Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. UROP Brown Bag (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722893@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Andrzej Szadejko, organ (March 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60300 60300-14859945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Andrzej Szadejko will lead this organ master class. Professor Szadejko will coach students on renaissance and baroque repertoire in preparation for the Department of Organ’s upcoming trip to the Netherlands and Germany in May.

Andrzej Szadejko is professor of organ and basso continuo at the Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland. He also directs the Goldberg Ensemble, a vocal and instrument ensemble that specializes in Polish baroque music performed on period instruments.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:15:18 -0500 2019-03-18T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
American diplomacy in a disordered world: A conversation with Ambassador William J. Burns (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61664 61664-15170111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing information.

From the speaker's bio:

Bill Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the oldest international affairs think tank in the United States. Ambassador Burns retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2014 after a thirty-three-year diplomatic career. He holds the highest rank in the Foreign Service, career ambassador, and is only the second serving career diplomat in history to become deputy secretary of state.

Prior to his tenure as deputy secretary, Ambassador Burns served from 2008 to 2011 as under secretary for political affairs. He was ambassador to Russia from 2005 to 2008, assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs from 2001 to 2005, and ambassador to Jordan from 1998 to 2001. His other posts in the Foreign Service include: executive secretary of the State Department and special assistant to former secretaries of state Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright; minister-counselor for political affairs at the U.S. embassy in Moscow; acting director and principal deputy director of the State Department’s policy planning staff; and special assistant to the president and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs at the National Security Council.

Ambassador Burns speaks Russian, Arabic, and French, and he has been the recipient of three Presidential Distinguished Service Awards and a number of Department of State awards, including three Secretary’s Distinguished Service Awards, two Distinguished Honor Awards, the 2006 Charles E. Cobb, Jr. Ambassadorial Award for Initiative and Success in Trade Development, the 2005 Robert C. Frasure Memorial Award for Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking, and the James Clement Dunn Award for exemplary performance at the mid-career level. He has also received the highest civilian honors from the Department of Defense and the U.S. intelligence community. In 2013, Foreign Policy named him “Diplomat of the Year”.

Ambassador Burns earned a bachelor’s in history from LaSalle University and master’s and doctoral degrees in international relations from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. He is a recipient of four honorary doctoral degrees and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador Burns is the author of Economic Aid and American Policy Toward Egypt, 1955-1981 (State University of New York Press, 1985). In 1994, he was named to Time magazine’s list of the “50 Most Promising American Leaders Under Age 40” and to its list of “100 Young Global Leaders.”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:48:02 -0500 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Ambassador William J. Burns
Conversations on Europe. Different Pathways, Common Destination? Public Policy and Institutional Changes in Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain during and after the Economic Crisis (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59375 59375-14734950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

While Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain slid into economic crisis in the 2010 for different reasons and at different time points and have already started overcoming the crises in a varied manner, there was visible policy convergence among the four countries. There were similar policy responses regarding fiscal, macroeconomic, incomes, welfare and labor relations’ issues. Moreover, despite the fact that the four countries had followed different paths to government reform and administrative modernization before the crisis, they eventually converged towards similar policy responses regarding government organization and public administration. The observed convergence may be interpreted through external constraints imposed by Europe and international organizations and creditors and through the adoption of public management ideas, which prevailed in international and domestic policy networks. Policy shifts were not evenly implemented across the four countries for reasons related to historical legacies of state-society relations and variations in political party systems. Such legacies may also help explain why Greece remained a reform laggard compared to the rest of South European countries.

Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos is visiting scholar at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, and Onassis Visiting Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University) in 2018-19. He is on leave from his post as professor of political science at the University of Athens. In 2003 he was senior research fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics; in 2009-10 visiting fellow in South East European studies at St. Antony’s College, Oxford; and in the autumn of 2016 visiting fellow at Science Po, Paris. He serves on the editorial boards of "South European Society and Politics," "Journal of Mediterranean Politics," "South East European and Black Sea Studies," "European Political Science Review," and the "Greek Review of Political Science." Sotiropoulos studied law and sociology at the Law School of the University of Athens (LLB), the London School of Economics (MSc), and Yale University (Ph.D., awarded with distinction, 1991). Recent books in English include "Αusterity and the Third Sector in Greece: Civil Society at the European Frontline," (with J. Clarke and A. Huliaras, 2015) and "Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion under the Crisis" (co-edited with D. Katsikas and M. Zafeiropoulou, 2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:14:00 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Dimitri Sotiropoulos
Positive Links Speaker Series (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58851 58851-14567895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Islands of Mindfulness within Oceans of Chaos
Sanjay Saint and Vineet Chopra

Monday, March 18, 2019
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.

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

Register: http://myumi.ch/aKrbb

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

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

About the talk:
At some point in our careers, each of us will struggle with balancing competing demands on our time. Work life can be hectic in any organization, resulting in burnout, errors, stunted creativity, and poor performance. Incorporating mindfulness into our work lives might be one way to help restore equilibrium.

In this lively and engaging talk, Saint and Chopra will share research on how practices of mindfulness can be established within the oceans of chaos to fuel “heartfulness,” restoring kindness and compassion. Mindfulness-based interventions engender attitudes of curiosity and connection that allow us to listen attentively, recognize errors, refine skills, and focus on mission—ultimately leading to better performance. Saint and Chopra will offer various strategies and approaches—so-called “intersectional innovations” (or aha moments)—that can be used to improve personal and organizational performance.

About Saint:
Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

His research focuses on patient safety, implementation science, and medical decision-making. He has authored approximately 340 peer-reviewed papers with over 110 appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, The Lancet, or the Annals of Internal Medicine. He serves on the editorial board of 7 peer-reviewed journals including the Annals of Internal Medicine, is a Special Correspondent to the New England Journal of Medicine, and is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP).

He has written for The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and gave a 2016 TEDx talk on culture change in healthcare that has over 1 million views. He has co-authored two books published by Oxford University Press: Preventing Hospital Infections: Real-World Problems, Realistic Solutions and Teaching Inpatient Medicine: What Every Physician Needs to Know. In 2017, he was awarded the HSR&D Health System Impact Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Distinguished Mentor Award from the University of Michigan Institute for Clinical & Health Research. In 2016, he received the Mark Wolcott Award from the Department of Veterans Affairs as the National VA Physician of the Year and was elected as an international honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London).

He received his Medical Doctorate from UCLA, completed a medical residency and chief residency at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), and obtained a Master of Public Health (as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar) from the University of Washington in Seattle. He has been a visiting professor at over 100 universities and hospitals in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and has active research studies underway with investigators in Switzerland, Italy, Japan, and Thailand.

About Chopra:
Dr. Vineet Chopra is Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Research Scientist at Michigan Medicine and the VA Ann Arbor Health System.

A career hospitalist, Chopra’s research is dedicated to improving the safety of hospitalized patients through prevention of hospital-acquired complications. His work focuses on identifying and preventing complications such as infection and thrombosis associated with central venous catheters, with a particular emphasis on peripherally inserted central catheters. Chopra is funded by a Career Development Award from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality. He has also received grant support from the National Institute of Aging, the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Foundation of Michigan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association.

Chopra is the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards including the 2016 Kaiser Permanente Award for Teaching (Clinical), the Jerome W. Conn Award for Outstanding Research in the Department of Medicine at Michigan, the 2016 Society of Hospital Medicine Excellence in Research Award, the 2014 McDevitt Award for Research Excellence, and the 2014 Society of Hospital Medicine Young Investigator Award. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and serves as Associate Editor at the American Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Hospital Medicine. Chopra is also Feature Editor for Annals for Hospitalists, a new addition to Annals of Internal Medicine.

Host:
Gretchen Spreitzer, Keith E. and Valerie J. Alessi Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Management and Organizations

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

Register: http://myumi.ch/aKrbb

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:33:36 -0500 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Sanjay Saint and Vineet Chopra
STS Speaker. Just in Time: The Chronopolitics of the Queue (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58143 58143-14433273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk examines the politics of time as they play out through various problems of the queue—the organizational science and logistics of waiting lines. Drawing on ethnographic analysis of civility campaigns and customs inspection reform in contemporary China, I will show how the queue offers insight into shared concerns about “quality control” over the flows of both global supply chains and the movement of populations. These concerns link the market metrics of timeliness as configured by the dominant global production model of JIT or Just-in-Time with social questions of expedience and justice in the other sense of being "just" in time. These entangled issues converge in what I will explain as a politics of tempo--that is, as a question of pace and rhythm--in contradistinction to the conventional emphasis on "speed" or "space-time compression" in the analysis of global temporalities.

Biosketch: Julie Y. Chu is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in mobility and migration, economy and value, ritual life, material culture, media and technology, and state regulatory regimes. Her book, Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China (Duke University Press, 2010), received the 2011 Sharon Stephens Prize from the American Ethnological Society and the 2012 Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Her current writing project is entitled The Hinge of Time: Infrastructure and Chronopolitics at China's Global Edge. Based on three years of fieldwork largely among Chinese customs inspectors and transnational migrant couriers, this work will analyze various infrastructures in place (legal-rational, financial, cosmic, piratical) for managing the temporal intensities and rhythms of people and things on the move between Southern China and the United States. A graduate of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media, she is also currently completing video projects related to her fieldwork as well as developing a new ethnographic focus on Chinese soundscapes, especially in relation to the changing qualities and valuations of the Chinese concept of renao (热闹, a bustling scene, social liveliness or, literally, “heat and noise”).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 14:06:35 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Chu
Accreditation Town Hall: Teaching and Learning Excellence and Continuous Improvement (March 18, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61608 61608-15152475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

The Office of the Provost and CRLT are hosting several town halls for faculty, students, and staff to give input on U-M – Ann Arbor’s assurance argument for the 2020 reaccreditation cycle. This session is about Teaching and Learning Excellence and Continuous Improvement and is tailored specifically for student-focused conversations. RSVP is requested and light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop, tablet, or other digital device.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:59:38 -0500 2019-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Event
Designing for Impact: A Conversation with Cynthia Koenig (March 18, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61443 61443-15106029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Join the Impact Studio at Ross for a discussion on leveraging design for impact with social innovator and MBA/MS ‘11 alum Cynthia Koenig. Cynthia is a Product Management Principal at Amazon, focused on designing impactful new digital products, and is the Founder of Wello, an award-winning social venture that designs disruptive and affordable innovations to provide better, more reliable access to safe water. 

As part of the school's Business+Impact initiative, the newly launched Impact Studio brings together students from Ross and other disciplines in applying design principles to translate insights from faculty research into practical solutions to societal challenges. Studio faculty Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks and Jerry Davis will engage Cynthia in a lively discussion about her work in the design and impact space, the design-based skills needed for disruptive change, and the skills companies and organizations are increasingly seeking in the workforce.

Please RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/designing-for-impact-a-conversation-with-cynthia-koenig-tickets-57020879987

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Feb 2019 09:15:23 -0500 2019-03-18T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Cynthia Koenig
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Andrzej Szadejko (March 18, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60301 60301-14859947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Andrzej Szadejko will lead this baroque chamber music master class.

The University of Michigan will host a residency by Andrzej Szadejko, professor of organ and basso continuo at the Music Academy in Gdasnk, Poland. He also directs the Goldberg Ensemble, a vocal and instrument ensemble that specializes in Polish baroque music performed on period instruments. 

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:15:18 -0500 2019-03-18T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
PhD Defense: Crystal Green (March 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62197 62197-15311072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Automated Deformable Mapping Methods to Relate Corresponding Lesions in 3D X-ray and 3D Ultrasound Breast Images

Co-Chair: Prof. Mitchell Goodsitt
Co-Chair: Prof. Alex Bielajew

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:20:02 -0400 2019-03-19T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Crystal Green PhD defense flyer
Comparative Politics Workshop (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion
Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62000 62000-15273928@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Nellie Tran, Assistant Professor and Provost's Professor of Equity in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at San Diego State University will be presenting a seminar on Tuesday March 19th, 2019 at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the seminar will be: "Making the Invisible Visible: Subtle Gender Biases in the Academy."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 06:40:59 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
Fair Use Week: Copyright Bingo (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61785 61785-15179601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

What do JK Rowling, Marvin Gaye, and Madonna have in common? They all had to learn about copyright through lawsuits! But you can come and learn about copyright by playing an amazing and educational hour of bingo. Refreshments will be served, and lots of great prizes will be up for grabs for the winners.

Brought to you by the U-M Library Copyright Office and Fair Use Week! Coffee provided. If you have any questions about the event, please contact copyright@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:03:29 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Copyright symbol
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China's Universities in Perspective (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59391 59391-14737080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In this talk, Professor Qian will review the major initiatives for China's universities in the past two decades, analyze the major global rankings of these universities, and discuss the challenges of China's higher education.

Yingyi Qian is Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Tsinghua University and former Dean (2006-2018), of the School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. He was born in Beijing and graduated from Tsinghua University in Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University after earning an M.Phil. in Management Science/Operations Research from Yale University and an M.A. in Statistics from Columbia University. He was on the economics faculties at Stanford University, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Qian was elected as Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2012 and a recipient of the 2009 Sun Yefang Prize in Economic Sciences and the inaugural 2016 China Economics Prize. His main research areas include comparative economics, institutional economics, economics of transition and the Chinese economy. He is the author of the book "How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market" (The MIT Press, 2017) and has published articles in international journals such as "The American Economic Review," "Journal of Political Economy," "The Quarterly Journal of Economics," and "The Review of Economic Studies."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 16:14:38 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Mini Grant Momentum (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61607 61607-15152471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join the U-M Library Student Engagement Program for the Winter 2019 Mini Grant Momentum Series! Every Tuesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in ScholarSpace, library mini grant recipients will give a short presentation on their innovative projects. The topics range widely, though many focus on community partnerships, global scholarship, and diversity and inclusion. Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:54:53 -0500 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mini Grant Momentum
UROP Brown Bag (March 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Update on IMLS Library Analytics Grant and U-M Learning Analytics Guidelines (March 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61867 61867-15223791@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Felix Kabo (Assistant Research Scientist, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research) will lead a discussion about progress on a three-year IMLS grant LG-96-18-0040-1 (https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-96-18-0040-18) studying links between library interactions and learning, and Sol Bermann (U-M's Interim Chief Information Security Officer) will update us about the U-M learning analytics guidelines.

This discussion follows two sessions the library hosted last summer related to learning analytics and libraries. The first, led by Dr. Kabo, provided information about the grant, and the second was a panel about privacy with the University Registrar, University Privacy Officer, and the Office of Academic Innovation Director of Policy and Operations.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 09:09:52 -0500 2019-03-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T15:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59565 59565-14752325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, & U-M School of Social Work

Monday, March 19, 2019
Rm 1430, 2:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.”

Winkelman Lecture

By David Williams, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:36:02 -0500 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Andrzej Szadejko, organ (March 19, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60300 60300-14859946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Andrzej Szadejko will lead this organ master class. Professor Szadejko will coach students on renaissance and baroque repertoire in preparation for the Department of Organ’s upcoming trip to the Netherlands and Germany in May.

Andrzej Szadejko is professor of organ and basso continuo at the Music Academy in Gdansk, Poland. He also directs the Goldberg Ensemble, a vocal and instrument ensemble that specializes in Polish baroque music performed on period instruments.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 18:15:18 -0500 2019-03-19T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
"Race" in Christianity and Islam: the Case of Converts from Judaism (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57443 57443-14193515@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Race and racism are important concepts, but their history is challenging. On the one hand, most historians (and biologists) today do not believe that biological race exists. On the other hand, they do not doubt that racial concepts played powerful roles in some (but not all!) periods in the past. How can we tell when a concept we encounter in the past is “racial”? And what do the racial concepts of one period in the past have to do with those of another? Can we speak of “the origins of race” in any particular period or place? These are the questions addressed in this talk, which focuses on times and places in which conversion from Judaism to Christianity or Islam has produced the idea that religious characteristics are biologically reproduced.

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 the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Nov 2018 13:27:06 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion David Nirenberg
“Suffering and Bleeding As Though You Was Killing Hogs”: Mass Incarceration and Black Women’s Health (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60404 60404-14875265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

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

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

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

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

Presented by IRWG's Black Feminist Health Studies program.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:16:55 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion photo of Talitha LeFlouria
A/PIA Studies Lecture: Refusal to Eat (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59116 59116-14684212@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

This lecture will focus on Nayan Shah’s current research on the international history of mass prison hunger strikes, in particular the largely unknown struggles in Tule Lake Japanese American incarceration center in 1944 and the proliferation of hunger strikes in immigrant detention in California and Texas in 2010s. The lecture previews Shah's larger upcoming book project, Refusal to Eat, which investigates the tenacious practice of hunger strikes as it grew as a potent transnational idiom of 20th and 21st century political defiance. Following his earlier work, Stranger Intimacy, Shah examines these practices through the lenses of intimacy, affect and the material cultures of bodily defiance.

Bio:
Nayan Shah is Professor of History and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. His research examines historical struggles over bodies, space, and the exercise of state power from the mid-19th to the 21st century. Shah is the author of two award-winning books -- Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (2011) and Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001).

Shah's new project, Refusal to Eat, explores the transnational history of mass hunger strikes, and political struggle and medical ethical crises through 20th century and contemporary case studies drawn from U.S. and British suffrage activists, Irish Republicans, Bengali Revolutionaries, Japanese American Internees, South African anti-apartheid activists, Guantanamo prisoners, and refugees in Australia, the United States, and Europe.

Graduate Student lunch also available in afternoon. Please contact Mika Kennedy <mikake@umich.edu> for details.

Non-departmental sponsors:
The Border Collective Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop
Critical Ethnic & Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies RIW

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 15:53:31 -0500 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
Humanities & Environments Faculty Panel: "Criminal Justice and the Built Environment" (March 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58927 58927-14578313@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

During our 2018-19 Year of Humanities and Environments, we've organized faculty panels to explore contributions of humanistic inquiry around specific environmental subjects. Today: "Criminal Justice and the Built Environment" with:

Claire Zimmerman (architecture, history of art)
Heather Thompson (history, Residential College)
David Thacher (architecture, public policy)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 11:41:09 -0400 2019-03-19T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Pacific Ocean Platform Prison Competition Entry
CREES Distinguished Lecture. The Truth about Lies in International Relations: Reflections on the Media in Russia and Beyond (March 19, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59377 59377-14737029@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Lots of countries lie.

Some call it “winning hearts and minds,” others call it “strategic communications,” still others call it “softening the battlefield.” However it’s described, propaganda is a key component of international relations, a tool employed both by diplomats and warriors. Russia has used propaganda since the 1917 Russian Revolution both to mold the minds of its own citizens and to spread the gospel of Marxism-Leninism around the world. Today’s Russia uses a well-honed media strategy to craft public opinion at home—and to promote the country’s public image abroad.

But the Kremlin also uses propaganda—now turbo-charged by digital advances like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big-data analytics—as a tool of war, a less-costly form of conflict than shedding blood, to undermine and weaken foes.

Jill Dougherty, former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief, examines how Russia uses information, and disinformation, to achieve its strategic objectives.

Jill Dougherty served as CNN correspondent for three decades, reporting from more than 50 countries. She is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and a CNN Contributor who provides expert commentary on Russia and the post-Soviet region. Ms. Dougherty joined CNN in 1983, and was appointed Moscow Bureau Chief in 1997. During nearly a decade in that post, she covered the presidencies of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin, Russia's post-Soviet economic transition, terrorist attacks, the conflict in Chechnya, Georgia's Rose Revolution and Ukraine's Orange Revolution. After a long career with CNN, Ms. Dougherty pursued academic interests, most recently as a Distinguished Visiting Practitioner at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. An alumna of the University of Michigan, she has a B.A. in Slavic languages and literature, a certificate of language study from Leningrad State University, and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. In addition to writing for CNN.com, her articles on international issues have appeared in the “Washington Post,” "Huffington Post,” and “The Atlantic,” among other publications. Jill Dougherty is also a member of track-two diplomatic initiatives seeking to improve the U.S.-Russia relationship.

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 Wed, 09 Jan 2019 12:08:27 -0500 2019-03-19T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jill Dougherty
The Weinstein Effect: Breaking the Stories That Spurred a Movement (March 19, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60995 60995-15000022@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Wallace House Presents an evening with reporters Ken Auletta and Ronan Farrow as they discuss their individual attempts to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein and how reporters ultimately stood together in confronting one of the biggest stories in recent memory.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:02:26 -0500 2019-03-19T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Ken Auletta and Ronan Farrow
Food Literacy for All (March 19, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287015@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-19T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Writer to Writer w/ Ellen Muehlberger (March 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61259 61259-15061102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sweetland Center for Writing

Sweetland Center for Writing's Writer to Writer series lets you hear directly from University of Michigan professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. Each semester, Writer to Writer pairs one esteemed University professor with a Sweetland faculty member for a conversation about writing.

This month Writer to Writer welcomes Ellen Muehlberger. Ellen Muehlberger is Associate Professor of Christianity in late antiquity in the departments of Middle East Studies and History at the University of Michigan, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on ancient history, contemporary religious traditions, scholarly methods, and Coptic and Syriac language. Muehlberger has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She edited Practice, a 2017 collection of newly-translated primary sources about early Christian education, asceticism, and reading for the series Cambridge Editions of Early Christian Writings, and her new book, Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford) will be available at Literati for purchase.

Writer to Writer takes place at the Literati bookstore (124 E. Washington) on Tuesday, March 19th from 7-8pm and is also broadcast live on WCBN radio (88.3FM). These conversations offer students a rare glimpse into the writing that professors do outside the classroom. You can hear instructors from various disciplines describe how they handle the same challenges student writers face, from finding a thesis to managing deadlines. Professors will also discuss what they want from student writers in their courses, and will take questions put forth by students and by other members of the University community. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Writer to Writer gives you the chance.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:04:41 -0500 2019-03-19T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-19T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Sweetland Center for Writing Lecture / Discussion flyer
The Wood Frogs of Saginaw Forest (March 19, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58246 58246-14444190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Keith Berven, professor at Oakland University, has been monitoring variations in numbers of wood frogs for the past 32 years in an attempt to understand the factors that lead to year-to-year fluctuation in their numbers. He will discuss the relative importance of density-dependent factors, and parasites on the frogs. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:34:25 -0500 2019-03-19T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
The Gut Microbiome Predicts Graft versus Host Disease after Allogeneic Transplant. Can it be Engineered to Protect? (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61892 61892-15230376@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Microbiome Group

Multiple studies have correlated the structure and composition of the gut microbiome with the risk of graft versus host disease after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. Follow-up studies have pointed to possible mechanisms driving this correlation. The promise now is to manipulate the gut microbiome after transplant to improve outcomes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:25:36 -0500 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Microbiome Group Lecture / Discussion
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Remodeling Revealed by Intravital Subcellular Microscopy (ISMic) (March 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60231 60231-14849134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Carole Parent, Ph.D.
Ben Allen, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:15:17 -0500 2019-03-20T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Roberto Weigert
Biosciences Initiative RNA Faculty Candidate Seminar (March 20, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62054 62054-15282560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

“Spatiotemporal regulation of mRNA function in health and neurological disease”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:33:02 -0400 2019-03-20T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
EITC Expansions, Earnings Growth, and Inequality: Evidence from Washington, DC (March 20, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61067 61067-15027194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
11:30am-12:50pm (pizza lunch provided)
Free and open to the public

About the Lecture:
We use longitudinal administrative tax data from Washington DC to study how Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expansions undertaken by the Washington DC affect income and inequality in the city. We find that federal and DC EITC credit expansions between 2001 and 2009 are associated with recipient pre-tax earnings growth of roughly 3-4 percent, primarily among single mothers. Together these credits reduce post-tax inequality for the 10th percentile relative to median household, however, composition changes in the city and growing overall inequality mitigates this inequality decrease towards the end of the period. Overall, these results complement existing research that shows the EITC has a positive effect on labor market outcomes and household well-being.

Professor Hardy is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy and nonresident senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. Currently, he is on leave from AU as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. He also serves as a visiting scholar with the Center for Household Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research interests lie within labor economics, with an emphasis on economic instability, intergenerational mobility, poverty policy, and socio-economic outcomes. He examines trends and sources of income volatility and intergenerational mobility within the United States, with a focus on socio-economically disadvantaged families, and also conducts research on the role of anti-poverty transfer programs such as SNAP food stamps and the earned income tax credit for improving economic well-being among low income individuals and families. Before joining American, he served as a research fellow at the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research. Prior to his doctoral studies, Hardy helped provide analyses of U.S. budget, tax, and income support policies as a researcher at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC. He currently serves on the executive board of the Society of Government Economists, and the editorial boards of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management and the Review of Black Political Economy. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Social Insurance.


Sponsored by: University of Michigan Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)
Co-sponsored by: Poverty Solutions

For more information visit www.closup.umich.edu or call 734-647-4091. Follow on Twitter @closup

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:00:39 -0500 2019-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T12:50:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Bradley Hardy
Academic Freedom at a Global University: A Transnational Perspective (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60697 60697-14939410@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Have the recent controversies at the University of Michigan raised questions in your mind about your role in the classroom, lab, or studio? Are you now curious about what this means for you as a student-scholar? Are you hungry for discussion?
What is academic freedom? Is it relevant in this day and age? What does it mean at a global institution like the University of Michigan? How does the internationalization of higher education affect it? What does it mean to those who hail from abroad? Does academic freedom globalize? How do scholars and students who move across the world attend to its intricacies, obligations, and limitations? These are some of the questions that we will attempt to answer as part of our conversation. Please join us! Lunch will be served.
Speakers:

Omolade Adunbi (Political Anthropology and African Studies)
Fiona Lee (Psychology and Organizational Culture)
Ronald Suny (History and Political Science)

Pre-registration is requested at myumi.ch/J7DEA.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:16:10 -0500 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Academic Freedom at a Global University: A Transnational Perspective (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60412 60412-14875272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Graduate Rackham International

Speakers:

Fiona Lee
(Psychology and Organizational Culture)

Ken Panko
(Bibliothecography and Information Technology)

Ronald Suny
(History and Political Science)


What is academic freedom? Is it relevant in this day and age? What does it mean at a global institution like the University of Michigan? How does the internationalization of higher education affect it? What does it mean to those who hail from abroad? Does academic freedom globalize? How do scholars and students who move across the world attend to its intricacies, obligations, and limitations? These are some of the questions that we will attempt to answer as part of our conversation. Please join us!

The public is welcome!
Lunch will be served.
Please RSVP. This is optional but does help us ensure that we provide enough food for everyone.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:07:21 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Graduate Rackham International Lecture / Discussion stamps
CREES Roundtable. Ukraine Now: What's at Stake? (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59871 59871-14795177@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Ukraine is at a crossroads, facing multiple challenges. This roundtable of U-M experts will discuss the ongoing conflict in the east, the current human rights situation in Crimea, and upcoming presidential elections.

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki, CREES director. Presenters: Oksana Malanchuk, senior social science research associate (retired), U-M; Greta Uehling, lecturer of international and comparative studies, U-M; Yuri M. Zhukov, assistant professor of political science, U-M.

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 Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:50:54 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Pulsar timing as a probe of primordial black holes and subhalos (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62490 62490-15372957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Pulsars act as accurate clocks, sensitive to gravitational redshift and acceleration induced by transiting clumps of matter. In this talk, I study the sensitivity of pulsar timing arrays (PTA) to transiting compact dark matter objects, focusing on primordial black holes and subhalos. Such dark matter clumps can result in different classes of signals observable in pulsar timing experiments depending on the mass of the object. I will classify the types of signals, where they are most important, and the different search strategies resulting in possible constraints over a huge mass range, 10^−12 to 100 solar masses. Crucially, PTAs offer the opportunity to probe much less dense objects than lensing experiments due to the large effective radius over which such objects can be observed with a single pulsar. We project the reach possible with current and future pulsar timing experiments, with sensitivity to a dark matter sub-component reaching the sub-percent level over significant parts of this range with future detectors.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:25:21 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
UROP Brown Bag (March 20, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-20T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Affirmative Action, Asian Americans, and the Harvard Case (March 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58349 58349-14937161@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard represents a landmark case in affirmative action history, representing the first time that Asian Americans have been brought forth as plaintiffs in high-profile affirmative action litigation. Julie J. Park, who served as a consulting expert on the side of Harvard in the case, will discuss how Asian Americans fit into the debate about race-conscious admissions. She will discuss content from her new book, “Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data,” in which she argues that Asian Americans benefit from such policies. She will discuss the role of social science data in the Harvard trial, including both the possibilities and limitations of statistical analyses in examining claims of discrimination.

Co-sponsors: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program; Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Staff Association; Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education; Indigo: The LSA Asian & Asian-American Faculty Alliance; Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs (MESA); National Center for Institutional Diversity; Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Trotter Multicultural Center; United Asian American Organizations

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:24:45 -0500 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Photo of Julie J. Park
Critical Conversations: Dissertating Across Disciplines (Graduate Student Panel) (March 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52164 52164-13680565@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us to learn more about the interdisciplinary research of graduate students in the English Department. Part of the Critical Conversations series, this session will feature short presentations from the panelists followed by wide-ranging discussion with the audience.

12:30 Lunch; 1-2:30 Presentations & Discussion

Please kindly RSVP below (see website link)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 22:16:37 -0500 2019-03-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Digitally Divided: The Art of Algorithmic (In)Decision (March 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62305 62305-15346465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

In “Digitally Divided,” Katherine Behar presents her artwork with a focus on how algorithms dismantle and rearrange us. Across culture, algorithms have been unleashed to allocate complex systems into manageable portions. They mete out standardization and suppress idiosyncrasy across diverse and defiant populations of human and nonhuman objects, in ways that are socially, technically, and conceptually reductive. This lecture brings together examples of Behar’s videos, interactive installations, sculptures, and performances, alongside episodes from media history and popular culture to explore this core notion of being “digitally divided.”

About the Speaker:
Katherine Behar is an artist and critical theorist of new media whose work explores gender and labor in digital culture. In contexts spanning automated labor, mandated obsolescence, big data, and machine learning, Behar applies object-oriented feminism into practice in her art and writing. Her work connects feminist and antiracist post-colonial histories with a wave of new theories that grapple with the nonhuman object world. Katherine Behar's works have appeared throughout North America and Europe. Pera Museum in Istanbul presented a comprehensive survey exhibition and catalog, Katherine Behar: Data's Entry | Veri Girişi, in 2016. Additional solo exhibitions include Katherine Behar: Anonymous Autonomous (2018), Katherine Behar: E-Waste (2014, catalog/traveling), and numerous others collaborating as "Disorientalism." Behar is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism, coeditor of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art, and author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity. She is Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College, CUNY.

The CRITICAL x DESIGN series is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; the Science, Technology and Society program, and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:17:24 -0400 2019-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion portrait of katherine behar
Fair Use Week: Fair Use and Universities - 25 years of publishers fighting over the use of excerpts for classroom teaching with Susan Kornfield, Esq. (March 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61784 61784-15179600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Original research is fundamental for universities, but using copies of books, articles, and other creative works for teaching and learning is a vital educational tool. While most materials are purchased for use, fair use is a critical tool for making copies for the university community. Susan Kornfield, Esq. was involved with the case of Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services way back in 1996. The same dynamics are the same in a lawsuit by publishers against Georgia State University that has continued for over a decade.

Susan M. Kornfield chairs the intellectual property practice group at Bodman PLC. For 30 years she has handled transactional and litigation matters and was lead counsel in Princeton University Press v. Michigan Document Services. Susan has a unique perspective as an attorney involved in these issues and will bring you up to date.

Refreshments will be provided. If you have any questions about the event, please contact copyright@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:01:06 -0500 2019-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Copyright symbol
James Felton Keith: #Own Your Data (March 20, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62011 62011-15273944@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Data is what drives our economy. We leave trails of personal data as we scroll, click, chat, shop, commute and exercise. In many ways, data is an emerging renewable commodity, as abundant as sunlight. The top 5 largest companies of 2017 are all considered “data companies” that rely on capturing, processing and distributing personal data to garner their market capitalization or pre-market valuation.

Author and Engineer, James Felton Keith will explore the two questions: If our personal data is a naturally occurring resource, just how valuable is it to the other +5 million companies in our economy? And, How much are people owed if they in fact own their data?

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:22:22 -0400 2019-03-20T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion James Keith
DCMB Seminar || "Towards a phylogeny of cell types" (March 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62260 62260-15337499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Single-cell RNA-seq is a powerful technology for identifying novel and known cell types, however its power is limited to organisms with well-annotated genomes. We present a reference-free method to compare single cells both within and across species. In this method, k-mers from each cell’s RNA-seq profile are randomly subsampled into a compressed representation called a “sketch” using document comparison algorithms of MinHash or HyperLogLog. For within-species comparison, the RNA sketches are sufficient, but as protein sequence is more stable across species, we translate the RNA k-mers into protein k-mers with 6-frame translation, discarding all protein k-mers containing stop codons. We show this method can “lift over” single-cell RNA-seq annotations from mouse to human and compare to using purely 1:1 mapping orthologous genes. Thus, k-mer sketches are an efficient method to find shared and unique cell types both within and across species without need for a reference genome or transcriptome.

Refreshments: 3:30 pm to 4:00 pm in Atrium Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons
Lecture: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Forum Hall, 4th Floor of Palmer Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:09:46 -0400 2019-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
High Energy Density Physics Experiments at Imperial College – Megaamps and Megabars (March 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59222 59222-14717529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract: The last 2 decades have seen an explosion in high energy density physics research, spurred on by the development of national facilities such as NIF and Z. Despite their relative small size, universities have played a leading role in this research – both with ‘in house’ experiments and through joint work on larger facilities. In this talk I will describe some of our research at Imperial College including how we have pioneered the use of plasmas ablating from wire array z-pinches to create astrophysical relevant experiments and explore radiative shock waves; how we are using pulsed power driven wire explosions to create highly convergent shock waves for equation of state measurements; and how we utilize new X-ray diagnostics to explore materials in situ - whilst having fun with a shoe boxed sized pulser on a synchrotron.

About the Speaker: Dr. Simon Bland is a senior lecturer at Imperial College London, leading efforts to produce materials in extremes of pressure, temperature and density through short bursts of electrical energy. His group runs a 2 million ampere cutting-edge pulsed power facility – MACH- dedicated to isentropic compression and convergent shock waves, whilst also developing and using novel diagnostic techniques. Prior to establishing his own research program, Dr. Bland worked on the MAGPIE facility exploring wire array z-pinches for fusion and laboratory astrophysics. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 papers, and greatly enjoys working with a team of under-graduates and graduates in his research.

The seminar will be web-simulcast. To view the simulcast, please follow this link:
https://mipse.my.webex.com/mipse.my/j.php?MTID=m4619c4eb779712c0bb70ba2bd5e2e8fd
Meeting number: 626 182 257
Meeting password: MIPSE

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:32:54 -0400 2019-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Simon Bland
PhD Defense: Bennett Williams (March 20, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62264 62264-15337502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Applications of Principal Component Analysis for Position-Sensitive Semiconductor Detectors

Chair: Professor Zhong He

Abstract: Although the landscape of nuclear safeguards changes as new technologies emerge, gamma-ray spectroscopy remains a fundamental component of nuclear material detection and monitoring protocols. Systems that feature pixelated, large- volume CdZnTe detectors provide a viable option for gamma-ray spectrometers owing to their portability, room-temperature operation, imaging capabilities and high-performance energy resolution. Despite recent advances in data acquisition technology, CdZnTe detector systems fail to achieve comparable energy resolution to the industry-leading performance provided by high-purity germanium detectors. This limits the utility of CdZnTe systems in gamma-ray spectroscopy, as the confidence intervals of analyses pertinent to nuclear safeguards depend heavily on energy resolution.

In order to address this deficiency in CdZnTe detector technology, a fundamentally new approach for calibrating energy is proposed. Conventional calibration methods for position-sensitive semiconductor detectors rely heavily on theoretical models. Despite years of extensive study on charge transport properties in position-sensitive semiconductor detectors, the underlying models introduce systematic error in the energy reconstruction process. Under the proposed framework, predictive models are constructed via principal component analysis in an attempt to reduce the reliance on theoretical models and human intuition.

This work provides a practitioner's account of how one can leverage information extracted by principal component analysis to improve energy resolution for position-sensitive semiconductor detectors. This methodology is adapted to address unique challenges presented by a variety of events observed in position-sensitive detectors. For the detectors used in this work, single-pixel, two- pixel and three-pixel event energy resolution at 662 keV improve by approximately 10\% relative to the leading alternative. The proposed calibration procedure is generalized to accommodate event reconstruction for gamma-rays in the entire dynamic range.

Energy calibration via principal component analysis is intended to provide a practical alternative to conventional techniques. Calibration requirements and computational time are monitored closely to ensure that the application of the proposed technique does not become overly burdensome. Calibration measurements based on principal component analysis require no more time or data than conventional methods. The processing time per detection event is significantly reduced compared to computationally-intensive alternatives under this framework, enabling the processing speed necessary for a wide variety of nuclear safeguards applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:21:16 -0400 2019-03-20T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:30:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Bennett Williams PhD Defense flyer
Exhibition Opening Discussion | Investigating Ancient Color (March 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59363 59363-14734866@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join us in a panel discussion about the study of pigments and dyes in the ancient world with archaeologist Hilary Becker (State University of New York), conservation scientist Greg Smith (Indianapolis Museum of Art), art historian Mark Abbe (Lamar Dodd School of Art @ University of Georgia), and conservation scientist Christina Bisulca (Detroit Institute of Arts). The audience is encouraged to join the discussion.

The Kelsey Museum galleries and the exhibition "Ancient Color" will be open from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Reception at the Kelsey Museum with non-alcoholic beverages from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
After the reception, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., join us for the discussion in the Helmut Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.

View the online exhibition: http://exhibitions.kelsey.lsa.umich.edu/ancient-color/

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:23:13 -0500 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion color burst
Perspectives on the Future of Paid Family Leave (March 20, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62077 62077-15284750@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live webstreamed. Check event website right before the event for viewing information.

Please join us for a Conversation Across Difference as Dr. Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute and Ford Professor Betsey Stevenson discuss their perspectives on Paid Family Leave.

From the speakers' bios:

Andrew G. Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), studies Social Security reform, state and local government pensions, and public sector pay and benefits. Before joining AEI, Biggs was the principal deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration (SSA), overseeing SSA’s policy research efforts. In 2005, as an associate director of the White House National Economic Council, he worked on Social Security reform. In 2001, he joined the staff of the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. Biggs has published widely in academic publications as well as in daily newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has also testified before Congress on numerous occasions. In 2013, the Society of Actuaries appointed Biggs co-vice chair of a blue ribbon panel tasked with analyzing the causes of underfunding in public pension plans and how governments can securely fund plans in the future. In 2014, Institutional Investor Magazine named him one of the 40 most influential people in the retirement world. In 2016, he was appointed by President Obama to be a member of the financial control board overseeing reforms to Puerto Rico’s budget and the restructuring of the island’s debts. Biggs holds a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland, master’s degrees from Cambridge University and the University of London, and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.

Betsey Stevenson is an associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. She is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and serves on the board of directors of the American Law and Economics Association. Betsey recently completed a two-year term as an appointed member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. She served as the chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor from 2010 to 2011. Stevenson is a labor economist whose research focuses on the impact of public policies on the labor market. Her research explores women's labor market experiences, the economic forces shaping the modern family, and the potential value of subjective well-being data for public policy.

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by the AEI Executive Council at Michigan and WeListen.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:38:49 -0400 2019-03-20T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Perspectives on the Future of Paid Family Leave
EXCEL Talk: Martin Leung (March 20, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60644 60644-14937057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Video game music pianist Martin Leung, DMA, discusses how to use the internet to build a career and engage audiences in new ways, both on or offline. Leung's videos on his YouTube channel, with millions of views and 100,000 subscribers, have inspired many people to learn piano. The advent of live streaming has changed how people engage with each other and the avenues through which they pursue entertainment. Video game, ASMR, and other streams are increasingly popular and are a way to earn income today. Even a chess stream took the number one streaming spot on Twitch for a day! The intersection of art and technology is more prevalent than ever before. Dr. Leung will discuss these matters, as well as his experience garnering an online musical following in the modern era.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:15:40 -0500 2019-03-20T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Arab Heritage Month: Silenced Experiences: Mental Health in the Middle East (March 20, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61378 61378-15097049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

More information to come soon!

This event is a part of Arab Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-February to mid-April. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:26:37 -0500 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 School of Education Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Arab Heritage Month Calendar
ASP Book Tour: The Armenian Legionnaires: Sacrifice and Betrayal in World War I (March 20, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59724 59724-14780107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Armenian Studies

Following the devastation resulting from the 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the survivors of the massacres were dispersed across the Middle East, Europe and North and South America. Not content with watching World War I silently from the sidelines, a large number of Armenian volunteers joined the Légion d'Orient. They were trained in Cyprus and fought courageously in Palestine alongside Allied commander General Allenby, eventually playing a crucial role in defeating the German and Ottoman forces in Palestine at the Battle of Arara in September 1918. The Armenian legionnaires signed up on the understanding that they would be fighting in Syria and Turkey, and, should the Allies be successful, they would be part of an occupying army in their old homelands, laying the foundation for a self-governing Armenian state.

Susan Pattie describes the motivations and dreams of the Armenian Legionnaires and their ultimate betrayal as the French and the British shifted their priorities, leaving their ancestral homelands to the emerging Republic of Turkey. Complete with eyewitness accounts, letters and photographs, this book provides an insight into relations between the Great Powers through the lens of a small, vulnerable people caught in a war that was not their own, but which had already destroyed their known world.

Copies of "The Armenian Legionnaires" will be available for purchase (cash only) at the event.

Susan Pattie, former Director of the Armenian Institute in London is currently leader of the Pilot Project of the Armenian Diaspora Survey, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Mar 2019 12:03:52 -0500 2019-03-20T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Armenian Studies Lecture / Discussion Susan Paul Pattie, Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University College London
LACS Lecture. Asylum Journey: Ten Years in the US Immigration System (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61689 61689-15170138@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Emilio Gutiérrez Soto, Journalist and U-M Knight-Wallace Fellow, and his son Oscar Gutiérrez Soto will be sharing their personal 10-year journey through the US immigration system.

In 2008, Emilio applied for asylum to escape death threats stemming from his journalistic exposure of military corruption in Mexico. During the first seven months of living in the US, Emilio and Oscar were in a detention facility before being released with work permits. In July 2017, after nearly 10 years of living in the US, the asylum case was denied and their attorney quickly filed to reopen the case. During a regular ICE check-up in December, 2017 Emilio and Oscar were almost deported and then detained in an ICE facility in El Paso, Texas for eight months. Upon release, Emilio accepted the 2018 U-M Knights Wallace Fellowship and joined the University of Michigan this year. Emilio was awarded the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award by the National Press Club in 2017 and organizations such as the U-M Knights Wallace Foundation, Reporters without Borders, the National Press Club, and the Society of Professional Journalists have advocated on his behalf.

This event will take place at the International House Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 15:20:39 -0500 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
The 2020 Election: The Challenges and Changes Facing Political Polling (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61835 61835-15215050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Join us as Peter D. Hart, leading public opinion expert and pollster, takes a fun and interactive look at the latest polling trends, while sharing insights about key changes, demographic information, and top issues the country needs to know. In this period of rapid-fire change, Hart puts it all in context in an eye-opening look at polling, politics and public policy.

As to the 2020 election, Hart candidly warns against the predictive value of polls taken this far ahead of any presidential election. At this stage, so long before voters actually vote, according to Hart, poll numbers are “written in wet sand at the ocean’s edge.”

Mr. Hart goes on to say “There is an old — and true — axiom that holds that in politics, a week is a lifetime and a month can be an eternity ... History humbles us to admit that we really do have no idea who will be the presidential nominees, let alone the winner, in 2020.”

Hart, the respected pollster who has perfected his trade through his work in the past 15 presidential campaigns, is sometimes called the dean of this generation of pollsters. He has covered election night news since 1964, and has set the “gold standard” of public polling.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:42:09 -0500 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Gerald Ford Library Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Lecture / Discussion Peter Hart
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (March 20, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61469 61469-15110370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:00:14 -0400 2019-03-20T20:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Engineering Education Research Community-Led Research Discussions (March 21, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60777 60777-14963955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 8:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:00:36 -0500 2019-03-21T08:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
THE HISTORY OF COMEDY IN FILM (March 21, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60514 60514-14901391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Mr. Goldstein, through his business Highline Investments, LLC, owns and operates 15 movie theater properties consisting of 200 screens across several states. Mr. Goldstein has nearly two decades of experience developing and operating profitable entertainment properties, mostly in the theatrical exhibition industry. Mr. Goldstein received a Masters of Business Administration Degree in Finance from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from the University of Michigan. He lives and works in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

A look back at comedy from the Charlie Chaplin era of the 1930’s through popular modern-day titles like Wedding Crashers and The Hangover. Audiences have gone to the movies to laugh since Thomas Edison first invented the motion picture. What is it about comedy that people want to be together to share the experience? How did comedy evolve from the silent era to “talkies” and what are the challenges facing theatrical comedy for the future?

This is the fifth in a six-lecture series. The subject is Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in Everyday Life and Beyond. The next lecture will be March 28, 2019. The subject is: Sounds Funny: Humor and American Music.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 14:18:42 -0500 2019-03-21T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
Discover Series: Bird's-Eye Views of America (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61721 61721-15176768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

Between 1850 and 1900 panoramic depictions of towns and cities were very popular in America. Director of the Clements Library Kevin Graffagnino will discuss the significance of these unique nineteenth-century depictions of communities throughout the United States. U-M School of Information student Corey Schmidt will describe his project to catalog and digitize these bird’s-eye views and also to create an online interactive map. Participants will also have an opportunity to view several original bird’s-eye views from the Clements Library collection.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:31:22 -0500 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Ann Arbor 1880
PhD Defense: Victor Fuentes (March 21, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62037 62037-15276118@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:00am
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

CANDIDATE: Victor Fuentes

CHAIR: Jon Lee

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: On Computing Sparse Generalized Inverses
and Sparse-Inverse/Low-Rank Decompositions

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:46:50 -0400 2019-03-21T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
MLK, Jr. Luncheon II (March 21, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62126 62126-15299877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 11:30am
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Luncheon series seeks to promote a culture of inclusion, while helping encourage attendees to continue their development as a "whole person" rather than simply as an "engineer". This luncheon's speaker is Professor Joseph Trumpey from the Stamps School of Art & Design.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:02:54 -0400 2019-03-21T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion p
DCMB Tools & Technology Seminar Series - “Database Integration and Digital Phenotyping to Improve Perioperative Care: Tools Used by the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group” (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62306 62306-15346466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar

Abstract: Modern challenges of an increasingly digital healthcare system include (1) data quality is not a priority for busy clinicians, (2) data can be non-standardized across health systems, (3) observations from Big Data are often not prioritized and may disrupt clinical workflow, and (4) data collected by varying healthcare teams are often not integrated. Such problems can limit the effectiveness of medical care delivery, and are currently being tackled by clinician collaboratives such as the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group (MPOG). Using the MPOG collaborative as an example, this talk describes how software tools are used to assimilate large arrays of diverse health data and present complex medical inferences to clinicians in a reliable, intuitive, and non-disruptive manner.

Associated Link: https://mpog.org/whoweare/
Tool Link: http://phenotypes.mpog.org/
BlueJeans Livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/cgycshca

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:34:40 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T12:50:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Tools and Technology Seminar Lecture / Discussion
Fair Use Week: ‘Fair Use, What’s the Big Idea?’ (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61832 61832-15212862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: University Library

What is fair use and why is it so important for scholarship, expression, inquiry, and more? Fair use is a unique feature of American copyright law that supports freedom of speech under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. Other countries are adopting fair use — South Korea and recently South Africa, for example. Join us for a conversation with Melissa Levine, Director of the U-M Library’s Copyright Office. Organized with Sheila Garcia and Gabriel Duque.

Lunch will be provided. If you have any questions about the event, please contact copyright@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 11:46:19 -0500 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center University Library Lecture / Discussion Copyright symbol
School of Social Work Guest Lecture by Nikkita Oliver (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61831 61831-15215049@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor

Join the Nikkita Oliver guest lecture on community participation, and grassroots organizing in policy and politics.

Inspired by the events of the November 2018 primary election, the lecture will provoke discussion on the role and importance of representation in the electorate, and strategies to engage community in the political process. Guest speaker Nikkita Oliver will share her story as the first political candidate of the Seattle People's Party, in her run for Mayor of Seattle in 2017. Through her story, participants will learn more about her journey as a political candidate, and the importance of continued community participation in social and political action. The program will present discussion about the role of community practitioners in political advocacy at the intersection of grassroots community organizing, and the use of politics and policy to promote social justice.

Register on the School of Social work Event Page to join.

Co-sponsored by the School of Social Work, Community Action and Social Change Minor, and Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 12:39:48 -0500 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work, Community Action Social Change Undergraduate Minor Lecture / Discussion Nikkita Oliver
UROP Brown Bag (March 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
CLaSP Seminar Series - Dr. Stan Benjamin (March 21, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61763 61763-15179572@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Dr. Stan Benjamin of NOAA.

Title: "Reducing systematic cloud/radiation errors from Hour 4 to Week 4"

Abstract: Subgrid-scale cloud representation continues to be a central challenge from subseasonal-to-seasonal models down to storm-scale models applied for forecast duration of only a few hours. Previously, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory confirmed this issue from a 3-km model (HRRR – High-Resolution Rapid Refresh) for short-range forecasting including sub-grid-scale cloud representation up to 30-60-km medium-range and subseasonal global model (using FV3-GFS), all testing a common suite of scale-aware physical parameterizations. Some progress has been made in 2018 to substantially reduce cloud deficiency and excessive downward solar radiation at least over land areas, especially for short-range prediction for which related model and assimilation changes are critical for forecast applications to energy, aviation, and severe weather. The process of investigating a wide range of potential deficiencies in a numerical weather prediction system will be described.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:02:33 -0500 2019-03-21T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
EEB Thursday Seminar Series: Coevolution within small and large webs of interacting species (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49667 49667-11487552@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Coevolution is one of the major processes shaping the web of life. In this talk I will begin with results from recent empirical studies showing how coevolving interactions between a group of insects and plants have diversified into small multispecific networks that become building blocks of larger networks. I will then discuss results from our recent models of how selection acting on these kinds of small coevolving networks may be reshaped within large webs of mutualistic species.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:18:51 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Thompson books
Excavating Home: Archaeologies of the Greek American Experience (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60069 60069-14814837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Modern Greek Program

Greek migration to the United States maintained two separate domestic environments, the Greek towns in urban America and the remittance villages in rural Greece. Both spaces played a central role in each country’s socio-economic modernization in the 1900s-1920s. Both spaces of this shared transformation were abandoned in the 1960s through urbanization, deindustrialization, suburbanization, white flight, and urban renewal. With the progressive passing of lived memories, archaeology must make increasingly important contributions in reconstructing the immigrant lifeworld of a century ago. By placing all of its archaeological resources into the idealized Classical period, the Greek diaspora has not yet fully embraced its own archaeological potential as a vehicle of self-understanding. The lecture presents recent fieldwork in the Greek towns of Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Harrisburg and in the villages of the Peloponnese, Phocis and Epeiros. It calls for a transnational perspective that provides comparative tools through which to address forced migration today.

Kostis Kourelis is an architectural historian who specializes in the archaeology of the Mediterranean from the medieval to the modern periods. He also investigates how medieval material culture has shaped modern notions of identity, space and aesthetics particularly during the 1930s. His recent fieldwork has focused on the archaeology of the contemporary world, labor, housing, and immigration. In Greece, he directs archaeological surveys of deserted villages and refugee camps; in the U.S., he directs projects on Philadelphia’s Greek town, North Dakota’s man camps and Japanese internment camps. He is Associate Professor of Art History at Franklin & Marshall College.

Publications include Houses of the Morea: Vernacular Architecture of the Northwest Peloponnesos (1205-1955), The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture, Punk Archaeology, “Byzantium and the Avant-Garde: Excavations at Corinth, 1920s-1930s,” “‘If Space Remotely Matters: Camped in Greece’s Contingent Countryside,” and “North Dakota Man Camp Project: The Archaeology of Home in Bakken Oil Fields.”

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:44:50 -0400 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Modern Greek Program Lecture / Discussion Kostis Kourelis
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57791 57791-14306150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

From the very beginning of the epidemic, AIDS was linked to punishment. Calls to punish people living with HIV—mostly stigmatized minorities—began before doctors had even settled on a name for the disease. Punishing Disease looks at how HIV was transformed from sickness to badness under the criminal law and investigates the consequences of inflicting penalties on people living with disease. Now that the door to criminalizing sickness is open, what other ailments will follow? With moves in state legislatures to extend HIV-specific criminal laws to include diseases such as hepatitis and meningitis, the question is more than academic.

Trevor Hoppe research analyzes the social control of sex by institutions of medicine, law, and public health. His recently published book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness (University of California Press) analyzes the rise of punitive and coercive responses to HIV; Punishing Disease was awarded the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies. He is also the co-editor of the recently published collection, The War on Sex (co-edited with David Halperin with Duke University Press), which analyzes the punitive social control of sex (and was a finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies). In addition to these book projects, Hoppe is also researching and publishing on the growth and impact of American sex offender registries, particularly the use of “sexually violent predator” statutes that allow for the civil confinement of sex offenders beyond their court-ordered sentence.

He earned his PhD in Sociology and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2014

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:09:09 -0500 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Trevor Hoppe event flyer
Rubin Speaker Series (March 21, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54933 54933-13654176@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

Jeremy M. Weinstein is a Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C.

His research focuses on civil wars and political violence; ethnic politics and the political economy of development; and democracy, accountability, and political change. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge University Press), which received the William Riker Prize for the best book on political economy. He is also the co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action (Russell Sage Foundation), which received the Gregory Luebbert Award for the best book in comparative politics. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Democracy, World Policy Journal, and the SAIS Review.

Weinstein received the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award in 2013. The award is given to a scholar younger than 40 or within 10 years of earning a Ph.D. who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations. He also received the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford in 2007.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:48:57 -0500 2019-03-21T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
A Transcript for all Reasons: RNA Biomedicine (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62192 62192-15311060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Frankel Cardiovascular Center
Organized By: Department of Chemistry

Sequencing of the human genome has led to the discovery that while less than two percent of the genome codes for proteins, most of it — perhaps greater than 90 percent — is primarily dedicated to making a wide variety of RNA molecules. These RNAs have been implicated in diverse biological activities and diseases, opening new approaches to personalized medical treatment.



The co-directors of the U-M Center for RNA Biomedicine, Mats Ljungman and Nils Walter, will outline the tools now available to study and manipulate RNA and how they have the potential to build a bridge from laboratory to clinic. They also will outline their vision for accelerating RNA research at UM through the recent funding obtained from Biosciences Initiative.

These talks are open to everyone and free, but please register.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:31:13 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 Frankel Cardiovascular Center Department of Chemistry Lecture / Discussion RNA poster presenters in old English costumes
Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory: Lori A. Burns, University of Ottawa (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61845 61845-15217236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

This paper examines the dynamic integration of words, music, and images in the extreme metal performance video of Dark Tranquillity’s ‘Uniformity’, directed by Patric Ullaeus. Adopting a multimodal approach to the analysis, I study the corporeal, temporal, and spatial dimensions across the three artistic domains of word, music, and image. The analytic framework responds to scholarly writings on multimodality from a range of perspectives. As the video spectator-listener engages with the interpretation of embodied subjectivity and cultural meaning in this video, a number of questions can be posed about the multimodal expression: how does the performance video present physical bodies and materials; how do these bodies move within space and time; how do the elements of structure and design shape the performance; how are the expressive strategies of the performers captured; and what discursive values drive the artistic representations?

Lori Burns is professor of music at the University of Ottawa. Her work on popular music has been published in leading journals, edited collections, and in monograph form. Notable publications include Disruptive Divas: Feminism, Identity and Popular Music (Routledge Press, 2002), The Pop Palimpsest: Intertextuality and Recorded Popular Music (uMichigan Press, 2019), co-edited with Serge Lacasse, and the forthcoming Bloomsbury Handbook to Popular Music Video Analysis, co-edited with Stan Hawkins. She is co-editor of the Ashgate Popular Music and Folk Series and her recent research project on genre in popular music video was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2013-2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 18:15:23 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Climate & Energy Lightning Talks (March 21, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60354 60354-14866448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

Co-Hosted By: Greg Keoleian (SEAS) and Anna Stefanopoulou (Energy Institute),

This event will feature short talks from faculty from across campus, including:

Don Siegel (Engineering)
Jeff Sakamoto (Engineering)
Pam Jagger (SEAS)
Catherine Hausman (Public Policy)
Sam Stolper (SEAS)
Jonathan Levine (Taubman)
Rohini Bala Chandran (Engineering)
Geoffrey Thun (Taubman)
Johanna Mathieu (Engeneering)
Talks will be followed by a networking reception and light refreshments. The Sustainability Theme Lightning Talk Series is designed to spark new interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement collaborations that address global challenges at the nexus of environment and society.

Reception will follow in the Ford Commons in the Dana Building

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:05:54 -0400 2019-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T19:00:00-04:00 Dana Building School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion
Peter Sellars: Art as Moral Action (March 21, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58879 58879-14569987@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

MacArthur Genius Fellow Peter Sellars is an American theater director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. His staging of Don Giovanni was cast, costumed, and presented to resemble a blaxploitation film; his production of George Frideric Handel’s Orlando was set in outer space; and his staging of Mozart’s Così Fan Tutte was set in a Cape Cod diner. His “post-racial” production of Othello, starring John Ortiz in the title role and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago, showed at New York City’s Public Theater to critical acclaim and larger cultural conversations about “blind casting.” Public programs surrounding his 2006 Lincoln Center production of Mozart’s unfinished opera Zaide focused on slavery past and present, as well as an exploration of Mozart’s abolitionist perspectives. Sellars is the recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and a professor at UCLA, where he teaches art as social action and art as moral action.

Presented in partnership with the Prison Creative Arts Program at U-M and the University Musical Society (UMS).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 12:21:24 -0500 2019-03-21T17:10:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/Sellars-new2.jpg
Anthony Marra Reading & Booksigning (March 21, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58276 58276-14452830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

Anthony Marra is the author of The Tsar of Love and Techno and New York Times-bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, longlisted for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction, and the Barnes and Noble Discover Award, the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in France and was the first English-language novel to win the Athens Prize for Literature in Greece. Marra received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop before fellowship and teaching at Stanford University.

His work has been honored with the National Magazine Award, the Whiting Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2017, Marra was included in Granta’s decennial list of best young American novelists, and won the $50,000 Simpson Prize in 2018, which he will put toward finishing a new novel about exiles in 1940s Hollywood, slated for release in 2019.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 13:52:28 -0500 2019-03-21T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Anthony Marra
Eye on Detroit: What's in a brand? (March 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58887 58887-14569995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Detroit Center
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

What do Coca-Cola, Walt Disney and Eminem have in common? Branding. These names are recognized instantly by their image and reputation. You remember sharing a coke on a hot summer day, going to see your first Disney movie and listening to a song with the windows down.

Every brand starts small, but how do they grow? Come listen to a handful of branding experts discuss what makes a great brand - personal or professional.

To RSVP, please click the link below

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:22:37 -0500 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:00:00-04:00 Detroit Center University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion Branding
SpeakABLE (March 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61416 61416-15099327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

This TED-style event aims to raise awareness around disability, mental health, and other differences on campus. Refreshments will be available.

Students, faculty, and staff speak about their personal experiences with disabilities and raise awareness of accessibility, mental health, and other differences in an inclusive, supportive, educational environment.

Organized by disabled students and students with disabilities from the Services for Students with Disabilities Student Advisory Board.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:24:55 -0500 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Event
SpeakABLE 2019 (March 21, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61794 61794-15186440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Services for Students with Disabilities

This TED-style event allows students, faculty, and staff to share their personal experiences with disabilities and raise awareness of accessibility, mental health, and other differences 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!

WHEN: Thursday, March 21st from 6:00-8:30 pm.
WHERE: Hatcher Graduate Library, Gallery Room

Food will be provided!

Register with Sessions: https://myumi.ch/aXkrR

Present @ event: ASL interpreters and CART Services. Working on live-streaming the event through our Facebook event page (find us at SpeakABLE 2019).

We ask that attendees do not wear perfume, cologne or strong scents as others can be sensitive to said fragrances - out 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 more than encouraged to do so. There will be various furniture set-ups throughout the room to hopefully accommodate everyone’s needs.

Questions or concerns? Contact Felicity Harfield at frfield@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:38:48 -0500 2019-03-21T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-21T20:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Services for Students with Disabilities Lecture / Discussion Flyer for SpeakABLE 2019 with speech talk bubble and ASL sign language hand motions for images
MAS Lecture | Regional Archaeology in the Peja and Istog Districts of Kosova (RAPID-Kosova): Results of the 2018 Field Season (March 21, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61679 61679-15170126@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 21, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

This lecture reports the results of an initial season of regional archaeological survey in the districts of Peja and Istog in western Kosova. RAPID-Kosova is the first intensive, systematic survey ever conducted in the Balkan Republic of Kosova, and aims to document settlement and settlement change through time. During June of 2018, we ran three survey teams in three zones covering 15.4 square kilometers in 1,510 tracts. The 15 new sites we identified and the 3,521 pieces of pottery we collected and analyzed indicate significant occupations in the region in all periods of the past. Perhaps the most important discovery was a large Bronze Age settlement, called Pepaj, located on the foot slopes below the Gradina hill fort near the village of Lubozhdë. Such “flat” Bronze Age sites are rare in the Balkans. Most late prehistoric sites are located on eroded hilltops with little remaining stratigraphy. Pepaj thus presents the opportunity to investigate an intact late prehistoric village of the type that must certainly have been in contact with villages in northern Albania. Ultimately, we hope to gauge the importance of such contacts to the formation of complex societies in Kosova, including as a result of trade with Greece and, later, Rome.

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

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this lecture, please contact the education office (734-647-4167) as soon as possible. We ask for advance notice as some accommodations may require more time for the University to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:26:01 -0400 2019-03-21T19:30:00-04:00 2019-03-21T21:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion MAS logo
U-M Structure Seminar (March 22, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55760 55760-13777531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Meredith Purchal, Graduate Student, Markos Koutmos Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:37:01 -0400 2019-03-22T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Alumni Connections: Francie Arenson Dickman & Randi Olin (March 22, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62074 62074-15284747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 12:30pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Francie and Randi will offer students an incredibly full and informative perspective of all sides of the writing/publishing world. Students will also hear practical advice for finding work in the world of writing, digital media, and/or publishing.

Drop by the Hub before the session (anytime from noon-5 p.m.) — we’ll be gathering to do research, draft questions, and talk do’s and don’ts during an Alumni Connections event.

This workshop is intended for LSA undergraduate students; we look forward to seeing you!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 14:49:30 -0400 2019-03-22T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Lecture / Discussion Library
Phondi Discussion Group (March 22, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737043@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:26:33 -0500 2019-03-22T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Setting the Stage for Institutional Change: Embodied Research as Faculty Development (March 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62130 62130-15299883@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

This interactive session will introduce attendees to the ‘behind the scenes’ principles and practices that shape the CRLT Players work. It will begin with a brief overview of the Players’ nineteen-year history of using applied theatre to support the cultivation of more diverse, equitable, and inclusive working and learning environments in higher education. It will then describe how the Players create and implement their work and why they use the techniques and approaches that they do. Finally, the presenter will engage attendees in portions of an abbreviated sketch development process as a way of thinking about the challenges and opportunities that this modality offers for increasing knowledge and skill in the DEI arena.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 11:35:13 -0400 2019-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
Alumni Connection: Dan Katz (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62075 62075-15284749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

Dan will focus on his experience in forging a path in finance with an LSA background. He will also discuss his current role at Ares and how people with different backgrounds have been successful in the finance industry.

Drop by the Hub before the session (anytime from noon-5 p.m.) — we’ll be gathering to do research, draft questions, and talk do’s and don’ts during an Alumni Connections event.

This workshop is intended for LSA undergraduate students; we look forward to seeing you!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:15:40 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 LSA Building LSA Opportunity Hub Lecture / Discussion Laptop on table
Gender: New Works, New Questions- The War on Sex (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57792 57792-14306151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Speakers:
- David M. Halperin (editor), W. H. Auden Distinguished University Professor of the History and Theory of Sexuality, English Department, University of Michigan
- Trevor Hoppe (editor), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- Sara McClelland, Associate Professor of Psychology & Women's Studies, University of Michigan
- J.J. Prescott, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States. This state-of-the-art collection tells a different story: while progress has been made in marriage equality, reproductive rights, access to birth control, and other areas, government and civil society are waging a war on stigmatized sex by means of law, surveillance, and social control. The contributors document the history and operation of sex offender registries and the criminalization of HIV, as well as highly punitive measures against sex work that do more to harm women than to combat human trafficking. They reveal that sex crimes are punished more harshly than other crimes, while new legal and administrative regulations drastically restrict who is permitted to have sex. By examining how the ever-intensifying war on sex affects both privileged and marginalized communities, the essays collected here show why sexual liberation is indispensable to social justice and human rights.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 16:18:23 -0500 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion war on sex book cover
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Michigan Meeting Winter Symposium: Living In Digital Environments (March 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62237 62237-15335282@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

In 2012 the first 4K resolution screen became available on the commercial market at the common 30” desktop size, making it possible for a user with 20/20 vision seated 24” away from a computer screen to be confronted with the same amount of visual information as could be experienced in the surrounding environment. This development brought verisimilitude to another realm that has gradually emerged for decades, the constitution of the digital sphere as a kind of environment itself. Today, we live inside the digital. Increasingly, our public and private lives are conducted online and in digital space where our relationships are forged, nurtured, or deleted, where our bills are paid and finances tracked, and where our ideologies are fed and our politics balkanized by our respective media bubbles. And while the digital now constitutes more and more of our daily routines, it can also offer a distorting abstraction of “external life.” Swiping left is easier than breaking up, and even the most civil among us can become an entitled consumer on Yelp. At once, our digital environments offer new grounds for engagement and interaction, and immersive venues for escape from the exigencies of the outside world. This session will discuss this dialectic. Drawing contributors from across art, architecture, design, and media studies, we will examine the digital as both a totalizing environment unto itself – a bubble apart from the external lifeworld – and a new venue for social organization and engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:48:12 -0400 2019-03-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion
SynSem Discussion Group (March 22, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60366 60366-14866466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 08:57:21 -0400 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
ACP Panel on "US-China Academic Collaboration in the Current Environment" (March 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61524 61524-15123793@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Mechanical Engineering

U-M Association of Chinese Professors (ACP) Panel on "US-China Academic Collaboration in the Current Environment" featuring U-M President Emeritus Mary Sue Coleman, currently President of the Association of American Universities (AAU). Panelists include: S. Jack Hu, Vice President for Research; Mary Gallagher, Director, Center for Chinese Studies; Joseph Kolars, Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, Medical School; and James Holloway, Vice Provost for Global Engagement and Interdisciplinary Academic Affairs. Moderator: Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy. Reception to follow Panel discussion. Event is open to the public

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:24:31 -0500 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Mechanical Engineering Lecture / Discussion
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (March 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:22:27 -0500 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: Porphyry Copper Deposit Formation in Arcs: What are the Odds? (March 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52683 52683-12927437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Arc magmas globally are H2O-Cl-S-rich and moderately oxidized (ΔFMQ = +1 to +2) relative to most other mantle-derived magmas (ΔFMQ ≤ 0). Their relatively high oxidation state limits the extent to which sulfide phases separate from the magma, which would otherwise tend to deplete the melt in chalcophile elements such as Cu (highly siderophile elements such as Au and especially PGE are depleted by even small amounts of sulfide segregation). As these magmas rise into the crust and begin to crystallize they will reach volatile saturation, and a hydrous, saline, S-rich, moderately oxidized fluid is released, into which chalcophile and any remaining siderophile metals (as well as many other water-soluble elements) will strongly partition. This magmatic-hydrothermal fluid phase has the potential to form ore deposits (most commonly porphyry Cu±Mo±Au deposits) if its metal load is precipitated in economic concentrations, but there are many steps along the way that have to be successfully negotiated before this can occur. This paper seeks to identify the main steps along the path from magmagenesis to hydrothermal mineral precipitation that affect the chances of forming an ore deposit (defined as an economically mineable resource), and attempts to estimate the probability of achieving each step. The cumulative probability of forming a large porphyry Cu deposit at any given time in an arc magmatic system (i.e., a single batholith-linked volcanoplutonic complex) is estimated to be ~0.001%, while less than 1/10 of these deposits will be uplifted and exposed at shallow enough depths to mine economically (0.0001%). Continued uplift and erosion in active convergent tectonic regimes rapidly removes these upper crustal deposits from the geological record, such that the probability of finding them in older arc systems decreases further with age, to the point that porphyry Cu deposits are almost non-existent in Precambrian rocks.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:49:23 -0500 2019-03-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Lecture: Mitchell Silver (March 22, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62243 62243-15335288@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Mitchell Silver became Commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks in May 2014. Commissioner Silver is also the immediate past president of the American Planning Association (APA). Mitchell is an award-winning planner with over 30 years of experience. He is internationally recognized for his leadership in the planning profession and his contributions to contemporary planning issues. As Parks Commissioner, Mitchell oversees management, planning and operations of nearly 30,000 acres of parkland, which includes parks, playgrounds, beaches, marinas, recreation centers, wilderness areas and other assets.

Prior to returning to his native New York City, he served as the Chief Planning & Development Officer and Planning Director for Raleigh, NC. In Raleigh, he led the comprehensive plan update process and a rewriting of the development code to create a vibrant 21st century city. He was the Dunlop Lecturer in Housing and Urbanization at Harvard University, and in 2014 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Planning Association.

Mitchell received a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from Hunter College in NYC.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:24:46 -0400 2019-03-22T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-22T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Art and Architecture Building
Galaxies Galore! Precision Cosmology with Large Scale Structure - Saturday Morning Physics (March 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62416 62416-15364098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, March 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

What is the universe made of? How does it behave on the largest scales? I will discuss how cosmologists are attempting to answer these questions and more using state-of-the-art telescopes that map millions of galaxies across the cosmos.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 12:08:48 -0400 2019-03-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-23T11:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Artist Panel (March 24, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61452 61452-15106040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 11:00am
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Artists from previous Prison Creative Arts Project exhibitions share their stories and answer questions about life as a prison artist in this informal panel discussion, moderated by Professor Emerita Janie Paul.

This panel will be followed by a special gathering for families of PCAP artists and writers, Linkage Project members, and PCAP Associates.

Image Credit: Scott Thompkins

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:38:17 -0400 2019-03-24T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T12:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Scott Thompkins
Surrendurance: Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 11, Ann Arbor Reading (March 24, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61453 61453-15106042@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 24, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Prison Creative Arts Project, The

Hear selections from the 11th edition of the Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, read by family and friends of contributing authors. Books will be for sale. This event features a special performance by University of Michigan Men’s Glee Club.
Presented with support from Jackson Social Welfare Fund of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation and Art for Justice Fund, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

PCAP’s Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing seeks to showcase the talent and diversity of Michigan's incarcerated writers. The review features writing from both beginning and experienced writers - writing that comes from the heart, and that is unique, well-crafted, and lively.

Artwork: Jasen Schoonmaker, The Ruins, Acrylic

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 13:39:10 -0400 2019-03-24T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Prison Creative Arts Project, The Lecture / Discussion Surrendurance
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58205 58205-14441914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

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

"Historical trauma: Racial dispossession & Native populations" by Joseph Gone, Professor, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:40:41 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
"Comprehensive Discovery of Bacterial Ribozymes and Riboswitches" (March 25, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61949 61949-15241352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 11:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Henry Ford II Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Professor, Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 10:33:18 -0400 2019-03-25T11:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
Student Community Conversations (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62279 62279-15344243@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Pierpont Commons
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Each event will provide students with an interactive opportunity to share their ideas and experiences in making U-M a more, diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.

These events will help to generate feedback that will be shared with leadership and schools, colleges and units across U-M to shape the future of our DEI plans.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:13:18 -0400 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:30:00-04:00 Pierpont Commons Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Student Community Conversations
THE WOLL FAMILY SPEAKER SERIES ON HEALTH, SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION (March 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60754 60754-14961657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Buchbinder from UNC & Dr. Toffler from Portland Oregon - “Debate on Physician Assisted Suicide”
Monday, March 25
Noon-1 p.m.
Medical Science Building II – West Lecture Hall
RSVP to rhafner@umich.edu by March 18 for lunch

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 11:20:05 -0500 2019-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Lecture / Discussion
Dialogues in Contemporary Thought V | On Reading (March 25, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62193 62193-15311067@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dialogues in Contemporary Thought V | On Reading, will consist of two lectures. "Alphabetographies," by Prof. Cadava, will consider the photographic work of Susan Meiselas in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Kurdistan, and investigate her claim of being "attracted like a magnet to mass graves, destroyed villages, the missing." Prof. Cadava will then consider why photography is a privileged means of documenting violence, and the forms of resistance made available by it. "We have been misreading the camps," by Prof. Paloff, will re-evaluate the moral claims attached to camp literature, and propose an alternative ethics that embraces the reader's individual experience, and the community's memory of the past. The lectures are open to everyone. Questions - email: srdjan@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 19:10:15 -0400 2019-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Dialogues in Contemporary Thought | On Reading
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59566 59566-14752326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Monday, March 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Physically Vulnerable, but Psychologically Resilient?: Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health.”

By Christy Erving, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:40:32 -0500 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Veg Week Presents: Adrienne Gillespie from Veg Michigan (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62391 62391-15361881@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Adrienne Gillespie from Veg Michigan will be doing a presentation on the benefits of a plant-based diet for environmental, ethical, and health reasons! FREE snacks will be provided!

Admission is FREE and open to all!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:21:36 -0400 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Lecture / Discussion Event Image
LACS Lecture. Judicial Abolitionism in Nineteenth- Century Spanish America: Afro-Uruguayan Soldiers and Spanish Diarist José María Márquez (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60662 60662-14937077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This presentation examines how judicial litigation about the freedom of formerly enslaved black soldiers in late 1820s Montevideo shaped the first arguments about the abolition of slavery in the newly created country of Uruguay. Spanish diarist José María Márquez, who occupied the position of “Public Attorney for the Poor and Slaves” in Montevideo, published in his newspaper stories about the black soldiers he defended. This news became the first public arena to discuss the complete abolition of slavery. The actions of former slaves then black soldiers and their negotiations to secure freedom provided strong arguments and nationalist bases for conceiving a plan for full abolition. Through the lens of these actions and the communication between the courts and the public arena, here we examine judicial actions as one of the sources of abolitionism in the newly formed Spanish American republics, instead of Anglo-centric and North Atlantic models of abolitionist societies and newspapers.

Alex Borucki is associate professor of history in the University of California, Irvine, where he also is director of the Latin American Studies Center. He is the author of From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), which was finalist of the 2016 Harriet Tubman Book Prize. Apart from Spanish-language books and articles published in Argentina and Uruguay, he has published articles on the slave trade and the African diaspora in the American Historical Review, Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, The Americas, History in Africa, Itinerario, Atlantic Studies, and Slavery and Abolition.

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Department of History at the University of Michigan.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:54:18 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Lelia Gonzalez's Black Diaspora Feminist Project in the Americas (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62128 62128-15299879@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Lelia Gonzalez is oftentimes remembered in Brazil as one of the most important black feminist scholars and activists of the twentieth-century. My lecture will explore her political life shaped by her international travel throughout Africa and the Americas, and how she formulated a transnational understanding of black culture, gendered anti-black racism, and the movement for black liberation. I will explore Gonzalez’s idea of “Amerifricanidade” that expresses a common black identity in the Americas that centers African heritage and that challenges the erasure of blackness and indigeneity in the construction of Latin Americanness. Gonzalez is traveling, writing, and carrying out her political activism at the same time as Abdias Nascimento and Molefi Asante, for example, but she has received little attention in the scholarship on the global black radical and feminist traditions. The political life and work of Gonzalez reminds scholars of the African diaspora precisely why black Brazilian women should be given more intellectual attention in black radical thought and why Africana Studies requires a refocus on Brazilian scholars and social movements.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 10:22:36 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Post-Human Creativity: A Conversation (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62112 62112-15293425@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program

Who or what is the creator in a world where machines generate original music, poetry, art and more? Is the human creator of a machine the creator of the machine's output? Who holds copyright for creations made by computers or algorithms rather than directly by a human creator? How are we designing the machines that will take care of us? How do artists and designers approach creativity differently from engineers? These questions intersect with all creative endeavors today whether making art, altering the body, or designing autonomous vehicles.

Join us for a live, unrehearsed, interdisciplinary conversation with faculty from diverse perspectives to explore the idea of Post-Human Creativity.

Irina Aristarkhova, Associate Professor, School of Art & Design
Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering
Melissa Levine, Director, U-M Library Copyright Office
Andrea Thomer, Assistant Professor, School of Information

All are invited. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan Library Copyright Office and the Ford School of Public Policy’s Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) graduate certificate program.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:14:38 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) Program Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
State as a Producer: The Role of Institutions in the Italian Film Industry (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62386 62386-15361878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

The post-war Italian cinema was organized as an industry or an artisan system? Did State intervention take place in terms of semi-authoritarian control or as a form of strategic support? Historians of Italian cinema have often debated about these questions and usually favored an interpretation of national film industry as a weak, politically-controlled system. The goal of this talk is to shed light on the role of the State in every phase of post-war film production, form training to funding, from the supply of production facilities to the management of film theaters. Case studies and archival materials will be presented in order to have a broader look on the entire value chain, taking account not only films and related quantitative data (box office, admissions, budget), but also the social and professional relations between the various players in the system.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:17:52 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion poster
Machis-NO: Challenging Machismo Culture in our Community (March 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62540 62540-15399285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

A conversation about machismo in the Latinx community featuring members of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Alpha Omicron Chapter, moderated by Prof. Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Presented in collaboration with Delta Tau Lambda Sorority, Alpha Chapter and the University of Michigan Latina/o Studies Program. Pizza will be served. Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:56:01 -0400 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T19:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
TEDxUofM Salon: Activism in the Arts (March 25, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62507 62507-15375200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

"Art as a way of change. Art as a way to motivate people and to move people to action." In the words of Marcus Ellsworth, from Uncle Sam and his 'We want you' campaign mobilizing young men to join the army to the Rosie the Riveter encouraging young women to get out and work, art has inspired action throughout our nation's history.

Join us at our Salon to discuss arts as a way of activism and to engage in rich discussion and an interactive talk by our guest speaker Deekah Rox, program director of Girls Rock Detroit and founder of The Cosmic Slop Music Festival.

Rox stumbled into rock at a young age and has since been creating music in a variety of genres. As a woman of color in Detroit, she still sees women facing issues in the progress of rock music and wants to create spaces to allow black female musicians to gather and feel the liberating power of rock.

TEDxUofM Salons are intimate, discussion-based explorations into specific ideas. They feature a speaker, a few TED talks, and animated discussions and activities to get you thinking about the world around us.

Sponsored by the SMTD EXCEL Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 18:15:32 -0400 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
ChE Seminar Series: Alina Rwei (March 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62499 62499-15372997@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Title: Shedding Light on Pain Therapeutics: From Externally-Triggerable Drug Delivery Systems to Bioelectronics

ABSTRACT
Current treatments of pain heavily rely on opioids, resulting in significant side effects such as addiction, tolerance, leading to the Opioid Overdose Crisis as we know of today. Smart drug delivery systems may provide an effective solution. Here I present the development of externally-triggerable drug delivery systems for on-demand, repeatable and adjustable local anesthesia, where the timing, duration, and intensity of nerve block can be controlled through external energy triggers such as light and ultrasound. In addition to traditional pharmacological approaches, bioelectronic platforms to enhance our insights into the diagnostics and mechanisms of pain and will also be discussed. Through pharmacological, optical, and electrical toolsets, we aim to develop effective therapeutic solutions to neurological disease states.

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Dr. Rwei received both her undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering, completed in June 2017. Her Ph.D. training was conducted under the supervision of Professor Robert Langer at MIT and Professor Daniel Kohane at Harvard Medical School. Her thesis, titled “Externally Triggerable Drug Delivery Systems for On-Demand Nerve Block,” focused on the design and development of light- and ultrasound- triggerable drug delivery systems for repeatable and adjustable release of local anesthetics. Her experience has yielded publications in high-impact journals including Nature Biomedical Engineering, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Nano Letters, and Journal of Controlled Release. She is now a postdoctoral scholar in Professor
John Rogers’ lab at Northwestern University. She is the recipient of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Training Award (TL1) from the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program by NIH/NCATS.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:24:43 -0400 2019-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Engineering Education Research Community-Led Research Discussions (March 26, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60777 60777-14963956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:30am
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:00:36 -0500 2019-03-26T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Comparative Politics Workshop (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Government Campaigns and Policy Positioning of Businesses in China (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60370 60370-14866472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

How do business elites express policy preferences in the presence of government campaigns in China? This talk advances a theory of strategic preference expression in authoritarian systems, where business elites express dissent or conformity to the government based on material incentives. Their position-taking strategies vary depending on whether firms have the bargaining power to extract benefits or avoid punishment from the government.

Boliang Zhu is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focuses on foreign direct investment, multinational corporations, corruption, development, public opinion, and Chinese politics. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the “American Journal of Political Science,” the “Journal of Politics,” “International Studies Quarterly,” “Comparative Politics,” and “Research & Politics.” He received his B.A. from Peking University, M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:55:25 -0500 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Boliang Zhu, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Mini Grant Momentum (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61607 61607-15152472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join the U-M Library Student Engagement Program for the Winter 2019 Mini Grant Momentum Series! Every Tuesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in ScholarSpace, library mini grant recipients will give a short presentation on their innovative projects. The topics range widely, though many focus on community partnerships, global scholarship, and diversity and inclusion. Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:54:53 -0500 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mini Grant Momentum
UROP Brown Bag (March 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722984@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
FellowSpeak: "The Digital Popular: Media, Culture and Politics in Networked India" (March 26, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58291 58291-14452849@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2018-19 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

U-M Associate Professor of Communication Studies and 2019 Steelcase Faculty Fellow Aswin Punathambekar explores political salience of popular culture in the context of rise of digital media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media use in contemporary India. In a context where cassette culture, color television, VCRs, cable and satellite broadcasting, the internet, and mobile phones all arrived within a span of two decades, digital media platforms are layered onto existing media infrastructures, institutions, and the intensely mediated routines of daily life for hundreds of millions of people. The result is the emergence of a hybrid arena defined by two distinct zones of public culture: on the one hand, powerful film and television industries that are shaped primarily by logics of scale, audience niches, and a politics of representation, and on the other hand, social media companies defined by emergent logics of data-driven programming and production, algorithmic curation, and user participation. As part of an ongoing project on mediated political cultures, this talk will address how these media dynamics have transformed links between popular culture and politics and, in the process, reconfigured the meanings and performances of citizenship in contemporary India.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:39:15 -0500 2019-03-26T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Ha Ha Land
The Threat to Global Press Freedom: Censorship, Imprisonment and Murder (March 26, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61744 61744-15179069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Wallace House Center for Journalists

Harmful rhetoric towards journalists and the press casts doubt about the future of a free press and the safety of reporters. This was evident following the murders of five staff members at the Capital Gazette and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. As democratic nations fall short in protecting press freedom, what are the implications for journalists of all nations? In alarming numbers, reporters around the world are persecuted, jailed, exiled and even killed for exposing the truth.

Knight-Wallace international journalists Vanessa Gezari of The Intercept, Itai Anghel of Israeli TV, and Jawad Sukhanyar of The New York Times will discuss how threats and state censorship impact their work. In a discussion led by the University’s media law and First Amendment scholar Professor Leonard Niehoff, they will share their experiences reporting from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Africa and discuss what can be done to protect journalists and foster press freedom around the world.

The Eisendrath Symposium honors Charles R. Eisendrath, former director of Wallace House, and his lifelong commitment to international journalism.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:40:54 -0400 2019-03-26T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Wallace House Center for Journalists Lecture / Discussion Vanessa Gezari, Itai Anghel, Jawad Sukhanyar and Leonard Niehoff
Influence of Biblical Cantillations on Art Music in the 20th and 21st Centuries (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57693 57693-14263397@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The oldest part of Jewish music culture is the ritualized presentation of texts from the Hebrew Bible (tanakh) organized through a complex and highly diversified system of strict musical rules and distinct motifs (cantillations). This system was essentially created during the Biblical times; it was then passed on orally for several centuries and codified in the 9th century with special signs (teamim). Since the beginning of the 20th century, the motifs of biblical cantillations have been perceived by Jewish composers as the “most authentic” part of the Jewish musical tradition and used as a source of inspiration and “building material” in many works. As a rule, in this context the motifs of cantillation lost their connection to the liturgy and their direct relation to the text and were merely identified as the musical embodiment of the Jewishness. By their archaic character and their shortness of breath they also significantly influenced the musical style of the new Jewish art music.

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 the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

The lecture is part of a two-day residency, "Jewish Art Music in Interwar Europe". Dr. Nemtsov will join School of Music, Theatre & Dance students and alumni in two concerts of Jewish art music.
Concerts are free and open to the public with receptions to follow.

Location:
University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
E.V. Moore Building, 1100 Baits Drive in Britton Recital Hall.

Monday, March 25, 8 pm
Works by Juliusz Wolfsohn, Alexander Weprik, Alberto Hemsi, Leo Zeitlin, Jacob Schoenberg, and Josef Achron for piano, voice, woodwinds, and strings

Tuesday March 26, 8 pm
Works by Alexander Krein, Janot Roskin, Joachim Stutschewsky, Lazare Saminsky, Viktor Ullman, and Julius Chajes for piano, voice, clarinet, and strings

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:03:40 -0500 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jascha Nemstov
Professor L. Lacey Knowles, the Robert B. Payne Collegiate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Inaugural Lecture (March 26, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58806 58806-14561454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

From the patterns of genomic variation in individuals living today, phylogeographic analyses provide a window into a species’ past. When viewed in a comparative context, examples of concordant genetic structure across assemblages of species, despite their biological difference, have reinforced a conceptual and methodological focus on abiotic factors in shaping species’ histories. This emphasis has also promoted an adherence to generic expectations of phylogeographic concordance irrespective of the composition of communities and a tendency to attribute discord to the idiosyncracies of history. However, from the increased sampling densities and unprecedented amounts of genomic data, what is emerging in comparative phylogeography is a complex of concordant and discordant genetic structure across community members. In my talk, and with reference to computational advances and recent developments at the molecular level, I will highlight how discordant patterns of genetic variation may arise from difference in the traits and ecologies of taxa. That is, discord across species may reflect deterministic processes linked to species-specific traits. In addition to reviewing the methodologies that are propelling this promising area of research, and based on examples of comparative phylogeographic studies, I will show how considering the contribution of taxon-specific traits, rather than adhering to the concordance-discordance dichotomy, can provide more meaningful insights about the evolutionary history of organisms. These studies emphasize that to understand how the divergence process may differ among geographic regions, or why genetic structure may differ among members of communities, both biotic and abiotic factors need to be considered jointly.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:33:48 -0400 2019-03-26T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Photo
Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ (March 26, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59704 59704-14780084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

With the discovery of rare and endangered species in areas around the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and inspired by the paradoxical flourishing of nonhuman nature in the context of unending war, a wide network of scientists, bureaucrats, journalists, natural scientists, citizen ecologists, and others have become captured by a utopian vision in which nature, peace, and life constitute a tightly-wound bundle of naturalized associations. Especially since the late 1990s, in the context of increasingly dire planetary futures presented by global climate change and mass extinction, as well as with the deteriorating prospects of national reunification or reconciliation between the two Koreas, the DMZ’s nature has offered the conceptual ground for mainstream and marginal imaginaries of peace in South Korea and beyond. While it would be easy to dismiss these hopeful discourses as naive and romanticizing, this paper seeks to take them seriously as empirically-grounded logics in which the existence of biodiversity of the DMZ offers alternatives to geopolitics as usual. How is the DMZ’s nature temporally operationalized as transhistorical and universal, connecting a pre-division, yet national, space to a “context yet to come” of a post-division Korea? What imaginative possibilities does it offer beyond state-centric and nationalist frameworks for unification?

Eleana Kim is associate professor of anthropology at UC Irvine and author of Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging (Duke UP, 2010). Her research on the ecologies of the Korean DMZ has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the ACLS, and related articles may be found in Cultural Anthropology, Social Research, and the forthcoming edited volume, How Nature Works (SAR Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:22:20 -0500 2019-03-26T16:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California- Irvine
You're Invited to University of Michigan's Girls in Aerospace Seminar Series (March 26, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62278 62278-15344241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

The University of Michigan's Aerospace Department is proud to present the Girls in Aerospace seminar series this spring. There, you'll get a chance to meet and hear from our Aerospace Chair, Dr. Tony Waas, a female member of faculty, and a group of students from Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics (WAA). Any of them would love to talk with you about college goals, career aspirations, and the love of things that fly!

Please join us for our next seminars:

Tuesday, 3/26 with Aerospace Engineering Professor Ella Atkins, a world leader in drone flight and safety. She will be discussing her unique journey to the aerospace engineering field and her current research in autonomous vehicles.

Tuesday, 4/23 with Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Dimitra Panagou. She will be discussing her unique journey to the aerospace engineering field and her current research in autonomous multi-robotic systems.

If you are a girl interested in studying aerospace engineering, there is a place for you. Come talk to us about it at our Girls in Aerospace Seminar Series, which you can RSVP for here. We're looking forward to meeting you soon!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 08:59:34 -0400 2019-03-26T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Food Literacy for All (March 26, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287016@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 6:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Nov 2018 10:04:58 -0500 2019-03-26T18:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Eugenics (March 26, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49435 49435-11456548@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on who ought to be here.

Readings to consider:
"Eugenics: its definition, scope, and aims"
"The second international congress of eugenics"
"CC Little renaming resolution"
"Buck v. Bell Supreme Court opinion"
"Moderate eugenics and human enhancement"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont (belmont@umich.edu) or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/028-eugenics/.

Also, feel free to swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 16:10:19 -0500 2019-03-26T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-26T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Eugenics
Modeling rare and common genetic risk for schizophrenia using stem cells (March 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60227 60227-14849130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Sue O’Shea, Ph.D.
Roman Giger, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:15:40 -0500 2019-03-27T09:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Kristen Brennand
Bioethics Grand Rounds: Historical Justice for Sterilization Survivors? Redressing Eugenics in the United States (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62355 62355-15355254@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Department of American Culture

Organized by Center for Bioethics and Social Science in Medicine: http://cbssm.med.umich.edu/news-events/events/grand-rounds/bioethics-grand-rounds-alex-minna-stern-phd/wed-03272019

This talk pivots around the current bill being considered in the California legislature to compensate survivors of the state's 20th century eugenic sterilization program. I explore the genesis of historical and demographic research that informs this bill, which is based at U-M's Sterilization and Social Justice Lab and encompasses qualitative and quantitative methods and humanistic approaches. In addition to reflecting on how historical research can inform social justice efforts, I will discuss compensation and memorialization as forms of restorative justice with the potential to redress past state harm and medical malfeasance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:26:38 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:30:00-04:00 University Hospitals Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Headshot
CREES Noon Lecture. "They Treat Us Like Animals Here": Romani and Egyptian Belonging in Albania (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58186 58186-14435501@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

While many scholars in the Balkan region have analyzed identity and the politics of difference through the lens of ethnicity and ethnic conflict, few have done so through frameworks of racialization and racial belonging. Drawing from anthropological and ethnographic research with Romani and Egyptian communities in Albania, this talk features a critical discussion of social inequality with a particular focus on processes of racialization, dehumanization, and marginalization. In Albania, Roms and Egyptians are often racialized as dorë e zezë or ‘black’ while Albanians are racialized as dorë e bardhë or ‘white’. Additionally, many Roms and Egyptians in Albania frequently invoke the language of dehumanization to articulate their experiences with discrimination and non-belonging in Albania. Through an exploration of ethnographic cases, this talk will examine local constructions of these racial identities in the post-communist period, specifically as they pertain to housing segregation, health, labor, and the environment. This talk will also shed light on the ways that Roms and Egyptians in Albania mobilize around issues of inequality to promote social justice.

Chelsi West Ohueri is a sociocultural anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Population Health at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. Her research interests include race and racialization, belonging, marginalization, health disparities, and global health. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research in Albania, southeastern Europe, and Central Texas. West Ohueri is a native of Jackson, MS and completed her Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Her dissertation analyzed racialization and belonging in Romani, Egyptian, and Albanian communities of Albania.

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 Wed, 16 Jan 2019 14:52:04 -0500 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Chelsi West Ohueri
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Less Metrics, More Rando: (Net) Art as Software Research (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62310 62310-15346470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

How are numbers on Facebook changing what we "like" and who we "friend"? Why does a bit of nonsense sent via email scare both your mom and the NSA? What makes someone mad when they learn Google can't see where they stand? From net art to robotics to supercuts to e-lit, Ben Grosser will discuss several artworks that illustrate his methods for investigating the culture of software.

About the speaker:
Artist Ben Grosser creates interactive experiences, machines, and systems that examine the cultural, social, and political implications of software. Recent exhibition venues include Eyebeam in New York, Arebyte in London, Museum Kesselhaus in Berlin, Museu das Comunicações in Lisbon, and Galerie Charlot in Paris. His works have been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, El País, Libération, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Der Spiegel. The Chicago Tribune called him the “unrivaled king of ominous gibberish.” Slate referred to his work as “creative civil disobedience in the digital age.”

Grosser’s recognitions include First Prize in VIDA 16, and the Expanded Media Award for Network Culture from Stuttgarter Filmwinter. His writing about the cultural effects of technology has been published in journals such as Computational Culture, Media-N, and Big Data and Society. Grosser is an assistant professor of new media at the School of Art + Design, co-founder of the Critical Technology Studies Lab at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and an affiliate faculty member with the Unit for Criticism and the School of Information Sciences, all at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

https://bengrosser.com

The CRITICAL x DESIGN series is generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology & Society program and the Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:34:45 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Ben Grosser
Sphere packing and quantum gravity (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62491 62491-15372958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The sphere packing problem asks to find the densest possible packing of identical spheres in d dimensions. The problem was recently solved analytically in 8 and 24 dimensions by Viazovska et al., building on linear programming bounds of Cohn+Elkies. I will show that there is a close connection between these results on sphere packing and the modular bootstrap in two-dimensional conformal field theories. In particular, I will explain that Viazovska's solution was essentially rediscovered in the conformal bootstrap literature in the guise of "analytic extremal functionals". It corresponds to saturation of the modular bootstrap bounds by known 2D CFTs. Sphere packing in a large number of dimensions maps to the modular bootstrap at large central charge, which can be used to constrain quantum gravity in large AdS_3. I will use the new analytic techniques to improve significantly on the best asymptotic upper bound on the mass of the lightest state in such theories.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:18:48 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
UROP Brown Bag (March 27, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722985@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-27T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works (March 27, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62590 62590-15416713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Lunch provided. Please RSVP to help us order food: https://goo.gl/forms/yS61hwJmjn88emi13.

Please join us for a book talk by Rucker C. Johnson (MA '97 Econ, PhD '02 Econ), Associate Professor & NBER, University of California, Berkeley & Goldman School of Public Policy.

About the book:

We are frequently told that school integration was a social experiment doomed from the start. But as Rucker C. Johnson demonstrates in Children of the Dream, it was, in fact, a spectacular achievement. Drawing on longitudinal studies going back to the 1960s, he shows that students who attended integrated and well-funded schools were more successful in life than those who did not — and this held true for children of all races.

Yet as a society we have given up on integration. Since the high point of integration in 1988, we have regressed and segregation again prevails. Contending that integrated, well-funded schools are the primary engine of social mobility, Children of the Dream offers a radical new take on social policy. It is essential reading in our divided times.

For more info, visit https://www.basicbooks.com/titles/rucker-c-johnson/children-of-the-dream.

About the author:

Rucker C. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a labor economist who specializes in the economics of education, Johnson’s work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances.

Johnson was one of 35 scholars to receive the prestigious 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. His research has appeared in leading academic journals, featured in mainstream media outlets, and he has been invited to give policy briefings at the White House and on Capitol Hill. His forthcoming book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works, will be published by Basic Books & the Russell Sage Foundation Press in April 2019.

Johnson is committed to advance his scholarly agenda of fusing insights from multiple disciplinary perspectives to improve our understanding of the causes, consequences, and remedies of inequality in this country. Johnson earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan. At UC-Berkeley (2004-present), he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in applied econometrics and topical courses in race, poverty & inequality.

Hosted by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and co-sponsored by Education Policy Initiative.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 14:38:04 -0400 2019-03-27T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Rucker C. Johnson
Artist Roundtable with Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen! Artists (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59625 59625-14756699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Please join us for the Ann Arbor Film Festival Off the Screen! Artist Roundtable with Hamutal Attar and OTS! Artists.

This event is presented in partnership with the 57th Ann Arbor Film Festival and held in conjunction with the exhibition YYYAAAOOO.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-roundtable-with-ann-arbor-film-festival-off-the-screen-artists-tickets-54777159960

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 18:15:30 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
Ling.A.Mod Discussion Group (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59362 59362-14734863@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:06:32 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T15:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (March 27, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61044 61044-15024930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 09:23:41 -0500 2019-03-27T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
DCMB Weekly Seminar (March 27, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61637 61637-15161278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Next generation and single cell sequencing have ushered in an era of big data in biology. These data present an unprecedented opportunity to learn new mechanisms and ask unasked questions. Matrix factorization (MF) techniques can reveal low-dimensional structure from high-dimensional data to uncover new biological knowledge. The knowledge of gained from low dimensional features in training data can also be transferred to new datasets to relate disparate model systems and data modalities. We illustrate the power of these techniques for interpretation of high dimensional data through case studies in postmortem tissues from GTEx, acquired therapeutic resistance in cancer, and developmental biology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:22:07 -0400 2019-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
2019 Ford Distinguished Lecture in Physics | General Relativity: Creator and Killer of Galaxies (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60963 60963-14997736@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department Colloquia

The story of galaxy life cycles is becoming clear. Professor and Astronomer Emerita Sandra Faber will take us through the earliest moments of galaxy birth during inflation, the inception of star formation, the gradual emergence of shape and structure, and finally death at the hands of black holes. Explaining the origin of galaxies is emerging as one of the great triumphs of modern physics.

Dr. Sandra Faber is a Professor Emerita at the University of California Santa Cruz and an Astronomer Emerita at the University of California Observatories.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:23:42 -0500 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Sandra Faber, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics (UCSC)
Voices of the Black Press in Times of Social Cleavage in Contemporary Brazil. Magazine "O Menelick 2Ato" (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62311 62311-15346471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Through an overview of the digital and printed magazine O Menelick 2Ato, Luciane will discuss how the black arts in Brazil have been a fundamental channel of critical engagement in discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, which is an urgent matter in the current social and political context of Brazil.

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

Luciane Ramos Silva is a dancer, independent curator, choreographer and anthropologist with a transdisciplinary background. In her formation years, she studied at centers such as University of São Paulo, University of Maryland, Ecole des Sables (Senegal), EDIT (Burkina Faso), Center Momboye (France), Bagatai Center (Guinea) , among others. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts/Dance from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2018). Her dissertation research was around notions of coloniality in dance, pedagogical approaches and south-south relations through the work of the Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny. She also holds a MA in Social Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2008).

She is co-editor of "O Menelick2Ato," a quarterly printed magazine focused on the Black Atlantic - laureated By Prince Claus Fund Award (2018). She is also the cultural manager of Acervo África – a research and educational center for material African culture. Since 2018 she joins Anikaya Dance Theater - Company based in Boston. See below for links to her work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:02:44 -0400 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Voices of the Black Press in Times of Social Cleavage in contemporary Brazil. Magazine O Menelick 2Ato (March 27, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62474 62474-15370748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Through an overview of the digital and printed magazine O Menelick 2Ato, Afro-Brazilian choreographer, anthropologist and dancer Luciane Ramos Silva will discuss how the black arts in Brazil have been a fundamental channel of critical engagement in discussing the dominant aesthetic and poetic regimes of representation, which is an urgent matter in the current social and political context of Brazil.

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

Luciane Ramos Silva is a dancer, independent curator, choreographer and anthropologist with a transdisciplinary background. In her formation years, she studied at centers such as University of São Paulo, University of Maryland, Ecole des Sables (Senegal), EDIT (Burkina Faso), Center Momboye (France), Bagatai Center (Guinea) , among others. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts/Dance from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2018). Her dissertation research was around notions of coloniality in dance, pedagogical approaches and south-south relations through the work of the Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny. She also holds a MA in Social Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2008).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:16:07 -0400 2019-03-27T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Voices of the Black Press
Arab Heritage Month: The Intersection of Religious Identities in the Middle East (March 27, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61380 61380-15097051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

More information to come soon!

This event is a part of Arab Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-February to mid-April. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:27:41 -0500 2019-03-27T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 School of Education Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Arab Heritage Month Calendar
"Colonialism and Spatial Histories of Migration: the Caribbean Diaspora" (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58493 58493-14510814@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

This lecture asks how the spatial politics of migration have been inflected by histories of colonialism. Using the example of the Anglo-Caribbean island of Barbados and its majority African-descended population, Osayimwese examines migration to the Global North as a response to the inequitable structure of plantation society. She shows that migration fundamentally transformed the structure of Barbadian society by enabling property acquisition through remittances. The remittance landscape that ensued, however, encompassed both land and houses on the island and property purchased in receiving countries, which remain connected by particular Afro-Caribbean approaches to land ownership and modes of dwelling.

Itohan Osayimwese is an architectural and urban historian. She is assistant professor of history of art and architecture at Brown University. She engages with theories of modernity, postcoloniality, and globalization to analyze German colonial architecture, urban design, and visual culture; modern architecture in Germany; African and African diaspora material cultural histories; and the architecture of development in Africa. Another research interest is the architectural and urban lives of religious cults. She received a BA from Bryn Mawr College, an M.Arch. from Rice University, then a master’s and PhD in the history of architecture from the University of Michigan A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 13:24:06 -0400 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Chattel House after hurricane Janet, 1955
Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS). Al-Ghazālī and the Foundations of Medieval Islamic Ontology, Epistemology, and Scientific Inquiry (March 27, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61478 61478-15114926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Medieval Muslim scientists trace most of their foundational ontological and epistemological underpinnings to Al-Ghazālī’s (1058-1111 CE) contribution in bridging the gap between scholastic theology (kalām) and scientific inquiry and experimentation. In doing so, Al-Ghazālī draws on two related subdomains: philology and exegesis. This talk sheds some light on Al-Ghazālī's holistic rational view which informed Medieval Islamic ontology, epistemology, and the scientific method, falling at the nexus of language, scholastic theology, Qur’anic hermeneutics, and the philosophy of science. Al-Ghazālī’s thought has implications for positivism and post-positivism, including the rejection of the behavioral psychology view of knowing and learning through mere habituation.

Mohammad T. Alhawary is Professor of Arabic Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. In addition to his research in applied linguistics, his interests lie in the Medieval Arabic grammatical tradition and its interactions with neighboring disciplines such as exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy, and scholastic theology.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:50:34 -0500 2019-03-27T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion poster
Climate Action Panel (March 27, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61681 61681-15170127@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: University Library

Two U-M Library Engagement Fellows will be hosting a Climate Action Panel featuring faculty and students who conduct climate change research and/or participate in climate change advocacy groups on campus. Panel topics will include solutions to climate change, actions that students can take to minimize their impact on the environment, and advice for students looking to be further involved in climate action.

Panel speakers include:

Dr. Julia Cole, professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences (LS&A)
Dr. Naomi Levin, professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences (LS&A)
Samantha Basile, doctoral student, Climate & Space Sciences & Engineering (CoE)
Natalie Brown, undergraduate student, BLUElab president

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:14:23 -0500 2019-03-27T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 Shapiro Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Shapiro Library
Student Community Conversations (March 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62280 62280-15344244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Each event will provide students with an interactive opportunity to share their ideas and experiences in making U-M a more, diverse, equitable and inclusive environment.

These events will help to generate feedback that will be shared with leadership and schools, colleges and units across U-M to shape the future of our DEI plans.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:14:52 -0400 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T20:30:00-04:00 Couzens Hall Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Student Community Conversations
Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series: A Discussion on Women in Leadership (March 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62196 62196-15311070@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series

The Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series invites you to a discussion on Women in Leadership. This discussion will feature speakers Barbara McQuad, U-M Law Professor and Kathryn Dominguez, U-M Professor of Public Policy and Economics with moderator Arnessa Garrett of the Dallas Morning News.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 15:48:46 -0400 2019-03-27T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Trotter Distinguished Leadership Series Lecture / Discussion TDLS March Flyer
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (March 27, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61470 61470-15110401@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 18:00:15 -0400 2019-03-27T20:00:00-04:00 2019-03-27T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
SOUNDS FUNNY: HUMOR AND AMERICAN MUSIC (March 28, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60577 60577-14910390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Charles Hiroshi Garrett is Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he teaches courses in classical music, jazz, and popular music. His book, Struggling to Define a Nation: American Music and the Twentieth Century, received the Irving Lowens Memorial Book Award from the Society for American Music. He also served as editor-in-chief for an award-winning reference work, The Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition.

What is musical humor? How can a sound be funny? What makes the combination of music and humor distinctive and appealing? Drawing on comic examples across the history of American music, this presentation examines the rich relationship between music and humor, first by delving into how composers and musicians produce humor through purely musical means and then by exploring how music generates special comic effects in combination with lyrics, staging, performance, film, and new forms of media.

This is the last in a six-lecture series. The subject is Humor, Comedy, and Laughter in Everyday Life and Beyond. The next lecture series will start April 4, 2019. The subject is: Changing Gender Roles.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:00:06 -0500 2019-03-28T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58690 58690-14544794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how economic policy packages, commonly known as Abenomics, introduced by Prime Minister Abe at the end of 2012 to early 2013 has lifted the economy out of stagnation and deflation in 6 years; and (iii) remaining challenges in Japan, including the failure to achieve 2% inflation target and lack of productivity increases that make possible higher real wage increases.

Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (since 2015) and Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (since 2016), has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since finishing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1979. He taught at the University of Minnesota (1979-1988), Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), and the University of Tokyo (2004-2014). He held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and University of Malaya.

He has distinguished academic and research appointments such as President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the Econometric Society, since 1992; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985. He was awarded by the Government of Japan the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:09:16 -0500 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takatoshi Ito
Everyday life of death: Accessing history on a human scale (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62624 62624-15414520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Understanding the role human agency and interaction play in the flows of history is a challenging task. Archaeology is well equipped to study history as sequences of transformative events linked together loosely by the thread of time, or as a continuous process of everyday life where time serves as a function of cultural persistence. On a macro-scale the sweeping reconfiguration of human-material relations marked by events and interpreted as cultural change have been at the center of archaeological practice since the first descriptions of ‘cultures’ as convenient analytical and spatio-temporal units of analysis. Within narratives of everyday life, the emphasis shifted to the mundane, to the multivocality and messiness of social existence. Corresponding to the decreasing scale of analysis and interpretive context, the struggle became to present the ways in which people’s repetitive day-to-day practices mattered and figured into broad-scale historical events. In my current project, I attempt to redirect focus from easily discernible events to political discourse, to the processes that lead up to change and to the ways in which agency constitutes the textur history. Through the analysis of mortuary practice, I will present a case study exploring the ways in which members of the Bronze Age Kajászó community engaged in political action surrounding change and persistence in the wake of some momentous transformations.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 08:57:11 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
LRCCS Distinguished Speaker Series | Reconfiguring the Box — Stan Lai on Creativity (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61812 61812-15188675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Stan Lai's theories on creativity, heretofore only published in Chinese, are considered groundbreaking in the field (Stan Lai on Creativity, in Chinese, 赖声川的创意). Through his invention of bold new genres and innovative staging, Lai has sparked new interest for theatre audiences in China. He will be joined by Bright Sheng, Leonard Bernstein Distinguished University Professor of Music. Sheng is one of the foremost composers of our time whose works are performed regularly across the globe. He collaborated with Stan Lai in the opera production of Dream of the Red Chamber, a much anticipated new opera, which debuted in San Francisco in 2016.

Please see also our March 26 event: Film Screening of "Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land" An Lian Tao Hua Yuan 暗戀桃花源. More information at: https://events.umich.edu/event/61759

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 11:52:24 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T14:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Stan Lai's theories on creativity, heretofore only published in Chinese, are considered groundbreaking in the field (Stan Lai on Creativity, in Chinese, 赖声川的创意). Through his invention of bold new genres and innovative staging, Lai has sparked new interest for theatre audiences in China. He will be joined by Bright Sheng, Professor of Composition at the U-M School of Music, Theatre and Dance and MacArthur Fellow. Sheng is one of the foremost composers of our time whose works are performed regularly across the globe. He collaborated with Stan Lai in the opera production of Dream of the Red Chamber, a much anticipated new opera, which debuted in San Francisco in 2016. The following text will be included on all II events unless you indicate otherwise: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 unive
UROP Brown Bag (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/55331 55331-13722986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Undergraduate Science Building
Organized By: UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:10:49 -0400 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 Undergraduate Science Building UROP - Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Lecture / Discussion UROP Brown Bag
PhD Defense: Hao Yuan (March 28, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62038 62038-15276119@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

CANDIDATE: Hao Yuan

CHAIR: Cong Shi

TITLE OF DISSERTATION: Data Driven Optimization:
Theory and Applications in Supply Chain Systems

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:46:26 -0400 2019-03-28T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T15:00:00-04:00 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. Jade Morton (March 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60727 60727-14957191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

Our guest for this week's CLaSP Seminar Series will be Prof. Jade Morton of the University of Colorado Boulder.
Please join us!

Title: "Satellite-based Navigation and Sensing: A Match Made in Heaven"

Abstract: Satellite-based navigation has impacted nearly every aspect of our modern society. Yet, this powerful technology relies on extremely low power, vulnerable signals traversing a vast space to reach receivers on the Earth surface or near-Earth space environments. Many complex elements interfere with the signals along their propagation path, including plasma in the upper atmosphere, water vapor in the lower troposphere, as well as physical objects and electromagnetic sources in the user environment. These nuisance factors degrade and limit navigation systems performance. Understanding their effects on navigation signals is the pre-requisite for developing robust navigation technologies that can mitigate these elements impact. Moreover, these effects enable satellite navigation signals to function as signals-of-opportunity for low cost, distributed, passive sensing of our space and local environments. This presentation will first discuss our efforts in developing a worldwide network of software-defined sensors to capture and characterize the effects of the space environment on satellite navigation signals. Based on findings obtained through these sensor networks, we designed and developed a library of novel algorithms that have demonstrated the capability to mitigate these effects. Some of these algorithms will be highlighted in this presentation. Finally, I will present case studies demonstrating the potential powerful applications of the satellite navigation sensor network for environmental monitoring.


Dr. Jade Morton is a Professor at the Ann and H. J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department at the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder. She received a PhD in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Penn State. Prior to joining CU in 2017, she was an electrical engineering professor at Colorado State University and Miami University, a full-time mother, and a post-doc research fellow at the University of Michigan. Dr. Morton’s research interests lie at the intersection of satellite navigation technologies and remote sensing of the Earth’s space environment, atmosphere, and surface. She is the President of the US Institute of Navigation (ION) and a fellow of IEEE and ION.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:15:07 -0500 2019-03-28T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
Ancient Philosophy: Mariska Leunissen (UNC Chapel Hill) (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60926 60926-14988683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

Aristotle’s political naturalism, as introduced in the first book of his Politics, rests on three claims about the relation between nature and the city-state: first, that the city exists by nature; second, that human beings are by nature more political than any other political animal; and third, that the city as a whole is naturally prior to the household and the individual. He argues for this latter claim by treating the city as analogous to the natural, organic body of a human being: since natural wholes such human bodies are prior to parts and since their parts can no longer perform their function when separated from the functionally complex whole to which they belong, the same must be true for cities and their parts. And while Aristotle seems to resist the view that cities are themselves natural substances (ultimately, cities that exist for the sake of living well are the product of the art of lawgiving), he frequently naturalizes the city and resorts to analogies between cities and human/animal bodies in order to draw out and explain important features about the city or its constitution, which he designates as ‘a kind of life of the city’. My purpose in this paper to specify the heuristic and explanatory uses of these analogies between cities and natural, living bodies. I will first discuss a few relatively innocent uses of this kind of analogy before attempting to offer an interpretation of a more complicated passage in Politics IV 4 in which Aristotle suggests that one can determine the species of cities in exactly the same way as one would compile a complete list of species of animals.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:12:56 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Mariska Leunissen
Conquering Today’s Regulatory Challenges to Realize Precision Medicine - Christine Gathers (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61379 61379-15097053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Precision Medicine has evolved in the last decade to offer incredible promise by delivering improved individual outcomes for patients. While technology and science has contributed to advancing Precision Medicine at an accelerated pace, regulatory bodies have needed to quickly adapt to address the new challenges presented by these novel scientific applications. In addition to ensuring patient safety, regulatory bodies are heralding enhanced therapeutic effectiveness delivered by new targeted therapies and devices by offering breakthrough designations and expedited regulatory pathways. A key development that is front and center of Precision Medicine is the companion diagnostic to guide patient therapy. Drug and diagnostic manufacturers must collaborate effectively to overcome significant hurdles to identify and co-develop a companion diagnostic which is then contemporaneously approved with its corresponding drug product. This presentation will introduce regulatory concepts affiliated with co-development of drug and diagnostic, as well as outline the regulatory challenges in realizing Precision Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:12:47 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Biomedical Engineering
Discover Series: A Close Look at Vues D'Optique (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61725 61725-15176770@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

During the late 18th century, European engravers created 'vues d'optique,' a special kind of print designed to be viewed with an optical device called a zograscope that would make them appear three-dimensional. Join Curator of Graphics Clayton Lewis and Assistant Curator Jakob Dopp as they discuss these visual entertainment showpieces.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:37:52 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Vue de Boston
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Diaspora as Counter Response: Human Rights Stories and Violence Against Women (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59847 59847-14795151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

There is no doubt that the Islamists’ rise to power in the 1980s has put Sudan at the center of transnational media attention. Consequently, the worldwide resurgence of conservatism and right wing politics reanimated a politics of fear and reproduced new clashing discourses over identity, ethnicity, and citizenship. Within these contexts, Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how the production and circulation of violence narratives about Sudan’s conflicts branded humanity in a neoconservative fashion and shaped the practices of Sudanese activists and their allies in the United States, the Sudans, and online. In many temporary and newly formed humanitarian publics, she argues, the ethno-gendered representation of Sudanese women (and men) as victims and survivors is transformed into powerful narratives that won them the status of role models within the human rights and humanitarian fields. These representations reproduced Sudanese ethnic divisions and racial politics in new forms in the diaspora and hardened existing gender and class divisions. In response, many secular Sudanese in the United States and in the Sudan created their own platforms to respond to these new forms of exclusions. These tensions and debates, Fadlalla argues, highlight the post-Cold War politics and confrontations among different national and transnational actors over the meanings of rights, sovereignty, and global citizenship.

This talk is based on Amal Hassan Fadlalla’s newly released book “Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship,” in which the author treats Sudan—a dispersed nation due to sixty years of violent conflicts—as a site for examining these historical shifts and tensions before the country’s division into two nations states in 2011.

Amal Hassan Fadlalla is Associate Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests and teaching focus on global issues and perspectives related to gender, health, reproduction, diaspora, transnationalism, population, development, and human rights and humanitarianism. She holds a B.Sc. and Masters degree in Anthropology from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and a PhD from Northwestern University, United States.

She is the author of "Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence and Global Citizenship" (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018) and "Embodying Honor: Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan" (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). She is also the co-editor of the book, "Gendered Insecurities, Health and Development in Africa" (Routledge, 2012), and the "Humanity Journal Issue: Human Rights and Humanitarianism in Africa" (Volume 7, No. 1, Spring 2016). Some of her other publications appear in: "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society," "Urban Anthropology," "Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power," and in the School for Advanced Research (SAR) advance seminar series edited volume: "New Landscapes of Inequality: Neoliberalism and the Erosion of Democracy in America," 2008.

Professor Amal Hassan Fadlalla is the recipient of many prestigious awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Harvard Population and Development Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the Human Rights Award and Humanity award from the University of Michigan, and the Mercator fellowship from the Special Priority Program “Adaptation and Creativity” of the German Research Foundation at the University of Halle, Germany.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Feb 2019 10:53:13 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
EEB Thursday Seminar: Cranial evolution during the ecological diversification of bats: a two-step process? (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49668 49668-11487553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The mammalian skull performs multiple functions, including feeding and protecting the brain and sensory organs. Dietary demands are considered a major driver of the evolution of skull morphology in mammals, but there have been few quantitative tests of the impact of feeding versus other functions on skull morphological diversification across whole mammalian orders. Bats (Order Chiroptera) are an ideal group to investigate this topic because they represent 20% of all mammals, are highly diverse in terms of cranial morphology, and encompass nearly the full spectrum of mammal diets and sensory ecologies. In this seminar, I will explore whether and how the macroevolution of skull shape is related to feeding strategies in bats, or if other life history traits and behaviors can explain their cranial diversity. I will present results from our current geometric morphometric and phylogenetic comparative analyses, which are based on 3D representations of bat skulls and jaw muscles generated via micro-CT scanning. I will further discuss these results in the context of behavioral plasticity and performance outputs in a clade of bats that has adaptively radiated.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/Xt8LXqoU8-Q

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:21:29 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Bat cranial evolution
GradSWE Winter Networking Mixer (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61960 61960-15247912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Graduate Society of Women Engineers

Join GradSWE for its Winter Networking Mixer where you will be able to interact with faculty from the College of Engineering and industry professionals! We will have professors and industry/national laboratory representatives from organizations including Exponent, Hines, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab to lead discussions during the event. We'll be seating attendees at tables based on career and grad school related discussion topics. Light refreshments will be provided!

RSVP required at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gradswe-winter-networking-mixer-registration-57951349045

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 10:27:38 -0500 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Graduate Society of Women Engineers Lecture / Discussion Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
O Corpo na diáspora: Body, Diaspora, Autonomy and Power (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62313 62313-15346473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Through a mixture of talk and workshop, Luciane will discuss creative proposals of Brazilian women artists, whose reflections point to understand dance and performance as areas of production of knowledge in light of the political and social urgencies of our times. Among the topics that these women artists deal with are women incarceration, self-care and healing and the condition of nonnormative bodies.

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

Luciane Ramos Silva is a dancer, independent curator, choreographer and anthropologist with a transdisciplinary background. In her formation years, she studied at centers such as University of São Paulo, University of Maryland, Ecole des Sables (Senegal), EDIT (Burkina Faso), Center Momboye (France), Bagatai Center (Guinea) , among others. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts/Dance from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2018). Her dissertation research was around notions of coloniality in dance, pedagogical approaches and south-south relations through the work of the Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny. She also holds a MA in Social Anthropology and African Studies from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP - 2008).

She is co-editor of "O Menelick2Ato," a quarterly printed magazine focused on the Black Atlantic - laureated By Prince Claus Fund Award (2018). She is also the cultural manager of Acervo África – a research and educational center for material African culture. Since 2018 she joins Anikaya Dance Theater - Company based in Boston. See below for links to her work.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:01:17 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
Whither the map collection: keeping paper maps relevant in a digital age (March 28, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62368 62368-15355273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

As digital mapping continues to prevail, library staff become less connected to the physical collections they once managed and these collections are repeated targets for dramatic weeding projects, meant to liberate highly sought after space. While people may love paper maps, many librarians and library administrators ask, “If digital mapping is the future, why keep the print maps? What purpose does it serve to keep them?”

Christopher J.J. Thiry (BA 1989, MILS 1992), Map & GIS Librarian at the Arthur Lakes Library, Colorado School of Mines will explore these topics, and explain his belief that paper maps, the information contained on these maps, and the librarians working with them have a challenging, unpredictable, and yet bright future.

Light refreshments will be available.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:11:20 -0400 2019-03-28T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Christopher J.J. Thiry
Carrigan Lecture Series in Music Theory: Jonathan De Souza, Western University (March 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59981 59981-14808238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

*This event has been rescheduled from 1/31*

This lecture explores the psychology and phenomenology of musical form. How, it asks, might music’s large-scale form relate to its emotional content? Recent work on musical grammar, drawing on cognitive linguistics, understands musical schemas as constructions that pair form and function (Gjerdingen & Bourne 2015; Zbikowski 2017). In this account, syntax is not neutral; instead, syntax and semantics—the how and why of communication—are interrelated at all levels. This research mainly emphasizes local features, which fit the temporal constraints of working memory. And some scholars argue that schemas are not relevant to extended formal patterns. For example, David Huron (2006, 208) claims that sonata form and rondo form “almost certainly do not evoke different listening schemas.” In the late eighteenth century, however, rondos were often identified with a certain character or mood. Here I will discuss a new empirical project on instrumental rondos, composed between 1770 and 1799. Our corpus analysis and psychological experiments suggest that movements in sonata and rondo form have distinct affective tendencies. The project extends earlier research on acoustic cues for emotion in music and speech, and it raises questions about how listeners categorize sonata and rondo movements. Finally, I will interpret these results—and theories of musical grammar more generally—in phenomenological terms. Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on “institution” is particularly suggestive here, connecting musical form and emotion with history, sociality, and human embodiment.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:15:35 -0500 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (March 28, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61382 61382-15097056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 09:53:10 -0500 2019-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Meow Wolf: Enter the Multiverse (March 28, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58880 58880-14569988@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Founded in 2008 as an art collective for DIY artists in Santa Fe, Meow Wolf creates immersive, multimedia experiences that transport audiences of all ages into fantastic realms of storytelling. Housed in a converted bowling alley, Meow Wolf welcomes members of the general public into their fantastical world of art installations, video and music production, and extended reality content. Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return is a unique art experience featuring an astonishing new form of non-linear storytelling that unfolds through exploration, discovery, and 21st century interactivity to inspire visitors of all ages. The wildly imaginative art space is a collaboration of over 100 local artists and is a unique combination of children’s museum, art gallery, jungle gym, and fantasy novel. The group’s 2018 independent documentary, Meow Wolf: Origin Story, takes viewers through the meteoric rise of a penniless, anarchic art collective as it attracts the support of author George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones), morphing into a multi-million dollar corporation in just a few short years.

This speaker series event presents two members of the Meow Wolf Collective: Morgan Capps, also co-director of Meow Wolf: Origin Story; and Chris Cloud.

Presented in partnership with the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Feb 2019 18:15:43 -0500 2019-03-28T17:10:00-04:00 2019-03-28T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/MeowWolf2.jpg
Women Who Win (March 28, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61994 61994-15254362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Tauber Colloquium- Ross 6th Floor
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for the second annual Women Who Win conference hosted by Michigan Business Women BBA. This is an OPEN event for ALL female UofM students and will be a fantastic opportunity to hear from empowered executive women from Tiffany & Co. and IBM!

Women Who Win 2019
Date: Thursday, March 28, 2019
Location: Tauber Colloquium - 6th Floor
Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
*Registration begins at 4 PM and dinner begins at 5 PM

Please RSVP using the following link: https://goo.gl/forms/pUsnvbHaqsu6dhKG3RSVP via maize pages will not count as a RSVP. You must use the Google Form to sign up. Thank you to ours sponsors: GM, BP Amoco, Ford, IBM, and MUFG. 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:00:22 -0400 2019-03-28T17:30:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Tauber Colloquium- Ross 6th Floor Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Veg Week Presents: Lisa A. Smith (March 28, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62394 62394-15361884@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS)

Don't miss Lisa A. Smith's talk about Intersectionality and Veganism! Smith is a nutritionist, entrepreneur, author of the guidebook series The Plant Based Foodie, and founder of The Black Health Academy and Professionally Fit. There will also be FREE Earthen Jar catering at this event!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:27:56 -0400 2019-03-28T18:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T19:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Michigan Animal Respect Society (MARS) Lecture / Discussion Event Image
Bright Lights and Windows: A look behind the curtain of Dutch sex work (March 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60980 60980-15000006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Bernice Severin, Social Worker, Veilig Thuis (Safe at Home)

The Red Light District of Amsterdam speaks to our imagination as a symbol of Dutch liberalism, pragmatism, and the normalization of the human experience. Bernice Severin will discuss how, behind the neon lights, hides a deeper, darker culture of exploitation. The audience will come away with an understanding of the history, culture, policy, and economics of Dutch prostitution, as it has expanded beyond canal-front windows to sex farms and storage rooms. Bernice Severin is a social worker with Veilig Thuis (Safe At Home), an advice center and hotline for domestic and child abuse. From 2011 to 2017 she worked for the Amsterdam Coordination Center Against Human Trafficking.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, the De Vries - VanderKooy endowment, School of Social Work, Institute for the Humanities, Rackham Graduate School, International Institute, Center for European Studies, Netherlands Embassy, Washington D.C., Netherlands America University League

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:55:11 -0500 2019-03-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T20:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Bernice Severin
4th Annual RNA Symposium (March 29, 2019 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59721 59721-14780105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 8:00am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins
Howard Chang, Stanford
Alice Telesnitsky, Michigan
Kristen Lynch, Pennsylvania
David Bartel, MIT

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:36:50 -0400 2019-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photos
U-M Structure Seminar (March 29, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55761 55761-13777532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Sarah Kearns, Graduate Student, Michael Cianfrocco Lab, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:40:02 -0400 2019-03-29T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement (March 29, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58861 58861-14567900@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Widely regarded as the first Indonesian-born Buddhist monk (biksu pertama putra Indonesia), Ashin Jinarakkhita took it as his mission to propagate Buddhism in the archipelago nation. His Buddhayāna movement, which combined the doctrines and practices of Mahāyāna and Theravāda Buddhism, had a profound impact in Indonesia during the second half of the twentieth century. Ashin Jinarakkhita established an inclusive and nonsectarian monastic community, consisting of Sangha from various Buddhist traditions. He crafted a vision of Indonesian Buddhism as a diverse, yet unified religion in line with the motto of “Unity in Diversity” (Bhinneka Tunggal Ika) of the modern Indonesian nation. Later, he introduced the concept of “Sang Hyang Adi-Buddha” to make Buddhism compatible with the first principle of the Pancasila, the five philosophical pillars of Indonesia during the New Order era (1966–98). The Buddhayāna movement continues to attract a following of Indonesian people in the twenty-first century.

This presentation draws upon Ashin Jinarakkhita’s career to reconsider the category of Southeast Asian Buddhism in Buddhist Studies. I argue for the need to broaden the category of Southeast Asian Buddhism beyond Theravāda Buddhism on mainland Southeast Asia to include varied forms of Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia that use Mandarin Chinese, Southern Chinese dialects, and Southeast Asian languages in their liturgy and scriptures. Ashin Jinarakkhita’s Buddhayāna movement, which promoted nonsectarian doctrines and practices to be in line with the national discourse of “Unity in Diversity,” was a calculated strategy to ensure the survival of Buddhism as a minority religion in the world’s largest Muslim nation.

Jack Meng-Tat Chia is a Senior Tutor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore and currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Buddhism in maritime Southeast Asia, Chinese popular religion, overseas Chinese history, and Southeast Asia-China interactions. He is currently completing his first book manuscript titled “Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity across the South China Sea,” which explores the history of Buddhism in inter-Asian contexts and the intersections between national and Buddhist institutional projects in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Chia is co-editor of Living with Myths in Singapore (2017) and has published articles in journals such as Archiv Orientální, Asian Ethnology, China Quarterly, History of Religions, Journal of Chinese Religions, Material Religion, and Sojourn. His next book project, “Beyond the Borobudur: Buddhism in Postcolonial Indonesia,” focuses on the history and development of Buddhism in the world’s largest Muslim country since 1945.
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If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to us at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:38:06 -0500 2019-03-29T11:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Arab Heritage Month: People of Color Among People of Color: Anti-Blackness and Colorism within the MENA Community (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61381 61381-15097054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

More information to come soon!

This event is a part of Arab Heritage Month which is celebrated mid-February to mid-April. For a full list of events, please visit MESA's website.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 21:28:07 -0500 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 School of Education Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Arab Heritage Month Calendar
Psychology Methods Hour: Using Growth Curve Modeling with Landmark Registration for the Analysis of Cortisol and Other Hormone Data (March 29, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59127 59127-14686293@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Common approaches to modeling post-stress cortisol (Repeated Measures ANOVA, Growth Curve Modeling) assume limited individual variability in the timing of the responses, which can lead to incorrect interpretation of data when individual variability clusters among groups of interest. In this talk, Dr. Lopez-Duran will discuss the use of landmark registration to adjust for individual differences in the timing of cortisol responses and how this approach can also help in the simultaneous modeling of various dynamics of the cortisol response (activation intensity, duration, and recovery).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:45:28 -0400 2019-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Lopez-Duran
Phondi Discussion Group (March 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Phondi is a discussion and research group for students and faculty at U-M and nearby universities who have interests in phonetics and phonology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 19 Dec 2018 14:26:33 -0500 2019-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Tightness-Looseness: A Fractal Pattern of Human Difference (March 29, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57987 57987-14383898@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Over the past century, we have explored the solar system, split the atom, and wired the Earth, but somehow, despite all of our technical prowess, we have struggled to understand something far more important: our own cultural differences. Using a variety of methodologies, my research has uncovered is that many cultural differences reflect a simple, but often invisible distinction: The strength of social norms. Tight cultures have strong social norms and little tolerance for deviance, while loose cultures have weak social norms and are highly permissive. The tightness or looseness of social norms turns out to be a Rosetta Stone for human groups. It illuminates similar patterns of difference across nations, states, organizations, and social class, and the template also explains differences among traditional societies. It’s also a global fault line: conflicts we encounter can spring from the structural stress of tight-loose tension, and our data show that they have important implications for success in international mergers & acquisitions and expatriate adjustment, and can also help to explain some of today’s most puzzling political trends and events. An understanding of this template can help us develop more empathy and to bridge out cultural divides.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:57:01 -0500 2019-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HistLing Discussion Group (March 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59360 59360-14734855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

HistLing is devoted to discussions of language change. Group members include interested faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates from a wide variety of U-M departments -- Linguistics, Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Classics, Germanic Languages, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Slavic Languages - and from two nearby universities, Eastern Michigan (Ypsilanti) and Wayne State (Detroit). Some meetings feature faculty or student presentations; other meetings have an announced topic for discussion and a volunteer moderator.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 12:51:22 -0500 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Sustainable Systems Forum (March 29, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62013 62013-15273945@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a valuable tool to measure the cradle-to-grave climate change impacts of sustainable energy systems that are planned to replace conventional fossil energy-based systems. The field of LCA is evolving to incorporate increased geographic specificity by utilizing GIS and satellite data and conducting site-specific analyses, which has led to important conclusions for bioenergy and renewable energy systems. Dr. Fortier will cover how geographic data has been integrated into LCAs of various energy systems through her research. Methods were developed to incorporate land use and albedo change impacts into a geographically specific LCA of green gasoline from wastewater microalgae. The results of this geographically specific algal biofuel LCA demonstrate the importance of direct land use and albedo change impacts to the sustainability of algal green gasoline and how these effects vary widely by ecoregion in the United States. Substantial differences in geographically specific climate change impacts can also be observed at smaller resolutions, as demonstrated through a willow biomass LCA performed by tax parcel and county in upstate New York. In this study, the soil carbon change impacts and transportation differences by site affect the life cycle climate change impacts of willow biomass delivered to a bioenergy power plant. Most recently, Dr. Fortier’s research group has completed the first study that shows how the carbon footprint of an ocean energy system changes based on the location installed. Although its importance has now been demonstrated for bioenergy LCAs, geographically specific methodology is novel to LCAs of mechanical energy systems like tidal turbines. The results of this geographic LCA indicate that even in some sites that were identified as “hotspots” for tidal energy deployment on US coasts, electricity from tidal turbines can have higher life cycle greenhouse gas emissions than electricity from natural gas (500 g CO2eq/kWh) and coal power plants (1000 g CO2eq/kWh) due to low electricity generation over the tidal turbine lifetime relative to the emissions arising from the production of the infrastructure and materials. As we improve the geographic specificity of LCA, our collective understanding of how the sustainability of bioenergy and renewable energy systems changes by location also improves and allows for the siting of new systems that optimize a reduction in life cycle climate change impacts.

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Dr. Marie-Odile Fortier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Merced. From 2015 to 2018, she was an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) in the Department of Forest and Natural Resources Management, contributing to the Sustainable Energy Management program. She has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Kansas (2015) and a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and Sciences from the University of Florida (2010). She was awarded the college-wide 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award at SUNY ESF. Dr. Fortier’s research focuses on the geographically specific life cycle environmental impacts of sustainable energy systems, including land use change and albedo change impacts. She uses life cycle assessment, GIS, and mathematical modeling to investigate whether the carbon footprint of different energy systems varies spatially and she develops new methodology to increase applications of life cycle assessment to sustainable energy planning.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:40:50 -0400 2019-03-29T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion Geo-specific LCA of alternative energy
Ancient Philosophy: Mariska Leunissen (UNC Chapel Hill) (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60924 60924-14988682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

For Aristotle, every scientific investigation starts with the collection and organization of facts: only once we have established the 'hotis' - the 'thats' - of any given scientific domain, we can then proceed to investigate their causes and provide explanations or demonstrations of those facts. The fact collecting stage in Aristotle's natural sciences is thoroughly empirical: Aristotle stresses the importance of acquiring observational experience, of observing phenomena for the sake of knowledge, and of giving credence to observations over theory in cases where the facts have not yet been sufficiently grasped. My aim in this paper is to reconstruct and critically discuss (1) Aristotle's strategies for establishing facts in his natural sciences in those cases where observations are altogether lacking or insufficient to determine with any certainty whether the facts are such or so (e.g. 'whether the universe is spherical or lentil-shaped' in his cosmology, or 'whether the gestation period of elephants is one years or two years long' in his biology) and (2) also his strategies for evaluating putative empirical facts as reported by others in those cases where Aristotle would not have been able to verify those facts himself through observation. I will argue that in empirically underdetermined domains, Aristotle's epistemic goal in establishing facts is not knowledge but credence, and that he relies heavily on circumstantial empirical evidence; on arguments based on 'what can reasonably be expected to be the case', given observations of other, related phenomena; and on ingenious methods of 'weighing' the evidential force of competing sets of inconclusive observations in an attempt to establish and evaluate natural facts in a scientific way.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:13:56 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Mariska Leunissen
Comp Lit Colloquium (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52984 52984-13168222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Graham Liddell and Prof. Christopher Hill will present.

Graham Liddell, "Reflections on Translating Habiby’s Sextet of the Six Days"
Palestinian author Emile Habiby’s short story collection Sextet of the Six Days is set in the aftermath of the 1967 war, in which Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights. It is written from the perspective of Palestinians who were able to remain on their land in what became Israel in 1948. Habiby highlights a number of reunions that take place in this period, when some Palestinian refugees are able to visit relatives from whom they have been separated for nearly 20 years, and cities and towns from which were expelled. While these brief and incomplete reunions take place in the shadow of catastrophic circumstances, they nonetheless provide an occasion to take stock of physical, psychological, and spiritual damage, and to assess any hopes of repair. In this short presentation, I will discuss my translation of Habiby’s collection (a work in progress) and propose a theoretical framework for understanding the impact of national displacement on modes of storytelling. Habiby’s style offers readers a close look at the ways his characters experience the sensations of everyday life amid national trauma. The striking dialogism at play within the text is not only indicative of rifts in individual psyches, but also of the utterance’s inherent inclination toward others.


Prof. Christopher Hill, "Toward a Chronogeography of the Naturalist Novel"
In the decades after the variety of literary realism known as naturalism emerged in France in the 1860s, in the work of Emile Zola and the Goncourt brothers, it was widely adopted by writers around the world. By the turn of the twentieth century self-described naturalists were working from the Americas to East Asia. As it traveled, the topics, themes, and techniques of naturalist fiction changed in ways that could not have been predicted from its origins. Current paradigms for explaining literary history on a large scale rely on categories derived from the literary history of a handful of European countries and are unable to treat works that differ from the categorical norms as anything but deviations. My talk uses examples from the history of the naturalist novel to propose alternative approaches to large-scale literary history.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:22:10 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
CSE Distinguished Lecture Series--Physics, Machine Learning, and Networks (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62714 62714-15434134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Computer Science and Engineering Division

There is a deep analogy between Bayesian inference — where we try to fit a model to data, which has a ground-truth structure partly hidden by noise — and statistical physics. Many concepts like energy landscapes, free energy, and phase transitions can be usefully carried over from physics to machine learning and computer science. At the very least, these techniques are a source of conjectures that have stimulated new work in probability, combinatorics, and theoretical computer science. At their best, they offer strong intuitions about the structure of inference problems and possible algorithms for them.

One recent success of this interface is the discovery of a phase transition in community detection in sparse graphs. Analogous transitions exist in many other inference problems, where our ability to find patterns in data jumps suddenly as a function of how noisy they are. I will discuss why and how this detectability transition occurs, review what is known rigorously, and present a number of open questions that cry out for proofs.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:18:02 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Cris Moore
Dark Matter In and Out of Equilibrium (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62492 62492-15372959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

One generic scenario for the dark matter of our universe is that it resides in a hidden sector: it talks to other dark fields more strongly than it talks to the Standard Model. I'll discuss some simple, WIMP-y models of this kind of hidden sector dark matter, paying particular attention to what we can learn from the cosmic history of the dark sector. In particular, the need to populate the dark sector in the early universe can control the observability of dark matter today. Some results of interest include new cosmological lower bounds on direct detection cross-sections and simple models of dark matter with parametrically novel behavior.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:22:54 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Goldring Family Distinguished Guest Speaker (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62335 62335-15353054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Program in the Environment (PitE)

To build a climate movement strong enough to stop irreversible climate disruption, a critical mass of Americans must believe in a healthy functioning civil society and an economically secure clean energy economy. The good news is we are already on the way: large majorities of Americans want us to move toward a clean energy economy and want climate action now; so how do we restore the metaphorical governing wetlands?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 10:54:42 -0400 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Program in the Environment (PitE) Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
SoConDi Discussion Group (March 29, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58466 58466-14734946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

The SoConDi group is both a discussion platform and a study group for students and faculty members who are interested in sociolinguistics, language contact, discourse analysis and related disciplines including linguistic anthropology.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Dec 2018 15:54:39 -0500 2019-03-29T15:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Smith Lecture: A Growing Threat to Global Water Resources and Food Security (March 29, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52685 52685-15293427@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Two of our prominent challenges for the 21st Century are meeting water resource needs (domestically and agriculturally) while also providing a sufficient food supply in the face of a growing population and a changing climate.  On a global basis, groundwater is increasingly being used to meet water needs, and managed groundwater storage is an emerging focus for water agencies.  Missed within management plans, however, is an account of water contaminants that may threaten the viability of precious groundwater resources.  Owing to the high particle surface area to water volume ratio, which generally runs in near opposition to surface water reservoirs, native contaminants can be particularly problematic.  Within the Indo-Gangetic Plain, for example, which supplies water to over a billion people throughout India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh, groundwater levels are largely being maintained but more than 55% of the shallow (less than 200 m) aquifer is contaminated with native salt (25%) or arsenic (28%).  In nearly every subsurface environment, a naturally occurring metal residing within the soil/sediment may jeopardize water quality if a dissolution/desorption process is stimulated.  Recognizing processes by which native contaminants may be released to groundwater and avoiding such reaction conditions is critical for sustaining viable water supplies. Unfortunately, groundwater supplies are not alone in being threatened by native contaminations.  Often correlating with groundwater contamination is a second major threat from naturally occurring contaminants, and particularly arsenic:  Food production.  Of the major cereal crops, rice is uniquely susceptible to reductions in yield and grain quality resulting from soil-borne arsenic.  Further exacerbating the impacts of arsenic on rice production are temperature increases that both induce plant stresses and enhance soil microbial activity.  The combined impacts of projected temperatures for the year 2100 coupled with soil arsenic endemic to the major rice growing regions of Asia lead to a yield reduction exceeding 40% compared to current conditions.  Further, at any soil arsenic concentrations, inorganic grain arsenic levels double for every 5 C change in temperature.  In order to sustain future grain production, rice varieties and soil management practices will need to evolve rapidly to minimize the arsenic-temperature impacts.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:58:42 -0500 2019-03-29T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquium: Travis Carless, RAND Corporation (March 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62530 62530-15397107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Speaker: Travis Carless, RAND Corporation

Abstract: The nuclear power sector has a history of challenges with its relative competitiveness against other forms of electricity generation. The availability of low-cost natural gas, the Fukushima nuclear accident, and the cancellation of the AP1000 V.C. Summer project has caused a considerable role in ending the short-lived “Nuclear Renaissance.” Historically, the nuclear industry has focused on direct cost reduction through construction, increasing installed capacity, and improving efficiencies to capacity factors in the 1990s and 2000s as a strategy to maintain competitiveness against other forms of energy generation. With renewables serving as an emerging low-carbon competitor, an added focus needs to be placed on indirect methods to increase the competitiveness of nuclear power and examining the risk associated with widespread deployment.

In this talk I will present two papers that explores the different pathways nuclear power can be competitive with other forms of electricity generation given its advantages environmentally and through improved safety. The first paper utilizes a life cycle assessment model to estimate the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), Generation II, and Generation III+ nuclear power plants. The second paper focuses risk associated with deployment of SMRs and estimating environmental dose exposure in a post-accident scenario to support scalable emergency planning zones (EPZs). This study includes calculating radionuclide inventory; estimating the impact decontamination factors from the AP1000, NUREG-6189, and EPRI’s Experimental Verification of Post-Accident iPWR Aerosol Behavior test will have on radioactivity within containment; and estimate dose exposure using atmospheric dispersion models. Finally, I will continue with the theme of examining risk associated with deployment by touching on some current work where I am quantify the nuclear proliferation risks associated with the introduction of Generation III+ and IV nuclear power plants sourced from Chinese and Russian-based vendors to emerging markets using expert elicitation and Bayesian Belief Networks.

Bio: Travis Carless is a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the RAND Corporation and a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. He was awarded a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2018 and is a 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. His research is centered on risk, life-cycle assessments, and nuclear energy and policy.

Prior to pursing doctoral studies, Carless served as a functional design engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company in the AP1000 Nuclear Application Programs group. He received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.S. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:45:39 -0400 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Travis Carless flyer NERS Colloquium
On Migritude: A Roundtable (March 29, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61642 61642-15161283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Kenyan poet, playwright, and activist Shailja Patel will be in conversation with U-M faculty Gaurav Desai, Aliyah Khan, and Supriya Nair and graduate student Bassam Sidiki to discuss her book, MIGRITUDE (Kaya Press, 2008).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 10:52:29 -0400 2019-03-29T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-29T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Musicology Distinguished Lecture Series: Prof. Benjamin Piekut, Cornell University (March 29, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58223 58223-14444063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

The title of this talk alludes to process-based works of the late 1960s by sculptor Robert Morris and choreographer Yvonne Rainer. They were among a wave of artists in different disciplines who explored alternatives to stable, unified, and repeatable artworks and performances. Piekut intends to survey this shared impulse and its relationship with improvisational modes of creative practice, and to develop the notion of a “fetter of improvisation” that emerges in these years, seemingly to compensate for the loss of repeatable works. In addition to the uncertainties of ever-changing artworks, he will show, artists of the late 1960s faced novel problematics of shared authorship.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 18:15:24 -0400 2019-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Mending the Gaps - Why do so many people feel left behind? (March 31, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61795 61795-15186439@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Business+Impact at Michigan Ross

Sister Simone Campbell is the Executive Director of NETWORK – a national group of social justice advocates inspired by Catholic Sisters that lobbies in D.C. to mend the gaps in income and wealth in the U.S. RESULTS is a movement of passionate, committed everyday people.Together we use our voices to influence political decisions that will bring an end to poverty. Come to Bethlehem United Church of Christ to learn more about this religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2019 08:57:48 -0500 2019-03-31T14:00:00-04:00 2019-03-31T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Business+Impact at Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Sister Simone
Don Chisholm Jazz Vocal Masterclass with Sunny Wilkinson (March 31, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57830 57830-14977440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 31, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Stearns Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:15:29 -0500 2019-03-31T15:00:00-04:00 Stearns Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Sunny Wilkinson
Using an Online Sample to Learn about an Offline Population (April 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62487 62487-15372954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A PSC Brown Bag Seminar: Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series.

Online data sources offer tremendous promise to demography and other social sciences, but researchers worry that the group of people who are represented in online datasets can be different from the general population. We show that by sampling and anonymously interviewing people who are online, researchers can learn about both people who are online and people who are offline. Our approach is based on the insight that people everywhere are connected through in-person social networks, such as kin, friendship, and contact networks. We illustrate how this insight can be used to derive an estimator for tracking the *digital divide* in access to the internet, an increasingly important dimension of population inequality in the modern world. We conducted a large-scale empirical test of our approach, using an online sample to estimate internet adoption in five countries (n≈15,000). Our test embedded a randomized experiment whose results can help design future studies. Our approach could be adapted to many other settings, offering one way to overcome some of the major challenges facing demographers in the information age.
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Professor Feehan's research interests lie at the intersection of networks, demography, and quantitative methodology. He is an Assistant Professor of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. In the summer of 2015, he finished his Ph.D. at Princeton’s Office of Population Research, and spent the fall of 2015 as a Research Scientist at Facebook.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:29:09 -0400 2019-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Dennis Feehan
Critical Conversations -- The Novel (April 1, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54730 54730-13638588@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a new monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2018-19. In each session, a panel of four faculty members give flash talks about their current research as related to a broad theme. Presentations are followed by lively, cross-disciplinary conversation with the audience.

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

Please kindly RSVP below (see website link)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 16:37:08 -0400 2019-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T14:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Lemnian Earth and Foreign Forms: ceramics at Koukonissi in the Late Bronze Age" (April 1, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51872 51872-12274522@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Only a short distance offshore from Troy, the Bronze Age settlement on the islet of Koukonissi, Lemnos offers important evidence for the local production and consumption of Mycenaean pottery during the 14th century BCE, a time ostensibly of little contact of the North Aegean with the Mycenaean world, with the best evidence for Mountjoy’s “Upper Interface” being represented by Troy (phase VI late). This paper presents new evidence produced by integrated petrographic, chemical and stylistic ceramic analysis for Koukonissi as an outpost of the Southern Aegean, and contrasts this with its neighbor Troy on the Asia Minor coast.

At Troy during LH IIIA2, the bulk of the Mycenaean pottery seems to have been imported, mainly from the Argolid/NE Peloponnese, with assumed local pattern painted wares comprising only a small part of the total assemblage and standard Mycenaean wares (fine plain) being rare. In contrast, typical Mycenaean shapes were commonly imitated at Troy in local fabrics (grey and tan wares).

At Koukonissi, standard Mycenaean pottery, such as fine plain wares, are locally produced and well represented. Most importantly, the common local ware (Red Slipped pottery) seems relatively unaffected by the Mycenaean repertoire. This lies in contrast to other parts of the Eastern Aegean and Troy, where hybrid shapes and decorations are present.

This new identification of previously undocumented, substantial production of Mycenaean pottery on Lemnos has far-reaching implications, as some of the Eastern Aegean Mycenaean chemical compositional groups may have been produced on the island, something quite unexpected. The evidence from Koukonissi, therefore, offers the potential to alter our view of the interface between Mycenaean and other cultures. It suggests the existence of important differences at a social, economic and cultural level between Troy and Koukonissi, and a diversity of interaction with the southern Aegean and Mycenaean Greece between different sites in the North Aegean."




Mini-Bio:

Peter Day teaches and researches in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, running a research group on ceramics which has close ties with the the National Centre for Scientific Research ‘Demokritos’ in Greece and the University of Barcelona.

He gained his BA in Archaeology at the University of Southampton under Colin Renfrew and Peter Ucko as Heads of Department. Having trained in Ceramic Petrography with David Peacock, he worked as Research Fellow in Ceramic Petrology at the Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens from 1984-1986. He subsequently carried out doctoral research in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Sander van der Leeuw, on ceramic production in East Crete during the Neopalatial period of the Bronze Age and the twentieth century. He held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Cambridge before a two year postdoctoral position at NCSR ‘Demokritos from 1991-1993.

From 1994 he has been based in Sheffield, working on analytical approaches to ceramics, both in terms of provenance and especially the reconstruction of ceramic technologies. From 1998-2002, he was Co-ordinator of the GEOPRO European Training Network and has been involved in a succession of other major, collaborative projects funded by the European Union. His research usually has a Mediterranean focus, though he has also been involved in a range of ceramic-based projects in Asia, Africa and the Americas. Although basically an anthropological archaeologist and prehistorian, Peter has been gradually civilized by a number of postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers that he has had the privilege of working with.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 10:30:24 -0400 2019-04-01T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59567 59567-14752327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

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

Monday, April 1, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Stratification and Health: Patterns, Upstream Drivers and Mechanisms.”

By Tyson Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Duke University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:43:58 -0500 2019-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Understanding How the Brain Processes Music Through the Bach Trio Sonatas (April 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58356 58356-14485809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Presenters include Daniel Forger, professor of mathematics and computational medicine and bioinformatics; James Kibbie, professor of music and chair of the U-M Organ Department, University Organist; Caleb Mayer, graduate student research assistant (mathematics); and Sarah Simko, graduate student research assistant (organ performance).

With support from the Data Science for Music Challenge Initiative through MIDAS, the team is taking a big data approach to understanding the patterns and principles of music. The project is developing and analyzing a library of digitized performances of the Trio Sonatas for organ by Johann Sebastian Bach, applying novel algorithms to study the music structure from a data science perspective. Organ students from SMTD will demonstrate how the Frieze Memorial Organ in Hill Auditorium is used to create big data files of live performances. The team will discuss how its analysis compares different performances to determine features that make performances artistic, as well as the common mistakes performers make. The digitized performances will be shared with researchers and will enable research and pedagogy in many disciplines, including data science, music performance, mathematics, and music psychology.

Co-sponsored by MIDAS, midas.umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 12:15:23 -0400 2019-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Bach Poster
Betty Ch'maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture: "Soul Survivals: Black Music and the Language of Resilience" (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57493 57493-14202431@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of American Culture

In addition to the lecture, we've arranged an informal lunch and conversation for graduate students with Professor Lordi earlier at noon. Having written for The New Yorker, Pitchfork, The Root, and the famed 33 1/3 music series, Lordi will be discussing and answering questions about writing for a broader public. Please RSVP here by Thurs, Mar 28: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJMQWSf2Z_NlcDgAeLkPRCJ_bCydAl9t2zSGnFs_2kpKlSqA/viewform

Soul is in the air again. Each day seems to bring a new documentary, biography, posthumous record release, or Lifetime Achievement Award for such artists as Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone, and Marvin Gaye. This talk asks what is at stake in the national soul revival, and offers new ways to conceive of the music called soul, both in the Black Power era and in the 21st century. Reading recent representations of the music alongside earlier recordings and performances, I posit soul as a mutable legacy of collective black resilience—one that at times reproduces and at other times resists the individualizing thrust of neoliberal ideology.

The Department of American Culture has invited Emily Lordi, an Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, to give the inaugural Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture, an annual event established to honor the legacy of Ch’maj, the first Ph.D. of the American Culture program at the University of Michigan. Professor Lordi’s public talk will take place on Monday, April 1, 4-5:30 at Room 100 at the Hatcher Library Gallery. Her talk will draw from her forthcoming monograph Keeping On: Soul, Black Music, Resilience.

Professor Lordi is the author of Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature (2013), and Donny Hathaway Live (2016), part of the famed 33 1/3 popular music book series published by Bloomsbury. Professor Lordi has published in prominent journals such as the Journal of Popular Music Studies, New Centennial Review, and Palimpsest, as well as edited volumes like The Cambridge Companion to the American Modernist Novel, and the forthcoming Keywords in African American Studies. In addition to scholarly publication, Professor Lordi has been a regular contributor to prestigious venues like The New Yorker, The Atlantic, NPR, The Root, The Fader, and the Los Angeles Review of Books as a cultural critic. She received a B.A. at Vassar College in 2001, and her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2009.

About the Betty Ch’maj Lecture: With generous support from the Ch’maj family, the Annual Betty Ch’maj Distinguished American Studies Lecture Series was established to honor the legacy of Betty Ch’maj. Ch'maj, who was awarded the very first Ph.D. in American Culture in 1961 at Michigan, continued her career researching American literature and music, founding the Radical Caucus of ASA, and working to challenge systematic gender discrimination in American Studies programs.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 12:47:06 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of American Culture Lecture / Discussion Headshot
Inaugural Lecture: Honoring Professor Robert M. Sellers on his Appointment to the Charles D. Moody Professorship in Psychology (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61606 61606-15152467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

In his seminal work, "Souls of Black Folk", W. E. B. DuBois (1903) suggested the only way that African Americans can develop healthy self-concepts within American society is to come to "an understanding" within themselves regarding the duality of their status as African and American. We argue that the nature of "this understanding" varies across African Americans. Our research has attempted to explicate and describe the role that race plays in the psychological lives of African Americans. This research has focused on the racial identities that African Americans hold, the processes by which African Americans transmit attitudes and beliefs about the meaning of race across generations to their children, as well as documenting their experiences with racial discrimination and the consequences of such experiences. Our research program has attempted to place African American's experiences at the center and explicitly recognize their humanity as core assumptions of our analyses. The current presentation provides a brief overview of our work. In doing so, we also honor the legacy of Prof. Charles D. Moody.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:39:14 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion RSellers
MES Lecture Series - Heads and Horror: Men's Severed Heads from the Bible to Netflix (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61115 61115-15036265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Judith and Holofernes. Salome and John the Baptist. Sheila and Gary. Stories of severed heads have long horrified and hypnotized audiences. “Heads and Horror” will explore how tales of decapitation, both ancient and contemporary, simultaneously reveal human aspirations and anxieties: What does it mean to be human? How are gender and power linked? And what happens when severed heads don’t stay dead?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:40:41 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
RELATE "Storytelling for STEM" (April 1, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62258 62258-15337495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Tau Beta Pi

This info session held by Michigan's RELATE program will be an opportunity for students to learn more about how to effectively communicate their research by understanding their audience and having a central message.

Jimmy Johns will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:07:51 -0400 2019-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T19:30:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion stem
Junior Faculty Speaker Series (April 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/53063 53063-13217922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jul 2018 09:06:17 -0400 2019-04-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Comparative Politics Workshop (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217953@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 08 Aug 2018 10:20:50 -0400 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Department of Biological Chemistry's Annual Martha L. Ludwig Lectureship in Structural Biology (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62228 62228-15335272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor, W.M. Keck Professor of Structural Biology at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory will be delivering the annual Martha L. Ludwig Lectureship in structural biology. This lecture will take place at 12 noon on Tuesday April 2nd, 2019 in North Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the lecture is: The Origin Recognition Complex: Where It All Begins.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 08:42:46 -0400 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Constructing Nature and Culture In and Out of the Studio (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60790 60790-14963973@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

The studio is an enclosed site specifically used for reading, writing and art creation. During the Song dynasty (960–1279), the studio became a significant cultural space for literati. This talk will analyze the attributes of this cultural space by going beyond the studio, in terms of its relationship with its natural surroundings. In Song literary and pictorial representations, this interplay between the studio and its surrounding scenery is represented as the "mise-en-abyme," through which nature and culture are continuously framed, transformed, and intertwined.

Yunshuang Zhang is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University. She received her Ph.D. in classical Chinese literature and culture from the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2017. She obtained her M.A. and B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University, China. Her research interests center on the literature and literati culture during Middle Period China (800–1400). She is now working on her book project, entitled “Porous Privacy: The Literati Studio and Spatiality in Song China.” This project examines the privacy of the studio space and the way by which it works as a medium for the reproduction of literati culture.

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Image Caption: Liu Songnian, Reading Changes by the Autumn Window, album leaf, ink and color on silk, 25.7 × 26 cm. Liaoning Provincial Museum.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 16:20:39 -0400 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Liu Songnian, Reading Changes by the Autumn Window, album leaf, ink and color on silk, 25.7 × 26 cm. Liaoning Provincial Museum.
Mini Grant Momentum (April 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61607 61607-15152473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join the U-M Library Student Engagement Program for the Winter 2019 Mini Grant Momentum Series! Every Tuesday from 12:00-1:00 pm in ScholarSpace, library mini grant recipients will give a short presentation on their innovative projects. The topics range widely, though many focus on community partnerships, global scholarship, and diversity and inclusion. Light refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 12:54:53 -0500 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mini Grant Momentum
Cities of Air: Data Visualization and Architectural Memory in the Art and Literature of Forced Disappearance (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61861 61861-15223785@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

In this talk, Jesús Costantino examines recent works by Mexican writers and artists who reconsider the project of visualizing mass disappearance and who pointedly turn away from data—particularly the ways in which data is assembled and visualized by international human rights groups—and toward tangible artifacts and architectures. By way of the rooms, houses, buildings, debris, and other architectural sites left behind by the disappeared, these writers and artists imagine another relationship to absence that resists what they see as the false coherence and closure of visual data.


Jesús Costantino is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico where he teaches and conducts research in American literature, film, and media. He has recently completed his first book manuscript, Boxing and the Racial Origins of Early-Twentieth-Century Media Technologies, in which he traces the racial genealogies of “presence” and “live experience” through the mutually constitutive forms of modern boxing and new visual media. He is now beginning work on a second book-length project, Under the Sign of Disaster Triumphant: The Colonial Legacies of Late-Capitalist Ruins in the Americas, in which he interrogates the ways in which depictions of contemporary urban ruin and natural disaster in the US and Latin America remediate the colonial past.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:29:32 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Costantino event poster
CPPS/Frankel Lecture. Space and Spirit, or How to make a Historical Atlas of Hasidism (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57605 57605-14220074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Marcin Wodzinski has produced the first cartographic reference book on Hasidism, one of the modern era's most vibrant and important mystical movements. In this lecture, he will discuss Hasidism's emergence and expansion in Eastern Europe; its spread to the New World; and its remarkable postwar rebirth. Wodzinski’s innovative mapping allows him to show to what extent Hasidism dominated the Eastern European Jewry, which Hasidic dynasties were strongest and why, and how the Hasidim resurrected in the Post-Holocaust era.

Marcin Wodziński (b. 1966) was born and raised in Silesia, Poland. He currently works at the Department of Jewish Studies, University of Wrocław, Poland, where he is professor of Jewish history and literature. His research focuses on the history and culture of East European Jews in modern times, especially the Haskalah and Hasidism. Of his recent publications, he is most proud of "Historical Atlas of Hasidism" (2018) and "Hasidism: Key Questions" (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:08:24 -0500 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SPEAKER SERIES - EAST HALL, CENTRAL CAMPUS (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62144 62144-15302370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Dr. Liu is the Director of the UCSD Center for Functional MRI and a Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, and Bioengineering. Areas of research include: (1) Investigation of resting-state brain connectivity with multi-modal imaging approaches (fMRI, MEG, and EEG); (2) Characterization and modeling of the hemodynamic response to neural activity, including the effects of drugs such as caffeine; (3) Development and optimization of arterial spin labeling MRI methods for the non-invasive measurement of cerebral blood flow; (4) Design and analysis of experiments for functional MRI (fMRI), with an emphasis on statistical optimization, nonlinear signal processing, and physiological noise reduction; and (5) Development of quantitative fMRI methods for the study of Alzheimer's disease and associated disorders

Presentation Title: The Global Signal, Vigilance Fluctuations, and Nuisance Regression in Resting State fMRI

Abstract:

Resting-state fMRI (rsfMRI) is now a widely used method to assess the functional connectivity (FC) of the brain. However, the mechanisms underlying rsfMRI are still poorly understood. In this talk I will address several related aspects of the rsfMRI signal. The first is the global signal, which represents the whole brain average signal and has been widely used as a regressor for removing the effects of global variations in resting-state activity. I will discuss the controversy surrounding global signal regression and describe new approaches for minimizing global signal effects. A related topic concerns the origins of global activity in the brain. There is growing evidence that a considerable portion of this global activity arises from fluctuations in vigilance and arousal. I will discuss the recent findings in this area and discuss the implications for the analysis and interpretation of rsfMRI studies. Finally, I will describe recent empirical and theoretical work demonstrating the limitations of regression based methods that are widely used to minimize the effects of nuisance components in rsfMRI studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 14:27:50 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Dr. Liu