three pillars located in Czech Republic, Romania, and Hungary. Prof. Mourou also pioneered the field of femtosecond ophthalmology that relies on a CPA femtosecond laser for precise myopia corrections and corneal transplants. Over a million such procedures are now performed annually. Prof. Mourou is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Russian Science Academy, the Austrian Sciences Academy, and the Lombardy Academy for Sciences and Letters. He is Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur and was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics with his former student Donna Strickland.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:47:36 -0400 2019-11-01T14:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Alan Hunt Lecture
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68948 68948-17197051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In the midst of Red and Black, one of Stendhal's characters makes a declaration, which can serve as an emblem of the 19th century: “All prudence must be renounced! This century was born to overwhelm everything! We are marching into chaos.” Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century, endeavors to contribute to our understanding of this era, through the work of Profs. Tilottama Rajan and Lucy Hartley, who will present two papers: “Elements of Life: Organizing the Work of John Hunter,” and “Poverty, Progress, and Practicable Socialism: Henrietta Barnett, 1851-1936,” respectively.
For more information, please visit our website: https://ccctworkshop.wordpress.com/ ; or email us at: srdjan@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:37:24 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster for Dialogues in Contemporary Thought VII | On the 19th Century
HET Seminar | Constraining higher-order gravities with subregion duality (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68796 68796-17153399@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In higher derivative theories, gravity can propagate faster or slower than light. This fact has consequences for holographic constructs in AdS/CFT. In this talk, I will focus on the causal and entanglement wedges. I will argue that, in higher derivative theories, these wedges should be constructed using the fastest mode instead of null rays. I will show that using this proposal, the property of causal wedge inclusion, i.e. the fact that the causal wedge must be contained in the entanglement wedge, leads to more stringent constraints on the couplings than those imposed by hyperbolicity and boundary causality. I will elaborate on the implications of these results.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:03:06 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67254 67254-16829028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

What is the alt-right? What do they believe, and how did they take center stage in the American social and political consciousness?

From a loose movement that lurked in the shadows in the early 2000s, the alt-right has achieved a level of visibility that has allowed it to expand significantly throughout America’s cultural, political, and digital landscapes. Racist, sexist, and homophobic beliefs that were previously unspeakable have become commonplace, normalized, and accepted—endangering American democracy and society as a whole. Yet in order to dismantle the destructive movement that has invaded our public consciousness, we must first understand the core beliefs that drive the alt-right.

To help guide us through the contemporary moment, historian Alexandra Minna Stern excavates the alt-right memes and tropes that have erupted online and explores the alt-right’s central texts, narratives, constructs, and insider language. She digs to the root of the alt-right’s motivations: their deep-seated fear of an oncoming “white genocide” that can only be remedied through swift and aggressive action to reclaim white power. As the group makes concerted efforts to cast off the vestiges of neo-Nazism and normalize their appearance and their beliefs, the alt-right and their ideas can be hard to recognize. Through careful analysis, Stern brings awareness to the underlying concepts that guide the alt-right and animate its overlapping forms of racism, xenophobia, transphobia, and anti-egalitarianism. She explains the key ideas of “red-pilling,” strategic trolling, gender essentialism, and the alt-right’s ultimate fantasy: a future where minorities have been removed and “cleansed” from the body politic and a white ethnostate is established in the United States. By unearthing the hidden mechanisms that power white nationalism, Stern reveals just how pervasive this movement truly is.

5 copies of the book will be given away at the begining of the event! Must be present to win.

This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:43:48 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Dating Iroquoia: Refined time frames for coalescence, conflict, and early European influences in northeastern North America" (November 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63229 63229-15595501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Chronologies fundamentally underpin all other aspects of archaeological thought. When our timeframes shift, so to do the chains of inference that underpin our models and narratives. This talk will detail the results to date of the Dating Iroquoia project. It will review some of the most significant implications of our revised radiocarbon chronology for understanding processes of Iroquoian cultural development, including the timing of coalescence and conflict, the onset of historical enmity between the Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee, and the processes through which European goods were transmitted, received, or rejected by Iroquoian communities in Ontario and New York State. The results of this project demonstrate not only the utility of AMS dating and Bayesian chronological modelling for overcoming plateaus and reversals in the calibration curve but also for centering Indigenous agency in historical narratives and helping descendants to better understand the life and times of their ancestors."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:35:26 -0400 2019-11-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Representing the Racial Imagination (November 1, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68778 68778-17147185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:15pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

Panel #3: Representing the Racial Imagination

Emily Lordi
“‘You Are the Second Person’: Uses of Direct Address in Contemporary African American Literature”

This talk builds on and departs from my own recent work on African American epistolary nonfiction. I have recently analyzed Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015), Kiese Laymon’s How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America (2013), and Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie’s Dear Continuum (2015), among other texts, as James Baldwin-inspired in-group gestures toward black love that are especially urgent in the context of anti-black violence and hyper-(cyber)surveillance. This talk will shift the analysis and diagnosis of black writers’ use of the second person by examining Coates’s Between the World alongside two other, yet more recent memoirs: Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir (2018), which is addressed to his mother, and Imani Perry’s Breathe, which is subtitled A Letter to My Sons (2019). I want to put more pressure than I did previously on the relationship between the second-person mode of address and writers’ visions of political organizing and sense of historical change. There is something fatalistic as well as aspirational, I will suggest, in all three writers’ decision to channel Baldwin, in particular, now, and to frame their stories and secrets as being of specific use to, if not exclusively designed for, their family members. What do we make of this move toward the domestic and the personal, and how do things change when Laymon frames his text not as a letter but as a book, and addresses his mother, where Perry and Coates write to their sons? In short, thinking critically about these three major writers’ second-person memoirs can illuminate the relationship between African American literature and the political imaginary now.

Madhu Dubey
“Racecraft in Contemporary African American Fiction”

This paper will look at the unique representational strategies through which contemporary African American novelists, including Paul Beatty, Percival Everett, Jesmyn Ward, Colson Whitehead, and John Edgar Wideman, are taking on the epistemic confusion surrounding public debates about race in the post-Civil Rights decades. Taking my cue from the term racecraft, coined by Karen Fields and Barbara Fields to model a new kind of race critique suited to the exigencies of this moment, I will argue that contemporary African American fiction yokes together questions of race and of craft in a manner distinct from earlier literary projects of demystification and corrective mimesis. Instead, these novelists employ formal devices such as anachronism and parataxis, literal-metaphorical conflation, and inflation of the fictive realm, in an effort to parse the contradictory truth claims constituting race as a false yet salient, obsolete yet undead category in the post–Civil Rights decades.


Emily Lordi is a writer, professor, and cultural critic whose focus is African American literature and black popular music. She is an associate professor of English at Vanderbilt University and the author of three books: Black Resonance (2013), Donny Hathaway Live (2016), and, forthcoming in 2020, The Meaning of Soul. In addition to publishing scholarly articles on topics ranging from literary modernism to Beyoncé, she contributes freelance essays to such venues as New Yorker.com, The Atlantic, Billboard, NPR, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Madhu Dubey is professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She is the author of Black Women Novelists and the Nationalist Aesthetic (1994) and Signs and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism (2003) and has published essays on African American literary and cultural studies, postmodernism, and race and speculative fiction in journals such as African American Review, American Literary History, American Literature, The Black Scholar, differences, Signs, and Social Text. She is currently working on a study examining the shifts in American literary ‘racecraft’ since the 1970s.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 23:30:05 -0400 2019-11-01T15:15:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67242 67242-16829003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:36:37 -0400 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: The Chinese Cave Record: 640,000 years of Climate History (November 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63122 63122-15576730@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

I will present a 640,000-year oxygen isotope record of the Asian Monsoon, spliced together from analyses of stalagmites from Hulu, Dongge, and Sanbao Caves, all situated in that portion of China currently affected by summer monsoon rainfall. I will discuss how these records were constructed, including the dating of the records, the basic characteristics of the records, and interpretation of the variability observed in the records. I will then discuss how the monsoon records correlate with ice core and marine records and the resulting implications for understanding ice-age terminations (the ends of ice-age cycles) and abrupt climate change. I will also discuss how analysis of Hulu Cave stalagmites has led to the completion (at fairly high precision) of the calibration of the radiocarbon timescale, with the Hulu analyses covering the older half of the timescale.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:09:03 -0400 2019-11-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (November 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68940 68940-17197042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract: In this talk, Sarah will highlight findings from her recent research examining the disparate community responses to wind energy projects to extrapolate lessons that might apply to the nuclear industry. She'll talk about the importance of procedural justice in the planning process and the dangers of project proponents over-promising and under-delivering. She'll also discuss her research finding that there are some communities where wind energy is likely to be opposed, even when developers do everything right. And she'll discuss how public policy - including tax policy and siting authority - can alter a community's willingness to accept a wind project.

Bio: Sarah Mills is a Senior Project Manager at the Graham Sustainability Institute and at the Ford School's Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP). Her Ford School research focuses on how renewable energy development impacts rural communities (positively and negatively) and how state and local policies facilitate or hinder renewable energy deployment. At Graham, she leads a grant from the Michigan Office of Climate and Energy to help communities across the state incorporate energy in their land use planning, zoning, and other policymaking. Sarah has a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from Cambridge University, and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:07:25 -0400 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 11-01-19 NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy