Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. “Engineered kidney models derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells” (March 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73334 73334-18199520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

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

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

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

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

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

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

ISR Reads Presents:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Book Signing
11:30am-12noon

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

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

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

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

Hosted by: CDB Recruitment Committee

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 03 Feb 2020 09:49:59 -0500 2020-03-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion How to make a stem cell: Gene regulatory principles learned from vascular fate transitions
BME 500: Ruobo Zhou (March 5, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73399 73399-18214945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Biomolecular interactions are at the root of all biological processes and define the molecular mechanisms of how these processes are accomplished in both physiological and pathological conditions. Recent advances in single molecule detection and super-resolution fluorescence microcopy have uncovered previously unknown properties of biomolecular interactions, including multivalency, transiency, and heterogeneity, and revealed the organizational principles governing the compartmentalization of functional biomolecular interactions in cells and how such compartmentalization and organizations become dysregulated in diseases. In this talk, I will first discuss my postdoctoral work, where I used mass-spectrometry-based analysis and super-resolution imaging to dissect the protein-protein interactions at the plasma membrane of neurons, and discovered that a newly identified membrane-associated periodic skeleton (MPS) structure can function as a signaling platform that coordinates the interactions of signaling proteins at the plasma membrane of neurons. In response to extracellular stimuli, G-protein coupled receptors, cell-adhesion molecules, receptor tyrosine kinases can be recruited to the MPS to form signaling complexes at the plasma membrane, and such recruitment is required for downstream intracellular signaling. This work not only reveals an important, previously unknown function of the newly discovered MPS structure, but also provides novel mechanistic insights into signal transduction in neurons. I will then discuss my graduate work, where I developed a hybrid single molecule technique combining single molecule FRET and optical tweezers, and applied this technique to probe the sub-molecular dynamics of protein-DNA interactions in various biological systems involved in DNA replication, repair and recombination.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:07:38 -0500 2020-03-05T16:00:00-05:00 2020-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (March 5, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957426@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 5, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-03-05T17:30:00-05:00 2020-03-05T19:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
Women on a Mission 2.0: Leadership, Citizenship & Advocacy (March 6, 2020 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73597 73597-18267644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 6, 2020 8:30am
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: CEW+

The free morning keynote will be a conversation with Dr. Joy DeGruy, nationally & internationally renowned researcher, educator, author, & presenter, and Dr. Julianne Malveaux, economist, author, social and political commentator, & businesswoman. They will discuss inclusive citizenship and the role of women as transformative change agents for voting rights, economic policy, prison reform, and access to education.

Please note that the keynote lecture (8:30-10:30am at Hill Auditorium) is open to the general public and no registration is required. However, pre-registration is required to attend the full-day WCTF Career Conference workshops and luncheon.

Click here to view the live stream: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/cew/cew030620.html

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 11:45:18 -0500 2020-03-06T08:30:00-05:00 2020-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 Hill Auditorium CEW+ Lecture / Discussion Dr. Joy DeGruy & Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Talk: Meditation and Spiritual Life (March 8, 2020 6:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73450 73450-18236950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 8, 2020 6:15pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan

Swami Yogatmananda of Vedanta Society of Providence would be coming to Ann Arbor on March 8 to deliver a talk on 'Meditation & Spiritual Life'. Key details are below.

Topic: Meditation & Spiritual Life

Speaker: Swami Yogatmananda (President of Vedanta Society of Providence, Hindi Religious Affiliate/Chaplain at Brown University and University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

About the speaker: Swami Yogatmananda is the current minister-in-charge of Vedanta Society of Providence. The swami was born in India and joined the Ramakrishna Order of monks in 1976 and received his monastic vows in 1986. He came to the US in the summer of 2001. Swami Yogatmananda’s present responsibilities include conducting Sunday services, weekly study classes and organizing spiritual retreats. He is invited to preach Vedanta at various places in the US. He also serves as the Hindu Religious Affiliate at Brown University, Providence and the Hindu Chaplain at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Date: March 08, 2020 (Sunday)

Time: 6:15 PM

Venue: Henderson Room,3rd Floor,Michigan League, 911 N University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Contact: vedanta.a2@gmail.com

All are welcome. No RSVP necessary. Do not miss this opportunity.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 01 Mar 2020 18:31:19 -0500 2020-03-08T18:15:00-04:00 2020-03-08T19:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Vedanta Study Circle at University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Event Flier
Earth Day Teach-In: Prof. Mark Moldwin (March 9, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73625 73625-18272036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 10:30am
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

As part of the U-M's Earth Day at 50 celebration, CLASP Prof. Mark Moldwin will lead a Teach-In titled "The Climate Consequences of Nuclear War."
Please join us in room CSRB 2238 of the Climate and Space Research Building.

With the end of the Cold War, fear of nuclear war has receded from the consciousness of much of society. With the Trump administration’s foreign policy (withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal, saber-rattling and then negotiations with North Korea, the attack of post-WWII international organizations and alliances, and the recent withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Force agreement with Russia) the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock ahead to 100 seconds to midnight (the closest to catastrophe the clock has been since 1953 when the USSR first detonated a hydrogen bomb). This discussion-based seminar describes the climate and space weather consequences of nuclear war to remind us of the apocalyptic fate of civilization that nuclear weapons can unleash and examines what we can do to reduce this threat.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:42:13 -0500 2020-03-09T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Earth Day Teach-In graphic
A Lunchtime Conversation about "White Fragility" (March 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73606 73606-18269831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Free and open to the University of Michigan community. Please RSVP. Lunch will be served starting at 11:45am.

Please join us for a lunchtime conversation about "White Fragility" with Professor Alford A. Young. This lunchtime conversation is designed to prepare attendees for Robin DiAngelo's March 13th visit to the University of Michigan. From a public policy lens, Professor Young will evaluate the impact that public policies—both current and historical—have on racial and/or ethnic inequalities and discuss how it relates to other dimensions of social life.

Alford A. Young, Jr. is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies, with a courtesy appointment at the Ford School of Public Policy. He serves as associate director of U-M's Center for Social Solutions and faculty director for scholar engagement and leadership at Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). He has pursued research on low-income, urban-based African Americans, employees at an automobile manufacturing plant, African American scholars and intellectuals, and the classroom-based experiences of higher-education faculty as they pertain to diversity and multiculturalism. He employs ethnographic interviewing as his primary data collection method. His objective in research on low-income African American men, his primary area of research, has been to argue for a renewed cultural sociology of the African American urban poor. Young received an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:15:28 -0500 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion A Lunchtime Conversation about "White Fragility"
Teach-in on auto efficiency and CO2 emissions (March 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73345 73345-18206117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

John DeCicco of the U-M Energy Institute will host a panel of experts for a teach-in on "Automobile Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities for Addressing a Major Part of CO2 Emissions." This event will bring you up-to-date on the status of automobile efficiency and CO2 emissions, examining market trends and policy challenges. It will highlight opportunities for improvement and discuss what is needed to speed progress on this crucial climate action front. Join us on Monday, March 9, 2020, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, in Room 1690 at the School of Public Health (SPH I).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Feb 2020 10:22:29 -0500 2020-03-09T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 School of Public Health Bldg I and Crossroads and Tower University of Michigan Energy Institute Lecture / Discussion Car exhausts cook the planet!
Earth Day Teach-In: Public Perceptions of Renewable Energy in Michigan: How to Constructively Advocate at the Local Level (March 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73721 73721-18304819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As demand for renewable energy grows, wind energy and solar energy developers are looking for communities to host these projects. In this session, Dr. Sarah Mills will talk about what we know about public perceptions of renewable energy in the communities where wind and solar projects are proposed. She'll draw mostly on her research understanding community reactions to wind energy projects in Michigan, extrapolate what that means for solar energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:10:10 -0400 2020-03-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T14:00:00-04:00 Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion Renewable wind energy
Cognitive Science Seminar Series: The challenge of heritability: genetic determinants of beliefs and their implications (March 9, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73643 73643-18276412@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Wade Munroe, postdoctoral research fellow in the Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science, will give a talk titled "The challenge of heritability: genetic determinants of beliefs and their implications."

ABSTRACT

Ethical, political, and religious attitudes are not randomly distributed in a population. Attitudes of family members, for example, tend to be more similar than those of a random sample of the same size. In the fields of social psychology and political science, the historically standard explanation for these attitude distribution patterns was that social and political attitudes are (at least partially) a function of environmental factors like parental socialization and prevailing social norms. This received view is, however, complicated by more recent work in behavioral genetics, which consistently and repeatedly demonstrates that certain ethical and political attitudes dealing with issues like censorship, abortion, capital punishment, and immigration policy have a significant heritability coefficient, to wit, a substantial percentage of attitude variance in a population can be attributed to genetic variance, independent of environmental factors. In this paper, I argue that the genetic influence on our ethical and political attitudes is mediated by what we can agree—without relying on any first-order ethical or political claims—to be irrelevant and distorting factors that can lead moral reasoning astray. Further, I argue that we should significantly lower our credences in ethical and political attitudes that fall within the domains of belief that involve significant genetic influence.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:31:04 -0500 2020-03-09T14:30:00-04:00 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Freedom Writings: Black Abolitionists and the Struggle Against "Race Hatred" in Brazil - 1870-1890 (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72781 72781-18077119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

How do you think about the experiences of freedom among black people in Brazil before the end of slavery in 1888? Interested in this question, this lecture presents a reflection on the experiences of free and literate black men, who were active in the press, as well as in the political-cultural landscape of the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the second half of the nineteenth century. Ferreira de Menezes, Luiz Gama, Machado de Assis, José do Patrocinio, Ignacio de Araújo Lima, Arthur Carlos and Theophilo Dias de Castro are the central subjects in this narrative, along with so many other “free men of color” who sought in different ways to conquer and maintain their spaces in the public debate about the Brazil’s paths, while relying on the sustainability of their own individual projects. Against the grain of “ race hatred” daily practices, they not only contributed to debates on daily, abolitionist, black and literary newspapers, but also led the creation of resistance, confrontation and dialogue tools and mechanisms.

Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto is an adjunct professor in the Department of History at the University of Brasília. She received her PhD in History from the State University of Campinas, her MA in History from the University of Brasília, and her BA in Journalism from The University Center of Brasília. Pinto has developed research articulating knowledge in the areas of History, Communication, Literature and Education, with an emphasis on political-cultural performance of black thinkers, black press, abolitionism and experiences of black freedom and citizenship in the slavery period and post-abolition in Brazil and elsewhere in the African Diaspora.

This lecture will take place on Monday, March 9, at 4:00pm in 1014 Tisch Hall.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:44:25 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto
Freshwater Stories: Optics, Governance, and Adaptation around the Great Lakes (March 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70301 70301-17564375@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

There is a plausible bright future for communities in the Great Lakes basin. Holding over 20% of the world’s fresh water, the much-maligned Rust Belt could transform into the Water Belt marked by innovation in agriculture and production and welcoming to waves of climate migrants. Yet no framework of regulation, governance, or funding currently exists to ensure such outcomes. Instead public subsidy of extractive and polluting corporations persists. Along with lax enforcement of regulation, there are no mechanisms to deal with agricultural runoff, plastics, and pharmaceuticals. How to get from here to the Water Belt?

Rachel Havrelock’s work shows how the necessary knowledge about water systems resides at the local level where community members struggle with particular forms of privatization, extraction, and pollution. Not only do stories about these contests over water illuminate global processes, but they also chart a course forward. Reflecting on stories she has collected across the Great Lakes basin, Havrelock will share prominent ideas about life around the remarkable freshwater seas.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 13:27:13 -0500 2020-03-09T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-09T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Great Lakes Graphic
What About Weed? The Cannabis Controversy, Past, Present, and Future (March 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/70512 70512-17602795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Weed, pot, marijuana, cannabis. Whatever you call it, the United States has a long, complicated, and conflicted history with this complicated herb. It is evil, incarnate, or a panacea for all that ails us. Join us for a lively lecture and discussion as we tackle the cannabis controversy, past, present, and future.

Dr. Strobbe is board-certified both in psychiatric and addictions nursing. He was the first Clinical Director for the University of Michigan Addiction Treatment Services (UMATS, 2006-2010). He completed his doctoral studies from the University of Michigan in 2009, with a concentration in bio-behavioral health. Dr. Strobbe has published nearly 40 peer-reviewed articles, position papers, book chapters, and other resources related to substance use and addictions nursing. He is immediate past President (2018-2020) of the International Nurses Society on Addictions. Dr. Strobbe received U of M’s Golden Apple Award in 2015.

This is the seventh 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 April14, 2020. The title is A Conversation with Sander Levin.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Dec 2019 14:21:57 -0500 2020-03-10T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Earth Day Teach-In: Public Perceptions of Renewable Energy in Michigan: How to Constructively Advocate at the Local Level (March 10, 2020 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73721 73721-18304818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

As demand for renewable energy grows, wind energy and solar energy developers are looking for communities to host these projects. In this session, Dr. Sarah Mills will talk about what we know about public perceptions of renewable energy in the communities where wind and solar projects are proposed. She'll draw mostly on her research understanding community reactions to wind energy projects in Michigan, extrapolate what that means for solar energy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:10:10 -0400 2020-03-10T10:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion Renewable wind energy
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land of Ghosts: Rediscovering King Hu’s "Legend of the Mountain" (March 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70228 70228-17550033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled.

Best known for his classic martial arts films like "A Touch of Zen" and "Come Drink with Me," King Hu (1932-1997) was one of the true pioneers of the xuxia genre. This presentation will offer a case study of Hu's 1979 film "Legend of the Mountain," which combined element of the wuxia film with other genres, including the ghost stories, comedy, and the travelogue. Drawing on research and first-hand interviews with the film's lead actor Shih Chun, this talk will be divided into two parts: The first section will discuss the curious production details of the film as a pioneering example of a pan-Asian co-production and the film's curious reception, which went from a long-overlooked minor work to be rediscovered as a "masterpiece" decades after its initial release. During the second half of the talk, focus will turn to the film itself and how it was revolutionary both in terms of film form but also its political intervention.

Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA at UCLA. He is the author of "Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers" (2006), "A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film" (2008), "Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy" (2009), and "Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Memories of Shadows and Light" (2014) and co-editor of "Divided Lenses" (2016) and "Modernism Revisited" (2016). Forthcoming books included “An Accented Cinema: Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke;” and an edited collection on the 1930 Musha Incident in Taiwan. He is currently completing a monograph that explores the United States as it has been imagined through Chinese film, literature, and popular culture, 1949-present.

He has contributed to numerous books and periodicals, including "The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Cinemas," "A Companion to Chinese Cinema," "Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema," "Columbia Companion of Modern Chinese Literature," "Harvard New Literary History of Modern China," and "The Chinese Cinema Book." Berry has also served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festivals, including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). He is also the translator of several novels, including "Wild Kids" (2000), "Nanjing 1937: A Love Story" (2002), "To Live" (2004), "The Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (2008) and most recently "Remains of Life" (2017).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:45:50 -0500 2020-03-10T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Michael Berry, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture Studies; Director, UCLA Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
FellowSpeak: "Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration" (March 10, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69995 69995-17491340@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Obscured behind concrete and razor wire, the lives of the incarcerated remain hidden from public view, despite the many journalistic and cinematic portrayals which try to imagine or rationalize a nation's practices of imprisonment. Inside the walls, prisoners stage their own theatrical productions, articulating their identities and experiences for audiences carefully monitored by gatekeepers. Ashley Lucas’s forthcoming book Prison Theatre: Performance and Incarceration examines performances within prisons across the globe, offering a uniquely international account and exploration of prison theatre. By discussing a range of performance practices tied to incarceration, this book looks at the ways in which arts practitioners and imprisoned people use theatre as a means to build communities, attain professional skills, create social change, and maintain hope.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Dec 2019 10:11:14 -0500 2020-03-10T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion The cast of Open Hearts Open Minds’ production of A Winter’s Tale at Two Rivers Correctional Facility in Umatilla, Oregon, 2014
Development of genetically engineered mouse models of brainstem glioma: therapeutic efficacy of an immune mediated gene therapy strategy (March 10, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72701 72701-18061828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Dissertation Seminar:
We are pleased to welcome Flor Mendez, Ph.D. Student at University of Michigan to 2710 Furstenberg, Med Sci II on March 10th, 2020 at 2:00 pm to present her dissertation seminar.

Hosted by the Dissertation Committee:
Professor Maria Castro, Mentor
Professor Roman Giger, Chair
Associate Professor Maria Figueroa
Associate Professor Marina Pasca Di Magliano

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 10 Feb 2020 15:06:45 -0500 2020-03-10T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Development of genetically engineered mouse models of brainstem glioma: therapeutic efficacy of an immune mediated gene therapy strategy - Flor Mendez
Chair's Distinguished Seminar: "Dynamical Systems Approaches to Space Traffic Management and Situational Awareness" (March 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73747 73747-18311331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Prof. Aaron Rosengren
Earth satellite orbits can possess an extraordinarily rich spectrum of dynamical behaviors, from stable resonant configurations to significant chaotic drifts in circumterrestrial phase space throughout their orbital lifetimes. This talk will review these intriguing phenomena and highlight their deeper connections with current aspects of space sustainability, space traffic management, and space situational awareness. One particularly compelling ideology is based on the judicious use of the resulting instabilities to prescribe natural Earth re-entry itineraries to remedy the space debris problem or to navigate the phase space. In this seminar, I will review recent theoretical and numerical investigations on the orbital dynamics of resident space objects, and show how resonances can profoundly affect the behavior of these bodies, in both dissipative and Hamiltonian settings.
This work ties together observation, theory, and simulation, and fosters connections between fields apparently quite different in character and emphasis. I will specifically note its cross-cutting nature and relevance to planetary science, applied dynamical systems theory, planned and proposed spacecraft missions, and satellite constellation design and control.

About the Speaker...
Aaron J. Rosengren is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona and Affiliate Member of the Interdisciplinary Program in Applied Mathematics, specializing in astrodynamics-based space situational awareness. Prior to joining UA and the SSA-Arizona Initiative in 2017, he spent one year at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece working in the Department of Physics, as part of the European Union H2020 Project ReDSHIFT. He has also served as a member of the EU Asteroid and Space Debris Network, Stardust, working for two years at the Institute of Applied Physics Nello Carrara of the Italian National Research Council. He has authored or co-authored around 20 peer-reviewed journal publications and 60 conference papers and abstracts, reporting research in space situational awareness, orbital debris, celestial mechanics, and planetary science.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:54:51 -0400 2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Areas in Space Traffic Management
Growing Up Near the Great Lakes (March 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73287 73287-18190700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Dr. Elizabeth Goodenough explores the landscapes of the Great Lakes as they shape the lives of children, writers, and illustrators. She offers images and tales of lighthouses and shipwrecks from the inland seas, a biosphere with the power to influence artists forever. Stories of displaced children, indigenous youth, and runaways portray stormy passages. What geography constitutes “home” in picture books, Y/A and graphic novels, legends, and film? How do we retain and preserve the settings we first encountered? Goodenough investigates how a sense of belonging and becoming abides within, sustaining or haunting a lifetime. In this session we recall regional memories, ideas about nature, and narratives of outdoor exploration. Registration is encouraged but not required: https://forms.gle/74gbaZq4hdF1EBZR7

Goodenough has taught literature at Harvard, Claremont McKenna, and Sarah Lawrence colleges, and the University of Michigan. She has published several volumes in Childhood Studies, and her award-winning PBS documentary, Where Do the Children Play?, helped initiate a national dialogue on outdoor play.

Immediately following the presentation, we invite you to this month's Special Collections After Hours Event, The Great Lakes in Children's Literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Feb 2020 12:34:06 -0500 2020-03-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Illustration from The Boy Who Ran to the Woods by Jim Harrison, illustrated by Tom Pohrt. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
“Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease” (March 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73335 73335-18199521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Organogenesis along with the Human Genetics Depatment is pleased to present a seminar talk by Dr. Shelley Berger.

Dr. Berger is Daniel S. Och Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

The talk is entitled, “Epigenetic pathways as targets in human disease.”

Faculty Host: Sue Hammoud, Ph.D.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:29:36 -0500 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Berger Flyer
My Brothers Empowerment Series (March 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72936 72936-18096962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

My Brothers is a monthly dialogue series for men of color at the University of Michigan. The goal of the program is to empower self-identified men of color around issues of identity, intercultural competency, health, and wellness in an open, spirited atmosphere. The program welcomes all self-identified men of color at the University of Michigan — undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:47:19 -0500 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion My Brothers
Toward a “Universal Museum”: A Conversation with Dr. Kojiro Hirose (Graduate University of Advanced Studies and the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, Japan) (March 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73607 73607-18269830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tappan Hall
Organized By: History of Art

Tuesday March 10 at 4:00 PM
Room 130, Tappan Hall (Department of History of Art)

Dr. Hirose is the foremost authority of museum accessibility in Japan. He has worked on the practical study and prevalence of “tactile exhibits,” drawing on his experience of being visually impaired. Rather than simply building a barrier-free museum for the disabled, his goal is developing a “universal museum,” which everyone can enjoy. His study has had a significant impact both within and outside the museum. Dr. Hirose’s advocacy of a universal museum has attracted international attention; he has given lecture throughout the U.S., Germany, and other countries. Please join us for a special presentation by Dr. Hirose followed by what promises to be stimulating conversation on the topic!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 14:13:22 -0500 2020-03-10T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T17:00:00-04:00 Tappan Hall History of Art Lecture / Discussion Tappan Hall
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Performative Space: Korean Diaspora, Collective Memories, and Spatial Identity (March 10, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71670 71670-17853480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

As South Korea rapidly becomes a multicultural society that is transitioning from an ethnocentric logic of kinship and nationalism to a globalized society of citizenship and cosmopolitanism, the collective desire of Koreans to understand the nation’s history and restructure its racial, national, and cultural identity is exploding. As a powerful yet often overlooked area in research about contemporary Korean studies, public interactions with architectural design and spatial identity play important roles in reflecting sociocultural changes and the political climate in and around South Korea. This project traces the historical significance of the district of Dongdaemun as the leading site of Korean modernity and attempts to read the diasporic sensibility of Koreans and their sense of displacement and collective memory embedded in the process of developing the cityscape.

Miseong Woo is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Yonsei University in South Korea. Her research interests include race, gender, modernity in modern drama, the literary and visual history of Asian diaspora, and cultural encounters between the East and West in popular culture. She published Representation of Asian Women in the West (2014) with Sam & Parkers, which won the 2014 Korea Research Foundation Achievement Award. She received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2011–2012 academic year, taught at Cornell University as a distinguished visiting professor in Korean studies in 2016, and is the first scholar selected as the Fulbright Korea Distinguished Chair at Emory University in 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 17 Jan 2020 14:22:57 -0500 2020-03-10T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Miseong Woo, Professor, English Language and Literature, Yonsei University
Where Your Student Leadership Will Take You (March 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73224 73224-18179630@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

“Where your Student Leadership will Take you?” is an intergenerational panel of UM alumni on student leadership.

Panelists Roger Fisher, Elizabeth James, Marie Ting, Hamida Bhagirathy and Cesar Vargas-Leon, will discuss how their leadership during their time as students at the University of Michigan has set them up for success in their career and how it has shaped their time beyond the university.

This is the perfect opportunity to learn 'where your student leadership can take you' and how your network can support you.

To RSVP: myumi.ch/E3B38

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:46:31 -0500 2020-03-10T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T19:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Image of event flyer
"Farming While Black: Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty" (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72675 72675-18044329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices - from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative and the CSA - have roots in African wisdom. Yet, discrimination and violence against African-American farmers has led to our decline from 14 percent of all growers in 1920 to less than 2 percent today, with a corresponding loss of over 14 million acres of land. Further, Black communities suffer disproportionately from illnesses related to lack of access to fresh food and healthy natural ecosystems. Soul Fire Farm, cofounded by author, activist, and farmer Leah Penniman, is committed to ending racism and injustice in our food system. Through programs such as the Black-Indigenous Farmers Immersion, a sliding-scale farmshare CSA, and Youth Food Justice leadership training, Soul Fire Farm is part of a global network of farmers working to increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices, and end food apartheid. Join us to learn how you too can be part of the movement for food sovereignty and help build a food system based on justice, dignity, and abundance for all members of our community.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 21 Feb 2020 13:24:35 -0500 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Leah Penniman
Food Literacy for All (March 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-10T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Public Health (March 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52728 52728-12974162@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the health of our society.

Readings to consider:
1. The right to public health
2. Ethics and Public Health: Forging a Strong Relationship
3. Old Myths, New Myths: Challenging Myths in Public Health
4. A Bridge Back to the Future: Public Health Ethics, Bioethics, and Environmental Ethics

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/042-public-health/.

A public good for the good of the public – the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:57:57 -0500 2020-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Public health
POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering (March 10, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73303 73303-18190737@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 10, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

**We regret that the annual 3 Amigos Lecture scheduled for Tuesday, March 10 in the Boeing Auditorium at the Fracois-Xavier Bagnoud building, has been postponed.
We will share the new date and time for the event as soon as they are scheduled. We apologize for any inconvenience.**

It's time again for this annual event led by Steve Battel, President of Battel Engineering and Professor of Practice at the U-M Climate & Space department.

This year's lecture is titled Real World Perspectives: Conversations on Leadership and Diversity in Engineering.

Please join us as Prof. Battel joins with guests Mackenzie Lystrup, Vice-President and General Manager of Ball Aerospace, and Nick Lappos,Chairman of Vertical Lift Consortium in what will be a very interesting discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 18:48:14 -0400 2020-03-10T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-10T21:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion 3 Amigos social card
Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series (March 11, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73698 73698-18296111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 11:30am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon Series

"Civil Rights 3.0. -- What the MLK vision means in the 21st Century, and the central role of engineers and scientists in determining where we go from here."

featuring David Tarver

Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Please RSVP Here: https://forms.gle/wo1x7sQ1tBF1Nga77

11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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

David Tarver currently serves as a lecturer in the U-M Center for Entrepreneurship in Ann Arbor. He is also founder and board president of the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative. David is a highly successful technology business executive with an incredible entrepreneurial journey and amazing success in corporate R&D, technology business startup, and social impact entrepreneurship.


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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:30:09 -0400 2020-03-11T11:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
CREES Noon Lecture. Landscapes and Logging in the Russian Far East (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72421 72421-18000493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Faculty of the School of Environment and Sustainability Kathleen Bergen and Joshua Newell will provide insight into how logging, fire, and land use has impacted the globally-important forests and landscapes of Russia’s vast Far East. Despite the region’s importance, research to date has not tried to unravel the respective roles of human and natural in these magnificent landscapes. They will also discuss the growing influence of China, largely through trade in resources, on ecosystems in this region.

Associate Research Scientist Kathleen Bergen, PhD, works in the areas of land-cover/land-use change and human dimensions of environmental change. She uses remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and geospatial methods to study the drivers and consequences of forest and other land changes. She has worked since 2000 on NASA-supported projects using remote sensing to quantify forest and land change in Siberia and the Russian Far East in the context of changing socio-economic eras. She is lead author of the chapter “Human Dimensions of Environmental Change in Siberia” in Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences, published by Springer, as well as contributor to the international NASA Northern Eurasia Partnership Initiatives (NEESPI and NEFI) science plans.

Joshua Newell is an associate professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is a broadly trained human-environment geographer, whose research focuses on questions related to sustainability, resource consumption, and environmental and social justice. He is recognized authority on environmental and resource use issues in the Russian Federation, especially the Russian Far East. Published work in this area has appeared in Eurasian Geography and Economics, Geoforum, and the International Forestry Review, among others, and he has published two reference texts on environment and development in Russia’s Far East. His work is supported by the National Science Foundation, NASA, and private foundations, and he has received a Fulbright Award to study Russian-Chinese-U.S. flows of wood and the environmental sustainability challenges they pose.

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.

Photo of a Russian militia inspection point for logging trucks by Joshua Newell.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:25:12 -0500 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Photo of a Russian militia inspection point for logging trucks by Joshua Newell.
Medieval Lunch. Dialogue and Diplomacy: Capuchin-Franciscans at the Safavid Court (March 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71375 71375-17819291@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects. Presenters typically speak for approximately 30 minutes, leaving 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 13 Jan 2020 15:45:52 -0500 2020-03-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Event Update: Location Change - ISR Reads Author Visit and Talk: Harriet A. Washington (March 11, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73221 73221-18179628@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Reads Fall Book Selection: A Terrible Thing to Waste; Environmental Racism and It’s Assault on the American Mind

Wednesday, March 11, 2019 (Earth Week)
1:00pm to 3pm
ISR Thompson 1430ABCD

Virtual Live Stream Presentation with: Join us at ISR or online at https://bluejeans.com/569501572

In support of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts at the University of Michigan and the Institute of Social Research and School of Public Health we are excited to partner in bringing an award-winning science writer Harriet A. Washington.

Washington will join us via livestream to discuss her book "A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind."

Ms. Washington adds her incisive analysis to the environmental discussion presenting an argument that IQ is a biased and flawed metric, one that it is useful for tracking cognitive damage. She takes apart the spurious notion of intelligence as an inherited trait, using copious data that instead point to a different cause of the reported African American-white IQ achievement gap.

The book explains that environmental racism - a confluence of racism and other institutional factors that relegate marginalized communities to living and working near sites of toxic waste, pollution, and insufficient sanitation services is terrible for the brain. Ms. Washington investigates heavy metals, neurotoxins, deficient prenatal care, bad nutrition, and even pathogens as chief agents influencing intelligence to explain why communities of color are disproportionately affected -- and what can be done to remedy this devastating problem.

Harriet A. Washington has been the Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada's Black Mountain Institute, a Research Fellow in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at
Tuskegee University. She is the author of Deadly Monopolies, Infectious Madness, and Medical Apartheid, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Oakland Award, and the American Library Association Black Caucus
Nonfiction Award.

Presentation Co-Sponsors: ISR (ISR Reads, SRC Racism Lab and PSC Population Dynamics and Health Programming & School of Public Health

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:34:03 -0400 2020-03-11T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar Lecture. Yasmine Diaz: One Way or Another (March 11, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73294 73294-18190706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

In this talk, Los Angeles based artist Yasmine Diaz will speak about her experiences making work as an agnostic feminist of Muslim heritage in a post 9/11 era of xenophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric. Her talk will center on a her 2017 piece, One Way or Another (college and hand-cut watercolor paper, 18 x 24)

Yasmine navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity using personal archives, found imagery and various media on paper as well as installation. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the highlands of southern Yemen, her mixed media work often reflects personal histories of the opposing cultures she was raised within. She has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Torrance Art Museum, Charlie James Gallery, and Station Beirut. Diaz is a 2019 California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellow with works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and The Poetry Project Space in Berlin. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Feb 2020 13:51:51 -0500 2020-03-11T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion diaz-yasmine
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Rethinking the Art of Plasma Etch (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70792 70792-17644317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Since the 1970s, the semiconductor industry has fabricated electronic circuits using a plasma based pattern-transfer ap-proach that is remarkably reminiscent of the etching artform used centuries ago. Only now, the patterns are a million times smaller and driven by the wafer fab equipment industry. The most advanced plasma etching technique in production today is called atomic layer etching (ALE) in which a single layer is removed in a cyclic manner. This talk will review the ALE ap-proach in comparison to conventional plasma etching tech-niques, such as Reactive Ion Etching (RIE). As RIE reaches its fifth decade, its drawbacks have become apparent. ALE offers better control by isolating steps in time and switching between the steps in a repeatable cycle. To the extent that an ALE pro-cess behaves ideally – with high ALE synergy and self-limiting behavior – the primary benefit is improved uniformity across all length scales: at the surface, between different aspect rati-os, and across the full wafer. Another benefit that will be high-lighted is the atomic-scale smoothness in topography of the surface left behind after etching. The underlying mechanism and benefits of plasma ALE will be described, providing insight into the plasma science behind the ancient art of etching. Overall, ALE is simpler to understand than conventional plasma etch processing, and is proving to be important as we apply the art of etch at the atomic scale.

About the Speaker:
Richard A. Gottscho is Executive VP, Chief Technology Officer at Lam Research since May 2017. He previously was Executive VP, Global Products Group beginning August 2010; and group VP and general manager, Etch Businesses beginning March 2007. He joined Lam in January 1996 and has held various director and VP roles spanning deposition, etch, and clean products. Prior to joining Lam, he was at Bell Laboratories for 15 years, where he headed research departments in electronics materials, electronics packaging, and flat panel displays. In 2016, Dr. Gottscho was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He has received several awards, including the AVS Peter Mark Me-morial Award, AVS Plasma Science and Technology Division Prize, the Dry Process Symposium Nishiza-wa Award, and the Tegal Thinker Award. He is a fellow of the APS and AVS. He has authored numerous papers, patents, and lectures, and has served on journal editorial boards and program committees for major conferences in plasma science and engineering. He served as vice-chair of a National Research Council study on plasma science. Dr. Gottscho earned Ph.D. and B.S. degrees in physical chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Pennsylvania State University, respectively.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m470378ee7563bc37fae0bcbb395a7d98
Meeting number: 624 374 412
Password: MIPSE2019

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 07 Mar 2020 09:20:03 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Rick Gottscho
CLASP Special Seminar: Dr. Michelle Thomsen, Planetary Science Institute (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73626 73626-18272037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Dr. Michelle Thomsen of the Planetary Science Institute for a Special Seminar. Please join us!

Title: “Plasma Transport in Saturn’s Magnetosphere”

Abstract: Saturn’s magnetosphere is often termed “internally driven” because the structure and dynamics are largely determined by a dominant plasma source that lies deep inside the magnetosphere (the water plumes of the moon Enceladus) and by processes driven by the planet’s rapid rotation: 1) centrifugally-driven flux-
tube interchange that delivers inner magnetospheric plasma to the middle magnetosphere; and 2) magnetic reconnection of stretched, plasma-laden flux tubes, with ultimate down-tail loss of plasmoids containing Enceladus-sourced material. There are numerous pieces of evidence supporting this paradigm but also numerous outstanding questions. In this talk we summarize recent efforts to address several aspects of global transport, primarily relating to the interchange process: How and where is it initiated? How deeply into the inner magnetosphere can interchange penetrate? What can we learn about the evolution of interchange injections?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 21:56:50 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic event image
EER Seminar Series (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73497 73497-18252264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Engineering design is complex, where each phase is dependent on the others and iteration occurs with and across these phases. Further, a successful design outcome hinges on foundational work done during the "front-end” of design processes, which includes problem definition, deep needs and stakeholder assessments using design ethnography, requirements development, and idea generation. Research has shown that experts develop both conscious and subconscious design strategies that impact success, and that novices often lack strategies and the ability to successfully implement them. This seminar will discuss investigations of strategies in front-end design, ways these strategies can be translated to design and education tools, and the role of front-end design in broadening recognition of skills that engineering includes.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Shanna Daly is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the College of Engineering. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. degree in Engineering Education from Purdue University. Her research characterizes front-end design practices across the student to practitioner continuum, uses these findings to develop tools to support design best practices, and studies the impact of front-end design tools on design success. She focuses on divergent and convergent thinking processes, including concept generation and development and problem space exploration, how to foster creativity in engineering work, and processes to understand social and cultural elements of the contexts in which engineering work occurs and integrate them into decision making. Her studies often involve both professional and educational contexts and collaborations across disciplines with scholars in engineering, education, industrial design, and psychology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Mar 2020 13:00:21 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Webinar: Estimating Long-term Phosphorus Retention Capacity of Ohio Riverine and Coastal Wetlands (March 11, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73423 73423-18217166@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Just how much phosphorus can a wetland absorb and retain over the long run? That’s the question that researchers have spent the past two years investigating as part of an effort to reduce the phosphorus loading that is fueling algal blooms in Lake Erie. A research team from Old Woman Creek Reserve and the University of Toledo developed a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach to calculate the phosphorus retention capacity of wetlands with limited datasets.

In this webinar, the team will share some of their key findings, management implications, and potential for other practitioners to use their monitoring guide and statistical codes to calculate the nutrient retention capacity of their wetlands. In addition to taking audience questions, the team will offer some ideas about how their work informs an ambitious new water quality initiative in Ohio.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:02:38 -0500 2020-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
CANCELED Life & Career with a Humanities Degree (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73188 73188-18157912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Come here meaningful insights from U-M alumni who are putting their humanities degrees to work in the world. Refreshments will be served.

Featuring:

Anna Clark (Creative Writing & Literature, History of Art, 2003) journalist & author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy.

Emily Mathews (English & Women's Studies, 2001), director of marketing and communications, U-M School of Kinesiology

Ebony Robinson (American Culture, 2002), associate director, Detroit Health Department

Sharonda Simmons (DAAS), director of education & outreach, Ozone House

Hannah Thoms (anthropology, history, museum studies, 2019), collection assistant, Motown Museum

Part of 2020 Humanities Week, March 9-13, presented by the Institute for the Humanities. http://myumi.ch/bvDrr

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:02:09 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Humanities Week Career Panel
CANCELED: A reading and conversation with Lacy M. Johnson (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72317 72317-17974669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED AS OF 3/9/2020.

Join us for a reading by Lacy M. Johnson, author of *The Reckonings* and professor of creative non-fiction at Rice University. David Morse, Lecturer at the Ford School's Writing Center, will moderate the conversation.

From the speaker's bio:

Lacy M. Johnson is a Houston-based professor, curator, activist, and is author of *The Reckonings*, which was named a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist in Criticism and one of the best books of 2018 by Boston Globe, Electric Literature, Autostraddle, Book Riot, and Refinery 29. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Tin House, Guernica, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Sentence, TriQuarterly, Gulf Coast and elsewhere. She teaches creative nonfiction at Rice University(link is external) and is the Founding Director of the Houston Flood Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:59:00 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lacy M. Johnson
CANCELLED - An Inconvenient Past: Detroit vs. Slow Archaeology (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73723 73723-18322371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In 2018 the 19th-century Halleck Street Log Cabin was rediscovered by chance in a blighted Great Migration-era neighborhood of Detroit. It quickly became the centerpiece of an enthusiastic community-led restoration and educational project in the neighboring city of Hamtramck before it met an untimely and sudden demolition at the hands of the City of Detroit in February of 2019. This presentation recounts the archaeological investigations of the late 19th-century log cabin in the context of the city's blight removal efforts. It also uses the controversy surrounding the cabin's demolition to discuss how federal policies towards blight removal are adversely affecting the identification and preservation of poor, working-class historic resources in post-industrial cities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:20:49 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73002 73002-18123077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
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Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract:

In this talk, some major challenges are reviewed of using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to address the needs of medicine and healthcare. These challenges include technical issues such as data-related and/or algorithmic challenges that the use of AI for medicine would present. The speaker then presents some potential solutions in form of novel algorithmic approaches that may at least partially address some of these challenges.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:49:28 -0400 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Order and the Underground: Governing the Goldfields of Madagascar (March 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73591 73591-18267638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Brian Ikaika Klein is a doctoral candidate in environmental science, policy, and management at the University of California, Berkeley. His research integrates the study of social and ecological conditions and processes to understand resource access and governance in extractive frontier settings across the Global South. Prevailing narratives among policymakers and in popular media consistently portray these spaces as unregulated and chaotic.
Klein challenges these representations by documenting and analyzing the complex governance arrangements that order activities, manage conflict, and determine livelihoods on the extractive frontier. He presents ethnographic and historical evidence from Madagascar to elucidate the emergence, evolution, and endurance of governance institutions in gold mining communities on the island, as well as to interrogate the global, national, and local dynamics by which these institutions are shaped.
At the center of his work is a commitment to producing policy-relevant research informed by interdisciplinary political-ecological analysis interested in achieving more equitable and sustainable development outcomes for smallholder resource extractors and rural communities–in Madagascar, and across sub-Saharan Africa.
Klein’s research has won support from the National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, and UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society (among other divisions on campus). His agenda for future research comprises extending this analysis to build a broader comparative project on frontier governance; examining the consequences of Chinese state-corporate investments and interventions in Africa’s extractive resource sectors for local institutions and livelihoods; and investigating the ways in which the growth of industries related to climate change mitigation is generating new globally-networked and locally-embedded mineral economies. He is also collaborating with U4/USAID/WWF as an expert consultant on natural resource governance and corruption in Madagascar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 10:40:45 -0500 2020-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CANCELED -- Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (March 11, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69540 69540-18322376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

CANCELED: This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2020. Please stay tuned for details.


William Lopez, Emily Fredericks, and Matthew Lassiter discuss Lopez's recent book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid published by John Hopkins University Press in September 2019. This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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

About the book:

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return—arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.

Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013, as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez combines rigorous research with narrative storytelling. Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:36:40 -0400 2020-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
Environmental Action for Survival: The History and Legacies of U-M's 1970 Teach-In on the Environment (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72336 72336-17974688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: School for Environment & Sustainability

The March 1970 Teach-In on the Environment (the model for the first Earth Day) was organized by the U-M student organization Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT). The success of this four-day event on the U-M campus and in the Ann Arbor community is legendary, and many ENACT members went on to make significant impacts in the environmental and sustainability fields. Six leaders of ENACT and of the national Earth Day planning committee will hold a panel discussion that honors the rich history of U-M's Teach-In on the Environment. They will also share insights on the evolution of the movement--and the ongoing work they are involved in today.https://events.umich.edu/manage/event/72336/edit/details


Barbara R. Alexander (BA ’68) - Consumer Affairs Consultant, Former Director, Consumer Assistance Division, Maine Public Utilities Commission

Barbara R. Alexander graduated from the University of Michigan (B.A., LS&A) in 1968. After working on the Robert F. Kennedy campaign in Indiana, Oregon, and California, she moved to Washington, D.C. where she joined The Conservation Foundation and was recommended for the nascent Earth Day 1970 staff. Barb was the Midwestern Coordinator for Earth Day. Following her marriage to Donald Alexander and a move to Maine in 1973, Barb received a J.D. from the U. of Maine School of Law in 1976, and was appointed Superintendent of the Maine Bureau of Consumer Credit Protection (1979-1983) and then from 1986-1996 the Director, Consumer Assistance Division, at the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

David Allan (PhD) - Professor Emeritus, U-M, Former acting dean, U-M’s School for Environment and Sustainability

David Allan is Professor Emeritus in the School for Environment and Sustainability at The University of Michigan, where he has served as Professor and Dean. Dave’s research interests are in freshwater ecology, including the many threats to and benefits from healthy ecosystems. He received his BSc from the University of British Columbia (1966) and PhD from the University of Michigan (1971. In 1969-70, when he should have been working on his doctoral thesis, Dave joined with other students and supportive faculty to launch the ambitiously titled, “Environmental Action for Survival”, fortunately shortened to “Enact”, and helped to organize UM’s first earth day. Following graduation, he spent a post-doctoral year at the University of Chicago, then joined the Department of Zoology of the University of Maryland before returning to the University of Michigan in 1990. He retired in 2015 but remains professionally active, at present completing a third edition of his textbook entitled “Stream Ecology”. Allan has served on various committees advisory to the U.S. and Canada on freshwater protection, and on the boards of American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. Professor Allan is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the Society for Freshwater Science. He has been recognized by the University of Michigan with the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award and by the Society for Freshwater Science with the Award of Excellence.

George Coling - Occupational health and environmental justice advocate, Former Executive Director, National Fuel Funds Network

George Coling enrolled in the University of Michigan School of Public Health in the fall of 1969 after obtaining a Biology degree from the University of Rochester. He soon became involved in ENACT, the campus student group organizing events for the March 1970 Environmental Teach-In. After the Teach-In, he was one of the founders of the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor and then moved to Washington to work for Environmental Resources, the affiliate of Environmental Action, which organized Earth Day nationally. George worked in Washington until 2015, when he and his wife, Marcia Coling, moved to Western Massachusetts. George and Marcia have two sons and two grandchildren. In those years in Washington, George worked for the national organization of ecology centers, the American Public Health Association; the Urban Environment Conference, Inc.; Rural Coalition; Environmental Defense Fund and Sierra Club. Much of his work focused on the issues of occupational health and of environmental justice and on building grassroots networks to address these issues. He also did consulting for numerous environmental, community and labor organizations. From 1997 until his 2012 retirement, George was Executive Director of the National Fuel Funds Network, an organization of privately-funded energy assistance programs and an advocate for increased federal funding home energy assistance for people with low incomes.

Arthur Hanson (PhD) - Canadian global and regional ecologist, professor, Distinguished Fellow and former President, International Institute for Sustainable Development

Arthur Hanson is a Canadian ecologist working globally, regionally and with more than 20 countries on environment and sustainable development science and policy. Much of his work has taken place in North America and Asia, especially China and Indonesia. Dr. Hanson resides in Victoria, British Columbia. He is the former President (1992-1998) and now a Distinguished Fellow of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), an independent research organization headquartered in Canada. Art lived in Indonesia (1972-1977) affiliated with the Ford Foundation. Later, during the 1980s he established a number of major research and institutional development efforts there. From 1992 until the present he has worked with China and the international community at very senior levels to promote transformative policies and actions consistent with sustainable development. From 2002-2019 he was the International Chief Advisor of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED).

Elizabeth Grant Kingwill -Mental health counselor, Former Board of Directors member, Sierra Club local chapter

In the fall of 1969, Elizabeth Grant (Kingwill) was a graduate student in Rackham, the School of Natural Resources, in the Environmental Education Program. In her first semester in SNR, she saw an opportunity to include the local community of Ann Arbor and the State of Michigan in the planning for the ENACT Teach-In and took on the responsibility of Chairmanship of Community Relations. After the ENACT Teach-In in March 1970, she stayed in Ann Arbor for the summer where she was hired to help start the Ann Arbor Ecology Center as a non-profit. She found the building to house the offices of the Center and hired the first director. Her intention was to have the Center be a place that environmental groups could come together, work, meet and hopefully begin to cooperate on common goals. In 1972, Elizabeth worked as a U of M Consultant for her master’s thesis with the Girl Scouts of Metropolitan Detroit. Her role there included writing environmental manuals, directing an environmental program for girls, and conducting leadership training for their adult leaders. Thousands of girls and women were involved in the program. Elizabeth went back to school in Durango, Colorado in 1976, completing an undergraduate and masters degree in Psychology. Her work as a change agent moved from organizing environmental groups to changing minds and healing hearts. She was also Vice-President of a local environmental group, and later served on the Board of Directors of the local chapter of the Sierra Club. She moved to Jackson, Wyoming in 1980. She worked for the local Mental Health Center for nine years and has been in private practice as a counselor for the last thirty years. Creating the Ecology Center as a non-profit inspired a lifetime of working for and running non-profits in Colorado and Wyoming.

Doug Scott (BS '66) - Career strategist and lobbyist for conservation and environment, Former Associate Executive Director, Sierra Club

Doug Scott grew up in Oregon where he enjoyed camping, hiking, and climbing in the Cascade Mountains. A summer job at Carlsbad Caverns National Park led him to think he’d like to be a National Park Service ranger, so he chose to study in the School of Natural Resources [now the School of Environment and Sustainability] at the University of Michigan. While there he co-chaired the group that organized the March 1970 ENACT Teach-In on the Environment. He also served with Senator Gaylord Nelson on the board of directors of the national Earth Day organizing group. His involvement in environmental politics led his to a career as a strategist and lobbyist, working with The Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club (where he became Associate Executive Director), and the Pew Charitable Trusts to persuade Congress to protect many more national parks, national wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas. He now lives in Palm Springs, California.

Matt Lassiter (PhD) - Panel Moderator, U-M Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Award-winning author

Matt Lassiter is Professor of History and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan. He has directed multiple public engagement projects with UM undergraduate researchers, including the Fall 2017 “Michigan in the World” course that created “Give Earth a Chance: Environmental Activism in Michigan.” This multimedia exhibit chronicles the history of the four-day Environmental Action for Survival (ENACT) Teach-In at the University of Michigan in March 1970, the national Earth Day mobilization in April, the formation of the Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, and related environmental campaigns in the state of Michigan during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 31 Jan 2020 14:41:08 -0500 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building School for Environment & Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Earth Day Poster
VIRTUAL Fifth Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture. American Muslims in the Era of Islamophobia (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72092 72092-17937820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Distinguished Lecture will be offered in a virtual format only. Please tune in to the live video feed at:

https://player.cloud.wowza.com/hosted/mpmwp8vk/player.html

The Trump movement has not only brought Islamophobia out into the open, it has brought it into the White House and other centers of American power. In a talk that will draw from his recent book, *Out Of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*, Eboo Patel will highlight the various ways that American culture and American Muslims are responding to this bigotry. While recognizing the clear challenges of our times, Eboo will draw on Islamic theology, American history and contemporary movements to illuminate a hopeful path forward.

Eboo Patel is the Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), a non-profit organization that is working to make interfaith cooperation a social norm in America. He is the author of four books and dozens of articles, has spoken on more than 150 campuses, and served on President Obama’s Inaugural Faith Council.

A key figure on issues of religious diversity and democracy, Eboo was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. He is the author of *Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation*; *Sacred Ground: Pluralism, Prejudice, and the Promise of America*; I*nterfaith Leadership: A Primer*; and *Out of Many Faiths: Religious Diversity and the American Promise*. He also publishes a regular blog for *Inside Higher Ed*, called ‘Conversations on Diversity’.

Eboo holds a doctorate in the sociology of religion from Oxford University, where he studied on a Rhodes scholarship. He has been awarded the Louisville Grawemeyer Prize in Religion, the Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, the El Hibri Peace Education Prize, the Council of Independent Colleges Academic Leadership Award, along with honorary degrees from 15 colleges.

Eboo lives in Chicago with his wife, Shehnaz, and two young sons. He is a die-hard fan of Notre Dame Football, Wilco, and really good coffee.

Co-sponsors: International Institute, Global Islamic Studies Center, Arab and Muslim American Studies, University of Michigan-Dearborn Center for Arab American Studies, Michigan State University Muslim Studies Program

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Each year, the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) hosts a Distinguished Lecture featuring a prominent scholar or public figure speaking about issues related to Islamic studies. These events are presented by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Michigan, and the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC), a member of the International Institute.

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: digital.islam@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 09:18:18 -0400 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Eboo_event
Witness Lab Simulation: Salem Witch Trials with Professor Leonard Niehoff's U-M Law Seminar​ (March 11, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73682 73682-18280818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our Witness Lab page for an ever-evolving list of opportunities to see the Witness Lab project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Mar 2020 18:17:22 -0500 2020-03-11T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-11T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Beyond the Studio: Exploring How Artists Work with Communities (March 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72747 72747-18070555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Artists and community leaders are working together to create innovative visual art programs that encourage compassion, personal expression, and social interaction. Exploring how artists reach out to communities, speaker Professor Anne Mondro will highlight artists working in socially engaged art, and share her own experiences in designing and facilitating art programming for people living with memory loss and their care partners. She will discuss the positive impact of these programs in building community relationships and promoting well-being.

Anne Mondro is an artist and Associate Professor in the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design. Her research focuses on designing and facilitating creative arts programming for people living with memory loss and their caregiver, with the intention of increasing social interaction, supporting learning and discovery, and building relationships.

This is the third of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be March 19, 2020. The title is: Site-Specific Installations and Photography Projects, Detroit and Beyond.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:01:57 -0500 2020-03-12T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita) (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69148 69148-17252911@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s transition from a feudal regime to a modern regime in the late nineteenth century as a natural experiment. Using plant-level data for 1902, including the foundation year of each plant, we explored how the experience-size profiles of plants differ before and after the regime change. Plants were found to grow much faster after the regime change and the acceleration of growth after the regime change was much greater for the plants in exporting industries, industries intensively using steam power, and plants adopting a corporate form. These findings suggest that access to export markets, access to modern technologies, and availability of the modern corporate form were the channels through which the regime change affected the experience-size profile of plants.

Tetsuji Okazaki is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He served as President of the International Economic History Association from 2015 to 2018. He has published extensively in major journals in economic history and economics, including Journal of Economic History and American Economic Review. His recent research interests include history of industrial organization and history of income distribution.

*This event is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit*.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:50:50 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
CANCELLED: Our Constitution and Our Children in the Era of Climate Crisis: Juliana v. United States (March 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73028 73028-18129604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

This lecture has been CANCELLED.

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series. Julia Olson, Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel of Our Children's Trust, will speak about Juliana v. United States.

This event is free and open to the public.

Julia Olson graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. For the first part of her 22-year career, Julia represented grassroots conservation groups working to protect the environment, organic agriculture, and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she focused her work on representing young people and elevating their voices on the issue that will most determine the quality of their lives and the well-being of all future generations. Julia founded Our Children’s Trust in 2010 to lead this strategic legal campaign on behalf of the world’s youth against governments everywhere. Julia leads Juliana v. the United States, the constitutional climate change case brought by 21 youth against the U.S. government for violating their Fifth Amendment rights to life, liberty, property, and public trust resources. Julia and OCT are recipients of the Rose-Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism. She received the Kerry Rydberg Award for Environmental Activism in 2017 and is a member of Rachel's Network Circle of Advisors. To rejuvenate, Julia loves being high up in the mountains with her family and her dog or playing tunes on her ukulele with friends.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:11:27 -0400 2020-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- Feminist Futures Roundtable (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72735 72735-18330884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details.

On the occasion of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's 25th anniversary, this panel will reflect on the past and look ahead to the next quarter century, envisioning the future of feminist research. Panelists are encouraged to imagine what feminist scholarship will look like in their field: what are the future challenges and opportunities? What themes, methodologies, collaborations, or theoretical frameworks will emerge?

In "lightning round" style, panelists will discuss ideas that they’re most excited about in regards to feminist research. There will be time for a dynamic discussion with each other and the audience.

Refreshments and IRWG swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers) provided!

Participants :
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor, Departments of American Culture and Women's Studies
- LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
- Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; IRWG Founding Director

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0400 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion IRWG 25th anniversary logo
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- Feminist Futures Roundtable (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72735 72735-18330885@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
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Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details.

On the occasion of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's 25th anniversary, this panel will reflect on the past and look ahead to the next quarter century, envisioning the future of feminist research. Panelists are encouraged to imagine what feminist scholarship will look like in their field: what are the future challenges and opportunities? What themes, methodologies, collaborations, or theoretical frameworks will emerge?

In "lightning round" style, panelists will discuss ideas that they’re most excited about in regards to feminist research. There will be time for a dynamic discussion with each other and the audience.

Refreshments and IRWG swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers) provided!

Participants :
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor, Departments of American Culture and Women's Studies
- LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
- Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; IRWG Founding Director

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0400 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion IRWG 25th anniversary logo
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- Feminist Futures Roundtable (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72735 72735-18330886@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details.

On the occasion of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's 25th anniversary, this panel will reflect on the past and look ahead to the next quarter century, envisioning the future of feminist research. Panelists are encouraged to imagine what feminist scholarship will look like in their field: what are the future challenges and opportunities? What themes, methodologies, collaborations, or theoretical frameworks will emerge?

In "lightning round" style, panelists will discuss ideas that they’re most excited about in regards to feminist research. There will be time for a dynamic discussion with each other and the audience.

Refreshments and IRWG swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers) provided!

Participants :
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor, Departments of American Culture and Women's Studies
- LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
- Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; IRWG Founding Director

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0400 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:00:00-04:00 Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion IRWG 25th anniversary logo
Yiddish and Trauma Studies (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70149 70149-17538853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Trauma studies is an interdisciplinary field exploring not only the psychological effects of traumatic experiences, but also the problem of representing these experiences in language. This panel explores the ways Yiddish culture responded to two definitive instances of collective trauma: the Holocaust and the Russian Civil War. Presenters will discuss Yiddish-language responses to these events and explore how they have shaped individual and cultural identities.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:49:20 -0500 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Installation by France-based artist Kliclo. “Partitions de vent” (Wind Partitions)
Globalization and Human Rights (March 12, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65911 65911-16670234@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Tsutsui is professor of sociology, director, of the Center for Japanese Studies, and director of the Donia Human Rights Center at U-M. His research interests focus on political/comparative sociology, social movements, globalization, human rights, and Japanese society. His current projects examine (a) changing conceptions of nationhood and minority rights in national constitutions and their impact on actual practices, (b) global expansion of corporate social responsibility and its impact on corporate behavior, (c) experimental surveys on public understanding about human rights, and (d) campus policies and practices around human rights. Tsutsui’s research has appeared in numerous social science journals. Dr. Tsutsui will provide some interesting insights in to this important topic

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:19:00 -0400 2020-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Resonant Infrared, Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation: Enabling Hybrid Thin Films for Optoelectronics (March 12, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72451 72451-18007185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Future applications, such as wearable electronics, flexible and transparent displays, or devices for solar energy conversion and storage require materials with more versatility, more integrated functions, and more environmentally responsible processing compared to traditional options (i.e., inorganic semiconductors, like silicon). Organic semiconductors, such as small molecules and polymers, are well-suited to these future requirements; however, their electrical properties and environmental stability are inherently worse. Hybrid materials, such as inorganic nanoparticles embedded within a polymer film, can mitigate the trade-offs that exist for any single material type by combining organic and inorganic semiconductors. For example, hybrid materials can impart multi-functionality, flexibility, transparency, and sustainability to devices based on the interaction of light and matter (i.e., optoelectronic devices) or energy-related devices (e.g., solar cells, supercapacitors, or photo-electrochemical cells). A critically important requirement to realize the promise of hybrid materials for devices is to understand and control thin film deposition. Because hybrid materials are heterogeneous systems containing more than one component, thin-film deposition can be complicated compared to single component films. As a result, the co-deposition of two or more materials with different properties to synthesize a hybrid film with pre-determined functionality is a technological challenge within thin-film engineering. I will describe my research program that investigates hybrid thin film deposition using resonant infrared, matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (RIR-MAPLE) to control structure and properties and to improve the performance of optoelectronic and energy-related devices. I will also reflect on my path to a career in academia and the lessons I have learned along the way.

Bio

Adrienne D. Stiff-Roberts is Jeffrey N. Vinik Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, where she is also the Director of Graduate Studies for the University Program in Materials Science and Engineering. Her current research interests include organic and hybrid thin-film deposition by resonant-infrared matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (RIR-MAPLE); materials characterization of organic and hybrid thin films; and the design, fabrication, and characterization of organic and hybrid optoelectronic devices, especially infrared photodetectors, photovoltaic solar cells, and multi-functional sensors. Dr. Stiff-Roberts received both the B.S. degree in physics from Spelman College and the B.E.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999. She received an M.S.E. in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in applied physics in 2001 and 2004, respectively, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Stiff-Roberts is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2006), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2007), the IEEE Early Career Award in Nanotechnology of the Nanotechnology Council (2009), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2009).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:18:39 -0500 2020-03-12T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
CANCELED -- Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (March 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69540 69540-17357977@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

CANCELED: This event will be rescheduled for Fall 2020. Please stay tuned for details.


William Lopez, Emily Fredericks, and Matthew Lassiter discuss Lopez's recent book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid published by John Hopkins University Press in September 2019. This event is part of IRWG's Gender: New Works, New Questions series, which spotlights recent publications by U-M faculty members and allows for deeper discussion by an interdisciplinary panel.

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

About the book:

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return—arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.

Lopez uses this single home raid to show what immigration law enforcement looks like from the perspective of the people who actually experience it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-four individuals whose lives were changed that day in 2013, as well as field notes, records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and his own experience as an activist, Lopez combines rigorous research with narrative storytelling. Putting faces and names to the numbers behind deportation statistics, Separated urges readers to move beyond sound bites and consider the human experience of mixed-status communities in the small everyday towns that dot the interior of the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:36:40 -0400 2020-03-12T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
<<CANCELED>> CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Lee Murray, University of Rochester (March 12, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71460 71460-17827812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

*NOTE: we regret that this week's seminar with Dr. Murray has been canceled. To protect the health and safety of our communities and minimize the spread of the Novel Coronavirus COVID19, U-M is making changes to classes and events on our Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

For more information about the U-M response to COVID-19, please visit https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Lee Murray of the University of Rochester as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

Dr. Murray will give a lecture titled "Coupling of atmospheric chemistry with global climate across multiple time scales."

Abstract: The reactive chemistry of the atmosphere has changed substantially over time due to human activity and natural processes. In turn, climate change has influenced atmospheric composition through perturbations of natural processes, leading to complex feedbacks across a range of spatial and temporal scales. Here, I present some ongoing projects aimed at characterizing the interface between atmospheric chemistry and Earth’s climate system in the past, present and future. First, I explore the coupling between the primary atmospheric oxidants OH and ozone with the production of reactive nitrogen oxides (NOx) from lightning, and the subsequent impacts on surface air quality and long-term climate. Second, I explore how uncertainty in reactive nitrogen chemistry and hydrocarbon oxidation mechanisms in the atmosphere contribute to uncertainties in chemistry-climate feedbacks, and ongoing efforts to evaluate these processes in global models through the ongoing NASA Atmospheric Tomography airborne mission. Lastly, I introduce a pilot monitoring network and inverse modeling framework for methane, the most abundant atmospheric hydrocarbon and potent greenhouse gas, that is presently being installed to aid New York State in assessing and meeting its greenhouse-gas reduction goals.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:25:10 -0400 2020-03-12T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
CANCELLED: Huey Copeland Lecture (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66561 66561-16751223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join the Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop for a public lecture by Huey Copeland (Northwestern).

"Black Feminist Materialism and Art-historical Praxis"
In this lecture, art historian and critic Huey Copeland aims to reframe the biases of art-historical praxis through attention to African American abstract painting of the 1960s and '70s. While the practices of artists who emerged in that moment, such as Sam Gilliam and Howardena Pindell, have garnered increasing attention in recent years, critical discourse has tended to either emplot them within formalist narratives that elide considerations of race and gender or to frame them in identarian frameworks that leave aside the material complexity of the artworks themselves. Copeland moves beyond this dichotomy in articulating a black feminist approach to the construction of the modern material world that considers how African American women’s vernacular strategies of making-do variously inform modernist painters’ attempts to critique both the supposed autonomy of abstraction as well as the racialized and gendered construction of the gaze in Western cultures.

Huey Copeland is Interim Director of the Black Arts Initiative, Arthur Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, where he also enjoys affiliations with African American Studies, Art Theory & Practice, Critical Theory, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Performance Studies. His research focuses on modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on articulations of blackness in the Western visual field. An editor of OCTOBER and a contributing editor of Artforum, Copeland has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals as well as in numerous international exhibition catalogues and essay collections. At present, he is at work on two complementary volumes: “In the Shadow of the Negress: Modern Art in the Transatlantic World,” which explores the constitutive role played by fictions of black womanhood in Western art from the late 18th century to the present, and “Touched by the Mother: On Black Men, Artistic Practice, and Other Feminist Horizons, 1966–2016,” which brings together a selection of his critical essays.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:03:24 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Howardena Pindell, Untitled (Dutch Wives Circled and Squared), detail, 1978
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: "Dynamic wall-models for large-eddy simulation: towards parameter-free high-fidelity simulation of real-world engineering applications" (March 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73748 73748-18311332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Dr. H. Jane Bae
The currently available computational power limits the utilization of direct numerical simulation (DNS) in practical engineering flow applications. In recent years, large-eddy simulation (LES) has emerged as a viable high-fidelity tool for such flow problems; however, it suffers from the same computational limitations in the near-wall region. In this talk, I will introduce a new way of modeling the wall in LES to overcome the limitation of the near-wall region. First, the use of the slip boundary condition with transpiration for wall-modeled LES is motivated by theoretic assessment and a priori testing using DNS data. Secondly, a dynamic slip wall model consistent with the constant stress layer in the near-wall region is presented. The dynamic slip wall model is free of any a priori specified coefficients, unlike traditional wall models which are based on RANS models. The results show that the predictions of the mean velocity profile and turbulence intensities from the dynamic slip wall model are in good agreement with DNS and experimental data for a wide range of Reynolds numbers and grid resolutions for canonical turbulent boundary layers.

About the Speaker...
H. Jane Bae is a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech. She received her Ph.D. in Computational and Mathematical Engineering from Stanford University in 2018. Her main research focuses on computational fluid mechanics, in particular on modeling and control of wall-bounded turbulence using reduced-order modeling and design and implementation of efficient solution methods.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:00:26 -0400 2020-03-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. H. Jane Bae
Geometry and Music (March 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73390 73390-18214931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

It has long been known that there is a deep connection between Mathematics and Music. In this talk, Purnaprajna shows how modern algebraic geometry inspired by ideas and methods of Alexander Grothendieck sheds light on the connection between different genres of music. He develops a meta geometric framework which gives raise to the so called “Metaraga system”; a system with its own grammar and syntax. This integrates elements of Indian and Western classical music, jazz and the blues. Moreover it gives rise to a music with no vantage point of east or west. Metaraga system’s mathematical under pinning lies in category theoretic algebraic geometry, and Grothendieck like topologies. The dictionary that is set up is both ways; music from math and math from music. This power point presentation will contain both audio and visual elements to illustrate some of the thoughts mentioned above

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:21:34 -0500 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Purnaprajna Bangere
Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact (March 12, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72926 72926-18094770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Jeff T. Blau Hall
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Juan Carlos Thomas, Director of Entrepreneurship at TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization focused on harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty, will be the next WDI Global Impact Speaker.


Thomas’s talk, “Local Businesses, Global Entrepreneurship: A Journey to Build Impact,” will explore effective ways to support entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses around the world. It is scheduled for 5-6 p.m., March 12 in Room B1560 (Blau Building) at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The discussion is free and open to the public.

Thomas leads the development and deployment of best practices in the support of entrepreneurs and small and growing businesses in the organization’s projects. Before assuming his current role, he served as TechnoServe’s Chile Country Director. Among his accomplishments in that role, he led the first inclusive business development program in Chile; the first small business accelerator program in Patagonia; several economic development programs in communities surrounding energy and mining projects; and the design of business development methodologies now being used in Latin America and Africa.

Before opening the TechnoServe office in Chile in 2008, Juan Carlos worked in the Corporate Finance and Capital Markets division at Bank Boston Chile. He has lectured on finance, entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship at various universities. Thomas holds an MBA from INSEAD and a bachelor’s degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 11:35:59 -0500 2020-03-12T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:00:00-04:00 Jeff T. Blau Hall William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion A restaurant in Colina, Chile. Image courtesy of TechnoServe.
Live Event Canceled - Dr. Alex Dehgan: Hacking in the Sixth Extinction (March 12, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70393 70393-17594440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Dr. Alex Dehgan’s contributions to the fight against climate change are prolific, solutions-oriented, and built to a global scale. As CEO and co-founder of Conservation X Labs, an innovation and technology start-up focused on conservation, Dehgan and his team apply science, technology, open innovation, design, and engineering to try to end human-induced extinction and address the planet’s biggest environmental challenges. Dehgan holds a PhD and master’s degree from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings. He was chosen as an “Icon of Science” by Seed magazine in 2005, received the World Technology Award for Policy in 2011, and has been recognized through multiple awards from the US Departments of State and Defense, and USAID. In 2013, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) selected Dehgan as one of its 40@40 fellows out of 2,600 AAAS Science Policy Fellows as an individual who has shown “exemplary dedication to applying science to serve society, was a creative, innovative, and collaborative problem solver in addressing global challenges, and was an uncommon ambassador for the role of science and technology.” He is the author of The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation (PublicAffairs, 2019).

This event is supported by the U-M Museum of Natural History and is part of the University of Michigan’s Earth Day at 50 celebration. Learn more: earthday.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-12T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Deghan.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (March 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELLED: Grace Lin Reading, Q&A, and Book Signing (March 12, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69576 69576-17366256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Before Grace Lin was an award-winning and NY Times bestselling author/illustrator of picturebooks, early readers and middle grade novels, she was the only Asian girl (except for her sisters) going to her elementary school in Upstate NY. That experience, good and bad, has influenced her books—including her Newbery Honor WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON, her Geisel Honor LING & TING, her National Book Finalist WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER and her Caldecott Honor A BIG MOONCAKE FOR LITTLE STAR.

That experience also causes Lin to persevere for diversity: She is an occasional New England Public Radio commentator, she gave a TEDx talk titled “The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf,” and she authored a PBSNewHour video essay called "What to do when you realize classic books from your childhood are racist?" She continues this mission with her two podcasts kidlitwomen* and Book Friends Forever. In 2016, Lin’s art was displayed at the White House and Lin was recognized by President Obama’s office as a Champion of Change for Asian American and Pacific Islander Art and Storytelling.

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:59:34 -0400 2020-03-12T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Grace Lin
[CANCELLED]. Neglected Histories, New Odysseys, and the Cultural Work of Fantasy (March 12, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73194 73194-18157922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Saladin Ahmed and Ausma Zehanat Khan, award-winning authors of fantasy, comics, science fiction, and crime fiction

A joint collaboration between U-M's Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and EMU's Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT). Authors Ahmed and Khan will engage in a conversation with one another, the academic community, and the general public about the role of their craft and art in excavating histories and forging new odysseys.

Cosponsor: Journal of Narrative Theory (JNT), Department of English at Eastern Michigan University

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:09:01 -0400 2020-03-12T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion event_poster
CANCELLED: The Satan of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (March 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72997 72997-18123074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

This event has been cancelled

The figure known in the Hebrew book of Job as "the satan" appears only the prologue and only up to Job 2:7. Yet there is a rich and diverse history of reception of him among Jewish, Christian, and Islamic interpreters. This lectures explores portrayals of this Satan in different religious traditions, including literary classic and the visual and performing arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 10:37:21 -0400 2020-03-12T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T20:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Freedman Lecture Poster
U-M Structure Seminar: Ali Kermani, Ph.D. (March 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65712 65712-16629973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stockbridge Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:57:06 -0400 2020-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
[CANCELLED]. CSEAS Lecture Series. Regime Change and Continuity in Malaysia (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70970 70970-17760243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Lily Rahim, Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia and Associate Teaching Professor, Georgetown University

Since its historic May 2018 breakthrough election, Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition government has experienced some erosion of public support. The presentation will analyse PH's weakening popularity within the context of its 'catch-22' policy and political conundrum. Simply put, the promised implementation of substantive policy reform, with respect to 'Malay rights', threaten to weaken PH's tenuous relations with the predominantly conservative majority Malay community - susceptible to the fear and racial displacement rhetoric of opposition politicians. At the same time, PH's reluctance to implement substantive institutional and policy reforms have generated disillusionment within its urban, cosmopolitan and middle-class electoral base - key to its electoral breakthrough in 2018 but increasingly wary of the governing coalition's leadership tensions.

Lily Zubaidah Rahim is Associate Teaching Professor and Malaysia Chair of Islam in Southeast Asia at the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. She was previously a professor of government and international relations at the University of Sydney, specializing in authoritarian governance, democratization, Southeast Asian Politics, political Islam, and ethic politics. Her books include The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community (Oxford University Press 1998/2001; translated to Malay by the Malaysian National Institute for Translation), Singapore in the Malay World: Building and Breaching Regional Bridges (Routledge, 2009), Muslim Secular Democracy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), The Politics of Islamism: Diverging Visions and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and The Limits of Authoritarian Governance in Singapore’s Developmental State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her current comparative politics book project focuses on regime change and policy reform in Malaysia, Indonesia and Tunisia.

Lily has published in international journals such as Democratization, Contemporary Politics, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of Comparative and Comparative Politics, Critical Asian Studies and the Australian Journal of International Affairs. Her sole-authored journal article ‘Governing Muslims in Singapore’s Secular Authoritarian State’ was short-listed for the Boyer Prize by the Australian Journal of International Affairs (AJIA). Lily is Vice-President of the Australian Association for Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) and Co-Convener of the Social Inclusion Network (SIN) at the University of Sydney. She was Convener of the multi-disciplinary ‘Religion, State and Society’ (RSS) Network and President of the Malaysia and Singapore Society of Australia (MASSA).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:32:07 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
AIM Research (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71746 71746-17877260@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, March 13 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Center for Academic Innovation Event Space (210 S 5th Ave) for AIM Research. We’ll welcome Marco Molinaro, Assistant Vice Provost for Educational Effectiveness at UC Davis, as the second of three AIM Research speakers scheduled throughout the Winter/Spring 2020 semester. Please register below if you plan to attend. Lunch will be provided.

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, 20 Jan 2020 11:12:40 -0500 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Research
CANCELLED - An Inconvenient Past: Detroit vs. Slow Archaeology (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73723 73723-18339517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
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Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In 2018 the 19th-century Halleck Street Log Cabin was rediscovered by chance in a blighted Great Migration-era neighborhood of Detroit. It quickly became the centerpiece of an enthusiastic community-led restoration and educational project in the neighboring city of Hamtramck before it met an untimely and sudden demolition at the hands of the City of Detroit in February of 2019. This presentation recounts the archaeological investigations of the late 19th-century log cabin in the context of the city's blight removal efforts. It also uses the controversy surrounding the cabin's demolition to discuss how federal policies towards blight removal are adversely affecting the identification and preservation of poor, working-class historic resources in post-industrial cities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:20:49 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion
CANCELLED - LACS Event. Utopian Imaginaries: Engaging with the *Fernando Coronil Reader* (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71607 71607-17844812@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

In *The Fernando Coronil Reader *(Duke University Press 2019) Venezuelan anthropologist Fernando Coronil challenges us to rethink our approaches to key contemporary epistemological, political, and ethical questions. Consisting of work written between 1991 and 2011, this posthumously published collection includes Coronil's landmark essays “Beyond Occidentalism” and “The Future in Question” as well as two chapters from his unfinished book manuscript, "Crude Matters." Taken together, the essays highlight his deep concern with the Global South, Latin American state formation, theories of nature, empire, and postcolonialism, and anthrohistory as an intellectual and ethical approach. Presenting a cross section of Coronil's oeuvre, this volume cements his legacy as one of the most innovative critical social thinkers of his generation.

Fernando Coronil served as faculty in history and anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 2008. During his time at the University of Michigan, Professor Coronil served terms as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Histoy, and the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History.

This event brings together editors of *The Fernando Coronil Reader* as well as scholars from the University of Michigan whose work has engaged deeply with Coronil’s work. A panel discussion about the development of the reader and its influence on past, present, and future scholarship will be followed by an open Q&A session with the audience. Refreshments will be served.

Invited panelists:
Julie Skurski, CUNY Graduate Center
Edward Murphy, Michigan State University
Javier Sanjinés, University of Michigan
Gavin Arnall, University of Michigan
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
Peggy Somers, University of Michigan

Co-sponsors:
Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies
History Department
Department of Anthropology
Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:16:37 -0400 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event-image
Story of My Holiday (March 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73655 73655-18278606@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 2
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

To increase our understanding and appreciation of each other, OHEI invites you to come and share how you celebrate one of your holidays - and learn the same from others.

Faculty, trainees and staff are all welcome.
Light refreshments served.

Facilitated by Dr. Katrina Foo Instructor in Pediatrics, Medical School.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Mar 2020 13:04:03 -0500 2020-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 2 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion The Story of My Holiday Image
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELLED - DISC Supplemental Lecture. Service Provision, Citizenship, and Governance: Exploring the Role of Islam in Mali (March 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72715 72715-18061844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Dr. Jaimie Bleck is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in African politics with a focus on democratization, education, participation, and citizenship. Her first book, Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali, was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2015. She and Nicolas van de Walle published, Continuity in Change: Electoral Politics in Africa 1990-2015, with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her work appears in the Journal of Politics, the Journal of Modern African Studies, Comparative Political Studies, African Affairs and Democratization. She spent 2014-2015 on sabbatical in Mali as an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellow. Her research has been funded by grants from the Spencer Foundation, National Science Foundation, and USAID-DRG.

Professor Bleck is also a concurrent faculty member in the Keough School of Global Affairs, Senior Research Advisor with the The Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity, Faculty Fellow with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and Faculty Affiliate with Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:27:05 -0400 2020-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T14:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion jamie_bleck
CANCELLED: Animals for Environmental Justice: (March 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73621 73621-18269849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

CANCELLED: This teach-in explores the action of several animals who are active in addressing environment degradation including beavers, mussels, wombats, cows and mushrooms. The idea that their work is work for environmental justice will be explored.

This teach-in will be led by Trevor Bechtel, Lecturer in the School of Social Work, and staff at Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan. Bechtel is an editor of Encountering Earth: Thinking Theologically with a More than Human World, and the Creative Director of the Anabaptist Bestiary Project.


Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled. Email betrevor@umich.edu for more inquiries about the content of this teach-in. Learn more here about the University of Michigan's new university wide measures regarding classes and events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 21:27:43 -0400 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Wombat
Do Socially Responsible Corporations pay Taxes? CSR and effective Tax Rates (March 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70756 70756-17642227@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Abstract: The social responsibilities of for-profit corporations have gained importance recently, and CSR has become both a goal and a set of guidelines for various corporate activities. CSR encompasses a number of dimension, typically including environmental impacts, treatment of employees, and relations to local communities. Here we consider the relationship between CSR and corporate taxes: do firms that are “good citizens” also pay higher taxes? Is it the social responsibility of firms to help pay for public services? Focusing on the percentile rank of effective tax rates, and using random effects panel regression of a data set of publicly-traded U.S. firms that includes measures of CSR and many financial variables, we find that the relationship between CSR and taxation is a complicated one that warrants further investigation. However, strong corporate governance, a typical component of CSR, is associated with lower tax rates, suggesting that responsibility to shareholders conflicts with broader social responsibilities.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Dec 2019 10:16:23 -0500 2020-03-13T13:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HistLing Discussion Group (March 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70400 70400-17594447@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 12:28:25 -0500 2020-03-13T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED Karma Masters: the Personhood of Tumors and their People in Northern Thailand (March 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73475 73475-18243514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

How can one make sense of ethical action when one is partly the other? In contexts of critical illness in Northern Thailand, many consider broken parts of themselves - from tumors to torn nerves to psychotic voices - to be beings returned to exact revenge for past wrongs. Many thus endeavor to treat their parts well, including their tumors. In this talk, I explore the implications of this hybrid personhood for living an ethical life, opening the possibility of ethical interaction, forgiveness, and love without individuality.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:40:38 -0400 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion karma masters
CANCELED: 2020 Ferrando Family Lecture: Yancey Strickler (March 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63973 63973-16049368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics

The 2020 Ferrando Lecture has been canceled. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Capitalism as we know it has gotten us this far, but there are serious questions about how much farther it can take us. Inequality, fractured social institutions, and, most importantly, the climate crisis are all huge, systemic challenges that are unlikely to be solved by more economic growth and preserving the status quo. To right the ship, we need a new way to see. In this talk, Yancey Strickler, the cofounder and former CEO of Kickstarter, presents a new vision for defining value and self-interest, and a whole new frontier of work to be done defining and growing a wider spectrum of value. Building on research and ideas shared in his book “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World,” Strickler will make the case that the generation coming up will be the ones to lead us into the post-capitalist era where values pluralism, rather than the monoculture of financial value, will be the new norm for defining the health and success of organizations and society.

Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and the author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (2019).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:34:05 -0400 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics Lecture / Discussion 2020 Ferrando Lecture - Yancey Strickler
CANCELED: A discussion with Robin DiAngelo on "White Fragility" (March 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73225 73225-18179631@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception and book signing to follow.

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

Join us for an armchair conversation with Robin DiAngelo, author and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington, and Elizabeth Moje, Dean of the University of Michigan School of Education. Dr. DiAngelo and Dean Moje will discuss themes and ideas stemming from Dr. DiAngelo's best-selling book, "White Fragility."

White people in the U.S. live in a social environment that protects and insulates them from race-based stress. This insulated environment of racial protection builds white expectations for racial comfort while at the same time lowering the ability to tolerate racial stress. DiAngelo calls this lack of racial stamina "white fragility." White fragility is a state in which even a minimal challenge to the white position becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive responses. These responses function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and maintain white control. DiAngelo will provide an overview of the socialization that inculcates white fragility and provide the perspectives and skills needed to build racial stamina and develop more equitable racial practices.

From the speaker's bio:

Dr. Robin DiAngelo is Affiliate Associate Professor of Education at the University of Washington. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates. She is a two-time winner of the Student’s Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washington’s School of Social Work. She has numerous publications and books. In 2011 she coined the term White Fragility in an academic article which has influenced the international dialogue on race. Her book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism was released in June of 2018 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List. In addition to her academic work, Dr. DiAngelo has been a consultant and trainer for over 20 years on issues of racial and social justice.

From the moderator's bio:

Elizabeth Birr Moje is dean, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in the School of Education. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, cultural theory, and research methods and was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize with colleague, Bob Bain, in 2010. A former high school history and biology teacher, Moje’s research examines young people’s navigations of culture, identity, and literacy learning in and out of school in Detroit, Michigan.

Moje has published 5 books and numerous articles in journals such as Science, Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Review of Education Research, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Science Education, International Journal of Science Education, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. She chairs the William T. Grant Foundation Scholar Selection Committee and is a member of the National Academy of Education.

Sponsored by: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, the U-M Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, the University of Michigan Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:36:20 -0400 2020-03-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Robin DiAngelo, author and Affiliate Associate Professor at the University of Washington
Cancelled: Dorr Lecture (March 13, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63138 63138-15578789@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The annual Dorr Lecture is Co-sponsored by the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Museum of Paleontology. The topic of the talk is in the field of Sedimentology and/or Paleontology. The event is funded by the John A. Dorr Jr. Memorial Scholarship fund.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:33:37 -0400 2020-03-13T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
Linguistics (Virtual) Colloquium: An intonational model of South Asian languages (March 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71191 71191-17785607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The Linguistics Department will host Sameer Dowla Khan, associate professor and chair of the Linguistics Department at Reed College, who will give a talk on Friday, March 13, titled "Phonological convergence in the absence of stress and tone contrasts: an intonational model of South Asian languages." The talk begins at 4 p.m.

ABSTRACT

Phonological convergence in the absence of stress and tone contrasts: an intonational model of South Asian languages

While linguistic similarity and convergence across South Asian languages (SALs) has long been accepted within studies of syntax, morphology, and (segmental) phonology, discussions of intonational similarities have arisen only in the last decade. However, a unified model of intonation across SALs, balancing typological similarities and differences, has yet to be proposed. This talk explores the most current findings and models of a range of SALs, from both my own work and that of several others in the field, in order to identify the common ground underlying a sample of languages of the region. The shared properties at the base of this unified model of intonation proposed for this selection of SALs include: (i) a preference for non-contrastive word-initial stress marked by low tone, (ii) a sequence of repeating rising contours each spanning a roughly word-sized unit, and (iii) greater flexibility within the higher-level boundary tones than within the pitch accent inventory. I argue that this bundle of features characterizes SAL intonation, setting it apart from the intonation of other well-documented language groups due to the general lack of contrastive tone and stress in the region.

In proposing this model, tentatively named Intonational Transcription of South Asian Languages (InTraSAL), I take note of important areas of crosslinguistic variation, including (i) the complex and variable role of syllable weight and (ii) the effects of voicing on pitch accent, as well as (iii) the phonetic alignment of what can be argued to be the same basic phonological pattern. I take these findings as an initial exploration into producing a “prosodic map” of South Asia, much like what has been done for Romance languages and varieties of Japanese. I also consider the applicability of the same model not only across languages, but also across speaking styles, and propose directions for further research to expand and test the model with more data.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:38:55 -0400 2020-03-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-13T17:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Sameer ud Dowla Khan
*CANCELED* Distinguished Lecture series in Musicology: Prof. Stephanie Shonekan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (March 13, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65628 65628-16623834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Contemporary Black artists like Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monáe, J. Cole, D’Angelo, and Beyoncé infuse empowering messages into their music, which serve as the musical backdrop to this century’s Black Lives Matter movement. Every decade, Black artists have served up insistent messages of empowerment confronting the oppressive effects of white supremacy. These anthems have often come from hip hop, soul, and R&B. Rarely has it come from jazz, a musical genre that has arguably had a closer and more complicated relationship with white audiences and spaces. However, in 1960, jazz drummer Max Roach and vocalist Abby Lincoln collaborated on an album We Insist: Max Roach’s Freedom Suite Now that literally and symbolically confronted historical and global racism in an unprecedented way that adopted a Pan-African approach, spanning slavery and civil rights in the U.S. to anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. This paper will argue that We Insist is a potent focal point of black musical activism by examining the making of the album, its reception by critics and audiences, and the significance of the fact that Roach and Lincoln were themselves embarking on a journey of love for their people and for each other. Ultimately this paper offers an analysis that places We Insist as a comprehensive musical precursor and a prophetic call to the twenty-first century that Black Lives must matter.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:15:32 -0400 2020-03-13T17:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Fabricating the Network Case in Russia (March 13, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73547 73547-18258850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Solidarity action with Russian anti-fascists.

As part of a broader crackdown preceding the 2018 Russian presidential election and the FIFA World Cup, the Russian Security Service (FSB) kidnapped six people in Penza and two in Petersburg. FSB agents tortured the arrestees into signing confessions. This became the "Network Case." On the basis of these "confessions," the Russian courts drew up convictions of years--or decades--in prison. But they were not expecting widespread public outcry in Russia or unceasing international attention. By applying pressure from abroad, online, and in letters to prisoners, we can do our part to keep these political prisoners in the spotlight, and out of the shadows!

There will be a short informational slide-show. Come hear the compelling stories of the activists caught in these cases; the cruel, absurd, and, sometimes, comical nature of the charges; and the creative resistance and solidarity strategies that activists developed in an increasingly repressive climate. Talk led by Ania Aizman (U-M Slavic).

There will be materials for making art and writing short letters of support of the political prisoners, as well as information about direct donations to the Russian prisoners' advocacy group. And good food!

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:15:35 -0500 2020-03-13T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Fabricating the Network Case in Russia
Postponed: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Book Read Event #3 w/Nia King (March 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71060 71060-17770763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all events with estimated attendance of over 100 people. 

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled; please check this page for additional information.

Join us for a talk by artist, activist and author, Nia King. King will speak about her book series, Queer & Trans Artists of Color and other projects. Copies of the books will be for sale. A book signing will follow the event. Recommended reading: Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volumes 1, 2 & 3.

Nia King is a queer mixed-race (Black/Lebanese/Hungarian) journalist and media-maker based in Philadelphia, PA. She has been hosting and producing We Want the Airwaves podcast, on which she interviews queer and trans artists of color about their lives and work, since 2013. She has self-published three books of interviews from the podcast: Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives, edited by Jessica Glennon-Zukoff and Terra Mikalson (2014); Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 2, edited by Elena Rose (2016); and Queer & Trans Artists of Color: Volume 3, edited Maliha Ahmed (2019).

Nia’s writing and comics have appeared at Colorlines.com, the East Bay Express, and Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory. She has spoken at colleges and conferences across the US and Canada including Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Queen’s University, the Allied Media Conference, Facing Race, and the National Association for Ethnic Studies conference. She received a Best of the East Bay Award in 2016 and was featured in KQED’s #BayBrilliant (formerly Women to Watch) series in 2018.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:43 -0400 2020-03-14T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-14T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/QTAOC3.jpeg
CANCELLED - Albanian Women Refashioning the Future (March 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73422 73422-18217165@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Please join us for a unique event featuring Sava Lelcaj-Farah, Gjina Lucaj, and Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian, three successful and charismatic Albanian women from Michigan who will share their stories as innovators and role models in their communities. They will discuss their dedication to profession and family, and the common experiences that shaped and inspired them on their varied routes to success. By challenging traditional boundaries placed on women, each has forged a new path to realize her vision, while never losing sight of the culture and traditions that shaped her individual journey.

Sava Lelcaj-Farah is the founder and CEO of SavCo Hospitality, the restaurant management group behind Ann Arbor favorites Sava’s, Aventura, Wilma’s, and Dixboro House (coming 2020). At age 23, Sava opened her namesake restaurant, pioneering a new breed of eatery in Ann Arbor focused on her signature hospitality. She credits her Albanian upbringing that shapes the way she views opportunity, America, and her approach to hospitality.

Gjina Lucaj is a top-rated business lawyer and partner at Foley & Lardner LLP in Detroit. She practices corporate law with a focus on mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings, and has significant experience with domestic and international strategic and private equity transactions across numerous industries. Gjina received her undergraduate degree from U-M, where she was the president and founder of the Albanian American Student Organization. She received her law degree from Wayne State University Law School.

Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan. She spent her childhood in Montenegro, and at 15, she was selected to represent Yugoslavia in a global modeling competition that led to a successful international modeling career. Emina currently promotes humanitarian efforts in Albania as a board member of the Fundajve Ndryshe, which recently brought aid to survivors of the November 2019 earthquake.

This lecture is hosted by the Albanian American Student Organization and the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia.

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, 11 Mar 2020 15:29:47 -0400 2020-03-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-15T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion WCEE Albanian Women panel
POSTPONED: An Evidence-Based Approach to Concussion Care: Using Physiology to Advance Clinical Practice (March 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73717 73717-18304814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Biosciences Initiative

Concussion Center Faculty Candidate Research Presentation
Presentation 11 a.m. - noon, Reception noon - 12:30 p.m.

Although concussions are a common injury in sport and recreational activities, they remain one of the most difficult injuries for clinicians to diagnose and manage. Dr. Teel’s primary research interests intersect physiological and clinical outcomes in children and adults with concussion to identify injury, promote recovery, and enhance quality of life. In this talk, she will discuss how her research fills current gaps in the literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 14:16:42 -0400 2020-03-16T11:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T12:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Biosciences Initiative Lecture / Discussion Michigan Concussion Center
MHealthy Seminar: Meal Planning for Healthy Bodies (March 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73102 73102-18142680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presented by Stacy Knasiak, RD.

Planning is the key to quick and nutritious meals. Interested in easy-to-make and take meals and snacks that taste great and are good for you? In this session you will learn what you can do to succeed in meeting your healthy eating goals and strategies for losing or maintaining your weight. This presentation is not a “diet” approach, but rather healthy habits you can practice for a lifetime! 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:15:55 -0500 2020-03-16T12:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
CANCELLED: Global Yiddish Networks (March 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70150 70150-17538854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event is cancelled.

While it originated in Central and Eastern Europe, Yiddish has traveled throughout the world. Centers of Yiddish cultural activity have emerged in different places at different times, and speakers and texts have circulated among these centers, creating a rare case of a nationless language with a global reach. In this symposium, participants explore the global networks of Yiddish. Research will be presented on the presence of Yiddish in places such as Argentina, France, China, the Soviet Union, and the Caribbean.

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 amphitheater is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:27:44 -0400 2020-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion "Jodensavanne" (Jew's Savannah), south of Paramaribo in Suriname: “View of the synagogue and cemetery seen from the military cordon path"
"Spatial metaphors across sign languages with automatic and manual methods" (March 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73401 73401-18214947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Postdoctoral researcher Carl "Calle" Borstell will give a talk titled "Spatial metaphors across sign languages with automatic and manual methods." ASL interpretation will be provided.

ABSTRACT
Concepts may be construed along different spatial axes. In this talk, I will show an analysis of sign locations in 776 signs from 16 antonym pairs across 27 sign languages in the Spread the Sign online dictionary to examine metaphorical mappings of emotional valence (positive vs. negative). The study makes use of both an automatic (Openpose) and a manual analysis of sign location and movement direction to investigate cross-linguistic patterns of spatial valence contrasts. In accordance with the hypothesis, positive valence concepts are more often associated with upward movements than their negative counterparts, pointing to a systematic pattern for vertical valence contrasts – a known metaphor across languages – iconically mapped onto physical sign articulation. However, the same pattern does not hold for relative sign heights, such that positive valence concepts are generally articulated higher than negative valence concepts. Thus, it seems the dynamic contrast in movement is the key property, rather than plain height. Interestingly, there is also a difference in the distribution of movements along the sagittal axis, such that outward movement is more often associated with positive than negative valence, a finding that warrants further cross-linguistic research on spatial metaphors.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 11:44:20 -0500 2020-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELLED!!! Bystander Intervention-Open to Michigan Medicine Only (March 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73761 73761-18313505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Dibya is experienced in facilitating effective change in individuals and groups for over 14 years. Her expertise focuses on professional development of women in organizations as well as international cultural competencies and diversity management to enable organizational effectiveness in making global transitions. She is a licensed professional counselor, a certified coach for the Hays Group 360 degree Emotional Competency Inventory to promote leadership development, and a multicultural and diversity trainer.

Bystander Intervention - brings bystander intervention skills to the University of Michigan community for the purpose of building inclusive, respectful and safe communities. It is based on a nationally recognized four-stage bystander intervention model that helps individuals intervene in situations that negatively impact individuals, organizations, and the campus community. The content in this program has been used for student groups across campus, and is now being offered for University of Michigan faculty and staff. Through the use of educational theater, Change it Up! Provides opportunities for participants to discuss and practice how to leverage bystander intervention skills within their campus communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 23:41:10 -0400 2020-03-16T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Bystander Intervention Image
CANCELED: Continuing Challenges to Suffrage in Michigan in 2020: Who Still Can’t Vote? (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73281 73281-18190698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

This panel will address the long struggle for women’s right to vote in the U.S., officially secured 100 years ago, and—equally importantly—the continuing struggle to secure full democratic participation in Michigan. Panelists will describe real barriers to voting in Michigan today, as well as efforts to change rules and regulations to expand access to voting, and what it will take to increase access for some groups in the upcoming election.

Panelists are:

-Danielle Atkinson, founding director of Mothering Justice
-Stephanie Chang (MPP/MSW '14), member of the Michigan State Senate and co-founder and past president of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote-Michigan
-Dessa Cosma, Executive Director of Detroit Disability Power
-Sharon Dolente (MPP ’04), voting rights strategist at Michigan ACLU
-Michael Steinberg (moderator), Professor from Practice, U-M Law School, former legal director, Michigan ACLU

Cosponsored by the Department of Women's Studies, CEW+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. For more information on U-M Suffrage 2020, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/umsuffrage2020/

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:36:52 -0400 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring' (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71141 71141-17783440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions mounted on wooden boards have been the subject of scholarly inquiry, an otherwise unknown type of hilye production involves the insertion of verbal icons into glass bottles. Today, three such “hilye bottles” are held in the Topkapı Palace Library in Istanbul, where they remain unstudied and unpublished. This talk aims to present these newly uncovered artworks and explore their possible meanings and functions, among them their acting as a new kind of prophetic pharmacon during the late nineteenth century, at which time Muhammad was concretized and ‘imbibed’ as the ultimate elixir vitae.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:27:12 -0500 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
[POSTPONED] Great Lakes Theme Semester Panel Series: Using and Moving the Water - Rights, Access, and Equity (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70290 70290-17564364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Great Lakes Theme Semester

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:39:55 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T20:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Great Lakes Theme Semester Lecture / Discussion Panel
CANCELLED - Brazil Initiative Lecture. Fake News Brazil: How a misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73642 73642-18276411@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event in Fall 2020.

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights, the rights of minorities, and positive policies for social and political inclusion of marginalized communities. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile and is currently a Visiting Researcher at Hutchins Center, Harvard University. He is continuing his work as a journalist, writer, and human rights advocate, with a focus on LGBTQ+ rights. Previous publications include five books and innumerable articles in a variety of academic and non-academic venues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:15:55 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T19:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_flier-Wyllys_lecture
CANCELLED. Program in International and Comparative Studies. International Studies Fourth Annual Alumni Career Panel (March 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68278 68278-17037504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Program in International and Comparative Studies

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, the 3/16/20 PICS International Studies Alumni Career Panel has been cancelled. We plan to reschedule this event for the Fall 2020 semester. Please review the PICS events calendar for updates on the rescheduled panel.

The Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS) will host its fourth annual International Studies Alumni Career Panel on March 16, 2020 in 1010 Weiser Hall (10th Floor). This alumni panel will showcase and celebrate the university’s rich history of contributions made by International Studies alumni, while providing valuable insight for current students as they start to develop their own career paths. The panel will include a student Q&A portion.

PICS is home to the International Studies major and minor. Established in 2009, International Studies is one of the largest majors in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, with over 2000 accomplished alumni worldwide. International Studies graduates pursue numerous career paths, many going on to work with corporations, non-profits, or government agencies, as well as progressing directly on to graduate school.

Learn where an International Studies major can take you!

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Michigan Community Scholars Program, LSA Opportunity Hub, LSA Honors Program, Department of Political Science, and Sigma Iota Rho – Honor Society for International Studies.

Panelists:

Devin Bathish, Executive Director, Arab American Heritage Council (AAHC)
Flint, MI
BA International Studies – International Security, Cooperation, and Norms; BA Political Science; minor, Arab and Muslim American Studies ‘17
Devin Bathish is the Executive Director of the Arab American Heritage Council (AAHC), an Arab community nonprofit based in Flint, MI. Devin directs the AAHC’s four primary functions: preserving & celebrating Arab culture and heritage, promoting understanding of Arab identity, uniting the Greater Flint Arab community, and providing immigration and translation assistance. Since starting his role in 2017, Devin has served as an ambassador for the Flint Arab community by educating others about Arabs and the Middle East. Additionally, Devin advocates for policies that collectively benefit the Arab American community and empowers younger generations of Flint Arab Americans. While a student at the University of Michigan, Devin served on Central Student Government and worked to create better representation for Middle Eastern & North African students, was a board member of Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), a choreographer for the Arabesque Dance Troupe, and a member of the Islamophobia Working Group.

Jasmine Bell, Research Project Manager, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Michigan Medicine
Ann Arbor, MI
BA International Studies – Global Environment and Health; BA Spanish ‘17
Jasmine Bell, MPH is a research project manager in the department of obstetrics and gynecology with the University of Michigan. Jasmine received her master’s in public health from the University of Michigan where she studied health behavior and health education with a concentration in sexual and reproductive health. During her MPH she had the opportunity to participate in a community based surveillance project in rural Ghana to measure maternal mortality. She also had the opportunity to publish with USAID for their family planning division. She also co-instructed a course on facilitating global engagement through the Global Scholars Program. In the future she hopes to be able to merge her research interest in black maternal mortality in a global context, to provide a narrative to the black experience globally.

Matin Fallahi, Juris Doctor Candidate, Michigan State University College of Law 2020
East Lansing, MI
BA International Studies – Comparative Culture and Identity; BA Near East Studies ‘16
Matin Fallahi graduated from the University of Michigan in 2016. During her time at Michigan, she worked as a front clerk at the Program in International and Comparative Studies (PICS), was the student commencement speaker for the PICS graduation in 2016, studied abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, was vice president of both the Persian Students Association and Delta Gamma Phi-- a pre-law sorority. Matin is completing her final semester of law school at Michigan State University College of Law. During her law school career, she has had the opportunity to intern at various law firms, argue motions in front of honorable Michigan judges, and work in the in house-legal department of a Fortune 400 company. Matin will be graduating this May and plans to sit for the July 2020 bar exam. She will be working at a large firm in the Metro Detroit area as a law clerk after graduation, and intends to transition to an Associate position at the firm pending bar results.

Melissa Gibson, Associate, Global Markets Team, Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
BA International Studies – Global Environment and Health; minor, Afroamerican and African Studies; minor, Science, Technology, and Society ‘15
Melissa Gibson is an Associate on the Clinton Health Access Initiative’s (CHAI) Global Markets Deal Execution Team. Her team focuses their efforts on marketing-shaping interventions, like volume guarantees, across low/middle income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. Prior to CHAI, she worked in business development for Boston Consulting Group’s (BCG) healthcare and private equity practice areas. (In between leaving BCG and joining CHAI, she spent five months traveling in Asia, which she highly recommends.) Melissa graduated from The University of Michigan with a bachelor’s degree in International Studies - global health focus - and dual minors in African Studies and Science, Technology, and Society. After graduation, she received a year-long Princeton in Africa Fellowship and joined the UN World Food Programme’s Regional Bureau in Johannesburg, South Africa. Upon completion of her fellowship, Melissa was hired as a consultant to assist with a regional emergency response to drought-induced drop failure. While at Michigan, Melissa interned with the Clinton Foundation, the International Rescue Committee, and USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS. After her sophomore year, she spent a month in South Africa doing research with two professors and later wrote her thesis on the country’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. She also spent half her junior year abroad in Spain.

Alex Huang, Director of Programs and Community Engagement, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional StudiesWashington, D.C.
BA International Studies – International Security, Cooperation, and Norms; BA Spanish; minor, Music ‘12
Alex is the Director of Programs and Community Engagement at the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies (APAICS). In this capacity, he leads the development and implementation of programming to advance the leadership, representation, and participation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) in the political process from community service to elected office. Most recently, Alex served as the Senior Legislative Assistant in the Office of Congresswoman Brenda L. Lawrence representing Michigan’s 14th Congressional District where he was responsible for developing the Congresswoman’s legislative strategy where he advised on a range of issues including appropriations, education, labor, energy, interior, environment, and housing policy. Alex graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012 with a double major in International Studies, Spanish, and a minor in Music. He then went on to teach second grade in Detroit as a Teach for America Corps Member and in 2015 completed a masters in Educational Studies from the University of Michigan’s School of Education. From 2015-2016, Alex was selected for the APAICS Legislative Fellowship where he served in the Office of Congressman Ami Bera (CA-07) before ultimately joining the office of Rep. Lawrence in 2016. Alex is passionate about educational equity and increasing Asian American/Pacific Islander political engagement. In addition to his current role, Alex also runs a volunteer tutoring program at an elementary school in his Washington, D.C. neighborhood.

Shalini Rao, Consultant, Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, D.C.
BA International Studies – Political Economy and Development; BA Economics; minor, Business Administration ‘18
Shalini Rao is a Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton working in foreign policy analysis and government program strategy. Her client is a government agency that partners with countries to manage infectious disease outbreaks and mitigate biological weapons risks. Her daily tasks include assessing geopolitical trends, analyzing how the client's country engagements align with foreign policy objectives, and project management support. Through this work, Shalini is gaining exposure to what various government agencies, including the Department of Defense, Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, and the United Nations do in global health, and how to implement projects based on policy goals. Prior to working as a consultant, Shalini interned at the Federal Reserve Board's Community Development Division and spent a summer working in economic development with an NGO in Peru. Shalini continues her interest in economic development with volunteer work with District Bridges, a non-profit in DC.

Meghan Rowley, Latin America Program Associate, The International Republican Institute
Washington, D.C.
BA Public Policy; minor, International Studies; minor, Spanish ‘18
Meghan Rowley is a Latin America Program Associate for the Ecuador and Panama portfolios at the International Republican Institute (IRI). In her role, she assists in the implementation of several government grants in both countries aimed at strengthening transparency and accountability, legislative capacity, investigative and electoral journalism, civic participation, and democratic governance. She was previously a Project Assistant at Wiley Rein LLP, assisting in anti-dumping and countervailing cases in the firm’s International Trade practice. A recent graduate of the University of Michigan, she holds a degree in Public Policy with minors in International Studies and Spanish. During her undergraduate years she interned with the Atlantic Council, edited for the Michigan Journal of International Affairs, and studied abroad in Chile and Belgium. She currently serves as a member of the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy.

Moderator:
Bryna Worner, Program Coordinator, Program in International and Comparative Studies and Donia Human Rights Center, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
BA International Studies; BA Political Science; BA Spanish ‘13

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:18:21 -0400 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Program in International and Comparative Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liberalism, Nationalism, and Paths Out of Reforms: A Comparison of Late-Qing China and Germany in the 19th Century (March 17, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71196 71196-17785610@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

What are the conditions under which liberalism as “rational centrist reformism” fails to obtain its goals without succumbing to the forces of radicalization — that is, by descending into revolutionary or reactionary extremes? Professor Ding compares two *extreme *paths out of liberalizing reforms that took place in late-Qing China and 19th-century Germany (Prussia). Despite their under-appreciated similarities, the failure of reforms in Qing and Prussia unfolded in dramatically different ways: popular revolution and regime overthrow in China in 1911, and reactionary victory in Germany in the late 19th century. Why?

Iza Ding is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include environmental politics, Chinese politics, and political regimes. Her book "The Performative State: Public Opinion, Political Pageantry, and Environmental Governance in China" is under contract at Cornell University Press. During the 2019-2020 academic year, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Associate at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, where she is working on a second book manuscript on political memory.

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, 13 Mar 2020 09:00:32 -0400 2020-03-17T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Iza Ding, Assistant Professor in Political Science, University of Pittsburgh; WCED Visiting Associate, 2019-2020; U-M Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science, 2019-2020
CANCELLED--Critical Conversations: "Health" (March 17, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70854 70854-17693692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:47:36 -0400 2020-03-17T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Webinar: Advancing the Use of Blue Carbon for Coastal Systems (March 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73424 73424-18217168@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Coastal wetlands capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently store carbon in wetland soils. This “blue carbon” service can be used to inform and incentivize wetland restoration; however, the science behind blue carbon and the role of carbon finance in support of coastal restoration and conservation are still emerging.

Over the past 12 years, the National Estuarine Research Reserve System and its partners have been filling key information gaps and fostering collaborations to advance understanding and application of blue carbon for the management of coastal wetlands. Recent projects are helping to quantify the carbon storage potential of coastal wetlands, predict greenhouse gas fluxes, and assess the market feasibility of using carbon offsets to support wetland restoration.

In this webinar, panelists representing four regions across the United States will share lessons learned from their work leading blue carbon projects, and offer ideas for advancing the use of blue carbon for coastal wetland management.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:04:23 -0500 2020-03-17T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
(CANCELLED) “Ciliary signaling: not just for Hedgehogs anymore!” (March 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73336 73336-18328746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Organogenesis along with the Human Genetics Depatment is pleased to present a seminar talk by Dr. Jeremy Reiter.

Dr. Reiter, is Professor & Chair, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, from University of California, San Francisco.

The talk is entitled, “Ciliary signaling: not just for Hedgehogs anymore!”

Faculty Host: Sunny Wong, Ph.D.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:57:28 -0400 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Reiter Flyer
CANCELLED - WCED Lecture. Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision-making: Evidence from the Kenyan Appellate Courts (March 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71267 71267-17794063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Do judicial outcomes depend on judicial identity? Research on the determinants of judicial behavior have largely focused on the experience of advanced democracies, most notably the U.S. Considerably less attention has been paid to questions of judicial identity and performance in emerging democracies. This paper addresses this gap by turning to Kenya, a multiethnic society that has recently undergone a massive reform of the judiciary aimed at reducing corruption and bias and improving access to justice. We specifically examine whether ethnic bias plays a role in judicial outcomes by focusing on decisions made by the Kenyan High Court. Using an original web-scraped dataset of over 15,000 criminal appeals from 2003-2017 and for offenses ranging from petty theft to murder, we exploit the conditional random assignment of judges to criminal appeals to estimate the effect of judicial ethnicity on appeal outcomes. We find that judges are more likely to favor coethnic appellants or respondents by 3-4% points in comparison to non-coethnics. We also show that the coethnic bias becomes stronger in cases decided after the 2007 Kenyan election violence, during which inter-ethnic violence resulted in more than 1000 fatalities and hundreds of thousands displaced. Our findings contribute to recent debates on the determinants of equitable justice in developing contexts.

Fiona Shen-Bayh is an assistant professor of Government at William & Mary. She was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies and earned her PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research examines the role that law and courts play in strategies of autocratic survival. Her book project examines when and why autocrats use courts to repress and the ramifications of such strategies on the development of rule of law and judicial power. Drawing on cases from sub-Saharan Africa, she utilizes a mixed-methods approach that combines case studies, statistical modeling, and computational text analysis.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:38:14 -0400 2020-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Fiona Shen-Bayh
"Meat, antibiotics, and the power of consumer pressure" (March 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72676 72676-18044330@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location:
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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In the early 1950s, farmers began adding small doses of antibiotics to the diets of livestock. The drugs caused animals to put on weight more quickly and protected them against diseases, laying the foundation for modern intensive meat production — but they also fostered the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that became a profound human health threat. Reversing that history mistake took decades of research and policy maneuvering, but what really turned the tide was neither better science not tougher regulations: It was the power of consumer coalitions forcing the meat industry to change.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:47:04 -0400 2020-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Maryn McKenna
Food Literacy for All (March 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Meat, Antibiotics, and the Power of Consumer Pressure (March 17, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72564 72564-18018157@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

Maryn McKenna Bio
Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist and author, specializing in public health, global health, and food policy, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University, where she teaches health and science writing and storytelling, and media literacy. She is the recipient of the 2019 AAAS-Kavli Award for magazine writing for her piece "The Plague Years" in The New Republic, and the author of the 2017 bestseller Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats (National Geographic Books, Sept. 2017), which received the 2018 Science in Society Award, making her a two-time winner of that prize. Big Chicken was named a Best Book of 2017 by Amazon, Science News, Smithsonian Magazine, Civil Eats, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Toronto Globe and Mail; an Essential Science Read by WIRED; and a 2018 Book All Georgians Should Read. Her 2015 TED Talk, "What do we do when antibiotics don't work any more?", has been viewed 1.8 million times and translated into 34 languages.

"Meat, antibiotics, and the power of consumer pressure"
In the early 1950s, farmers began adding small doses of antibiotics to the diets of livestock. The drugs caused animals to put on weight more quickly and protected them against diseases, laying the foundation for modern intensive meat production — but they also fostered the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria that became a profound human health threat. Reversing that historic mistake took decades of research and policy maneuvering, but what really turned the tide was neither better science not tougher regulations: it was the power of consumer coalitions forcing the meat industry to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Feb 2020 13:21:20 -0500 2020-03-17T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Maryn McKenna
CANCELED: "Translating the Holocaust" (March 17, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70151 70151-17540892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In spring 1944 Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, witness to the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto, was airlifted from the partisan forest to Moscow. At the urging of Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenberg, Sutzkever wrote a memoir of the ghetto experience which was subsequently published in Moscow and Paris in 1945. How does Sutzkever's early account of Jewish destruction and heroism establish a particular Yiddish memoryscape? And what are the challenges of translating such a work for a 21st-Century readership?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:07:10 -0400 2020-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion A. Sutzkever as Partisan
CANCELLED: “Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata” (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73357 73357-18208321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion of the pre-circulated paper:

“Suing for an Enslaved Woman’s Child in the Nineteenth-Century Río de la Plata”

This article traces the history of Petrona, an enslaved woman sold in Santa Fe (Argentina), sent to Buenos Aires and later possibly to Montevideo (Uruguay). Her case demonstrates how the legal status of enslaved persons was affected by the redefinitions of jurisdictions and by the forced or voluntary crossings between political units. It sheds light on the circulation and uses of the Free Womb law (1813) in Argentina and Uruguay and traces legal experts’ debates over its meaning. And it reveals the knowledge enslaved people had of those abolitionist norms and how they used them to resist forced relocations, attempt favorable migrations, or achieve full freedom. The article reflects on the impact of independence on enslaved persons’ lives, the gendered bias of the abolitionist process, and the
central yet untold uses of antislavery rhetoric in the national narratives.

The article will be circulated in advance of the event; please contact Elizabeth Collins (elizabac@umich.edu) to obtain a copy.

Magdalena Candioti is Associate Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) at the Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana “Dr Emilio Ravignani” and Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina. Candioti’s doctoral research focused on the political history of justice in the nineteenth-century Río de la Plata, resulting in the book Un maldito derecho: leyes, jueces y derecho en la Buenos Aires republicana, 1810–1830 (Buenos Aires, Didot). She is currently working on a book on gradual abolition in the Río de la Plata (1810-1860) called El tiempo de los libertos. Esclavitud y abolición en el Río de la Plata. Candioti was a visiting fellow in ILAS-Columbia University, NYC (2010-2011), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (MPIeR), Frankfurt, Germany (2014). In 2014, she was awarded a scholarship by the Slicher van Bath DeJong Foundation, CEDLA (Holland) to conduct comparative research on slavery in Santa Fe and Buenos Aires. Currently, she is a Fulbright fellow at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University.

Ángela Pérez-Villa is an Assistant Professor of History and Gender and Women’s Studies at Western Michigan University. Her research and teaching focus on the social, legal, and gender history of Latin America, particularly Colombia. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript that examines how during Colombia’s war of independence, political power and legal practice were disputed and reconfigured locally on the terrains of family, sexuality, and gender.

Sponsored by the U-M Department of History, the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Law in Slavery and Freedom Project.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:53:37 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Modo de fabricar velas
Witness Lab Simulation: Student Presentations: Immigration Courts And Judges With Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof's U-M Immigration Law Class (March 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73685 73685-18280821@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

This class interaction with the Witness Lab project is open to the public for observation. Seating is limited. Visit our project in action. 

Designed as a courtroom installation and a performance series by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab frames witnessing as a social and artistic act. The gallery collapses courtroom, theater, classroom, laboratory, and artist studio in order to study the relationship between performance and law. Public programs, classes, and mock trial performances investigate who plays the role of the witness in our society, and help us to understand truth within our legal system.

In her investigation of America’s courts, McClellan’s practice engages K-12 and university classes across a spectrum of disciplines including law, drama, and anthropology, among others. 

Due to the nature of the project, the schedule for all Witness Lab events and simulations are subject to change without notice and changes may not always be reflected in online listings.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:12 -0400 2020-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Quantum Hydrodynamics and Warm Dense Matter (March 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70794 70794-17644319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
The experimental and computational investigation of both equilibrium and non-equilibrium strongly coupled systems with partially or fully degenerate electrons is an intellectu-ally stimulating and scientifically challenging problem. Warm dense matter (WDM) is of particular interest since it “exists in the lower-temperature portion of the high energy density (HED) regime, under conditions where the assumptions of both condensed-matter theory and ideal-plasma theory break down, and where quantum mechanics, particle correlations, and electric forces are all important.” [FESAC 2009]. Interiors of giant planets, brown dwarfs, and neutron star envelopes are all examples of WDM. A wide variety of theoretical methods have been developed and are in routine use for studying warm dense matter. This includes density functional theory, time-dependent density functional theory, and quantum kinetic theory. Recently, there has been a resurgence in interest in using a “simpler” approach to investigating WDM based on quantum hydrodynamics. Quantum Hydrodynamics (QHD) has a long and interesting history, dating back to the first developments by Madelung and Bohm. In this talk, we discuss the historical and recent developments in QHD as applied to quantum many-body systems relevant to HED regimes. Recent work involving adding a QHD capability to the radiation hydrodynamics code MIRANDA will be discussed with applications to the electron gas.

About the speaker:
Frank Graziani received a BS in physics from Santa Clara U., and a PhD in physics from UCLA. He was a postdoctoral fellow at U. Colorado and U. Minnesota working in cosmology and particle physics; and worked with NASA on exoplanet dynamics and star formation. Dr. Graziani joined Lawrence Livermore National Lab. in 1989 where he works in radiation transport and plasma physics. He has held many leadership positions at LLNL, including code project lead, group leader, V&V Leader, PI for LDRD-Strategic Initiatives, lead for the National Boost Initiative and Assoc. Division Leader for computational physics. He now directs the High Energy Density Sciences Center. He has won four DOE Defense Program Awards of Excellence, the LLNL Director’s S&T Award and is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. His research interests include the micro-physics of dense plasmas and HED education. Dr. Graziani is editor of two books on computational methods and a book on WDM physics.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:11:38 -0400 2020-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Frank Graziani
CANCELED Author's Forum Presents: "The Divo and the Duce: Promoting Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America" (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69998 69998-17491343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Giorgio Bertellini (film, television, and media and Romance languages and literatures) and Jay Cook (history, American culture) discuss Bertellini's new book, followed by Q & A.

About the book:
In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:10 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion The Divo and the Duce
CANCELED: Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere (March 18, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73741 73741-18311321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

Join us for a conversation with Associate Professor John Ciorciari and author Karen Sherman to discuss her book, Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere. Sherman has spent 30 years in global development advocating for women in war-torn and transitional countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Kosovo, and the former Soviet Union. She began writing Brick by Brick during the year she spent living in Rwanda with her three sons to oversee the construction of a first-of-its-kind women’s opportunity center. The strength of these women helped Karen find her own way--through conflict zones and confrontations with corrupt officials to a renewed commitment to her family.

From the speaker's bio:

Karen Sherman currently serves as President of the Akilah Institute, Rwanda’s only women’s college, leading its strategy, growth, and partnerships. Prior to joining Akilah, Sherman was a senior executive at Women for Women International, an organization that helps women survivors of war to rebuild their lives. Sherman also served as the Executive Vice President at Counterpart International, an international nonprofit development organization that partners with local organizations to build inclusive, sustainable communities in which their people thrive. Sherman has been featured on BBC, CNBC Africa, Al Jazeera English, and Voice of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:37:26 -0400 2020-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Karen Sherman
(Cancelled) The Role of Climate Justice in Carbon Neutrality at the University of Michigan (March 18, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73800 73800-18320191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality

Please note this event has been cancelled.

The President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality (PCCN) Climate Justice sub group is convening a Town Hall on March 18, 5:00 to 7:00 pm on the UM-Ann Arbor campus.

Join the group in a discussion and feedback session to gather ideas, questions, and concerns about the role of climate justice in advancing the university's progress towards carbon neutrality. We hope to gather input from faculty, staff, students and the wider community on what you would like to see and what barriers we might face in reaching a just transition to carbon neutrality.

If you are unable to attend, please send any comments to pccn-admin@umich.edu or submit a comment on the public comment form here: http://sustainability.umich.edu/carbonneutrality/comments

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 12:15:03 -0400 2020-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Lecture / Discussion PCCN Logo
CANCELED Wallace House Presents Recode’s Kara Swisher interviews former Facebook executive Alex Stamos (March 18, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70104 70104-17530521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple. A handful of tech companies have changed the way we live and built unprecedented industrial bases in the process. Their reach extends far beyond our pocketbooks into privacy, individual liberties, and the fabric of our democracy.

In August 2018, Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos announced he would leave the company following reports of disagreements with other executives over how to address the Russian government’s use of Facebook to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Since his departure he’s advocated for the breakup of the tech giant and co-authored the white paper “Securing American Elections: Prescriptions for Enhancing the Integrity and Independence of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Elections and Beyond.”

Do we really understand what we are giving away in exchange for speed and convenience? Do the tech giants understand, or care about, their responsibility in this digital age that they created?

Alex Stamos is the former chief security officer at Facebook and is now director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center’s Internet Observatory at Stanford University.

Kara Swisher is the co-founder and executive editor of Recode and host of the weekly interview podcast “Recode Decode.” She is also the co-executive editor of Code Conferences, which feature prominent speakers from the digital industry. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times opinion pages and a Livingston Awards national judge.

This event is co-sponsored by Computer Science and Engineering, the College of Engineering, the Center for Social Media Responsibility, ITS and Dissonance at the University of Michigan and Duo Security.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:39:05 -0400 2020-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Kara Swisher and Alex Stamos
CANCELLED - 2020 Dr. Berj H. Haidostian Annual Distinguished Lecture | David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem (March 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68932 68932-17197029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In 1919, David Ohannessian founded the art of Armenian ceramics in Jerusalem, where his work and that of his followers is now celebrated as a local treasure. Born in an isolated Anatolian mountain village, Ohannessian mastered a centuries-old art form in Kütahya, witnessed the rise of violent nationalism in the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, endured arrest and deportation in the Armenian Genocide, founded a new tradition in Jerusalem under the British Mandate, and spent his final years, uprooted once again, in Cairo and Beirut.

Ms. Moughalian will detail the lineage of her grandfather David Ohannessian’s ceramic tradition and document the critical roles his deportation and his own agency played in its transfer—aspects of the story obscured in the art historical narrative. She will speak about the process of coming to terms with her family’s past, the ways in which that served as an impetus to excavate and reconstruct her grandfather’s history through archival research, and the importance of preserving the stories of peoples displaced through migration.

Sato Moughalian is the author of Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian (Redwood Press/Stanford University Press, 2019). She is also an award-winning flutist in New York City and Artistic Director of Perspectives Ensemble, founded in 1993 at Columbia University to explore and contextualize works of composers and visual artists. She serves as principal flutist of the American Modern Ensemble and Gotham Chamber Opera; guest flutist with groups including Imani Winds, American Ballet Theatre, American Symphony Orchestras, and the Orquestra Sinfonico do Estado São Paulo, Brazil. She can be heard on more than thirty chamber music recordings for Sony Classics, BIS, Naxos, as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other major music platforms. Since 2007, Ms. Moughalian has traveled to Turkey, England, Israel, Palestine, and France to uncover her grandfather’s traces, has published articles, and gives talks on the genesis of Jerusalem's Armenian ceramic art.

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.

Photo shift: Drying pottery on the terrace of Dome of the Rock Tiles, Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem c. 1922.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:12:24 -0400 2020-03-18T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-18T21:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been canceled.
Site-Specific Installations and Photography Projects, Detroit and Beyond (March 19, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72748 72748-18070556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Mr. Hocking will present a chronological slide-lecture based on his site-specific sculptural and photographic practice covering over 20 years of projects created in Detroit and throughout the world. Inspired by subjects ranging from ancient mythologies to current events, his artworks focus on transformation, ephemerality, chance, and the cycles of nature and often use found materials and neglected locations.

Scott Hocking was born in Redford Township, MI in 1975, and has lived and worked in Detroit proper since 1996 creating site-specific installations, sculptures and photography projects. Exhibitions include Van Abbemuseum, Kunst-Werke Institute, Kunsthalle Wien, French Triennial Lille 3000, MCA Chicago, Smart Museum of Art, School of the Art Institute, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, PAFA Museum, The Mattress Factory, D.I.A., Cranbrook, MOCAD, MSU’s Broad Museum, and UM Institute for the Humanities. Awards include a Kresge Artist Fellowship, a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant, an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, and residential grants in France, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Brazil, and throughout the US. He is represented by David Klein Gallery, Detroit.

This is the fourth of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be March 26, 2020. The title is: Recalling the Past, Imagining the Future – Art and the Resurgence of Detroit

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:20:48 -0500 2020-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CANCELLED - Student Lunch with Peggy Myo-Young Choy (March 19, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73495 73495-18252263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

This free catered lunch is open to all undergraduate and graduate students for any portion they are able to attend.

Peggy Myo-Young Choy’s dance alchemy of focused mind and moving body is fueled by Asian dance, martial arts, as well as urban vernacular dance forms. Choy’s seminal solos include, “Comfort Woman” and “Wild Rice.” She has also created solos around the themes—“Sea Series” and “Blood Series.” Her women-centered stories created since the mid-1990s, integrate her foundations in Korean dance, Javanese dance, and martial arts.

Peggy Choy, associate professor of Dance and Asian-American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is director of PEGGY CHOY DANCE company. Her company has performed around the world—at New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, La Mama E.T.C., and Alvin Ailey Studio, DC’s Kennedy Center, Dance Place and the Smithsonian Institution, Kennedy Theater in Honolulu, Utan Kayu in Jakarta, Seoul Art Center in Korea, Danza Teatro Retazos in Havana, and Baráčnická Rychta in Prague, and the Korean Cultural Center in Berlin.

Choy's national and international awards include an NEA/Atlantic Center for the Arts fellowship, Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative, Princeton and Cornell University commissions, and commissions from the Kintari Foundation, Seoul Selection, and Cafe Intarsia.

Please also see the public performance event info:
https://events.umich.edu/event/72974

This work was supported by the Core University Program for Korean Studies through the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and Korean Studies Promotion Service of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS-2016-OLU-2240001).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:38:24 -0400 2020-03-19T12:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Peggy Myo-Young Choy (Dance and Asian American Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
CANCELLED: Jenny Zhang Roundtable Q&A (March 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69577 69577-17366257@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. It examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

Zhang is also the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her second collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, is forthcoming from Tin House. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:56:54 -0400 2020-03-19T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jenny Zhang
- POSTPONED - 2020 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture: Prof. Donald C. Winter (March 19, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71452 71452-17827805@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Climate and Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

*NOTE: Our upcoming annual Spencer Lecture with Prof. Donald C. Winter has been postponed until autumn. To protect the health and safety of our communities and minimize the spread of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19, U-M is making changes to classes and events on our Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

For more information about the U-M response to COVID-19, please visit https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/

The Climate & Space 2020 Nelson W. Spencer Lecturer will be Prof. Donald C. Winter of U-M Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.

Title: "Ruminations on a career in industry, government and academia"

Abstract: "I will start off my Spencer lecture with a recap of my career, adding to the normal biographical notes my rationale for the more significant job changes that I took on. Following that, I will highlight some of the particularly valuable lessons learned, putting them into the appropriate programmatic and political context. This personal, intellectual history will include consideration of experiences gleaned from international engagements as well as my US based activities. Lastly, I will attempt to integrate all of these experiences and provide some general recommendations for both students and faculty present."

Donald C. Winter is an Independent Consultant and a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, he teaches graduate level courses on Systems Engineering, Space Systems, and Maritime Policy. He consults in the US and overseas on defense and civil matters and serves on multiple corporate, civic and academic boards. He is chairman of the Australian Naval Shipbuilding Advisory Board and is the DoD’s Senior Defense Industry Adviser to Ukraine.

He served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from January 2006 to March 2009. As Secretary of the Navy, he led America’s Navy and Marine Corps Team and was responsible for an annual budget in excess of $125 billion and almost 900,000 people. Previously, Dr. Winter held multiple positions in the aerospace and defense industry as a systems engineer, program manager and corporate executive.

From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Winter served as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Committee charged with investigating the causes of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout for the Secretary of the Interior.

Dr. Winter received a doctorate in physics from the University of Michigan. He is also a graduate of the University of Southern California Management Policy Institute, the UCLA Executive Program, and the Harvard University Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security. In 2002, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In 2009, he received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.


About the Nelson W. Spencer Lecture:
Nelson W. Spencer became the director of the U-M Space Physics Research Laboratory in 1948 and remained its guiding force until 1960. During his tenure, SPRL established itself as a prominent leader in the exploration of the Earth's upper atmosphere. Dr. Spencer believed in the importance of including science goals in all space flight missions, and was a pioneer in America’s space science program. Each year, a special guest speaker is invited to the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department to present a lecture in Dr. Spencer's honor.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:10:20 -0400 2020-03-19T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Spencer Lecture image
CANCELLED: EIHS Lecture / Human Conditions Keynote: Towards A Decolonial Account of Chemical Exposures on the Lower Great Lakes (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63594 63594-15808575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture is part of Human Conditions: An Eisenberg Forum.

What might a decolonial understanding of chemical exposures look like? While concepts like the Anthropocene scale environmental violence up to the planetary level—treating the chemical pollutant and the human body as the same everywhere—this talk takes a non-universalizing approach to chemical violence and its relations to land and bodies. Focusing on the history of Canada's Chemical Valley and the world’s oldest running oil refinery, this talk asks how the specificity of chemical exposures can be understood in relation to colonialism as well as Anishinabek and Haudenosaunee obligations to land on the lower Great Lakes. In so doing, it makes the case for the need to rethink the assumptions of universalism and liberal humanism that undergird conventional environmental understandings.

Michelle Murphy is professor of history and women and gender studies at the University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Data Justice, and Director of the Technoscience Research Unit. Her current research looks at chemical pollution and environmental data in Canada's Chemical Valley, with a focus on the world's oldest running oil refinery which sits on the land of Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Murphy's most recent book is The Economization of Life (Duke University Press). She is Métis from Winnipeg.

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 11:40:44 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Chair's Distinguished Lecture: Advanced Manufacturing of Aerospace Composite Structures: Predicting Influence of Imperfections on Composite Material Performance. (March 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73872 73872-18375551@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Paul Davidson
Assistant Research Scientist
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan

A review of future ideas for commercial aviation points towards four kinds of aircraft designs: high aspect ratio wing (HARW), blended body, Urban Air Mobility (UAM), and supersonic vehicles. From a structural perspective, these aircraft designs necessitate the use of advanced composites and manufacturing methods. Robotic systems like Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) technology for laying down composite material, offers one such manufacturing method, to address the future aviation needs. Even with advancements made in AFP technology, there are issues still plaguing composite manufacturing, namely imperfections. Imperfections refer to deviation from design intent and have ramifications on the performance of the structure. The identification of imperfections and subsequent rework/reject decision consumes about 20% of the total production time and is inconsistent. These inconsistencies in inspection and manufacturing are indirectly accounted for in a design, by increasing safety factors, thereby increasing the weight and cost of a structure.
In this talk, an overview of the challenges posed in the manufacturing of composite structures, as well as a framework to study the effect of manufacturing imperfections on material performance, will be presented. An experimental-computational framework that utilizes a small number of controlled defect coupon tests to develop a validated high-fidelity finite element model will be described. The framework utilizes Kriging regression, Support Vector Classification, and analysis using the Monte Carlo method to determine the risk of defects on the composites. To conclude, I will outline current research problems and opportunities for cross-collaboration between researchers in the areas of structures, materials, NDI, robotics, and data sciences.

About the speaker...

Dr. Davidson is an Assistant Research Scientist in Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan. From May 2016 to August 2018 he was a Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Composite Structures Lab of the Aero& Astro Department at the University of Washington, Seattle. From May 2013 to October 2015 he worked in the Composite Design and Analysis Lab of General Electric’s Global Research Center. He is also a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Materials Technical Committee, and the vice-chair of Durability and Damage Tolerance (DaDT) Division of American Society of Composites (ASC). His primary research interests include composite mechanics, specifically on the damage, failure and fatigue of composite materials, advanced manufacturing methods, multi-scale analysis, low velocity and high velocity impact damage, and micro-mechanics.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 17:50:24 -0400 2020-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T17:15:00-04:00 Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Paul Davidson
POSTPONED: Of Victims and Villains: The Targeting of Muslim Women | Vivian R. Shaw Lecture (March 19, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70530 70530-17602870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

The 2020 Shaw Lecture has been postponed until further notice. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Exploring her identity as an immigrant Muslim woman on the front lines of civil rights and liberties in Michigan, Rana Elmir will examine the well-organized Islamophobia industry and the relentless attacks on Muslim women who face unique challenges borne of both a presumption of guilt, as well as the additional presumption of victimhood. Muslim women’s status as both villains and victims not only drives discrimination, harassment and hate crimes, but promotes cynical policy proposals designed to “save” Muslim women that are actually rooted in anti-Muslim bias.

Rana Elmir is the deputy director of the ACLU of Michigan and has devoted her career to storytelling, action and activism. As part of the senior management team, she works in conjunction with the ACLU’s legal, legislative and development departments to increase understanding and appreciation of the Bill of Rights. Rana lectures often on anti-Muslim bias, the importance of storytelling, free speech and the intersection of race, faith, and gender. The Washington Post has published two op-eds written by Rana: “Stop asking me to condemn terrorists just because I’m Muslim” and “How Muslim women bear the brunt of Islamophobia.” Prior to her role as deputy director, Rana held the position of communications director for the ACLU of Michigan. Rana is a graduate of Wayne State University’s Journalism School and the Journalism Institute for Minorities.

The Vivian R. Shaw Lecture is presented biennially by the Women's Studies Department and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Established in 1997 by Ellen S. Agress (UM 1968), to honor the memory of her mother, this lecture addresses "real-world issues" related to women and gender.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:44:59 -0400 2020-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Rana Elmir, ACLU of Michigan
Live Event Canceled - Shaka Senghor: Writing My Wrongs (March 19, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70394 70394-17594441@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Shaka Senghor is a leading voice in criminal justice reform. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison, was released in March 2016 and debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list as well as The Washington Post Best Seller list. Writing My Wrongs chronicles Senghor’s personal experience with the criminal justice system after being sent to prison at age 19 on second-degree murder charges. An unforgettable tale of forgiveness and second chances, Senghor’s book reminds us that our worst deeds don’t define who we are or what we can contribute to the world. Senghor’s story has inspired thousands and serves as a compelling testament to the power of hope, compassion, and unconditional love.

Senghor is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2016 EBONY Power 100 list and the 2016 NAACP Great Expectations Award. Senghor was also a 2014 TED Prize finalist for The Atonement Project (a program that aims to promote healing and understanding between victims of violence and violent offenders), is a former MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, and is a current fellow in the inaugural class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network. He shares his story of redemption around the world through his company, Shaka Senghor Inc., dedicated to shifting societal narratives through storytelling with deep social impact.

Supported by the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan, presenting the 25th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners, on view at the Duderstadt Center Gallery March 18–April 1, 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-19T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Senghor.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELLED: Jenny Zhang Reading & Book Signing (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69578 69578-17366258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Jenny Zhang’s story collection, Sour Heart (Lenny, 2017), centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. It examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

Zhang is also the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find. Her second collection of poetry, My Baby First Birthday, is forthcoming from Tin House. She is the recipient of the Pen/Bingham Award for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:56:18 -0400 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jenny Zhang
Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen (March 19, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73236 73236-18181848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Early Roman comedy, dating to around 200 BC, was written and performed by slaves and poor men for an audience that included slaves and poor people. These writers and actors took the old comic character of the slave cook and did something new, in line with these plays’ general resistance to authority. This talk is illustrated by rarely-seen images of cartoon cooks contemporary with the plays, juxtaposed with modern parallels from cookie jars to South Park’s Chef to Betye Saar’s “Liberation of Aunt Jemima".

Content warning: this talk will include discussion and display of images related to modern slavery and anti-black racism.

Location: Rackham Amphitheater (4th floor)
NB: There are two spots for wheelchair users in the middle of the Amphitheater, using the North Entrance.

March 19th, 5:30pm
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:08:32 -0500 2020-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Slave Cooks and Roman Comedy: Resistance in the Kitchen
Canceled: Disability Dialogues (March 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73407 73407-18217154@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

*** EVENT CANCELED ***

This TED-style event allows students, faculty, and staff to share their personal experiences with disabilities in an inclusive, supportive, educational environment.

Organized by disabled students and students with disabilities from the Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) Student Advisory Board, this annual event is a great way for individuals to share their experiences with members of the campus and Ann Arbor community. Come join us for a couple minutes or a couple hours!

We ask that attendees do not wear perfume, cologne or strong scents as others can be sensitive to said fragrances — our main wish is to create an inclusive environment! Also if, during the event, you need to get up, move around the room or leave for whatever reason, you are encouraged to do so. There will be various furniture set-ups throughout the room to hopefully accommodate everyone’s needs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:02:16 -0400 2020-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion -
CANCELLED: "Hail!": Harmony and Dissonance in the University of Michigan’s Campus Songs (March 19, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72995 72995-18123072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join musicologist Mark Clague of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance as he explores the traditional college songs of the University of Michigan -- as reflective of school spirit, aspirations of U-M students, campus life, and often the prejudices and biases of the times in which they were composed. The talk will include musical performance. This lecture is part of a series on the history of the University of Michigan sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:32:24 -0400 2020-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-19T20:30:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Illustrated score of "The Yellow and Blue" from the student magazine, Palladium, early 1900s
[POSTPONED] Toward Communities of Resistance: Rethinking Citizenship, Migration, and Belonging in Northeast India (March 20, 2020 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72571 72571-18018163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 9:30am
Location: School of Education
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Coloniality and structural violence are crucially implicated in the precarious existence led by the vast majority of people in the global South. Communities denied of the “right to have rights” are engaged in fights to reclaim their lands, their place in the world, and often their very right to exist. Yet this fight implicates us all as we resist crisscrossing vectors of injustice from our different relations to precarity and (dis)placement. Drawing upon activist research in solidarity with communities fighting labels of “illegal immigrant” and state-sponsored crisis of citizenship in Assam (Northeast India), this talk will grapple with multiple dimensions of structural violence, from its colonial underpinnings to ongoing peoples’ resistance against it. Anchored in decolonial, women of Color, and transnational feminist perspectives, this participatory action research project documents social suffering in disenfranchised communities and explores creative and culturally meaningful pathways for decolonial resistance. Centering defiant voices of these communities-in-struggle, the talk will illustrate the need to rethink dominant conceptualizations of citizenship, migration, and belonging; in doing so, troubling hegemonic ideas of “inclusion” tethered to nation state membership as well as illuminating possibilities for alternative collective imaginaries.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:07:33 -0400 2020-03-20T09:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T23:00:00-04:00 School of Education National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Urmitapa Dutta headshot
CANCELED: Whose Freedom of Speech?: Reflections on Power and Voice on the American College Campus (March 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73494 73494-18261070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED.

In this talk, Elizabeth Cole considers how a psychological understanding of power and voice are missing from current national conversations on free speech. Cole argues this omission constitutes a "missing discourse" (Fine, 1988). Cole will discuss the ways that research on social norms, gendered self-silencing, stigma, and activism complicate questions of whether to speak, who gets the floor to speak, and whose speech is considered legitimate by listeners. Intergroup dialogue pedagogy will be proposed as a remedy that holds promise, but also entails important caveats. Cole concludes with a discussion of the implications of power and voice for debates about diversity, inclusion, and free speech on college campuses. After Cole's lecture, she will open discussion for Q&A.

Elizabeth Cole is a Professor of Women’s Studies, Psychology, and Afroamerican & African Studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her doctorate at the University of Michigan in Personality Psychology and taught at Northeastern University before joining UM in 2000.

Light refreshments will be served during the event.

Please RSVP at this link https://myumi.ch/yKrwN

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:10:49 -0400 2020-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Michigan Union The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Lecture / Discussion Graphic for Liz Cole speaking event
CANCELED: EEB Museums Friday Seminar - Negotiating Academic/Tribal Research Agendas Involving Plants, Properties, and a Sustainable Future: UM as an emerging case of national significance (March 20, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73639 73639-18276407@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Herbarium

The diverse ‘museum and museum-like’ collections of Tier 1 Research Universities, as those at RMC and the Matthaei-Nichols, have pivotal roles in the emerging protocols of Tribally-engaged research outside the biomedical sciences. At UM, in addition to each unit’s intellectual and disciplinary agendas, our Tribal engagements profoundly influence other core functions of the university: from undergraduate recruitment to donor and foundation relationships. Based on more than 15 years of relationship-building, Michener has developed UM Matthaei-Nichols as a key partner in broadening and refocusing plant- and environmental justice-centered research relationships with Michigan’s Tribal partners. The ways forward include deepening engagement with the research divisions at RMC. By mutual agreement with Tribal partners, little of this work has been discussed in public venues until recently. Today’s talk will focus on specific Tribally-engaged research activities at the Matthaei-Nichols, their immediate objectives, and the anticipated impacts for all partners.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:59:26 -0400 2020-03-20T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Herbarium Lecture / Discussion 2:00 PM - Friday March 20, RMC Rm 1006
*CANCELED* Department of Performing Arts Technology Seminar: Paul Catanese, Columbia College Chicago (March 20, 2020 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72983 72983-18123060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Paul Catanese, a visiting artist at U-M, is a hybrid media artist who blurs the lines between the visual, performing, and media arts in a diverse range of works that include installation, performance, video, sound, projection, and print media; he has exhibited at the Whitney Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Catanese is currently a professor and director of Graduate Study for Art and Art History at Columbia College Chicago.

He will be presenting recent developments regarding his experimental opera project: Century of Progress / Sleep. During his residency, he’s been developing a new section of this work as a virtual reality experience, and incorporating electroencephalography (EEG) data. Previous iterations of this work have been staged in galleries, black box theaters, as well as for planetarium / fulldome experience. Catanese will be sharing outcomes from these previous iterations, including details from the touchdesigner patches used for controlling live visuals in the planetarium dome.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:45 -0400 2020-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (March 20, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63139 63139-15578790@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 13:37:35 -0400 2020-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELED: A HISTORY OF RELIGION IN 5 1/2 OBJECTS: (March 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73091 73091-18140508@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

THE ABRAHAMIC SENSORIUM
Learning about Judaism. Christianity, and Islam through the Senses

A HISTORY OF RELIGION IN 5 1/2 OBJECTS: Spirituality Meets Sensuality
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FRIDAY, MARCH 20
4:00-6:00pm
MICHIGAN LEAGUE
3rd Floor, Room D
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Professor Plate takes a fresh and much-needed approach to religion. He
suggests that religious life and practice be understood as deriving from basic sensual experiences. Putting aside questions of belief and abstract ideas, he instead challenges us to begin with the incomplete human body, as he guides our focus toward five ordinary types of objects—stones, incense, drums, crosses, and bread.

His talk is based on his book, A History of Religion in 5 ½ Objects, which is a celebration of the materiality of religious life. Plate moves our understanding of religion away from the current obsessions with God, fundamentalism, and science— and toward the rich depths of this world, this body, these things. Religion, it turns out, has as much to do with our bodies as our beliefs. Maybe more.

A Presentation by S. BRENT PLATE
S. Brent Plate is a writer, editor, public speaker, and is an associate professor of religious studies, by special appointment, at Hamilton College. He is author/editor of fourteen books, including Religion and Film, and Blasphemy: Art that Offends. He is co-founder and managing editor of Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, and President of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life/CrossCurrents.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:41:00 -0400 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion The Abrahamic Sensorium
CANCELLED: Jean Feerick Lecture (March 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73818 73818-18328745@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Lecture Cancelled

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 10:46:42 -0400 2020-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-20T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CANCELED: Indigenous Healing in Action: Part 2 (March 20, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73446 73446-18223780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 20, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

From Native American Heritage Month to Asian/Pacific Islander American Heritage Month, this event is a continuation of the Indigenous Healing in Action event held in November 2019. Come by for a discussion about the connections and experiences within the Pacific Islander community and Indigenous communities on campus. Food will be served.

This event requires that you RSVP. Please RSVP here: https://sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/session/23346

This event is a part of Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-March to mid-April at the University of Michigan. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:07:19 -0400 2020-03-20T19:30:00-04:00 2020-03-20T21:30:00-04:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion A/PIA Heritage Month Calendar
Witness Lab Event: Artist Reflections with Courtney McClellan: Artist as Researcher (March 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70554 70554-17604947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Witness Lab is a project of Roman Witt Artist-in-Residence, Courtney McClellan. It is part museum exhibit, part performance art, part research project, which seeks to illuminate the intersection of performance and the law in new ways. Join McClellan for a discussion of her exploration of the act of witnessing as it relates to her art practice. Additionally, she will share motivations for creating Witness Lab and current findings from work in progress. 

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:04 -0400 2020-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELED: A Conversation with Secretary James A. Baker, III (March 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72446 72446-18007179@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Due to the COVID-19 situation, this event has been canceled.

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Join us for an armchair conversation between former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, and Michael S. Barr, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. The discusison will focus on Secretary Baker's distinguished career serving in senior government positions under three United States presidents—as secretary of state, secretary of the treasury, and twice as White House chief of staff. The conversation will cover pivotal moments from Secretary Baker's distinguished career and his reflections on current issues of international diplomacy and domestic policy.

Co-sponsors: the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Library, The Gerald R. Ford Institute at Albion College, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan.

From the speaker's bio:

James A. Baker, III, has served in senior government positions under three United States presidents. He served as the nation's 61st secretary of state from January 1989 through August 1992 under President George H.W. Bush. During his tenure at the State Department, Baker traveled to 90 foreign countries as the United States confronted the unprecedented challenges and opportunities of the post–Cold War era. From 1985 to 1988, Baker served as the 67th secretary of the treasury under President Ronald Reagan, and from 1981 to 1985, he served as White House chief of staff to President Reagan. Baker's record of public service began in 1975 as under secretary of commerce to President Gerald R. Ford and concluded with his service as White House chief of staff and senior counselor to President Bush from August 1992 to January 1993.

Long active in American presidential politics, Baker also led presidential campaigns for Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush over the course of five consecutive presidential elections from 1976 to 1992.

A native Houstonian, Baker graduated from Princeton University in 1952. After two years of active duty as a lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, he entered The University of Texas School of Law at Austin. He received his J.D. with honors in 1957 and practiced law with the Houston firm of Andrews and Kurth from 1957 to 1975. Baker’s memoir — “Work Hard, Study . . . and Keep Out of Politics! Adventures and Lessons from an Unexpected Public Life” — was published in October 2006.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:43:46 -0400 2020-03-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion James A. Baker, III
CANCELLED - Annual Distinguished Lecture on Europe. Reinterpreting Violence in Twentieth-Century Spain: A Comparative Perspective (March 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71497 71497-17834210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

The twentieth century in Spain was exceptionally eventful. Many Spaniards were born during a monarchy, lived through two dictatorships, a republic, and a civil war, and died in a democracy. In this lecture, Professor Casanova will reflect on the main historiographical currents that have guided his research in the last three decades: social history and change, with special emphasis on civil wars and revolutions; comparative historical sociology; and collective violence in the 20th century.

Julián Casanova is professor of contemporary history at the University of Zaragoza and visiting professor at the Central European University. He has authored and co-authored important books on the history of Spain, the Spanish Civil War, and Franco’s Spain which were published, in English, by Routledge, Cambridge University Press, and I.B. Tauris. He is currently completing a new book about collective violence in twentieth-century Europe, to be published in April 2020. In addition to his scholarship, Casanova is a frequent contributor to the Spanish "El País," and serves as a historical consultant in the television and film industry, both in documentaries and TV series and films.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to cesmichigan@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, 13 Mar 2020 11:31:18 -0400 2020-03-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion cassanova_image
CANCELLED - ASC Event. Pan-African Pulp in Five Parts: A Panel Discussion (March 23, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73202 73202-18157929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 23, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: African Studies Center

Meleko Mokgosi's monumental installation Pan-African Pulp presents a complex and multi-layered reflection on histories of Pan-Africanism, Black Consciousness, and Southern African resistance movements. Made up of five parts, it engages with its audience in various ways, encouraging visitors to access this rich history through the medium of history painting, through popular posters, through comic books, academic literature or stories written in Mokgosi's mother tongue - Setswana. Multiple interpretations and readings are not only possible but are explicitly encouraged by the artist, whose work is saturated with archival research, theory and deep thinking about the history of artmaking and the powerful role artworks have (and continue to have) as sites of resistance and activism.

Taking Pan-African Pulp as their starting point, five different speakers from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University will bring their unique points of view to the table, offering up new and perhaps unexpected interpretations, exploring how one artwork may act as a prism for diverse readings.

The program will take place in the Mokgosi installation on the first floor between the UMMA Shop and Cafe.
Speakers include:

Bénédicte Boisseron, from the U-M Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS), will respond to the mural examining the complexity of blackness;

Julian Chambliss, Val Berryman Curator of History, MSU Museum, on the historical posters from internationalist and Pan-African movements from around the world;​

Anita Gonzalez, from the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance, the stories from Setswana oral tradition.

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, from the U-M Department for Romance Languages and Literatures, the 1969 Algiers Pan-African manifesto annotated by the artist;

Randall Scott, from the MSU Comic Art Collection, the large-scale panels inspired by African photo novels of the 1960s and ’70s.

The discussion will be moderated by Laura De Becker, UMMA’s Helmut & Candis Stern Associate Curator of African Art.

This program is organized in partnership with the U-M African Studies Center.

Lead support is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan African Studies Center and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:41:58 -0400 2020-03-23T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-23T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art African Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Ph.D. Defense: Ahmad Asif A Jiman (March 24, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73841 73841-18426650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be hosted via Zoom. You can log in with this link:

https://umich.zoom.us/j/329580834
Meeting ID: 329-580-834

Diabetic patients suffer from a long-term condition that results in high blood glucose levels (hyperglycemia). Many medications for diabetes lose their glycemic control effectiveness over time and patient compliance to these medications is a major challenge. Glycemic control is a vital continuous process and is innately regulated by the endocrine and autonomic nervous systems. There is an opportunity for developing an implantable and automated treatment for diabetic patients by accurately detecting and altering neural activity in autonomic nerves. The renal and vagus nerves contribute in glycemic control and are potential targets for this proposed treatment. This dissertation investigated stimulation of renal nerves for glycemic control, assembled an implantation procedure for neural interface arrays designed for autonomic nerves, and demonstrated high-fidelity physiological signals in the vagus nerve of rats.

Stimulation of renal nerves at kilohertz frequency (33 kHz) showed a notable average increase in urine glucose excretion (+24.5%). In contrast, low frequency (5 Hz) stimulation of renal nerves showed a decrease in glucose excretion (−40.4%). However, these responses may be associated with urine flow rate.

Kilohertz frequency stimulation (50 kHz) of renal nerves in diabetic rats showed a significant average decrease (-168.4%) in blood glucose concentration rate, and an increase (+18.9%) in the overall average area under the curve for urine glucose concentration, with respect to values before stimulation.

An innovative procedure was assembled for the chronic implantation of novel intraneural MIcroneedle Nerve Arrays (MINAs) in rat vagus nerves. Two array attachment approaches (fibrin sealant and rose-bengal bonding) were investigated to secure non-wired MINAs in rat vagus nerves. The fibrin sealant approach was unsuccessful in securing the MINA-nerve interface for 4- and 8-week implant durations. The rose-bengal coated MINAs were in close proximity to axons (≤ 50 μm) in 75% of 1-week and 14% of 6-week implants with no significant harm to the implanted nerves or the overall health of the rats.

Using Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Arrays (CFMAs), physiological neural activity was recorded on 51% of inserted functional carbon fibers in rat vagus nerves, and 1-2 neural clusters were sorted on each carbon fiber with activity. The mean peak-to-peak amplitudes of the sorted clusters were 15.1-91.7 µV with SNR of 2.0-7.0. Propagation of vagal signals were detected in the afferent direction at conduction velocities of 0.7-1.0 m/sec, and efferent signals at 0.7-8.8 m/sec, which are within the conduction velocity range of myelinated and unmyelinated vagus fibers. Furthermore, changes in vagal nerve activity were monitored in breathing and blood glucose modulated conditions.

Overall, this dissertation investigated modulation of neural activity for glycemic control, assembled a new chronic implantation procedure for nerve interface arrays, and monitored physiological signaling in an autonomic nerve. Future work is needed to fully understand the physiological neural signaling, and evaluate the long-term tissue reactivity and recording integrity of implanted electrodes in autonomic nerves. This work supports the potential development of an alternative implantable treatment modality for diabetic patients by modulating and monitoring neural activity in autonomic nerves.

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Time: 10:00 AM
Location: North Campus Research Complex (NCRC), B10-G64
Chair: Dr. Tim M. Bruns

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:08:39 -0400 2020-03-24T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion U-M BME Event
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70286 70286-17564359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

In this talk, Professor Makley thinks through the implications of her collaborative work with Tibetans in northern Amdo (Qinghai province) to tell, hear, see and record stories of the late tenth Panchen Lama (1938-1989), the controversial yet beloved Buddhist figure who returned to Amdo in the early 1980s after fourteen years of Maoist detention in a series of triumphant, recuperative tours of rural Tibetan regions. To this day, the absent presence of the tenth Panchen Lama looms large in those regions, where Tibetans lament the loss of his advocacy and voice amidst intensifying state-led development pressures. She takes up Uradyn Bulag's critique to reject the positivist, textualist, and statist premises of "oral history" in favor of a linguistic anthropological approach to narrative as a multimodal and dialogic process of (dis)embodying selves and others in spaces and times. Professor Makley asks, in the context of intensifying surveillance and central state-led censorship, can our Tibetan interlocutors' awkward silences and earnest affirmations, the un- or under-said of their stories about the tenth Panchen Lama, be taken as a politics of refusal that, in the telling, itself works to re-constitute his fugitive presence, and by proxy that of a Tibetan sociality and future currently being erased?

Charlene Makley is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her work has explored the history and cultural politics of state-building, state-led development and Buddhist revival among Tibetans in China's restive frontier zone (SE Qinghai and SW Gansu provinces) since 1992. Her analyses draw especially on methodologies from linguistic and economic anthropology, gender and media studies, and studies of religion and ritual that unpack the semiotic and pragmatic specificities of intersubjective communication, exchange, personhood and value. Her first book, "The Violence of Liberation: Gender and Tibetan Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China," was published by University of California Press in 2007. Her second book, "The Battle for Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood and Power among Tibetans in China," published in 2018 by Cornell University Press and the Weatherhead East Asia Institute at Columbia University, is an ethnography of state-local relations in the historically Tibetan region of Rebgong (SE Qinghai province) in the wake of China's Great Open the West campaign and during the 2008 military crackdown on Tibetan unrest. The book brings anthropological theories of states, development and personhood into dialogue with recent interdisciplinary debates about the very nature of human subjectivity, agency, and relations with nonhuman others (including deities).

For more information about her research projects, publications, courses, and media archives, visit her website: http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/makley/index.html, or her Academia.edu page: https://reed.academia.edu/CharleneMakley.

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, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:02 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Oral history and Fugitive (Non)presence: The Afterlives of the Tenth Panchen Lama in China's Tibet
CANCELLED!!! The Story of My Name (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73656 73656-18278609@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Research Building 2
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has a name, and there is a story behind every name. Come and share the story of your name or just learn about the stories of others.

Faculty, trainees and staff are all welcome.
Light refreshments served.

Dr. Preeti Malani, Chief Health Officer for the University of Michigan
Dr. Gary Freed, Director of Faculty Programs at OHEI

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:20:33 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Research Building 2 Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion The Story of My name Image
LHS Collaboratory Webinar "Mobilizing Computable Biomedical Knowledge at Michigan Medicine" (March 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72652 72652-18035599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Presentation 1:
"Electronic Health Record (EHR)-Integration for Learning Health Systems"

Michael Lanham, MD
Associate Chief Medical Information Officer
Clinical Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology; Fertility and Reproductive Health
University of Michigan

Presentation 2:
“Machine Learning Infrastructure in a Learning Health System”

Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc
Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Michigan


Please register in advance, *dlhs-umi.ch/lhs-collaboratory. *
Email: *LHScollaboratory-info@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:04:19 -0400 2020-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory
CANCELED FellowSpeak: "E pluribus unum: Out of many voices, one language" (March 24, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69996 69996-17491341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

In this talk, Baptista explores how in a multilingual setting, the languages spoken by speakers with different first languages coalesce to give rise to creole languages. She specifically seeks to draw correspondences between linguistic features in the source languages and those of the resulting creoles while examining the processes that give rise to the observable features.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:21 -0400 2020-03-24T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Cape Verde islands: Santo Antão
Virtual Michigan Medicine Community Conversations (March 24, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73479 73479-18250066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 2:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Office for Health Equity and Inclusion

We felt that it was important to carve out space for dialogue. We know that we are all trying to do our part and it looks different for each of us. Some are providing support by coming in everyday to serve our patients, others are consulting by utilizing their research expertise and for many of us this means staying home to help flatten the curve and prevent the spread of COVID-19.

It is more important now than ever for us to come together as a community. Join us Tuesday, March 24 at 2:00pm as we host Community Conversations. Our focus for our time together will be to learn strategies from each other about adjusting to our new “norms” and we will share resources available to support our community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:30:08 -0400 2020-03-24T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 University Hospitals Office for Health Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Community Conversation Image
(CANCELLED)“Exploring mechanisms of cell number compensation during brain development and cancer” (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73360 73360-18328747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

Center for Organogenesis along with the Human Genetics Depatment is pleased to present a seminar talk by Dr. Alexandra Joyner.

Dr. Joyner is Courtney Steel Chair in Pediatric Cancer Research Developmental Biology Program at Sloan Kettering Institute.

The talk is entitled, “Exploring mechanisms of cell number compensation during brain development and cancer.”

Faculty Host: Ben Allen, Ph.D.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:01:09 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Joyner Seminar Flyer
CANCELED: “Our Father”: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s) (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70152 70152-17540899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The designation of these three religions as “Abrahamic” is used as a shorthand for their supposed common ancestry as well as for their assumed shared religious principles and values. Since its very purpose is to highlight the commonality of the three religions, the term is always used in the plural. For medieval thinkers in the Islamicate world, however, the Abrahamic model of religion was radically different from the contemporary one.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:52 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Abraham Lilien
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- The Mothers of Gynecology: Examining U.S. Slavery and the Making of a Field (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71643 71643-17851292@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for future updates.

Deirdre Cooper Owens is the Linda and Charles Wilson Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of the Humanities in Medicine program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is an Organization of American Historians’ (OAH) Distinguished Lecturer and has won a number of prestigious honors that range from the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies to serving as an American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow in Washington, D.C. Cooper Owens earned her Ph.D. from UCLA in History and wrote an award-winning dissertation while there. A popular public speaker, she has published articles, essays, book chapters, and think pieces on a number of issues that concern African American experiences and reproductive justice. Recently, Cooper Owens finished working with Teaching Tolerance and the Southern Poverty Law Center on a podcast series about how to teach U.S. slavery and Time Magazine listed her as an “acclaimed expert” on U.S. history in its annual “The 25 Moments From American History That Matter Right Now.” Her first book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology (UGA Press, 2017) won the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the OAH as the best book written in African American women’s and gender history.

Professor Cooper Owens is also the Director of the Program in African American History at the Library Company of Philadelphia, the country’s oldest cultural institution founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731. She is working on a second book project that examines mental illness during the era of United States slavery and is writing a popular biography of Harriet Tubman that examines her through the lens of disability.

This talk is presented by IRWG's program on Black Feminist Health Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:54:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Deirdre Cooper-Owens
CANCELLED - WCED Book Discussion. Putin v. the People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71268 71268-17794066@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Authors: Samuel A. Greene, reader of Russian politics, King’s College London; Graeme B. Robertson, professor of political science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Discussants: Natalia Forrat, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Ronald G. Suny, William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History, U-M.

What do ordinary Russians think of Putin? Who are his supporters? And why might their support now be faltering? Alive with the voices and experiences of ordinary Russians and elites alike, Sam Greene and Graeme Robertson craft a compellingly original account of contemporary Russian politics. Telling the story of Putin’s rule through pivotal episodes such as the aftermath of the "For Fair Elections" protests, the annexation of Crimea, and the War in Eastern Ukraine, Greene and Robertson draw on interviews, surveys, social media data, and leaked documents to reveal how hard Putin has to work to maintain broad popular support, while exposing the changing tactics that the Kremlin has used to bolster his popularity. Unearthing the ambitions, emotions, and divisions that fuel Russian politics, this book illuminates the crossroads to which Putin has led his country and shows why his rule is more fragile than it appears.

Sam Greene is reader in Russian politics and director of the Russia Institute at King's College London. His research focuses on the relationships between citizens and the state in Russia, and in societies experiencing social, economic and political transformation more broadly. His first book, "Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia," was published by Stanford University Press in 2014. Sam also serves as associate fellow in the Russian and Eurasian Programme of the International Institute for Security Studies and a visiting professor at the UK Defence Academy.

Graeme Robertson is professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies. His work focuses on political protest and regime support in authoritarian regimes. Graeme is the author of "Revolution and Reform in Ukraine," published by PONARS Eurasia (with Silviya Nitsova and Grigore Pop-Eleches) and "The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia," published by Cambridge University Press. He has published articles in many academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, as well as contributing regularly to the media on Russia and Ukraine. Graeme currently serves as the Associate Editor for Comparative Politics for the American Journal of Political Science.

Natalia Forrat is a WCED Postdoctoral Fellow who studies state-society relations and authoritarianism. Her book project "Solidarity Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations and the Political Regime in Russia" develops a theory of an authoritarian regime based on the blend of group solidarity and the state. Her earlier research on the role of schoolteachers in falsifying Russian elections and the political economy of higher education in Putin's Russia has been published in Comparative Politics and Post-Soviet Affairs. Natalia received her PhD in sociology from Northwestern University in 2017. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University.

Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan, emeritus professor of political science and history at the University of Chicago, and senior researcher at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The grandson of the composer and ethnomusicologist Grikor Mirzaian Suni and a graduate of Swarthmore College and Columbia University, he taught at Oberlin College (1968-1981); as visiting professor of history at the University of California, Irvine (1987); and Stanford University (1995-1996). He was the first holder of the Alex Manoogian Chair in Modern Armenian History at the University of Michigan (1981-1995), where he founded and directed the Armenian Studies Program. He was Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History at the University of Michigan from 2005 to 2015 and director of the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies from 2009 to 2012.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:45:15 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Putin v. the People
CANCELED “Online Harassment and the Threat to Democracy” (March 24, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70106 70106-17532705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.

Online trolls are targeting journalists with such frequency and intensity that 90 percent of reporters say online harassment has become their biggest safety concern, according to a study by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The perpetrators range from lone-wolf digital stalkers to synchronized armies of online mercenaries set in motion by political actors. They have turned social media platforms into battlefields filled with verbal weaponry meant to intimidate and silence journalists. The threats toward female journalists are particularly vicious and dangerous. A recent study by the International Women Media Foundation found that online harassment has prompted many women journalists to consider leaving the profession.

What can be done to track and counter the hate?

Wallace House Presents a conversation with Rana Ayyub, award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai, Elodie Vialle, a Knight-Wallace Fellow and authority on internet harassment and attacks against female journalists and Jason Reich, Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. Roya Ensafi, founder of Censored Planet and assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, will serve as moderator.

About the Speakers
Rana Ayyub is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Mumbai. A political writer and an important voice from South Asia, she is a Global Opinions contributor to the Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, Guardian and Foreign Policy among other publications. She has reported on religious violence, insurgency and extrajudicial killings by the state. She is author of the “Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover-Up,” an undercover investigation which exposes the complicity of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in state-sponsored killings. Time magazine this year listed her among ten global journalists facing the most urgent threats to their work, freedom and safety.

Elodie Vialle is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is studying methods and best practices for countering online attacks of female journalists. She was previously the Head of the Technology desk at Reporters without Borders. Her work focused on topics such as online censorship, surveillance, disinformation and the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of information and internet governance. She has worked as an advisor for media outlets around the world, helping them to improve news coverage through the use of new technologies.

Jason Reich is Vice President of Corporate Security for The New York Times Company. He is responsible for the development and enforcement of all safety and security plans for employees and facilities while serving as the company’s internal expert on all security matters. He joined The Times from BuzzFeed, Inc. where he served as Director of Global Security since 2015. Prior to BuzzFeed, Jason was the founder and managing director of Collective Security Project, a team of crisis response experts, based in the United Kingdom, Turkey and the U.S., who were contracted to protect journalists, aid workers and N.G.O’s in challenging environments. Jason is a founding board member at the ACOS Alliance, and is a passionate advocate for freelance journalist safety worldwide.

Moderator: Roya Ensafi is an assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on security and privacy, with an emphasis on designing techniques and systems to protect users from adversarial networks. She founded and directs Censored Planet research lab at the University of Michigan that investigates different types of privacy and security violations on the internet.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:04:45 -0400 2020-03-24T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Eisendrath Symposium
CANCELED High Stakes Culture Series: "Cultural Contagions: Xenophobia, Scapegoating, and Coronavirus" (March 24, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70167 70167-17540923@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 5:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Over the past few years, “culture wars” have been ignited across the country. Activists from all points of the political spectrum, even the President of the United States himself, are turning to beloved cultural objects to stake a claim for their differing beliefs in a politically fraught moment.

What is at stake in the ways we understand culture and cultural conflict? High Stakes Culture, a series presented by the Institute for the Humanities and the Humanities Collaboratory, brings humanities perspectives to bear on current debates.

Featuring Alexandra Stern (American culture, history, women's studies, and obstetrics and gynecology), Ian Shin (American culture), and Yi-Li Wu (women's studies, history) with Angela Dillard (Afroamerican and African studies, Residential College) as moderator.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:31 -0400 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
THIS EVENT IS CANCELED (March 24, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72639 72639-18035584@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Every year there is some kind of health scare capturing America's attention. From SARS to Coronavirus, warnings have been issued to make the public aware of a possible epidemic. However, no public health warnings have ever been issued regarding the Gun Violence that is ravaging America. Gun Violence has reached epidemic proportions as 109 lives a day were claimed in 2017 alone. What can we do to address this concern as a public health issue? What roles can research and education play in helping to curb the violence? Join us as we discuss the ways we can reframe the Gun debate in America.

Program:

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

6:30 - 8:00 pm
Panel Discussion

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 09:18:34 -0400 2020-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Gun Violence and the Public Health
"To Impossible and Beyond: Are the new plant based burgers too good to be true” (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72677 72677-18044331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:16:22 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All
[POSTPONED] "How the War of 1812 Changed American Cartography" (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72731 72731-18068368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

*** Update 3/10/20: This lecture has been postponed. It will be rescheduled at a later date. ***

Taking its cue from John Melish’s polemical 1814 title, The Sine Qua Non: a Map of the United States—which ambitiously claimed his map to be indispensable to the point that without it “there is nothing”—this lecture explores the way in which two national crises—the War of 1812 and the Panic of 1819—changed the map industry in the United States and the very design of American maps. Using the career of John Melish as its narrative thread, the talk delves into the politics, economics, and optics of American cartography between 1810 and 1820. Tapping source materials that range from newspapers and account books, to showrooms and eye-popping map designs, it examines the roots of nineteenth-century American map production.

What started out as local rivalries between mapmakers during the War of 1812, quickly made headlines in the news (and in the courts) when cartographers not only challenged existing business models and the way in which maps were consumed, but the very look of maps. The fallout was profound: as established mapmakers, like Samuel Lewis or Abraham Bradley, were quickly eclipsed by a new cohort of ambitious cartographers, it was upstarts like Melish—a total novice in all things cartographic—who not only managed to launch a national brand, but generated maps that would influence the nation’s education and public sphere in new and spectacular ways.

Martin Brückner serves as the Interim Director of the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, as the Co-Director of the Center for Material Culture Studies (CMCS), and as professor in the English department at UD. He earned his M.A. from the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz in American Studies and Cultural Geography in his native Germany, and his Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University in the United States.

A Michigan Map Society sponsored lecture presented in collaboration with the Stephen S. Clark Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:09:43 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Map of the seat of war in North America / J. Melish, del.
Food Literacy for All (March 24, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-24T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
Bioethics Discussion: Solitude (March 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52729 52729-12974163@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

NOTICE: This event will be held via Blue Jeans. The link is below.

https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A discussion on who we are when we are alone.

Readings to consider:
1. The Solitude of Self
2. An overview of systematic reviews on the public health consequences of social isolation and loneliness
3. Individual Good and Common Good: A Communitarian Approach to Bioethics
4. Solitude: An Exploration of Benefits of Being Alone

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/043-solitude/.

Take some time alone with the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Mar 2020 14:12:37 -0400 2020-03-24T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Solitude
OS Guest Speaker - VIRTUAL (March 25, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73393 73393-18214937@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

Jonathan is an entrepreneur, UM alum, and favorite guest speaker in prior terms of OS 201. He will both be sharing his leadership journey as well as have time set aside to answer your questions.

Take a look at his bio for some background on him to help you think about what questions you might want to ask him. BlueJeans connection info is below that.

Jonathan Carson bio: https://www.stretto.com/our-experts/jonathan-carson/

BlueJeans Event Connection Info

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:26:58 -0400 2020-03-25T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T11:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Organizational Studies Program (OS) Lecture / Discussion Jonathan Carson Bio pic
CANCELLED - CREES Noon Lecture. Epic Proportions: Translating Poland’s National Epic for the 21st Century (March 25, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71012 71012-17768619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk will offer a practitioner’s reflections on what it means to translate an epic poem in the twenty-first century. What can epic poems of the past mean to us today, and how specifically is that meaning transmuted in the crossing of linguistic, cultural, and temporal borders? Using the experience of translating Adam Mickiewicz’s 1834 Polish-language epic narrative poem "Pan Tadeusz" as both starting point and finish line, Johnston will consider such underconceptualized aspects of translation as imagined and actual readership; the role of aesthetic pleasure in the reading experience; and translation as trespass.

Bill Johnston translates from Polish, working in a wide range of genres and historical periods. His awards include the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, both for Wiesław Myśliwski’s novel "Stone Upon Stone" (2012); the Found in Translation Prize for Tomasz Różycki’s mock-epic poem "Twelve Stations" (2016); the National Translation Award for Adam Mickiewicz’s epic in verse "Pan Tadeusz" (2019); fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and, for his overall contributions to promoting Polish literature and culture, the Transatlantyk Prize (2014) and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2012). He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:40:02 -0400 2020-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Pan Tadeusz cover
Witness Lab Simulation: Performance in Trial Advocacy with Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors (March 25, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70560 70560-17604953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors will teach vital lessons from their lauded U-M trial advocacy class. Law students and viewers will consider the importance of performance and movement when mediating a case. Traditional courtroom negotiations will be addressed, as well as alternative forms of adjudication.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:05 -0400 2020-03-25T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Come for the Food, Stay for the People: Using Culinary Tours to Promote Cross-Cultural Communication & Sustainable Tourism (March 25, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73068 73068-18138326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Culinary travel has been a steadily growing tourism sector over the last decade. Tourists are increasingly traveling for food, letting where they eat determine how and where they travel. As a result, for cities and countries looking to promote themselves, culinary tourism has become an essential and powerful branding element. But can this kind of travel be about more than simply food?

This session will explore how Culinary Backstreets, a leading provider of food tours that operates in a dozen different cities around the world, uses food-oriented travel to promote cross-cultural communication and sustainable tourism – and, ultimately, more impactful experiences.

Yigal Schleifer is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Culinary Backstreets. Created in 2012, Culinary Backstreets covers the local and traditional food scene and offers immersive small group culinary walks in a dozen cities around the world. Between 2002 and 2010, Yigal was based in Istanbul, where he worked as a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the German Press Agency (dpa). While in Istanbul he also co-founded Istanbul Eats (istanbuleats.com), an award-winning blog about Istanbul’s local food scene, and co-wrote a guidebook of the same name. He also launched "Istanbul Calling," a blog about Turkish foreign and domestic affairs.

Yigal’s work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Ha’aretz, the Times (London) and several other publications.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Feb 2020 08:59:06 -0500 2020-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Yigal Schleifer
CANCELED: "The Almighty Salad": Jewish Vegetarianism and the Backlash in the Yiddish Press (March 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70164 70164-17540920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Yiddish speakers looked to vegetarianism as a way of creating better and more rational world. While some writers explicitly linked radical eating to radical thinking, many otherwise revolutionary journals and newspapers were more likely to look upon growing enthusiasm for vegetarianism as a threat to continuity in traditional Jewish cooking. Jochnowitz will examine serious articles addressing the perceived dangers of a vegetarian diet and biting satire poking fun at the ridiculousness of vegetarianism.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:22 -0400 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Vegetable Poster
Livestream: Workshop on Variational Bayes Presented by Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (March 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73937 73937-18432935@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Statistics

Abstract:

Bayesian methods exhibit a number of desirable properties for modern data analysis---including (1) coherent quantification of uncertainty, (2) a modular modeling framework able to capture complex phenomena, (3) the ability to incorporate prior information from an expert source, and (4) interpretability. In practice, though, Bayesian inference necessitates approximation of a high-dimensional integral, and some traditional algorithms for this purpose can be slow---notably at data scales of current interest. The tutorial will cover the foundations of some modern tools for fast, approximate Bayesian inference at scale. One increasingly popular framework is provided by "variational Bayes" (VB), which formulates Bayesian inference as an optimization problem. We will examine key benefits and pitfalls of using VB in practice, with a focus on the widespread "mean-field variational Bayes" (MFVB) subtype. We will highlight properties that anyone working with VB, from the data analyst to the theoretician, should be aware of. And we will discuss a number of open challenges.

This workshop is open to all and will be livestreamed at
https://umich.zoom.us/j/610377170
Problems? Email stat-phd-council-seminar+streaming@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:47:41 -0400 2020-03-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Statistics Lecture / Discussion Workshop Flyer
Ph.D. Defense: Brittany Rodriguez (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73840 73840-18339520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: Will be held via BlueJeans.

BlueJeans Link: https://umich.bluejeans.com/478989984

Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is the traumatic or surgical loss of skeletal muscle comprising 20-30% or more of the total muscle volume. By definition, VML exceeds the muscle’s capacity for self-repair and results in persistent functional deficits. Significantly, no treatment options exist that can fully restore native structure and function. To address the limitations of current treatments, our laboratory has developed tissue-engineered skeletal muscle units (SMUs) as a novel treatment for VML repair. SMUs have shown promising regenerative potential in a rat VML model; however, limitations of rodent models necessitated transitioning our technology to a large animal (sheep) model.



Despite substantial heterogeneity of muscle progenitor cell populations obtained from craniofacial, trunk, and limb muscle, engineered skeletal muscle tissues are almost exclusively fabricated from cells derived from hindlimb muscle, making the effects of cell source on engineered muscle tissue unknown. Thus, we conducted a comparison of SMUs fabricated from muscle cells isolated from both craniofacial and hindlimb muscle sources and evaluated the effects of these cell sources on SMU structure and function. Specifically, we showed that the semimembranosus muscle was the most clinically relevant muscle source for the fabrication of SMUs.

We also sought to develop a method to scale our SMUs to clinically relevant sizes. We developed a modular fabrication method that combines multiple smaller SMUs into a larger implantable graft. Consequently, we successfully fabricated of one of the largest engineered skeletal muscle tissues to date while avoiding the formation of a necrotic core. To treat peripheral nerve injuries that often accompany VML, we also developed engineered neural conduits (ENCs) to bridge gaps between healthy native nerve and the injury site. We used scaled-up SMUs and ENCs to treat a 30% VML in the ovine peroneus tertius muscle. After a 3-month recovery, SMU-treated groups restored muscle mass and force production to a level that was statistically indistinguishable from the uninjured contralateral muscle.

Lastly, we evaluated the efficacy of SMUs in repairing craniofacial VML. Despite reported differences in the regenerative capacity of craniofacial muscle compared to limb muscle, prior to my thesis there were no models of craniofacial VML in either large or small animal models. Thus, we introduced the first model of craniofacial VML and evaluated the ability of SMUs to treat a 30% VML in the zygomaticus major muscle. Despite using the same injury and repair model in both implantation studies, results showed differences in pathophysiology between craniofacial and hindlimb VML. The fibrotic response was increased in the facial muscle model, and there was tissue tethering and intramuscular fat deposition that was not observed in the hindlimb study. The craniofacial model was also confounded by concomitant denervation and ischemia injuries which was too severe for our SMUs to repair. This study highlighted the importance of balancing the use of a clinically realistic model while also maintaining control over variables related to the severity of the injury.

Overall, this work significantly contributed to the field of skeletal muscle tissue engineering by evaluating the effects of muscle source on the structure and function of SMUs, created a modular fabrication method for tissue scale-up, and introduced a new large animal model, and a craniofacial model of VML. The success of this technology demonstrates its potential for treating clinical VML in the future.

Chair: Dr. Lisa Larkin

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:49:10 -0400 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion U-M BME Event
Ph.D. Defense: Tyler Gerhardson (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/73025 73025-18129601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: Will be held via BlueJeans.

Link: https://umich.bluejeans.com/924142541

Brain pathologies including stroke and cancer are a major cause of death and disability. Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) accounts for roughly 12% of all strokes in the US with approximately 200,000 new cases per year. ICH is characterized by the rupture of vessels resulting in bleeding and clotting inside the brain. The presence of the clot causes immediate damage to surrounding brain tissue via mass effect with delayed toxic effects developing in the days following the hemorrhage. This leads ICH patients to high mortality with a 40% chance of death within 30 days of diagnosis and motivates the need to quickly evacuate the clot from the brain. Craniotomy surgery and other minimally invasive methods using thrombolytic drugs are common procedures to remove the clot but are limited by factors such as morbidity and high susceptibility to rebleeding, which ultimately result in poor clinical outcomes.

Histotripsy is a non-thermal ultrasound ablation technique that uses short duration, high amplitude rarefactional pulses (>26 MPa) delivered via an extracorporeal transducer to generate targeted cavitation using the intrinsic gas nuclei existing in the target tissue. The rapid and energetic bubble expansion and collapse of cavitation create high stress and strain in tissue at the focus that fractionate it into an acellular homogenate. This dissertation presents the role of histotripsy as a novel ultrasound technology with potential to address the need for an effective transcranial therapy for ICH and other brain pathologies.

The first part of this work investigates the effects of ultrasound frequency and focal spacing on transcranial clot liquefaction using histotripsy. Histotripsy pulses were delivered using two 256-element hemispherical transducers of different frequency (250 and 500 kHz) with 30-cm aperture diameters. Liquefied clot was drained via catheter and syringe in the range of 6-59 mL in 0.9-42.4 min. The fastest rate was 16.6 mL/min. The best parameter combination was λ spacing at 500 kHz, which produced large liquefaction through 3 skullcaps (~30 mL) with fast rates (~2 mL/min). The temperature-rise through the 3 skullcaps remained below 4°C.

The second part addresses initial safety concerns for histotripsy ICH treatment through investigation in a porcine ICH model. 1.75-mL clots were formed in the frontal lobe of the brain. The centers of the clots were liquefied with histotripsy 48 h after formation, and the content was either evacuated or left within the brain. A control group was left untreated. Histotripsy was able to liquefy the core of clots without direct damage to the perihematomal brain tissue. An average volume of 0.9 ± 0.5 mL (~50%) was drained after histotripsy treatment. All groups showed mild ischemia and gliosis in the perihematomal region; however, there were no deaths or signs of neurological dysfunction in any groups.

The third part presents the development of a novel catheter hydrophone method for transcranial phase aberration correction and drainage of the clot liquefied with histotripsy. A prototype hydrophone was fabricated to fit within a ventriculostomy catheter. Improvements in focal pressure of up to 60% were achieved at the geometric focus and 27%-62% across a range of electronic steering locations. The sagittal and axial -6-dB beam widths decreased from 4.6 to 2.2 mm in the sagittal direction and 8 to 4.4 mm in the axial direction, compared to 1.5 and 3 mm in the absence of aberration. The cores of clots liquefied with histotripsy were readily drained via the catheter.

The fourth part focuses on the development of a preclinical system for translation to human cadaver ICH models. A 360-element, 700 kHz hemispherical array with a 30 cm aperture was designed and integrated with an optical tracker surgical navigation system. Calibrated simulations of the transducer suggest a therapeutic range between 48 – 105 mL through the human skull with the ability to apply therapy pulses at pulse-repetition-frequencies up to 200 Hz. The navigation system allows real-time targeting and placement of the catheter hydrophone via a pre-operative CT or MRI.

The fifth and final part of this work extends transcranial histotripsy therapy beyond ICH to the treatment of glioblastoma. This section presents results from an initial investigation into cancer immunomodulation using histotripsy in a mouse glioblastoma model. The results suggest histotripsy has some immunomodulatory capacity as evidenced by a 2-fold reduction in myeloid derived suppressor cells and large increases in interferon-γ concentrations (3500 pg/mL) within the brain tumors of mice treated with histotripsy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:26:52 -0400 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T11:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Recalling the Past, Imagining the Future – Art and the Resurgence of Detroit (March 26, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72751 72751-18070560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

From its high point of affluence and influence and a population of nearly two million in the 1950s, Detroit suffered decades of devastating civil unrest, economic crisis, governmental corruption, and the loss of nearly two-thirds of its population. Today - from bankruptcy and blighted neighborhoods - a new Detroit is arising, enlivened by the creativity of artists whose work is transforming the city, inspiring its residents, and bringing about a sense of renewal and hope.

Dr. Marion “Mame” Jackson, Professor Emerita, Art History, Wayne State University and The University of Michigan, focuses on relationships between art and community and art’s role in preserving culture and nourishing spirit. She has spent years in the Canadian Arctic and Brazil studying art of ordinary people and its power to express culture and empower imagination. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, Fulbright, and the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada.

This is the fifth of a six-lecture series. The subject is The Power of Art. The next lecture will be April 2, 2020. The title is: From the Grove to the Gallery: A Personal Journey with African Art.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:37:22 -0500 2020-03-26T10:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CANCELLED - CJS Noon Lecture Series | Queer Writing x Asia: Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American Literary Worlds (March 26, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69653 69653-17376504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this Noon Lecture has been cancelled. We hope to reschedule this event for the 2020-21 academic year.

My paper begins by reflecting upon work by Li Kotomi (1989-), a Taiwanese author writing in Japanese about love between women and referencing both Japanese lesbian fiction and the iconic Taiwanese lesbian writer Qiu Miaojin (1969-1995). From Japanese and Taiwanese queer fiction, I then pivot to queer Asian American writing such as that by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong (1988-), who uses Qiu’s lines to open his book On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (2019). Through these texts, I address how “queer” figures into discourses of ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing literature), tongzhi literary tradition, and Asian American writing.

Grace En-Yi Ting specializes in queer feminist approaches to Japanese literary and cultural studies. She is working on a book manuscript titled *Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday in Contemporary Japan*. From 2018-2020, she is a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow at Waseda University.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:51:23 -0400 2020-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Grace Ting, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes, University of Hong Kong
CANCELED: Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam (March 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70165 70165-17540921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit and European languages radically transformed the perception of the East, much weakening the idea of a family relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The case of Ernest Renan (1823-1892) is here emblematic. The lecture will survey Renan’s conception of Judaism and Islam, through his invention of the category of “Semitic religions.” We shall reflect on its consequences on the study of monotheism among historians of religions, as well as on the development of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the last decades of the century.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:02 -0400 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Ernest_Renan_1876-84
A unified fuel consumption model (March 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73742 73742-18311323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: University of Michigan Energy Institute

On Thursday, March 26 at 3:00 pm, Patrick Phlips of Ford Motor Company will present recent research by himself and a Ford team on how a power-based model can be used to characterize fuel consumption over a wide range of powertrain technologies and vehicle operating conditions.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:11:00 -0400 2020-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project University of Michigan Energy Institute Lecture / Discussion Patrick Phlips of Ford Motor Company
CANCELLED: Kathleen Graber Roundtable Q&A (March 26, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69580 69580-17368294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, The River Twice (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. She presents a fluid world in which so much―including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself―seems protean.

Graber is also the author of two previous books of poetry, Correspondence and The Eternal City, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:55:35 -0400 2020-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Graber
- CANCELED - CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. William Kuo of UCAR (March 26, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71461 71461-17827813@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 3:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

*NOTE: This week's seminar with Dr. Kuo has been canceled. To protect the health and safety of our communities and minimize the spread of the Novel Coronavirus COVID-19, U-M is making changes to classes and events on our Ann Arbor, Dearborn, and Flint campuses.

For more information about the U-M response to COVID-19, please visit https://publicaffairs.vpcomm.umich.edu/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/

We are very pleased to welcome Dr. William Kuo of UCAR as part of the CLASP Seminar Series.

Dr. Kuo will give a lecture titled "Impact of Radio Occultation Data on the Prediction of Tropical Cyclogenesis."

Abstract: Tropical cyclones are one of the most devastating severe weather systems that are responsible for huge loss of lives and properties every year. Accurate prediction of tropical cyclogenesis by numerical models has been a significant challenge, largely because of the lack of observations over the tropical oceans. The atmospheric limb sounding technique, which makes use of radio signals transmitted by global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), has evolved as a robust global observing system. This technique, known as radio occultation (RO) can provide valuable water vapor and temperature observations for the analysis and prediction of tropical cyclogenesis. Using the WRF modeling and data assimilation system, we show that the assimilation of RO data can substantially improve the skills of the model in predicting the tropical cyclogenesis for ten typhoon cases that took place over the Western Pacific from 2008 to 2010. To gain insight on the impact of GPS RO data assimilation, we perform a detailed analysis of the formation process of Typhoon Nuri (2008), and examine how the assimilation of the GPS RO data enables the model to capture the cyclogenesis. The joint Taiwan-U.S. COSMIC-II mission was launched in June 2019. It is currently going through check-out phase, and will provide 5,000 GPS RO data per day over the tropics when it is fully operational. This will provide a great opportunity for research and operational prediction of tropical cyclogenesis.

Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 18:10:54 -0400 2020-03-26T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
Live Event Canceled - Martha Colburn: Rip it Up (March 26, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70395 70395-17594442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Live event canceled: To limit the potential spread of respiratory viruses and safeguard those at highest risk of catching COVID-19, the University of Michigan has canceled all live events with estimated attendance of over 100 people.

As a result, live Penny Stamps Speaker Series events will not take place as scheduled. When possible, our weekly presentations will be available online: video presentations will be announced via email and on the Stamps website (https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps).

Filmmaker, artist, and animator Martha Colburn’s films examine the complex dynamics of contemporary life, politics, and society. Colburn works for years on a single project, and her films result from intensive research and meticulously rendered stop-motion animations. Through photography, collage, painting, and puppetry, Colburn uses handmade aesthetics to create touching, personal, and unforgettable narratives. Her film Metamorfoza was included in the 2017 B3 Biennale of the Moving Image in Frankfurt, Germany. Colburn is a Creative Capital grant recipient for Western Wild…or how I found Wanderlust and met Old Shatterhand, a densely textured documentary about the making of a film about the famed German author Karl May. She is a frequent featured artist at the Sundance Film Festival, where she initiated the “New Frontiers” film and video installation program in 2007 with her film Meet Me in Wichita. Colburn was also a featured artist at the opening of the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, with a live performance of films and music. Her work is in the collections at MOMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and her film Triumph of the Wild is permanently on show at the Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany.

Co-presented with the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:15:44 -0400 2020-03-26T17:10:00-04:00 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Colburn.jpg
CANCELED: Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group (March 26, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72214 72214-17957429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Taking an upper-level writing course?

Writing an honors thesis?

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

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

Questions? Email arabelle@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:31:57 -0400 2020-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Undergraduate American Culture Writing Group
CANCELLED: Kathleen Graber Reading & Book Signing (March 26, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69581 69581-17368295@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

Kathleen Graber’s poetry collection, The River Twice (Princeton University Press, 2019), is an elegiac meditation on impermanence and change. She presents a fluid world in which so much―including space and time, the subterranean realm of dreams, and language itself―seems protean.

Graber is also the author of two previous books of poetry, Correspondence and The Eternal City, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 12:54:52 -0400 2020-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2020-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Kathleen Graber
CANCELLED Psychology Methods Hour: Methods for Studying Social Media in the Psychological Sciences (March 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69621 69621-17368336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

This event has been cancelled.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:35:40 -0400 2020-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Chandhok
CANCELED: Phondi Discussion Group (March 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71189 71189-17785601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:24:17 -0400 2020-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELED: HistLing Discussion Group: Mitchell Newberry (March 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70401 70401-17594448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 15:25:13 -0400 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
CANCELLED: A Poetics of Form: Towards a Critique of the Concepts of Criticism (March 27, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72195 72195-17955068@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Josh Robinson teaches in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, and is an Affiliated Professor at the University of Haifa. Ze works primarily on the manifold relationships between poetics and the critique of political economy. Hir monograph, Adorno's Poetics of Form, was published by SUNY Press in 2018. In May 2020 ze will be a visiting fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin.

Building on and further developing the arguments of my 2018 monograph, Adorno’s Poetics of Form (SUNY Press, 2018), my talk identifies and evaluates the critical potential within some of the apparently common-sense concepts of literary criticism. The book explores and probes the limits of the resources offered Adorno’s intriguing, dense and and often oblique and elusive writings on form in relation to literature, and specifically in relation to poetry, and sets out what they can bring to the currently proliferating discussions and theorizations of literary, cultural, social and political form.

2-5pm, 3308 MLB

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:09:17 -0400 2020-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Robinson
CANCELED: CID Inaugural Lecture: Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73082 73082-18140496@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Center for Inequality Dynamics (CID) was founded at the Institute for Social Research (ISR) in 2019 as a partnership between ISR, the Institute’s Survey Research Center, and the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The center pursues cutting-edge research and innovative teaching on one of the central societal challenges of our time: social inequality.

Join us for our inaugural lecture as we talk to Thomas Piketty about his new book, Capital and Ideology. In this book, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, presents a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and outlines a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system.

We will have a panel discussion with Elizabeth Anderson, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor, and Fabian Pfeffer, Director of the Center for Inequality Dynamics, with a reception to follow where Mr. Piketty will be signing books.

Please RSVP for this event: https://www.inequalitydynamics.umich.edu/piketty-rsvp/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:22:34 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion event flyer
CANCELED: The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "The Breakup 2.1: The Ten Year Update" (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68800 68800-17153403@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Since 2007-2008, American undergraduates’ media ecology has changed – Facebook no longer looms as large in undergraduates’ daily media use, instead they tend to turn to Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram more frequently. Yet this, it turns out, is not a difference that makes a difference when people break up with each other. The similarities in people’s breakup practices between 2008 and 2018 reveal that, regardless of what social media is used, American undergraduates turn to media in moments of breakup as ways to manage three complicated aspects of ending a relationship: untangling all the ways in which people signal intertwined lives, deciphering the quotidian unknowable of another person’s mind, and trying to control who knows what when. At the same time, there has been a degree of conventionalization around phatic connections, visible in a new set of terms – ghosting, sliding into DM, leaving someone on read -- and the accompanying increasingly common array of practices. In short, this talk explores what insights about stabilization and media change can one glean from interviewing US undergraduates about their mediated breakup practices every ten years."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:41:23 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
CANCELED/POSTPONED -- Feminist Futures Roundtable (March 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72735 72735-18068371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

This event has been canceled/postponed as of 3/12/2020. Please stay tuned for more details.

On the occasion of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender's 25th anniversary, this panel will reflect on the past and look ahead to the next quarter century, envisioning the future of feminist research. Panelists are encouraged to imagine what feminist scholarship will look like in their field: what are the future challenges and opportunities? What themes, methodologies, collaborations, or theoretical frameworks will emerge?

In "lightning round" style, panelists will discuss ideas that they’re most excited about in regards to feminist research. There will be time for a dynamic discussion with each other and the audience.

Refreshments and IRWG swag (t-shirts, buttons, stickers) provided!

Participants :
- Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor, Department of American Culture; Director of the Digital Studies Institute
- Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor, Departments of American Culture and Women's Studies
- LaVelle Ridley, Doctoral Candidate in English and Women's Studies
- Abby Stewart, Sandra Schwartz Tangri Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies; IRWG Founding Director

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:05:22 -0400 2020-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion IRWG 25th anniversary logo
Cancelled: Smith Lecture (March 27, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63140 63140-15578791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Throughout the Fall and Winter terms, the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences hosts the William T. Smith Lecture Series that brings in distinguished speakers from other universities and research institutions.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:23:09 -0400 2020-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
CANCELLED - CSAS Lecture Series | In Defense of Collateral Evidence: Refugees and Post-Partition IDs in Delhi (March 27, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64844 64844-16460997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 27, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

The Partition of India and Pakistan, which brought in its wake a sea of displaced populations, meant it was not merely refugees and their effects but equally the identity documents that were issued to them prior to migration that suffered from a sense of displacement. Given that the figure of the refugee was alien to the memory of the colonial state, it was hardly surprising that there were no pre-existing genres of recognizing her. With the exception of Calcutta, Delhi received a disproportionate number of refugees compared to other cities and urban authorities had to grapple with the absence of an infrastructure of enumerating and identifying them. In this city, various actors such as the Ministry of Relief and Rehabilitation, housing agencies, the Delhi administration and refugee associations acted in concert to fortify the process of rehabilitation from the chaos of displaced identity documents. While an official identity document, termed the refugee registration certificate did emerge, it was unrealistic for authorities to undertake rehabilitation on the strength of the scarce possession of this document. Simultaneously, urban rehabilitation authorities refused to exempt (Dalit, upper caste Hindu and Sikh) refugee ‘squatters’ from encumbrances of submitting evidence of their caste, nationality, displacement, entry, occupation and presence in the planned city. Using several genres of primary historical sources, this paper inquires into how the Indian state went about knowing the refugee dwelling in urban spaces in ways that straddle the philosophical and the feasible, the material and the intangible. In particular, it asks the question, what role did refugee knowledge play in the fashioning of identity documents between 1947 and 1960? This paper must also be read in another register, namely, the popular making and not just the popular life of identity documents in marginal spaces of dwelling at an early hour of state formation.

Tarangini Sriraman is author of In Pursuit of Proof: A History of Identification Documents in India published by OUP India. The book weaves together a hitherto unattempted history of making and verifying identification documents in the urban margins of India. She teaches Politics and History at the School of Liberal Studies in Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She has previously been a South Asia Program Fellow, Cornell University, Postdoctoral Fellow at Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi and Visiting Associate Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. She has also received the Charles Wallace Research Grant, London. Her work has been published in journals like Economic and Political Weekly, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Economic and Social History Review, and South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 10:50:05 -0400 2020-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Tarangini Sriraman, Professor of Politics and History, Azim Premji University, India
Truth in Sentencing Townhall (March 28, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73586 73586-18267633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 1:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Learn about and discuss ways to bring back a sentencing credit system in Michigan prisons with state legislators.

Featured panelists: Senator Jeff Irwin, Senator Sylvia Santana, and more!

Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/2IlshO3

Questions? Email ashrenbu@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:48:43 -0500 2020-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T15:15:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Truth in Sentencing Townhall
*CANCELED* Guest Master Class: Sir James Galway, flute (March 28, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73462 73462-18243501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 28, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**

Come, listen and learn while Sir James Galway shares his years of experience and coaches students of Prof. Amy Porter’s Flute Studio in an open master class. All students should bring flutes to join in the exercises and closing class performance of Camille Saint-Saëns’s Swan in g.

Globally renowned as the supreme interpreter of the classical flute repertoire, Sir James Galway is a consummate performer whose appeal transcends all musical boundaries. With over 30 million recordings sold worldwide, extensive international touring, frequent television appearances, tireless promotion of the arts and his passionate work in music education, Galway has been a household name for decades. His uniquely expressive interpretations of the flute literature span an extensive range of genres, from classical masterworks to high profile commissions, and provide the benchmark standard for all modern flautists. He has also collaborated on film soundtracks such as The Lord of the Rings, and partnered such popular artists as Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell and Sir Elton John. The diversity of Galway’s repertoire reflects his impressive musical range, and has served to establish him as an artist of the very highest stature.

This event is pponsored by the Sally Fleming Masterclass Fund and the Department of Winds & Percussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:43 -0400 2020-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELLED - Public Talk | Corruption in the Government is Declining in Armenia. Can We Keep It Up? (March 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73361 73361-18208326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Curbing corruption in Armenia was one of the main goals of the new Armenian government before the velvet revolution in 2018. According to Transparency International, corruption in Armenia has decreased in 2019 (compared to 2018). This talk will briefly explore the reasons and address what might be done as a next step to keep the progress up.

Dr. Aram Simonyan is Associate Professor of Economics at the International Scientific Educational Centre of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, where he has been serving as Associate Chair of Economics and Management Department. His main research focuses on anti-corruption strategies in European countries from a socio-economic perspective. Advanced in eight languages, he held visiting positions at multiple European universities and is now at work pursuing a second PhD in Sociology at the University of Kiel. Dr. Simonyan was a Weiser Professional Fellow at the U-M Gerald Ford School of Public Policy in 2018, and is 2019-20 visiting Fulbright Scholar at the U-M Ross School of Business.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 11:14:44 -0400 2020-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Aram Simonyan, Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Ross School of Business, U-M
CANCELLED - Abdul El-Sayed Lecture & Book Signing (March 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73277 73277-18188505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Power Center for the Performing Arts
Organized By: Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF)

The campus and Ann Arbor communities are invited to join us for a public lecture and book signing! Public health doctor and activist Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is returning to his alma mater for a special event with the LSA Honors Program, where Dr. El-Sayed will serve as the Fall 2020 DeRoy Professor. El-Sayed who began his undergraduate career with the LSA Honors Program, was the 2008 U-M Commencement student speaker and a 2009 Rhodes Scholar, among other notable achievements.

His forthcoming book, "Healing Politics: A Doctor’s Journey into Heart of our Political Epidemic," diagnoses our country’s “epidemic of insecurity” and the empathy policy we’ll need to treat it.

“Healing Politics is a token of appreciation for this state and its people, who taught me so much over the past several years. I hope it captures the challenges we face—and the hope I’ve seen in the least likely places,” said El-Sayed. “These are the insights I hope to bring to the classroom as the DeRoy Professor at the LSA Honors Program next fall. I’m excited to be back on campus, where, in many ways, the intellectual roots of this book took shape when I was a student.”

The LSA Honors DeRoy Visiting Professorship was endowed by the Helen L. DeRoy Foundation in 1981 to make it possible for students to study with distinguished persons in business, government, labor, law, and various scholarly disciplines. Former DeRoy Professors include poet and critic Carmen Bugan and French economist Jacques Mistral.

This event is hosted in partnership with U-M LSA Honors Program; Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships; The Phi Beta Kappa Society, Alpha of Michigan Chapter; School for Environment and Sustainability; Ford School of Public Policy; School of Public Health; School of Social Work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:09:17 -0400 2020-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts Office of National Scholarships & Fellowships (ONSF) Lecture / Discussion Event poster
CANCELED LOOK 101: Seeing Art in an Instagram World (March 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70170 70170-17540926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:03:40 -0400 2020-03-30T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T13:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Abigail DeVille Instagram
CANCELLED. STS Speaker. All in the Family: U.S. Demography and the Origins of Neoliberalism (March 30, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70368 70368-17586195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

Neoliberalism is generally understood as an intellectual and political project to retool regulation to protect capital. Consequently, scholars of neoliberalism have traced its progenitors and principles to the disciplines of economics and law. But new scholarship suggests compellingly that neoliberalism is not only a philosophy of government and markets but also a philosophy of care—one that upholds the private family (in lieu of the state) as the ultimate provider and underwriter of that care. Seen in this light, an alternative history of proto-neoliberal ideas reveals itself among a corpus of social scientists whose work has gone unremarked in the historiography of those ideas: demographers.

This talk reframes postwar U.S. demography as a crucible in which the ideal of “family responsibility” for the costs of human welfare was first forged, and global “family planning” as the technoscientific project through which that principle was eventually—and powerfully—instantiated.

Bio: Savina Balasubramanian is assistant professor of Sociology and Affiliate Faculty in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies at Loyola University Chicago. She is a historical sociologist of gender and science in transnational perspective. Her current book manuscript, Intimate Investments: The Science and Politics of Family Planning in Cold War India, tells the story of how American demographers pursued family planning in non-aligned India as an effort to serve U.S. goals to stifle the formation of a robust welfare state in the country—and how the Indian state implemented family planning in ways that conformed to and departed from demographers’ visions.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 20:10:46 -0400 2020-03-30T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-30T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
*CANCELED* The Sally Fleming Guest Masterclass Series: Dr. David Wells, California State University at Sacramento (March 30, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68900 68900-17190818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 30, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

**In accordance with the Unversity-wide measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19, this performance has been canceled.**


Dr. David A. Wells teaches bassoon and music history at California State University, Sacramento, where he also formerly served as co-director of the annual Festival of New American Music (FeNAM). As a performer, he plays both modern and period instruments in a wide variety of ensembles and styles. On modern bassoon, he freelances with orchestras throughout Northern California, collaborates with colleagues in chamber groups, and plays with the swing sextet Hot Club Faux Gitane. On Baroque bassoon, he has recently performed with the American Bach Soloists, the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Sinfonia Spirituosa, the Sacramento Baroque Soloists, Capella Antiqua, and at the Carmel and Oregon Bach Festivals. This season, he will also perform on a Romantic-era bassoon with the Musica Redemptor orchestra in Austin, TX.



Wells serves as co-Executive director for the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition and Bassoon Symposium, a biennial three-day conference centered on a competition for young women bassoonists from the Americas. He is also active as a music scholar, having presented papers at the conferences of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the International Double Reed Society, on topics including the history of the bassoon in jazz, rediscovering the bassoonist who first played the Rite of Spring solo, the effects of World War I on American orchestras, and cross-gender casting in the operas of Lully and Rameau.



Wells holds both a DMA in Bassoon Performance and an MA in Musicology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and previously studied at Florida State University and Arizona State University. His principal teachers include Jeffrey Lyman, Jeff Keesecker, and Marc Vallon.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 18:15:29 -0400 2020-03-30T16:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
CANCELLED - LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing a China: Nationalism and Culture in Modern History (March 31, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70229 70229-17550034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

During the past three decades, China has witnessed an enormous growth of intellectual interest in defining a Chinese cultural identity. At the center of this trend lies a claim that China’s future ought to be rooted in China’s own cumulative civilization, especially in the Confucian learning traditions. This exceptionalist turn in intellectual culture has provided a new legitimizing ideology that the Chinese Communist Party has quickly adopted to reinvent itself as the inheritor of China’s cultural traditions. Making sense of this contemporary turn requires us to understand the deeper roots of modern Chinese national thought. Different from the dominant view that modern Chinese nationalism is a product of Western-style modernization, this talk explores how the search for a Chinese cultural identity became central to the debates over political system and moral values in China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. If “cultural identity” was an answer, what was the question? Were there alternatives?

Wen Yu is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 2018. Her research focuses on China’s social and political thought, ideological movements, and intellectual culture from the seventeenth century to the present. Her dissertation, "The Search for a Chinese Way in the Modern World: From the Rise of Evidential Learning to the Birth of Chinese Cultural Identity,” explores the roots and development of modern Chinese exceptionalism by tracing how the search for a Chinese cultural identity has become central to the intellectual debates over shared values in modern China. Her dissertation was awarded the 2017 Harold K. Gross Dissertation Prize.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Mar 2020 09:01:32 -0400 2020-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Wen Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
CANCELLED - Calderón y el deporte sacramental: *la Loa del juego de la pelota* (March 31, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/73590 73590-18267637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Spanish playwright Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) used the *juego de la pelota (Jeu de paume)* as a very effective strategy to explain the doctrinal essence of his auto sacramental *La cura y la enfermedad.* His aim was to capture the audience's attention and to persuade the less pious spectators with a brief introductory piece on a very appealing pastime. The lecture examines the social, doctrinal and courtly values of this little-known *Loa.*

Co-sponsored by Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 09:16:01 -0400 2020-03-31T16:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Calderón y el deporte sacramental
"Promoting Wellness Through the Charitable Food System" (March 31, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72678 72678-18044332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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The US charitable food system is a network of food banks, food pantries, and meal programs that distributes billions of pounds of food to households experiencing food insecurity. Historically, the primary metric of success within this system was the number of pounds of food distributed, with limited attention to nutritional quality. However, in recognition of the high rates of diet-related illnesses among the people receiving this food, there is a growing movement to measure nutritional quality and promote healthier options. This presentation will describe efforts at the national, state, local, and community levels to measure and encourage the distribution of healthier foods, as well as research strategies to evaluate the impact of these changes. Finally, lessons learned and friendly advice for new researchers interested in this topic will be shared.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:15:16 -0400 2020-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Marlene Schwartz
Food Literacy for All (March 31, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70312 70312-17566464@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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

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

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

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


Winter 2020 Speakers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 21: Course Conclusion

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Mar 2020 18:14:46 -0400 2020-03-31T18:30:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All - Winter 2020
CANCELED: 30th Belin Lecture: “It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70166 70166-17540922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

30th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
In 1942, an anonymous “Jewess,” looking across the ocean, wrote “It Can Happen Here.” Her cri de coeur, published in a New York women’s magazine, pled with its readers to bring to an end to the “ever-increasing prejudice” she and her family faced. With antisemitism rising today at home and abroad, American University Professor Pamela Nadell, author of the award-winning America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, discusses American Jewish women in the past facing antisemitism, how it affected their lives, and how they responded
Driving

From the parking lot, use the elevator at the east end of the parking structure (stairwell number 2), closest to Washtenaw Avenue and Palmer Field. Take the elevator to Plaza Level (PL on the key pad). Proceed north onto the walkway to the main entrance of Palmer Commons where the Washtenaw Avenue pedestrian bridge begins. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor). Using the stairs or elevator, continue to any floor.


Walking: From Central Campus (Michigan League)

From the Michigan League, access the walkway between the School of Dentistry and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Proceed east, passing North Hall, the Undergraduate Science Building and the Life Sciences Institute. Continue east onto the walkway overlooking Washtenaw Avenue to the main entrance of Palmer Commons. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd 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 Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:00 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion George W. Walling, Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1887); rpt. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1972
POSTPONED- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71226 71226-17791926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Lecture, Book Sales and Signing

In her book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, scholar and sociologist Shoshana Zuboff posits a detailed examination of the unprecedented power of surveillance capitalism, by which our personal information, monetized and exploited by big tech companies, is then used to predict and shape our behaviors. In this frank and necessarily lucid talk, Zuboff defines the terms of surveillance capitalism as a new economic system, pioneered at Google and later Facebook, in much the same way that mass-production and managerial capitalism were pioneered at Ford and General Motors a century before. Zuboff speaks urgently to our need to protect ourselves in this unprecedented age, and not try to resist or strike in the ways we did a century ago. Google, Amazon and now fallen behemoths like Cambridge-Analytica aren’t going anywhere, but as Zuboff expansively demonstrates, we can create countermeasures to stave off the monopolistic workings of these companies. We have the power to demand more from these seemingly all-powerful corporations. If they want what we provide (data), they in turn will have to change their usage tactics. The citizen desire and the leverage is here, Zuboff argues—and it’s in the companies’ best interests to change. Rather than facing the subject with worry or paranoia, Zuboff argues for us to pay attention, resist habituation, and come up with novel, innovative responses to the issue of surveillance capitalism, as novel a system as we are likely to know.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:40:26 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T21:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion zuboff
The Kit House in Ann Arbor (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72947 72947-18096976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

In conjunction with the Buying Home / Selling America exhibit in the Clark Library, Andrew and Wendy Mutch will speak about kit houses in Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:35:45 -0500 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
CANCELED: MIPSE Seminar | Journey to the Sun (April 1, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70795 70795-17644320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
NASA Heliophysics research studies a vast system stretching from the Sun to Earth to far beyond the edge of the planets. Studying this system – much of it driven by the Sun’s constant outpouring of solar wind – not only helps us understand fundamental infor-mation about how the universe works, but also helps protect our technology and astronauts in space. NASA seeks knowledge of near-Earth space, because, when extreme, space weather can interfere with our com-munications, satellites and power grids. The study of the Sun and space can also teach us more about how stars contribute to the habitability of planets through-out the universe.
Mapping out this interconnected system requires a holistic study of the Sun’s influence on space, Earth and other planets. NASA has a fleet of spacecraft stra-tegically placed throughout our heliosphere – from Parker Solar Probe at the Sun observing the very start of the solar wind, to satellites around Earth, to the far-thest human-made object, Voyager, which is sending back observations on interstellar space. Each mission is positioned at a critical, well-thought out vantage point to observe and understand the flow of energy and particles throughout the solar system, and all helping us untagle the effects of the star we live with.

About the speaker:
Dr. Nicola Fox is the Heliophysics Division Director in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC. Until August 2018, Dr. Fox worked at the Applied Physics Lab at the Johns Hopkins University where she was the Chief Scientist for Heliophysics and the project scientist for NASA’s Parker Solar Probe. Dr. Fox served as the deputy project scientist for the Van Allen Probes, and the operations scientist for the International Solar Terrestrial Physics program. Fox received her BS in Physics and PhD in Space and Atmospheric Physics from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. She received an MS in Telematics and Satellite Communications from the University of Surrey.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:22:50 -0400 2020-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Nicola Fox
Witness Lab Simulation: Performance in Trial Advocacy with Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors (April 1, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70565 70565-17604958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Judge Timothy Connors and Margaret Connors will teach vital lessons from their lauded U-M trial advocacy class. Law students and viewers will consider the importance of performance and movement when mediating a case. Traditional courtroom negotiations will be addressed, as well as alternative forms of adjudication.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:17:06 -0400 2020-04-01T16:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
CANCELLED - Lecture | Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915 (April 1, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69037 69037-17220018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Unfortunately, and due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has been cancelled.

Between 1885 and 1915, roughly eighty thousand Armenians migrated between the Ottoman Empire and North America. For much of this period, Ottoman state authorities viewed Armenian migrants, particularly those who returned to the empire after sojourns abroad, as a political threat to the empire’s security. Istanbul worked vigorously to prevent Armenians both from migrating to and returning from North America. In response, dense smuggling networks emerged to assist migrants in bypassing this migration ban. The dynamics that shaped the evolution of these networks resemble those that drive the phenomenon of migrant smuggling in the present day. Furthermore, migrants who returned home found themselves stuck in an uneasy legal limbo as both Ottoman and United States governments disavowed them as citizens, leaving them vulnerable to deportation from their own ancestral lands. As this talk contends, the Armenian migratory experience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries both parallels and sheds light on themes such as smuggling, deportation, and the criminalization of migration, that are central to the issue of global migration in the 21st century.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:13:38 -0400 2020-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 2020-04-01T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Sojourners, Smugglers, and Dubious Citizens: The Politics of Armenian Migration to North America, 1885-1915