Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. II Round Table: The Uyghur Human Rights Crisis: What is Happening in Northwest China? (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62174 62174-15308877@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: International Institute

This panel will discuss the situation faced by the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group living in northwestern China. Since early 2018, media reports, NGOs, and eyewitness accounts have documented that up to one million Uyghurs and members of other Muslim groups have been detained and interned in "re-education camps" by the Chinese government. This discussion will give an overview of the current situation, how it developed and what may happen in the future.
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PANEL:

Mary Gallagher (moderator), Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; professor Political Science, University of Michigan

Gardner Bovingdon, associate professor Central Asian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Nicholas Howson, professor U-M Law School

Zubayara Shamseden, Chinese Outreach Coordinator, Uygur Human Rights Project


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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:51:53 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall International Institute Lecture / Discussion poster
Lost in Translation: Black 92nd Infantry Division Soldiers, Italian Partisans, and the Politics of Liberation in World War Two Europe (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61863 61863-15223787@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

This presentation will explore the face-to-face interactions between black GIs and Italian civilians in the Apennines Mountains of Italy and how their perceptions of race, international affairs, and Civil Rights were fundamentally altered as a result of their encounters with German fighting forces during the winter and spring months of 1944 and 1945.


Robert F. Jefferson, Jr. is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Jefferson holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Michigan. He is the author of Fighting for Hope: African Americans and the Ninety-third Infantry Division in World War II and Postwar America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), Brothers in Valor: The Battlefield Stories of the 89 African Americans Awarded the Medal of Honor (Lyons Press, 2018), and Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America: Closing Ranks (Rowman and Littlefield, 2019). Dr. Jefferson is currently working on Color and Disability: Vasco Hale and Twentieth Century America. His articles on the relationship between African American GIs and their communities during the Second World War have appeared in Representations dans le monde anglophone (2018), The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race in the American Military (Routledge, 2016), Oral History and Public Memories (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008), the Journal of Family History, the Annals of Iowa, Quaderni Storici (Bologna), Contours: A Journal of the African Diaspora, and the Historian. Dr. Jefferson is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. Most recently, he has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board to serve as the Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies for the 2019-2020 academic year.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:34:52 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Jefferson event poster
Skin Stories: Tess of the D’Urbervilles + Under the Skin (April 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62158 62158-15304540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Nineteenth Century Forum

Please join the Nineteenth Century Forum for a public lecture given by Alicia Christoff, Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College.

It may seem strange to pair Jonathan Glazer’s unsettling science fiction film Under the Skin (2013), about an alien inhabiting the body of a woman (played by Scarlett Johannson), with Thomas Hardy’s much more terrestrial Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891). This talk, however, brings the film and novel together to show that Tess too is a skin story: a story of “beautiful feminine tissue,” bodily surfaces, phenomenological sensation, the male gaze, female agency, embodiment, and their violation – and an implicit story of racialization as well. The talk builds on Kaja Silverman’s foundational essay on female subjectivity and specularity in Tess by testing it against Under the Skin, which I argue eerily re-echoes many of the Victorian novel’s central images and tropes. More largely, I am interested in how the act of pairing Victorian and modern texts can provide Victorian studies scholars ways of engaging new work in critical theory – here, recent theorizations of race, blackness, and visuality – that is sometimes felt to be debarred by our objects of study.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:11:15 -0400 2019-04-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Nineteenth Century Forum Lecture / Discussion Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Over the Hill: Lessons Learned from Science Advocates (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62055 62055-15282563@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Please join ESPA in a roundtable panel discussion! Four trainees who have advocated at the state and national level will discuss how to advocate for science, share helpful resources, and answer audience questions.

Julia Gerson: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurology, Society for Neuroscience Early Career Policy Ambassador

Lucca Henrion: PhD Candidate, Mechanical Engineering, External Affairs Officer for Rackham Student Goverment

Nocona Sanders: PhD Candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, Rackham Student Government Division II Representative

Seth Wiley: PhD Candidate, Chemical Biology, AAAS CASE Workshop

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:07:03 -0400 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents Charles Correa International Lecture: Sou Fujimoto, "Between Nature and Architecture" (April 2, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59578 59578-14752350@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Sou Fujimoto was born in Hokkaido in 1971. Graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering at Tokyo University, he established Sou Fujimoto Architects in 2000. In 2018, he won two International Competitions for the Village Vertical in site of Rosny-sous-Bois and for the HSG Learning Center in Saint Gallen. In 2017, he was the winner of two International Competitions, for the Nice Meridia and the Floating Gardens in Brussels. In 2016, he has won the 1st prize for “Pershing”, one of the sites in the French competition called ‘Réinventer Paris', following the victories in the Invited International Competition for the New Learning Center at Paris-Saclay's Ecole Polytechnique and the International Competition for the Second Folly of Montpellier in 2014. In 2013 he became the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London. His notable works include; “Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2013” (2013), “House NA” (2011), “Musashino Art University Museum & Library” (2010), “Final Wooden House”(2008), “House N” (2008) and many more.

The Charles Correa International Lecture Fund was established in 2016 in honor and memory of renowned Indian architect and activist Charles Correa (B.Arch.’53). The fund endows an annual lecture at Taubman College by an emerging architect engaged with global architecture and activism to promote cultural understanding through design.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:38:59 -0500 2019-04-02T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Sou Fujimoto
Food Literacy for All (April 2, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287017@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 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 2019-04-02T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Professional Autobiography (April 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62066 62066-15284746@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Couzens Hall
Organized By: HSSP

Dr. Kraft is clinical associate professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Michigan and practices pediatric urology at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor.She is currently pursuing clinical research in pediatric stone disease, uroradiology, spina bifida, and adolescent varicocele. With her interest in graduate medical education, Dr. Kraft serves as the Urology Residency Program Director and oversees urology postgraduate training at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:44:28 -0400 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T20:00:00-04:00 Couzens Hall HSSP Lecture / Discussion Photo of Kate Kraft, MD
Student Community Conversations (April 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62281 62281-15344245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
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 09:16:26 -0400 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T20:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Student Community Conversations
The State of Gender Equality Orgs at U-M: Student Org Summit (April 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62035 62035-15276117@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: HeForShe

The University of Michigan is huge. While there are many resources and opportunities for student orgs, it is hard to stay on top of all of them.

HeForShe, a gender equality student org, saw this issue as one that especially impacted social justice-oriented student organizations, as the nature of social justice work requires community and a united effort. In the spirit of that, HeForShe decided to create the first gender equality student org summit called "The State of Gender Equality Orgs at U-M."

HeForShe invites all gender equality-related orgs to attend the event to meet other student leaders and find a way to make long-lasting connections, share resources, and build a coalition dedicated to achieving gender equality at the University of Michigan.

If your org would like to be represented at the event, RSVP using this link by March 27: https://goo.gl/forms/x60zsjddQYENLNnJ2

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 15:40:42 -0400 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T21:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library HeForShe Lecture / Discussion The State of Gender Equality Orgs at U-M
UMMA After Hours (April 2, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61577 61577-15130469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Gallery talks, live music with Cousin Mouth & Friends, free food, and more! After Hours will also celebrate the opening of Collection Ensemble, the first major reinstallation of UMMA's iconic entry space in over a decade.

Collection Ensemble: forty-one artists, forty-one works of art, including Charles Alston, Khaled al Saa'i, Norio Azuma, Christo, Theaster Gates, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Dinh Q Lê, Kara Walker, and others, put in dialog for you to discover.

The experimental R&B duo Cousin Mouth, named one of Detroit's 2019 bands to watch by MetroTimes, will be joined by vocalist Kesswa and jazz keyboardist Ian Fink for an evening of neo-soul/experimental elctronica/ambient/R&B music that comes from the soul.

UMMA After Hours is a free event, all welcome.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

UMMA events are generously sponsored by Fidelity Investments. The media sponsor for UMMA After Hours is the Ann Arbor Observer.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:16:25 -0400 2019-04-02T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-02T22:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Stephane Robolin Lecture (April 3, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59708 59708-14780087@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

In this talk, Stephane Robolin (Rutgers) will explore the role of libraries as institutions central to the circulation of banned literature in apartheid South Africa, as part of a larger inquiry into the clandestine lives of public organizations. The primary focus will be the U.S. Information Service Library in Johannesburg, one of a global network of libraries funded by the United States to wage the Cold War through film, literature, and journalism. This talk will consider how a library designed to disseminate propaganda by the U.S. government in a white minority-governed country could simultaneously serve and transgress the missions of both states. What was the function of African American literature in its stacks? What role could, say, The Autobiography of Malcolm X play in downtown Johannesburg? And what does it tell us about how the careful curation of culture works (and doesn’t) in contexts of political resistance? And what, if anything, does it reveal about the nature of cultural institutions?

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:05:31 -0400 2019-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Dreaming, from Ming to Qing (April 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61055 61055-15027182@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

A certain span of time from the mid-sixteenth century through the end of the seventeenth century (that is, the late Ming and very early Qing period) has been the most generative of dream-related writings and visual materials in Chinese history. This lecture will (1) outline this “arc” of dream-interest in late-imperial cultural history, (2) assert the importance of studying dreams as part of the history of consciousness, (3) suggest a method of approaching such a historical mega-phenomenon, and (4) illustrate that approach with examples from the verbal and visual culture facts of the Ming-to-Qing transitional era.

About the speaker:

Lynn Struve is Professor Emerita of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her longstanding, general interests lie in the political, intellectual, and cultural history of the late Ming and early Qing periods in China. In recent years she has focused on the salience of dreams and dreaming in China from the mid-sixteenth through the seventeenth century, research which has born fruit in a forthcoming book, The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World (University of Hawaii Press).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:10:29 -0500 2019-04-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Lynn Struve Iimage
EER & NCID Seminar (April 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62285 62285-15344264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

In this discussion, mentoring scholars collectively discuss the state of STEM mentoring and their perspectives on the future of this work. Their discussion will include current and future research and practices in effective mentoring, and needs that pertain to different disciplines and developmental stages.

Speakers:
Dr. Joi Mondisa
Assistant Professor
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan

Dr. Becky Wai-Ling Packard
Professor
Psychology and Education, Mt. Holyoke
NCID Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan

Dr. Beronda Montgomery
Foundation Professor
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:17:23 -0400 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Speakers
Faculty Speaker #2 - Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia discussions (April 3, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62629 62629-15414521@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Herbert H. Dow Building
Organized By: American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter

Dr. Steven Yalisove will be joining us for a discussion about his career path and his experiences with active learning in his classes as part of our "Exploring the Teaching Side of Academia" series, which is sponsored by a CoE Graduate Student Community Grant.

While anyone is welcome, the discussion will be of most interest to graduate students and postdocs. Please RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/amCYM7wOMGrpUS3g1

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 09:49:02 -0400 2019-04-03T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T16:00:00-04:00 Herbert H. Dow Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Herbert H. Dow Building
Arab Heritage Month: Arab Masculinity & Mental Health Concerns: A Two-Step Exploration Towards Healing (April 3, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61383 61383-15097055@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 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 21:28:30 -0500 2019-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 School of Education Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Arab Heritage Month Calendar
Destigmatizing Mental Health Panel & Discussion (April 3, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62755 62755-15460056@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

This panel discussion will feature faculty, staff and students sharing their expert knowledge & personal experiences surrounding the intersection of mental health & diversity. Participants will be given an opportunity to engage with the content of the panel discussion in small groups following the panel.

If you have any questions regarding this event, please reach out to (ssw-dei-office@umich.edu).

RSVP Here: https://ssw.umich.edu/events/list/2019/04/03/59574-destigmatizing-mental-health-free-the-mind-fair

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:14:25 -0400 2019-04-03T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 School of Social Work Building SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion School of Social Work Building
The Unlikely Friendship of Math and Science (April 3, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62432 62432-15364114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 5:30pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Abstract: On the one hand, there's science: the clear-eyed, hard-nosed, the pragmatic empiricist. On the other hand, there's math: the poet, the dreamer, the hunter of wild abstractions. How do these two intellectual traditions regard one another? And why is it that the most useless-sounding math - from knot theory to meta-logic to non-Euclidean geometry - often turns out to be the most useful? Prerequisites: basic human curiosity; tolerance for bad drawings; the willingness to participate in a silly debate. In short: all are welcome!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:15:46 -0400 2019-04-03T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T18:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Ben Orlin Public Lecture
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (April 3, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61471 61471-15110415@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 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, 03 Apr 2019 18:00:09 -0400 2019-04-03T20:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
EVE AND HER SISTERS (April 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61677 61677-15170125@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Kenneth W. Phifer is a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has been a Unitarian Universalist minister for half a century and is minister emeritus of the Ann Arbor UU Congregation.

Among the many ways in which gender roles have been shaped in the 21st century are the portraits of women (and men) in the Jewish and Christian Bibles, and the interpretations that Judaism and Christianity, as well as secular society, have put on these women (and men). Too often these interpretations of women have been negative and harmful. A more careful reading of the texts, as many scholars in the last half century have been doing, reveals much more positive images of Biblical women. There is courage, intelligence, craftiness, and common sense practicality in abundance. This lecture highlights some of these feisty women who might serve as models for the 21st century woman.

This is the first in a six-lecture series. The subject is Changing Gender Roles. The next lecture will be April 11, 2019. The title is: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same: Gender Socialization in Early Childhood.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:08:34 -0500 2019-04-04T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
It’s Not Rocket Library Science: Reconceptualizing American Librarianship as a Design Field (April 4, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61610 61610-15152479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

For thousands of years, libraries and librarians have made artifacts to enable access to and use of information resources—everything from cataloging rules to sensory storytimes. Yet despite this focus on creation, American librarianship has positioned itself as a social science. Although many different scientific approaches have been used in the field, few since the beginnings of the 20th century have approached librarianship as if it was not a science at all. In recent years, a well-established record of research has demonstrated that design is a fundamentally different epistemological approach to science. While science observes and describes the existing world with the goal of replicability and prediction, design creates artifacts intended to solve problems and, ultimately, change the world from its existing state to a preferred state. This presentation will discuss the implicit role of design in librarianship and its effects on user services and professional values, culminating in a provocative reconceptualization of contemporary librarianship as a design field, with recommendations for explicitly incorporating this new perspective into library research, education, and practice.

Formerly the cataloging librarian at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Rachel Ivy Clarke is currently an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Her research focuses on the application of design methodologies and epistemologies to facilitate the systematic, purposeful design of library services and education. Her multiple-award-winning dissertation argues that librarianship is more appropriately viewed as a design field rather than a scientific one. Current projects include the IMLS-funded Designing Future Library Leaders, which investigates the integration of design methods and principles in graduate level library education, and The Critical Catalog, an OCLC/ALISE funded project using critical design methodology to provoke the exploration of diverse library reading materials. She holds a BA in creative writing from California State University, Long Beach, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a PhD from the University of Washington.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 14:16:13 -0500 2019-04-04T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Emergent Research Series
Rachel Ivy Clarke: Presentation (April 4, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59930 59930-14799632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 10:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Formerly the cataloging librarian at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, Rachel Ivy Clarke is currently an assistant professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies. Her research centers on the reconceptualization of librarianship as a design profession (rather than a scientific one) to facilitate the systematic, purposeful design of library services for the 21st century. She holds a BA in creative writing from California State University Long Beach, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and a PhD from the University of Washington.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:15:47 -0500 2019-04-04T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/UndergradJuriedExhibition2019.jpg
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58152 58152-14433286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid layoffs in a recession. Japan is known for the extensive use of STW, and we assemble unique data on STW for over 3, 000 Japanese firms. Firms that used STW during a recession following the financial meltdown of 2008 are found to have slower employment growth in subsequent years. Such firms are, however, found to have similar growth of productivity and profitability in subsequent years. Japanese STW helps reduce employment volatility over the business cycle without harming firm performance.

Naomi Kodama is a Professor in the College of Economics at Nihon University in Japan. Her research interests focus on firm dynamics, labor market institutions, and policy evaluation. She has published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and World Economy as well as a chapter in Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy. She holds a PhD in Economics from Kyoto University and a BS in Geophysics from University of Tokyo.

This lecture is based upon co-authored paper: "The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan," Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama.

Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor of Economics and Far Eastern Studies, Colgate University; Research Fellow, IZA-Bonn; Faculty Fellow and Mentor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University; Research Fellow, TCER-Tokyo; Research Associate, CJEB (Columbia Business School) and CCP (Copenhagen Business School and Aarhus University); and Senior Fellow, ETLA (Helsinki). email: tkato@colgate.edu. Naomi Kodama is Professor of College of Economics, Nihon University and Research Associate of RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry). email: kodama.naomi@nihon-u.ac.jp.

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 09:27:30 -0500 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Naomi Kodama
Deep Dive into Digital and Data Methods for Chinese Studies | How Disasters Begin: The Little Ice Age of 14th-Century China and Data Collection in the Long Durée (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61969 61969-15250100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Free and Open to the Public

Light refreshment will be provided.

This lecture tackles the historical construction of weather as disaster. The genre of Local Gazetteers (difang zhi 地方誌) records a considerable number of disasters for the period of the Yuan-dynasty (1279-1368). The political nature of these data is well known and yet, scientists from the early 20th to the 21st era of anthropocene debates have used them, not only to advance their political agenda, but also their sciences. This lecture will lead you through the way in which contemporary actors of the Yuan, Ming historians, and Chinese scientists from Zhu Kezhen to modern climatologists and historians produce(d) and use(d) ideas about weather and disaster. The focus of this lecture will be on the changing relations such actors draw between local knowledge, history, and imperial cosmology, i.e. since the 20th century also “local knowledge,” historical analysis, and geology and climate science.

Dagmar Schäfer is the Director of Department III (Artefacts, Action, & Knowledge) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG). A prominent scholar in the history and sociology of technology of China, she focuses on the paradigms configuring the discourse on technological development, past and present. She has published widely on the premodern history of China (Song-Ming) and technology, materiality, the processes and structures that lead to varying knowledge systems, and the changing role of artifacts—texts, objects, and spaces—in the creation, diffusion, and use of scientific and technological knowledge. Her monograph "The Crafting of the 10,000 Things" (University of Chicago Press, 2011) won the Joseph Levenson Prize (Association for Asian Studies) in 2013 the Pfizer Award (History of Science Society) in 2012.

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, 13 Mar 2019 16:57:30 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Professor Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
ESPApers: Open Access for Open Science (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62653 62653-15416723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

ESPA is happy to announce a new event series entitled ‘ESPApers’, a Science-Related Current Events Journal Club to foster a healthy and informal discussion. The plan is to hold a monthly journal club-like discussion, through selecting science-related current topics of interest to both scientists and the public, and deconstructing articles and white papers of differing opinions. Finally, we are collaborating with MiSciWriters for these events with the goal of writing a blog post summarizing the discussion of the group each month.

Our first topic will delve into discussing open access publishing of scholarly articles. What are the benefits and responsibilities of researchers to be open and transparent with their research findings to the public? What are the drawbacks, risks and considerations related to moving towards completely open access? We will explore both sides of the debate, using the following short reads to lead the discussion:
Open Access: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - https://bitesizebio.com/34520/open-access-good-bad-ugly/
UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier - https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly
Free Access to Science Research Doesn't Benefit Everyone - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/free-access-to-science-research-doesnt-benefit-everyone/383875/

Please RSVP, we will have coffee and some snacks, please bring your own bagged lunch! Also suggest new topics for future meetings and let us know of your interest in writing a future summary blog post. We look forward to seeing you at the first ESPApers event!

Link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/MDgzzZcibg5VSyTV9

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 16:29:53 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion
LSI Seminar Series: Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D., The Scripps Research Institute (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59848 59848-14795152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:
Mechanotransduction is perhaps the last sensory modality not understood at the molecular level. Proteins/ion channels that sense mechanical force are postulated to play critical roles in sensing touch/pain (somatosensation), sound (hearing), shear stress (cardiovascular function), etc.; however, the identity of ion channels involved in sensing mechanical force had remained elusive. The Patapoutian lab identified PIEZO1 and PIEZO2, mechanically-activated cation channels that are expressed in many mechanosensitive cell types. Genetic studies established that PIEZO2 is the principal mechanical transducer for touch, proprioception, baroreception and lung stretch, and that PIEZO1 mediates blood-flow sensing, which impacts vascular development. Clinical investigations have confirmed the importance of these channels in human physiology. Most recently, Patapoutian lab identified TMEM63/OSCA family of mechanically activated ion channels as well as a GPCR (GPR68) that senses shear stress and is essential for controlling flow-mediated dilation of blood vessels. The lab continues to analyze the physiological relevance of these receptors in and is searching for novel mechanosensors.

Speaker:
Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D., is a molecular biologist specializing in sensory transduction. His notable contributions include identifying novel ion channels activated by temperature, mechanical force and increased cell volume. His laboratory has shown that these ion channels play crucial roles in sensing temperature, touch, proprioception and pain.

Patapoutian was born in Lebanon and attended the American University of Beirut for one year before he immigrated to the United States in 1986. He graduated from UCLA and them received his Ph.D. at Caltech in the lab of Dr. Barbara Wold. After postdoctoral work with Dr. Lou Reichardt at UCSF, he joined the faculty of The Scripps Research Institute in 2000, where he is currently a professor in the Department of Neuroscience and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Patapoutian was awarded the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Neuroscience in 2006 and the Alden W. Spencer Award from Columbia University in 2017.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 11:55:35 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.
Using Behavioral Ecology to Understand Mobility among Prehistoric Andean Hunter-Gatherers (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62819 62819-15475213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

In his monograph Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology (2009), Todd Surovell models mathematically the economics of prehistoric hunter-gatherers’ production, use, and discard of lithic technologies. Although there is great potential in his models to extend our understanding of hunter-gatherer mobility patterns and landscape use, they have received little empirical testing in the decade since publication. This talk describes the application of one subset of his models—those that use proportions of the lithic assemblage to estimate site occupation length—to a diachronic study of Cunchaicha, a stratified, multi-component prehistoric rock shelter of the Peruvian Andes.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 08:57:02 -0400 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland (April 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61342 61342-15088105@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Institute for Research on Women and Gender

In the era of Donald Trump, many lower- and middle-class white Americans are drawn to politicians who pledge to make their lives great again. But, the policies that result actually place white Americans at ever-greater risk of sickness and death.

Physician Jonathan M. Metzl’s quest to understand the health implications of “backlash governance” leads him across America’s heartland. Interviewing a range of everyday Americans, he examines how racial resentment fueled pro-gun laws in Missouri, resistance to the Affordable Care Act in Tennessee, and cuts to schools and social services in Kansas. And he shows these policies’ costs: increasing deaths by gun suicide, rising dropout rates, and falling life expectancies. White Americans, Metzl argues, must reject the racial hierarchies that promise to aid them but in fact lead our nation to demise.

Event Accessibility :
Ramp and elevator access at the E. Washington Street entrance (by the loading dock). There are accessible restrooms on the south end of Lane Hall, on each floor of the building. A gender neutral restroom is available on the first floor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:09:03 -0500 2019-04-04T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T16:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Institute for Research on Women and Gender Lecture / Discussion book cover "Dying of Whiteness"
"Investigating How Dynamic Mechanical Strain in the Lung Tumor Microenvironment Influences Drug Resistance" (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62744 62744-15460044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. In-vivo, alveolar epithelial cells normally experience 15% cyclic strain while increased tumor stiffness can result in a 40-fold decrease in cyclic strain. Although biomechanical factors in the tumor microenvironment have been shown to be a significant driver of cancer progression, there is limited information about how biophysical forces alter tumor development and drug resistance in lung adenocarcinoma cells. Therefore, the first goal of this study was to use computational and in-vitro models to investigate how changes in tumor microenvironment mechanics alter Erlotinib sensitivity. We also sought to develop a novel, non-invasive way to characterize lung tumor mechanics. Although magnetic resonance electrography (MRE) has been used to measure the mechanical stiffness of soft tissues and quantify a 3-fold increase in lung tissue stiffness in fibrotic patients, MRE has not been used to evaluate the stiffness profile of tumors within lung cancer patients. Therefore, in this study, we also conduct a proof-of-concept evaluation to demonstrate the ability of MRE to measure changes in lung tissue stiffness with a long-term goal of applying this technique to patients at risk for developing lung cancer. Our data indicate that cyclic stretching in the lung tumor microenvironment facilitate Erlotinib resistance. Characterizing tumor strain on a patient-specific basis may represent a novel approach to predict drug resistance and/or efficacy. We are currently using MRE measurements of lung stiffness to develop patient-specific computational models that can quantify mechanical strain at the local level. We are also designing studies to perform MRE in patient populations at risk for lung cancer (i.e. subjects with pulmonary nodules) and designing in-vitro studies that can simulate the complex biomechanics of lung tumors.

Youjin Cho, M.D., is a Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at The Ohio State University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:25:42 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Biomedical Engineering
EEB Thursday Seminar: The impacts of Hurricane Maria on Puerto Rican forests: Is this the new normal? (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49669 49669-11487554@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Cyclonic storms represent the dominant natural disturbance in coastal regions across much of the tropics. Projected increases in cyclonic storm rainfall and wind speeds under a warming climate will have profound effects on these ecosystems, with implications for forest composition and structure of these and cascading ecosystem services. In this talk, I will combine remotely-sensed and field plot data to evaluate the risk factors determining spatial variation in the magnitude of damage Hurricane María inflicted on Puerto Rican forests and to estimate total above ground biomass lost to this storm. I will then compare the impacts of H. Hugo, category 3 storm that struck the island in 1989 with those of H. Maria on a 16-ha forest plot that has been the subject of long term study. Finally, I will rely on an ecosystem model to explore the effects of a changing storm regime on the carbon dynamics of these forests.

View YouTube video of seminar: https://youtu.be/grpqgS5s5LA

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:22:21 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Palms after Hurricane Maria
EIHS Lecture: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Authoritarian's Allure: 1939, 2019 (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52321 52321-12631421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Psychoanalysts writing in the 1930s and 1940s as witnesses to Europe’s embrace of fascism offered incisive accounts of their own historical moment couched in the idiom of narcissism (featuring fascination, grandiosity, and magical thinking; humiliation, helplessness, and insecurity) and drawn from psychoanalysis’s disavowed originary practices (such as hypnosis and suggestion). Individuals’ yearnings to participate in omnipotence and embrace of magical thinking sparked these analysts’ interest. In this talk, Professor Lunbeck will examine their conceptualizations of the relationship between leader and led, arguing that these offer a powerful framework within which to understand the fascinations of authoritarianism across the globe today.

Elizabeth Lunbeck is a professor of the history of science at Harvard University, offering courses in the history of the psychotherapies, of the psychological sciences, and of the fortunes of psychoanalysis in American culture. She is the author of The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America (Princeton, 1994); with Bennett Simon, of Family Romance, Family Secrets (Yale, 2003); and of The Americanization of Narcissism (Harvard, 2014). She has also co-edited a number of books in the history of science, most recently, with Lorraine Daston, Histories of Scientific Observation (Chicago, 2011). Her research has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as by the NEH and NSF, and she has been the recipient of a Distinguished Educator Award from the International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education as well as, among other book awards, the John Hope Franklin Prize and the Morris D. Forkosch Prize.

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:25:12 -0500 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Elizabeth Lunbeck
Evie Shockley Lecture (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52059 52059-12398895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Please join us for a public lecture by poet, scholar, and 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist Evie Shockley.

This talk comes from Shockley's project on "Black Graphics," which considers the combined visual-verbal strategies contemporary black artists have used to negotiate problems associated with representations of embodied blackness. Here, she takes up the most recent books by Renee Gladman, reading them alongside work by Hank Willis Thomas and June Jordan, to bring Gladman's black feminist thinking into view.

Evie Shockley is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick and was a 2018 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Her books include the critical study "Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry" and three volumes of poetry -- most recently, "semiautomatic," published by Wesleyan in 2017, and "the new black," winner of the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry. Her creative and critical writing has been published widely and supported by fellowships from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/NYPL, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the Millay Colony for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She is currently at work on a project entitled "Black Graphics: Slavery, Colorblindness, and Contemporary Black Aesthetics.”

This event is sponsored by Critical Contemporary Studies, the Poetry and Poetics Workshop, the Helen Zell Writers' Program, and the English Department.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:11:27 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Rubin Speaker Series (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58614 58614-14517948@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Rubin Speaker Series

The 2011 U.S. Special Forces’ raid on Usama Bin Ladin’s (UBL) compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, recovered nearly 470,000 items. These items include internal communications among Al-Qa‘ida (AQ) members, their families and jihadis in the group’s orbit, including the leaders of the parent group of today’s Islamic State. Since these communiqués were not meant for public consumption, they contain the most reliable data of the organizational dynamics of AQ, and the nature of the group’s relationships with states and non-state actors. Lahoud is writing a book based on these internal communiqués. This presentation is divided into two parts. The first part is a guide to the declassified Abbottabad items and the process of identifying the internal communications and coding them. The second part of the presentation focuses on key differences between AQ and the parent group of today’s Islamic State, the group that has eclipsed but not defeated AQ. The Abbottabad documents allow us not just to understand the differences that eventually led to the public divorce between the two groups in February 2014, but they also explain why the Islamic State failed to endure as a territorial entity.

Nelly Lahoud is a senior fellow in New America's International Security program. Dr. Lahoud’s research has focused on the evolution and ideology of al-Qa'ida (AQ) and the ‘Islamic State’ (ISIS/ISIL). She has also published on women's role in AQ and ISIS and the use of anashid (a capella) by these two groups in their media output. She has a Ph.D. from the Research School of Social Sciences — Australian National University. She was a postdoctoral scholar at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge — UK; Rockefeller Fellow in Islamic studies at the Library of Congress; and research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. Her previous appointments include being associate professor at the Department of Social Sciences and senior associate at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point; and assistant professor of political theory, including Islamic political thought, at Goucher College. Lahoud is fluent in Arabic and French.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:01:24 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Rubin Speaker Series Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Which Revolution?: Ukraine Five Years Later (April 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59893 59893-14797328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Dana Building
Organized By: Slavic Languages & Literatures

Panelists Mark Dillen and Jessica Zychowicz will discuss democracy in Ukraine in the context of regime change and the 2019 Presidential Elections.
Moderated by Professor Mikhail Krutikov
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Mark E. Dillen is an international media and communications consultant and CEO of Dillen Associates LLC. Most recently he was a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine, teaching a course on U.S. news media to graduate students at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.

During a career in the US Foreign Service, Mark managed media and cultural relations for US embassies in Rome, Berlin, Moscow, Sofia and Belgrade. He was also Minister Counselor for Political Affairs at the US Embassy in Rome. From 2000-2001, he was an advisor to the State Department’s office handling assistance programs in the former Soviet Union, and in 2010-11, Mark led the communications and media relations work of the USAID Mission in Kabul, Afghanistan. He returned to USAID in 2013 to handle communications for a new White House initiative, Power Africa, designed to dramatically increase the availability of electrical power in sub-Saharan Africa.

Based now in Denver, San Francisco and Rovinj (Croatia), Mark continues his international consulting work advising clients in the U.S. and abroad.

Dillen has a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia University and a BA (cum laude) in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Michigan. He has been a Diplomat-in-Residence at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies of Johns Hopkins University and attended the program for Senior Managers in Government at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Mark speaks Russian, Ukrainian, German, Italian, Croatian, Serbian and Bulgarian.

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Dr. Jessica Zychowicz is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Contemporary Ukraine Studies Program (CUSP) at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at University of Alberta. Dr. Zychowicz was recently a U.S. Fulbright Scholar (2017-18) based at Kyiv-Mohyla University. Her monograph, "Superfluous Women: Feminism, Art, and Revolution in 21st Century Ukraine" is forthcoming at University of Toronto Press. She was a Fellow at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs (2015-16) and is and editor of a forum at the journal "Krytyka" dedicated to the study of race and postcolonialism, as well as a special issue of EWJUS dedicated to the literary and film history of Odessa. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2015. Website: www.jes-zychowicz.com.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:13:39 -0400 2019-04-04T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:00:00-04:00 Dana Building Slavic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Event Poster
RED: Animal, vegetable, mineral. A study of the red colors used for painting in manuscripts (April 4, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61915 61915-15239140@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

One of the great pleasures in examining manuscript illumination is the joy of experiencing the colors on the page and the wonder at the extraordinary technical skills employed by the artist in realizing the image. These masterpieces demonstrate a refinement of technique and a great mastery of materials, some used only for manuscript painting and some used in standard practice in at different times and in different localities.

In this talk, Cheryl Porter will examine the various red colors available to medieval artists - both Islamic and Western - and discuss what factors influenced their choices. Refreshments will be served.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 14:31:27 -0500 2019-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Cheryl Porter examines the massive Mamluk Qur'anic manuscript DAK Rasid 9 (National Library of Egypt)
Sarah Vowell: Live (April 4, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58881 58881-14569989@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Sarah Vowell is the New York Times bestselling author of seven nonfiction books on American history and culture. By examining the connections between the American past and present, she offers personal, often humorous accounts of everything from presidents and their assassins to colonial religious fanatics, as well as thoughts on utopian dreamers, pop music, and the odd cranky cartographer. Her most recent book is titled Lafayette in the Somewhat United States.

Vowell was a contributing editor for the public radio show This American Life from 1996–2008, where she produced numerous commentaries and documentaries and toured the country in many of the program’s live shows. She was one of the original contributors to McSweeney’s, also participating in many of the quarterly’s readings and shows. She has been a columnist for Salon.com, Time, and San Francisco Weekly, and is a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times. She is an active advisory board member of 826NYC, a nonprofit tutoring and writing center for students aged 6-18 in Brooklyn, along with its sister organization in Los Angeles, 826LA.

Co-presented with the Ann Arbor District Library and the University of Michigan Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:15:48 -0500 2019-04-04T17:10:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/vowell.jpg
LanguageMatters Lab (April 4, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61435 61435-15099358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 16:28:48 -0500 2019-04-04T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T18:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
U-M Structure Seminar (April 5, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55762 55762-13777533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Jason Porta, Fellow, Melanie Ohi Lab, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:42:48 -0400 2019-04-05T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return (April 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58862 58862-14567901@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This presentation will profile the return of a rare Buddha image that was stolen from a remote temple in Bagan in 1988 and would travel around the world before finally being returned to its home country in 2012. This long saga, which involved looters, antique dealers, art historians, lawyers, ambassadors and curators, demonstrates the intricate complexities in restituting objects. The priceless sculpture was transported from Myanmar (also known as Burma) to Bangkok, San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Paris. It would be saved from the auction block, before drawing the involvement of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and becoming the subject of a precedent setting lawsuit for antiquities.

This research explored the different phases of this complex and successful story but also question how to implement restitutions most efficiently in the 21st century. Indeed, as the themes behind this stolen Buddha’s history have wider resonance for the region. Southeast Asian policymakers have been debating for decades on how to best protect their national heritage from criminals, while fighting for the restitution of stolen artworks. While the level success within each country has varied, much remains to be done in facing the continuing challenge of art trafficking.

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 10:41:14 -0500 2019-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NASA (April 5, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62701 62701-15431950@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 11:30am
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen of NASA, formerly a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan, presents a guest lecture at the School of Information (SI 663, Entrepreneurship in the Information Industry).

He will discuss change agents, organizational change, and intrapreneurship, with examples from NASA, academia and industry.


Dr. Zurbuchen earned his Ph.D. in physics and master of science degree in physics from the University of Bern in Switzerland. His honors include receiving the National Science and Technology Council Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) Award in 2004 and three NASA Group Achievement Awards.

Previously a professor of space science and aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Zurbuchen is well versed in the practice of asking tough questions that help enable innovation and create impact. During his career, Zurbuchen has authored or coauthored more than 200 articles in refereed journals in solar and heliospheric phenomena. He has also been involved with several NASA science missions involving Mercury, the Sun and more. His experience here has driven his passion of cultivating leaders and highlighting talent throughout the agency. He has also been an advocate of sharing NASA’s messages on social media and can be found on Twitter at the handle @Dr_ThomasZ.

Light lunch will be served. RSVP to umsi.info/zurbuchen.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 09:09:38 -0400 2019-04-05T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Thomas Zurbuchen portrait
Psychology Methods Hour: #Parenting Projects: Using Twitter to Understand Mothering and Fathering (April 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59128 59128-14686294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Jan 2019 13:51:54 -0500 2019-04-05T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Phondi Discussion Group (April 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737045@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 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 2019-04-05T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Social Worth Affirmation (April 5, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61127 61127-15036281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Teams often fail to reach their potential because each member’s need to feel accepted prevents him or her from offering their unique perspective or information to the team. Drawing on self-affirmation theory, we propose that social worth affirmation – which we define as the process by which an individual’s unique contributions are affirmed by social relationships – can prepare individuals to contribute to team performance more effectively. We theorize that affirming team members’ social worth spills over to the new team context, thereby decreasing their social concerns about being accepted by other members. This, in turn, leads to better information exchange and performance in teams. In a first field experiment, we found that teams in which members experienced social worth affirmation prior to team formation performed better on a problem-solving task (compared to teams without social worth affirmation). In a second experiment, conducted using task-oriented teams in the U.S. military, we tested a full model that social worth affirmation influences information exchange and team performance by reducing members’ concerns about social acceptance. In the third experiment using virtual teams, we find that social worth affirmation improves teams’ ability to exchange information by sharing unique information cues.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:36:33 -0500 2019-04-05T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
After Hybridity: Grafting as a Model for Cultural Translation (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61921 61921-15239145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

The notion of cultural translation as it was developed by postcolonial studies attempts to cope not only with the foreignness of language, but also with 'the other' as a foreigner. In order to overcome various shades of 'othering,' Homi Bhabha and other postcolonial theorists have conceptualized interactions between different cultures as processes of hybridization.
I would like to propose an alternative model for describing processes of cultural translation, namely the model of grafting that has been used not only by Jacques Derrida as a metaphor for textual cut and paste operations, but also by Johann Gottfried Herder and Friedrich Schleiermacher for the purpose of coming to terms with the foreignness of other languages as well as other cultures.

Uwe Wirth holds the chair for German Literature and Cultural Theory at the German Department at the Julius-Liebig-University Giessen since 2007. From 2005 until 2007 he was the scientific coordinator at the Center for Advanced Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin.
In his dissertation, he addressed topics such as the theories of humor and stupidity (published 1999 under the title Diskursive Dummheit: Abduktion und Komik als Grenzphänomen des Verstehens, [Discursive Stupidity: Abduction and Comic as Border Phenomena of Understanding, 1999]. In his 'habilitation', he reconstructed the central role of editorial fiction in German literature 'around 1800' (published by the Fink Verlag under the title: Die Geburt des Autors aus dem Geist der Herausgeberfiktion. Editoriale Rahmung im Roman um 1800: Wieland, Goethe, Brentano, Jean Paul und E.T.A. Hoffmann [The Birth of the Author from the Spirit of Editorial Fiction. Editorial framing in the novel around the year 1800: Wieland, Goethe, Brentano, Jean Paul and E.T.A. Hoffmann]. His current research interest is the model of grafting as a model for intercultural relationships as well as a metaphor of inscription and quotation.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:00:46 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Uwe Wirth, Justus Liebig University
BOOK LAUNCH WITH FRIEDA EKOTTO AND CORINE TACHTIRIS (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62542 62542-15399287@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Frieda Ekotto is Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Comparative Literature at U Michigan. Corine Tachtiris received her PhD in Comparative Literature from U Michigan in 2012 and is Assistant Professor at U-Mass Amherst. Tachtiris will read and discuss her new translation of Ekotto's novel (Rutgers 2019), followed by open dialogue between translator and author.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 13:58:20 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Poster
Sustainable Systems Forum (April 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62198 62198-15311073@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Dana Natural Resources Building
Organized By: Center for Sustainable Systems

Participatory action research (PAR) is a powerful methodology for generating collective knowledge and change. We will describe PAR, its particular relevance to agroecology and food system work, and its application in our educator training program Laboratorios para la Vida (LabVida). LabVida has been working for eight years to train educators to use school gardens and food systems as venues for inquiry-based learning linking local and academic knowledge. We applied PAR to development and analysis of our training program, and invited participating educators to use PAR with their groups to explore and improve their food environments. PAR has proven to be an effective tool for generating small but significant changes in participants' narratives and practices.

Helda Morales is from Guatemala City and went to college there. She did graduate work in Costa Rica and then at U of M. Her research has documented the importance of traditional knowledge in constructing sustainable agriculture systems that avoid using harmful pesticides. Recently, she has focused on education and food systems, working with local urban and rural growers and farmers markets as well as international organizations. She is a founder and active member of AMA-AWA, the Alliance of Women in Agroecology.

Bruce Ferguson grew up in Kalamazoo, studied at Kalamazoo College. He did graduate work at the University of Michigan with John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto focusing on ecological succession and restoration. He currently does research and teaching in agroecology, food systems, and pedagogy. He is in Ann Arbor, spending part of his sabbatical year at U of M.

Their current research involves school gardens and food system education. They are both members of the Department of Agriculture, Society, and the Environment at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, where they are part of a group working on scaling out agroecology to achieve more just and sustainable food systems. Together, Bruce and Helda coordinate Laboratorios para la Vida, a program that trains teachers to use gardens and food systems as educational tools.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:41:51 -0400 2019-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 Dana Natural Resources Building Center for Sustainable Systems Lecture / Discussion lechugas loreto
Department Colloquium: Catrin Campbell-Moore (Bristol University) (April 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52152 52152-12483092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

In some unfortunate situations, rationality doesn't allow you to settle on a stable opinion. These are cases where becoming more confident that things will go one way gives you evidence that they'll go the other way; and vice versa. In these cases, any belief you adopt undermines itself. I suggest that in such scenarios you should adopt imprecise probabilities. This connects to accounts for the liar paradox, in particular a supervaluational version of Kripke's account of truth.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:11:41 -0400 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion Catrin Campbell-Moore
Intertwined orders and fermions in holography (April 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62643 62643-15416705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Behind the unconventional behavior of many strongly interacting quantum systems is an intrinsically complex phase diagram exhibiting a variety of orders. These may not only compete but also cooperate with each other, describing phases with a common origin that are intertwined. Holographic techniques provide a theoretical laboratory to probe such strongly correlated systems, offering a new window into their dynamics.
In this talk I will discuss a holographic model of a striped superconductor, which provides a concrete realization of intertwined orders. I will also examine the formation and structure of Fermi surfaces in various holographic systems with broken translational invariance. In particular, we will see that sufficiently strong lattice effects generically cause the Fermi surface to dissolve, leaving behind disconnected segments. This segmentation process is reminiscent of the puzzling Fermi arc phenomenon observed in the high temperature superconductors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:38:25 -0400 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (April 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60368 60368-14866469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 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 08:59:07 -0400 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Social History of Art: What Matters, Then and Now (April 5, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58769 58769-14553145@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: History of Art

Symposium on the Social History of Art honoring Alexander Potts and Susan Siegfried
with guest speakers Thomas Crow (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU) and Darcy Grigsby (UC Berkeley)

"Ingres’s Creoles"
Darcy Grimaldo

Summary: In 1836 Ingres ordered an artistic encounter between two Creoles who had both been born in Saint-Domingue, renamed Haiti. From Rome, the fifty-six year-old painter exerted his power over an “homme de couleur” and a black man by orchestrating a confrontation that left both men in ignorance of its ultimate purpose. Ingres’s sixteen year old student Théodore Chassériau, was being told secretly to paint the celebrated black model Joseph, famously placed at the apex of Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa. While refusing to share his intentions with either man, Ingres confided to a friend that the subject was “Christ Chasing the Devil from the Mountain. As for the pupil, he does not need to know this.” Locked behind closed doors and left in the dark as to Ingres’s plans, two Creoles – painter and model - confronted one another; the result of this encounter was Chassériau’s famous Étude de Nègre of 1838. This talk analyzes the picture and the circumstances of its making in light of France’s colonial history.

"The Hidden Mod in the New Art History: Another Origin Story".
Thomas Crow

Summary: the revival of art history as an intellectual discipline from about 1975 drew much of its strength from Parisian modern-life painting in the later 19th century. The story of how it got there contains an earlier and overlooked contribution that surprisingly arose from the rebellious youth culture of postwar London.

Free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:13:58 -0400 2019-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art History of Art Lecture / Discussion poster
2019 Nelson W. Spencer Lecture - Dr. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61843 61843-15215058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

The Climate & Space 2019 Nelson W. Spencer Lecturer will be Dr. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

Dr. Taalas will give a presentation titled "Climate Change, Disasters and their Impact."

Professor Taalas was elected in May 2015 as the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). WMO is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with 192 Member States and Territories based in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the UN system's authoritative voice on the state and behavior of the Earth's atmosphere, its interaction with the land and oceans, the weather and climate it produces and the resulting distribution of water resources.

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

The event is free, but attendees are asked to RSVP via this link: http://myumi.ch/65BvV

Reception to follow. Please join us!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 13:13:34 -0400 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Dr. Petteri Taalas
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 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 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: The Stable Isotopic Fingerprint of Landscapes and Life (April 5, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52686 52686-12927440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The elevation history of the Earth’s surface and large orogens in particular reflects the competing roles of geodynamic processes in crust and mantle as well as erosion. At the same time, mountains host a substantial proportion of the world’s species and the long-term surface elevation history of orogens not only affects local (e.g. rainfall, seasonality, biodiversity) but also global climatic conditions e.g. through atmospheric teleconnections. Recovering the timing and rates of Earth’s surface processes, therefore, directly links to patterns of biomes and biodiversity at the interface of atmospheric and geodynamic processes. Here I present stable and clumped isotope approaches from the European Alps (Switzerland), the Anatolian plateau (Turkey) and the East African Rift System (Malawi) to identify the interactions of regional surface uplift and climate change on paleo-environmental conditions. Given the rapid technological advances in modeling and proxy approaches to determine paleoelevation as well as phylogenetic techniques in recovering the evolutionary history of mountainous species, understanding the interactions among biodiversity and Earth surface processes will develop into a key opportunity for the geological and biological sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 13:03:29 -0500 2019-04-05T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-05T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
DAAS Diasporic Dialogues: “Theatre, Womanist Knowledge-Making and Violence in Jamaica: Witnessing A Vigil for Roxie.” (April 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62371 62371-15355277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In this talk, Nicosia Shakes analyzes a 2015 performance of the play, A Vigil for Roxie, co-created by Jamaican theatre artists, Carol Lawes, Eugene Williams, Honor Ford-Smith and Amba Chevannes. As part of the Memory, Urban Violence and Performance Project founded by Ford-Smith, Vigil for Roxie draws on the memorial practices of working-class Black Jamaican women who have lost loved ones to gang and state violence over the past three decades. Shakes utilizes a womanist paradigm to explore the racial, economic and gendered dimensions of memory, healing and justice as depicted in Vigil. By representing experiences of gang and state violence through the bodies and voices of Black women, Vigil challenges mainstream male-centered understandings of violence while creating a holistic vision of social justice involving the community, nation and wider region of the Americas.



Bio

Nicosia Shakes is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at The College of Wooster. Her book manuscript, Gender, Race and Performance Space: Women’s Activism in Jamaican and South African Theatre, won the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize in 2017, and is under contract with UIP.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:30:47 -0400 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Lecture: "On Shakespeare's Roman Trails" (April 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60567 60567-14910381@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

How do we address Shakespeare’s Roman plays to contemporary audiences? We can make our productions strongly, even aggressively about our politics rather than Rome’s or early modern England’s. But one major area of Shakespeare marketing that Shakespeare cultural criticism has almost completely ignored is the film - and now also the theatre – trailer. Trailers are everywhere. No longer only in the movie theatre, they fill our tvs and are all over the web. Peter Holland considers how they conceptualize - and invite us into - Shakespeare's Roman plays.

To be followed by public reception

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 12:31:21 -0500 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
NERS Colloquium: Tom Mehlhorn, US Naval Research Laboratory (April 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62743 62743-15457909@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Eighth Annual Richard K. Osborn Lecture

Abstract: Laboratory thermonuclear fusion experiments with z-pinches, tokamaks, stellarators, and mirror machines began in the early 1950’s, but achieving the Holy Grail of energy breakeven has remained a Quixotic quest. The first laser was built in 1960 and by 1974, KMS fusion in Ann Arbor reported the first thermonuclear neutrons from a laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosion (Chroma laser: 0.8kJ). The optimism of producing net energy with modest lasers based on 1-D simulations with limited physics proved unfounded. In the succeeding 45 years, a series of larger lasers has been built, but NIF (1.8 MJ) @ LLNL has yet to achieve ignition. All the approaches in the NNSA ICF program, laser indirect and direct drive, as well as magnetic direct drive on Z at Sandia will require a major new facility to produce significant yield. Can modern computing models, validated by new data on critical physics issues, help cut the Gordian Knot and establish a credible path for a high yield facility? Until recently, computational constraints limited the physical adequacy of our ICF design tools. In particular, thermal conduction flux limiters are still used in direct and indirect drive laser ICF target design, rather than accounting for the kinetic and non-local nature of electron heat transport. My 1978 dissertation on Fokker-Planck modeling was motivated by this problem, but the development of practical models for use in 3-D rad-hydro codes is ongoing. Excitingly, recent measurements on Omega of nonlocal heat flux in laser-produced coronal plasmas using a novel Thomson scattering technique [1] are finally providing the missing validation data for these models, and Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulations are in progress to determine the self-consistent electron distribution functions and heat flux. Improvements in this and related laser-plasma interaction models will provide a firmer foundation for future extrapolations. My talk concludes with a roadmap for achieving ignition and yield from direct drive ICF with excimer lasers.

Bio: Dr. Tom Mehlhorn, heads the Plasma Physics Division at the Naval Research Laboratory where he oversees a broad spectrum of research, including fusion, pulsed power, laser wakefield acceleration, space plasmas, and plasma processing. He has a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan. Dr. Mehlhorn has received several scientific awards, including the 2004 U of M Alumni Society Award in NERS. He is a Fellow of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, the AAAS in Physics, and the IEEE. He is an author on over 160 peer-reviewed papers.

This annual lecture series has been made possible by a generous endowment by MIT Professor Emeritus Sidney Yip, a former student of Professor Osborn. These annual lectures are a tribute to Professor Osborn's unwavering dedication to education of students in fundamental science. It is the goal of these lectures to inspire future generations of students in nuclear theory and simulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Apr 2019 11:23:41 -0400 2019-04-05T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion NERS Colloquium Flyer : Tom Mehlhorn
Forum on Graduate School and Faith (April 5, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62758 62758-15460076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 5:00pm
Location: BBB
Organized By: Impact Graduate Student Fellowship

While graduate school is a great opportunity for the personal development of one's faith and philosophy, not much engagement is available for the discussion of how the opportunities and challenges in graduate school are relevant to that development.
Dr. David Brzezinski, MD CGS, will discuss his time in graduate school, his work as a current faculty member in the medical school, and how his faith has shaped his perspective on graduate school and beyond.
There will be an open Q&A time afterwards for conceptual or practical questions. Open to students from all backgrounds and disciplines.
Refreshments will be provided!

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:50:24 -0400 2019-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 BBB Impact Graduate Student Fellowship Lecture / Discussion Abbreviated flyer for event
The University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning presents J. Robert F. Swanson Lecture: Shohei Shigematsu (April 5, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59581 59581-14752352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Shohei Shigematsu is a Partner at OMA and the Director of the New York office. He has been a driving force behind many of OMA’s projects, leading the firm’s diverse portfolio in the Americas for the past decade. With an emphasis on maximum specificity and process-oriented design, Sho provides design leadership and direction across the company for projects from their conceptual onset to completed construction.

Sho is responsible for cultural projects across North America, including Milstein Hall, an extension to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University; a new museum for the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; and the Faena Forum, a multi-purpose venue in Miami Beach. Sho’s cultural projects currently in progress include a museum expansion for the New Museum in New York City; an extension to the Albright Knox Gallery in Buffalo, New York; and an event space for the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Sho has also designed exhibitions for Prada, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Park Avenue Armory and is currently designing Dior’s first US retrospective at Denver Art Museum. He has collaborated with multiple artists – including Cai Guo- Qiang, Marina Abramović, Kanye West and Taryn Simon - and is currently redesigning Sotheby's New York headquarters.

Sho’s urban and public space designs around the world include the Willow Campus masterplan, an integrated mixed-use village for Facebook in Menlo Park, California; a mixed-use development in Santa Monica; a new civic center in Bogota, Colombia; a post-Hurricane Sandy urban water strategy for New Jersey; and in Toronto, the largest transit-oriented development currently underway in North America.

Sho has built a number of innovative workspaces including – the China Central Television Headquarters in Beijing (2012), and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Headquarters (2013). He is currently designing a new business center in Fukuoka (2020) and OMA’s first tower in Tokyo for Mori Building Co, Ltd. (2022). Sho’s designs for three residential projects are under construction across the country – from New York to San Francisco and Miami.

A design critic at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Sho has lectured at TED and Wired Japan conference, and at universities throughout the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 11:57:03 -0500 2019-04-05T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T19:30:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Shohei Shigematsu
2019 Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: An Evening With Mary Kathryn Nagle (April 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59117 59117-14684213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Native American Studies

Native American Studies at the University of Michigan presents the 2019 Robert F. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: An Evening With Mary Kathryn Nagle
"Native Theater in the 21st Century: Piercing the Invisibility and Restoring Our Humanity"

This event is free and open to the public. There will be a catered reception to follow the lecture.

Mary Kathryn Nagle is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program. She is also a partner at Pipestem Law, P.C., where she works to protect tribal sovereignty and the inherent right of Indian Nations to protect their women and children from domestic violence and sexual assault. Nagle has authored numerous briefs in federal appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. Nagle studied theater and social justice at Georgetown University as an undergraduate student, and received her J.D. from Tulane Law School where she graduated summe cum laude and received the John Minor Wisdom Award. She is a frequent speaker at law schools and symposia across the country. Her articles have been published in law review journals including the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Yale Law Journal (online forum), Tulsa Law Review, and Tulane Law Review, among others.

Nagle is an alumn of the 2012 PUBLIC THEATER Emerging Writers Group, where she developed her play “Manahatta” in PUBLIC STUDIO (May 2014). Productions include “Miss Lead” (Amerinda, 59E59, January 2014), and “Fairly Traceable” (Native Voices at the Autry, March 2017), “Sovereignty” (Arena Stage), “Manahatta” (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and Return to Niobrara (Rose Theater). In 2019, Portland Center Stage will produce the world premiere of “Crossing Mnisose.”

Nagle has received commissions from Arena Stage (“Sovereignty”), the Rose Theater (“Return to Niobrara,” Omaha, Nebraska), Portland Center Stage (“Mnisose”), Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Yale Repertory Theatre (“A Pipe for February”), and Round House Theater.

The Berkhofer Lecture series (named for a former U-M professor and founder of the field of Native American studies) was established in 2014 by an alumni gift from the Dan and Carmen Brenner family of Seattle, Washington. In close consultation with the Brenners, Native American Studies decided to create a public lecture series featuring prominent, marquee speakers who would draw audiences from different communities (faculty and students, Ann Arbor and Detroit, and Michigan tribal communities as well as writers and readers of all persuasions). Native American students at U-M have consistently expressed their desire to make Native Americans more visible both on campus and off, and we believe that this lecture takes a meaningful step in that direction. Additionally, because of the statewide publicity it generates, we think it is already becoming another recruitment incentive for Native American students. It goes without saying that the speakers we are inviting provide tremendous value to the mission and work of Native American Studies at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:59:10 -0400 2019-04-05T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-05T22:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Picture
Chinese Contemporary Art: Exhibition, Collection and Criticism (April 6, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/59542 59542-14750201@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 9:00am
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Presented during the UMMA exhibition Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing (February 2 - May 26, 2019), this symposium celebrates three decades of active engagement between American and Chinese artists, museum directors, curators, collectors, and scholars. The program includes two panels and two roundtable discussions that will focus on the contributions of museums, exhibitions, collections and criticism to expand our understanding contemporary Chinese art practice.

The program includes two panels and two roundtable discussions that will focus on the contributions of museums, exhibitions, collections and criticism to expand our understanding contemporary Chinese art practice. Panelists include noted leaders such as Melissa Chiu (Hirschhorn Museum), Daisy Wang (Peabody Essex Museum), Vivian Li (Worcester Art Museum), Christopher Phillips (curator and critic), Richard Vine (managing editor of Art-in-America), Anthony Japour (collector and filmmaker), and Charles Jin (collector of 20th-century photography), as well as students, faculty, and scholars from U-M and beyond.

A public tour of Wang Qingsong/Detroit/Beijing will kick off the symposium on Friday, April 5, at 4 p.m.   

Organized by Fang Zhang in collaboration with the U-M Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies and co-sponsored by UMMA.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 18:16:37 -0400 2019-04-06T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Conversation with Professor Peter Holland & Director Arthur Nauzyciel (April 6, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61116 61116-15036266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 6, 2019 11:00am
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:19:13 -0500 2019-04-06T11:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
"Challenges of Beneficence: Revising the Terms" (April 8, 2019 11:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62576 62576-15405815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 11:45am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

Please join the Law & Ethics Program as we welcome Professor Barbara Herman to deliver the 2019 Law & Ethics Lecture. Professor Herman will speak about "Challenges of Beneficence: Revising the Terms."

This lecture is free and open to the public.

Professor Barbara Herman has appointments in both the law and philosophy departments at UCLA. She is the Griffin Professor of Philosophy at the UCLA Department of Philosophy and is teaching in the new Law and Philosophy Specialization at the law school. She teaches and writes on moral philosophy, Kant's ethics, and the history of ethics, as well as social and political philosophy. She has published widely in moral philosophy, including The Practice of Moral Judgment, (Harvard University Press, 1993); "The Scope of Moral Requirement," Philosophy and Public Affairs, Summer 2001; "Rethinking Kant's Hedonism," in Facts and Values: Essays for Judith Thomson, eds. R. Stalnaker, R. Wedgwood, & A. Byrne (MIT Press, 2001); and "Morality and Everyday Life," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, Nov. 2000.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:44:04 -0400 2019-04-08T11:45:00-04:00 2019-04-08T13:15:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Law & Ethics 2019
Etruscan State formation (April 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62649 62649-15416720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

The Etruscans of first millennium BC central Italy are renowned for their artistic output, but what were the underlying processes of settlement and infrastructure that supported their political achievements? The lecture will provide the complementary evidence of state formation from regional survey and economy that allow comparison of Etruscan state formation with the classic studies from the Old and the New World. The lecture is based on Simon Stoddart's forthcoming book for Cambridge University Press: Power and Place in Etruria. The spatial dynamics of a Mediterranean civilisation. 1200-500 B.C. and more recent collaborative work.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 15:10:46 -0400 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Stoddart
Material Conversations Brownbag (April 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62372 62372-15355278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: University Library

This is the final installment of the Winter Semester Brownbag Series, Material Conversations highlighting material research at the university. Professor Mark Meier and his students will present their work with robotic design of extruded clay vessels. They will also present work on foam models for slip-casting of vessels. This will be of interest to those interested robotic digital fabrication, scripted geometric modeling, digital sculpting, and 3D printing.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:51:18 -0400 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T13:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center University Library Lecture / Discussion Modeled Geometry Clay Vessel with Strontium Glaze; Mark Meier
Jessye Norman Voice Master Class Series: David Aronson, coach and Sylvia Greenberg, soprano (April 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60490 60490-14901364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

From the Vienna Staatsoper and Zürich Opera come coach/conductor David Aronson and acclaimed soprano Sylvia Greenberg. The husband-and-wife team have worked with hundreds of young singers in master classes in over 20 cities across four continents.

Six SMTD voice students will be featured in this "Jessye Norman Series" master class, followed by a Q&A period.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:13:21 -0400 2019-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Are Stress Granules up to PAR? (April 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61547 61547-15126027@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Cell & Developmental Biology and Center for RNA Biomedicine Joint-Sponsored Guest Seminar

Hosted by: Pierre Coulombe, Ph.D.
Nils Walter, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 13:42:28 -0500 2019-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Anthony Leung seminar
RNA Innovation Seminar || Co-sponsored with the Department of Cellular and Developmental Biology (April 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59780 59780-14786531@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Anthony Leung, PhD, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Jan 2019 11:57:50 -0500 2019-04-08T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59568 59568-14752328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 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 8, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Psychosocial Stress, Health Behaviors and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans.”

By Mosi Ifatunji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for African American Research
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:49 -0500 2019-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
STS Distinguished Speaker. Race and Erasure: A People's History of the "Normal" Body (April 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58144 58144-14433275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk explains how in the years after World War II, science leaders at the US National Institutes of Health set and expanded a second system to supply healthy people for human experiment, in addition to government-based arrangements to access people with restricted civil liberties. During the early 1950s, NIH aligned with private organizations from the major institutions of postwar America—religious groups, labor unions, universities, and civic organizations—to sign “procurement contracts” that allowed the organizations to send their healthy members to the NIH to live as “normal control” subjects of science experiments. In the process the US produced the legal possibility—and the living reality—of an enduring, large-scale civilian market for healthy human subjects. Yet this market for healthy humans had a distinctive feature. Because of the conventions of NIH research space and the demographics of the organizations with which the US government signed contracts, the Normals had one common trait: they all were White. As a result, the medical construct of “normalcy,” though officially race blind, was organized around White lives, a legacy that continues to inflect medicine with race-based discrimination and disparities.

Biosketch: Laura Stark is the author of Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Chicago, 2012), and is completing a book project on the lives of “normal control” research subjects at the US National Institutes of Health. The Normals: A People’s History will be published by University of Chicago Press. Her articles and book chapters explore the history of moral experience and the mind-body sciences in a global frame. Stark is Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University and is Associate Editor of the journal History & Theory.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Feb 2019 11:20:04 -0500 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Prof. Stark
Transnationalism and Poetry Lecture (April 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60402 60402-15483802@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

A visit from Harris Feinsod (Northwestern University) and Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia) that will feature a lecture and roundtable. Co-sponsored by the Poetry and Poetics Workshop, the Transnational Contemporary Literature Workshop, and the Global Postcolonialisms Collective, with support from the Modernist Studies Workshop and the Ambrose D. Patullo Fund for Poetry.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:38:45 -0400 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion event poster
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Karl Pituch and Johanna Yarbrough, horn (April 8, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60852 60852-14975210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Principal and second horn players from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra will perform the Haydn Double Horn Concerto and work with students from the U-M Horn Studio.

Karl Pituch was named Principal Horn of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in May, 2000. Before joining the DSO, Karl was Associate Principal Horn with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Principal Horn with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony and the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. He served as a guest Principal Horn for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Chautauqua Festival Orchestra and the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra.

Johanna Yarbrough joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra horn section in 2012. She came to Detroit after completing a professional studies certificate at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Prior to her time in LA, Johanna attended the University of Alabama, where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Music degree.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:13:26 -0400 2019-04-08T16:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
LACS Lecture. On Marketing and Militarism: Demobilizing Guerrillas and Mobilizing Affect, Colombia and Propaganda in the Early Twenty-First Century (April 8, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62831 62831-15477383@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

This talk explores the principle arguments in Alexander Fattal’s new book “Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia” (University of Chicago Press, 2018) about the convergence of marketing and militarism in twenty-first century propaganda. The talk considers the Colombian government’s efforts to engage in a form of ‘brand warfare’ against members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the smaller guerrilla group, the National Liberation Army (ELN). Since 2007, the government has been working with the same advertising firm that stewards brands such as Mazda and RedBull in Colombia, to lure guerrillas out of the insurgency and transform them into consumer citizens. The ethnography critiques those efforts, pointing to problems that emerge when branding captures critical state functions, like waging a war.

Dr. Alexander L. Fattal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He is also a documentary artist whose creative and scholarly work focuses on the mediation of the Colombian armed conflict.
@FattAlx | www.alexfattal.net

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 14:10:30 -0400 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T18:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion image
Creating a Culture of Consent (April 8, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62854 62854-15483800@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Dr. Keith Edwards, an expert scholar and teacher on sexual violence prevention, is coming to campus on April 8th to bring a new perspective to U of M. Keith’s talk “Creating a Culture of Consent” will focus on encouraging and empowering participants to change the culture on campus surrounding sexual assault. See below for more information on Keith and his previous talks.

We would like to thank our sponsors PRISM, Fraternity & Sorority Life, and SAPAC.

Special thanks to Central Student Government (CSG) for their support.

This event was planned by PRISM (Prevention Regarding Instances of Sexual Misconduct), a student led collaboration between SAPAC and Fraternity and Sorority Life. PRISM organizes educational programming on preventing sexual assault and promoting healthy relationships, bystander intervention and survivor empowerment. If you would like to learn more or get involved please email prism2019@umich.edu

IMPORTANT: Please register through Sessions to reserve your seat

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:08:49 -0400 2019-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Lecture / Discussion Multi color squares create a pattern around a picture of Keith Edwards and the time, location, title of the event.
Panel Discussion: Why Do We Love Books? (April 8, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60026 60026-14814732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Many people claim to love books, even if they haven’t read one in years, and to be enamored with libraries, even if they haven’t stepped foot in one since childhood. Why? This panel discussion will bring together experts with different perspectives on the question of why we love books and libraries. Professor Susan Gelman from the U-M Department of Psychology, co-owner of Literati, Michael Gustafson, and founder of the Ann Arbor Book Society, Rachel Pastiva, will be joined by moderator Jamie Lausch Vander Broek, a librarian at the U-M Library and Ann Arbor District Library Trustee.

Photo: Music Library, by David Fulmer on Flickr.  This image, licensed under CC BY 2.0, has been cropped.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:15:48 -0500 2019-04-08T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/exhibitions/562691803_eed3ed4ec7_o2.jpg
Democracy, Dictatorship and Development: In What Ways Does the Type of Political Regime Matter? (April 9, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58939 58939-14586679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Hanson holds an MA in economics and a Ph.D. in political science from the
University of Michigan. He is a lecturer in statistics for public policy at the Ford School. He is a specialist in comparative political economy and political development,

In this lecture Dr. Hanson examines the ways in which, and the channels through which, political institutions affect economic performance and human development. In his recent projects, he has explored whether democracy and state capacity complement or substitute for each other when it comes to improving human development, why authoritarian regimes vary significantly in economic and social outcomes, how the spatial distribution of ethnic group populations interacts with political institutions to affect the supply of public services, and how to measure state capacity.

This is the eighth in OLLI’S distinguished lecture series for 2018-19. A total of ten lectures will be presented covering a variety of topics. The next lecture will be May 14, 2019. The topic will be: The Fall and Rise of Income Inequality in the United States

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 22 Dec 2018 15:29:34 -0500 2019-04-09T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
Comparative Politics Workshop (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 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 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Department of Biological Chemistry's Annual George William Jourdian Lectureship in Biological Chemistry (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62520 62520-15397097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Jue Chen, Ph.D., William E. Ford Professor and Head, Laboratory of Membrane Biology and Biophysics, will deliver the 2nd annual George William Jourdian Lectureship in Biological Chemistry on Tuesday April 9th, 2019. This will take place at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II. The title of the lecture is: "CFTR: The Odd ABC Transporter Responsible for Cystic Fibrosis."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 07:59:14 -0400 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Origins and Evolution of Social Surveillance in China (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59706 59706-14780085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

This talk focuses on the post-1949 efforts of the Chinese state to develop a panoptical surveillance capacity. Although these efforts have been largely successfully with regard to the Han majority, the talk argues that from the 1950s to the present day, territorially concentrated minority groups like the Tibetans and the Uighurs have remained poorly penetrated and thus present a persistent powerful obstacle for the highly sophisticated Chinese surveillance apparatus. The paper is based on internal circulation (neibu) materials from China.

Martin K. Dimitrov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2004. His books include “Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China” (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Asia and Europe” (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and “The Political Logic of Socialist Consumption” (Ciela Publishers, 2018).

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Mar 2019 09:13:34 -0400 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
Mini Grant Momentum (April 9, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61607 61607-15152474@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 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 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:00:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Mini Grant Momentum
FellowSpeak: “'How did you get fat anyway?': Black Women’s Diet and Exercise in the Mid-Twentieth Century" (April 9, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58292 58292-14452850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Assistant Professor of American Culture and Women's Studies, and 2018-19 Institute for the Humanities Charles P. Brauer Faculty Fellow Ava Purkiss gives a 30-minute talk followed by Q & A.

In 1959, black fashion and marketing expert Elsie Archer published Let’s Face It: A Guide to Good Grooming for Negro Girls in which she offered health and beauty advice to young black women. Before suggesting diet plans and exercise programs, she asked her readers: “How did you get fat anyway?” Archer added that avoiding fatness through diet and exercise would enable young black women to discover their feminine charms, enhance their appearances, and achieve a body that will “fit in.” My talk will examine how black women like Archer used nutrition advice, diet and exercise promotion, and fat shaming tactics to literally shape the fit black female body in the mid-twentieth century.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Jan 2019 13:12:44 -0500 2019-04-09T12:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Eating for Health
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Xiang Gao, violin (April 9, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61978 61978-15252289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Xiang Gao was cited by The New York Times as “a rare and soulful virtuoso”. Conductor Naeme Jarvi commented “I have conducted Joshua Bell and Lang Lang. Mr. Gao is an artist of this stature!”

Gao is artistic director of the Master Players Concert Series at the University of Delaware, and the Master Players International Music Festival and School. An alumnus of the University of Michigan, he appeared as soloist with the University of Michigan Symphony Band on their China tour in May of 2011.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:13:27 -0400 2019-04-09T14:30:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Xiang Gao
Representing Latinx Voices in American Journalism (April 9, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62362 62362-15355261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Tuesday, April 9, 2019
3:30pm (Reception)
4:00-5:30pm (Panel Discussion)
3512 Haven Hall
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Please join us for a panel discussion on the representation of Latinx issues, perspectives and voices in American journalism, featuring current Knight-Wallace Fellows Luis Trelles of Radio Ambulante and Aaron Nelsen, former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News, together with Sarah Alvarez, Founder and Executive Editor of Outlier Media and Serena Maria Daniels, founder of Tostada Magazine in Detroit. This event is a collaboration between the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of American Culture, and Wallace House, home of the Knight-Wallace Fellowships for Journalists and the Livingston Awards. Reception will be held before the panel. Free and open to the public.

Luis Trelles is a producer for Radio Ambulante, a podcast distributed by NPR which tells the stories of Latin America and Latino communities in the United States. His work has appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab, and NPR’s Planet Money and All Things Considered. Trelles has reported on Cuban immigration, the ethnic tensions between Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, and the causes for Puerto Rico’s debt crisis. In 2017 he covered the emergency efforts in the U.S. commonwealth after Hurricane Maria. Trelles teaches at the journalism school of the City University of New York, where he mentors emerging Latino journalists through its bilingual program. @cu_bata

Aaron Nelsen is the former Rio Grande Valley Bureau Chief for the San Antonio Express-News. Previously, he was a Time correspondent and New York Times contributor in Chile. He also worked for Reuters covering the Chilean stock exchange and currency market. Prior to that he was the business editor and education reporter for the Brownsville Herald in Texas and a general assignment reporter for the Temple Daily Telegram in Texas. In 2017, he documented a small group of community activists in the Rio Grande Valley as they worked to save a wildlife preserve from the path of President Trump's border wall. @amnelsen

Sarah Alvarez, founder and executive editor of Outlier Media, started her career in civil rights law in New York. Before founding Outlier Media, she worked as a senior producer and reporter at Michigan Radio, the statewide NPR affiliate. In that role, she covered issues important to low-income families, child welfare and disability. Her work has been featured on NPR, Marketplace, The Center for Investigative Reporting, Bridge Magazine, and The Detroit News. Sarah believes journalism is a service and should be responsive to the needs of all people. She lives in northwest Detroit. @media_outlier @sarahalvarezMI

Serena Maria Daniels is an award-winning Chicana journalist. A recovering daily newspaper reporter, she is the founder and chingona-in-chief of Tostada Magazine, a Detroit-based independent new media platform that uses food journalism as a means of preserving culture and breaking down barriers. Tostada empowers journalists of color or of immigrant backgrounds to report stories from within their communities. As a freelance food journalist, Serena writes about halal burgers, Ramadan IHOP, chapulín pizza and other topics at the intersection of food, culture, and migration for Thrillist, Eater Detroit, Latino USA, Remezcla, and others. Her favorite tacos come from back home in LA and she prefers her pizza square. Find Tostada on Twitter and Instagram @tostadamagazine and Serena @serenamaria36

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:29:07 -0400 2019-04-09T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
DAAS Africa Workshop "Rhodes Must Not Rise: An Alternative Afrofuturism" (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59213 59213-14717517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

In the 1880s, when the future of Malawi was being decided between Cecil Rhodes and the British government, Protestant missionaries from Scotland issued a series of scathing attacks on Rhodes’s imperial designs. For David Clement Scott, the most visionary amongst them, Rhodes epitomised the wrong turn that race relations would take when the territory was declared a Protectorate in 1891. Scott’s vision was of an Africa in which different races worked for the common good – “not side by side but as one”. From language learning to land tenure, the approach he advocated was no idealism detached from practical initiatives. It involved as much status reversal between white and black as it did hierarchical forbearance. By attending to some of Scott’s short-lived innovations, I ask whether the intervening century has made such decolonial thought all but impossible to comprehend in its own terms. What is the prospect of recovering de-racialized humanity, even if in a Christian key, as the critical concept in decolonial thought?

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 01 Apr 2019 09:07:19 -0400 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
FUNCTIONAL MRI LAB SPEAKER SERIES - EAST HALL, CENTRAL CAMPUS (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61836 61836-15215051@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Dr. Barense is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Barense has been trained in animal neuroscience, human neuropsychology, fMRI, and cognitive psychology and enjoys bringing these approaches together to study the neural underpinnings of memory.

Presentation Title: Understanding memory disorders: At the level of cognitive process representational content?

Abstract:

How does perception of an object relate to subsequent memory for that object? A central assumption in most modern theories of memory is that memory and perception are functionally and anatomically segregated. For example, amnesia resulting from medial temporal lobe (MTL) lesions is traditionally considered to be a selective deficit in long-term declarative memory with no effect on perceptual processes. This view is consistent with a popular paradigm in cognitive neuroscience, in which the brain is understood in terms of a modular organization of function based on cognitive process. The work I will present offers a new perspective. Guided by computational modelling complemented with neuropsychology and neuroimaging, I will provide support for the notion that memory and perception are inextricably intertwined throughout the MTL, relying on shared neural representations and computational mechanisms. I will then describe how this new framework can improve basic understanding of cognitive impairments observed in Alzheimer’s disease, as well as guide development of new diagnostic procedures for those at risk for dementia.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 12:44:49 -0400 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 East Hall Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Dr. Barense
Jeroboam in Medieval Jewish Thought (April 9, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57445 57445-14193517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Jeroboam Ben Nabat, a pretender to the throne of ancient Israel who had created a rival cult outside of Jerusalem replete with golden calves dedicated to the worship of Yahweh (1 Kings 15), was a contested figure within medieval Jewish thought. Post-biblical sources tend either to magnify or diminish the severity of the king’s error. This paper will study how Jeroboam’s image was shaped through forces of intra- and inter-religious polemic and served as a focal point for contemplating issues of Jewish orthodoxy and heterodoxy as well as the nature and boundaries of idolatry.

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 13:25:36 -0500 2019-04-09T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jonathan Decter
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies (April 9, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58150 58150-14433285@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

This book examines how national policies and immigrant advocacy groups interact to shape collective identity formation, solidarity networks, and strategies for political empowerment among immigrants and their descendants in East Asian democracies, focusing on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. With immigrant agency at the center of its analysis, this book asks why foreign residents make the political choices they do as they become permanent members of their receiving societies. Based on over 150 in-depth interviews with immigrants, pro-immigrant activists, and government officials and 28 focus groups with the major foreign resident groups in each country conducted in the greater Tokyo, Seoul, and Taipei metropolitan areas from 2009 to 2013, this book prioritizes the role played by civil society actors—including migrants themselves—in giving voice to migrant interests, mobilizing migrant actors, and shaping public debate and policy on immigration. Departing from the dominant scholarship on immigrant incorporation that focuses on national cultures or traditions, domestic political elites, and international norms, I argue that civil society actors drew on existing ideas, networks, and strategies previously applied to incorporate historically marginalized groups, or what I call civic legacies, to confront the challenges of immigrant incorporation. Rather than determining the paths available to later generations, civic legacies form the opportunities and constraints that demarcate the rules of the game for migrant claims making, thus framing the direction of immigrant incorporation, the level of penetration in society, and the potential for structural reform. As the first English-language book comparing three countries that represent a single model of immigrant incorporation in East Asia, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies proposes to shed insights into the gaps between policy intent, interpretation, and outcomes.

Erin Aeran Chung is the Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics in the Department of Political Science and the Co-Director of the Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (RIC) Program at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She specializes in East Asian political economy, international migration, and comparative racial politics. She has been a Mansfield Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Program Scholar, an SSRC Abe Fellow at the University of Tokyo and Korea University, an advanced research fellow at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Program on U.S.-Japan Relation, and a Japan Foundation fellow at Saitama University. Her first book, Immigration and Citizenship in Japan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010 and translated into Japanese and published by Akashi Shoten in 2012. Her second book, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, is under contract at Cambridge University Press. She was recently awarded a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS) to support the completion of her third book project on Citizenship, Social Capital, and Racial Politics in the Korean Diaspora.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:41:23 -0500 2019-04-09T16:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
“Darlings, Delicacies, Deities & Donations: Ancient Egyptian Animal Mummies as Cultural and Environmental Markers” (April 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58567 58567-14511742@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Animals have played a crucial role in human history, and continue to do so until today. The interaction between humans and animals can affect the environment, and vice versa. In the ancient Egyptian Nile Valley, in addition to providing food, transportation, raw materials, companionship and entertainment, animals played a key role in religion. As such, they inspired divine iconography and language, and served both as manifestations as well as offerings to gods. Ultimately, in the twilight of Egypt’s pharaonic history, animals played a part in defining cultural identity and world-view. This talk will focus on a critical locus of this agency: animal mummies in ancient Egypt, and what they tell us not only about Egyptian culture, economy, and human-animal relationships, but also about Egypt’s changing environment.

Salima Ikram is Distinguished University Professor of Egyptology at The American University in Cairo, and has worked as an archaeologist in Turkey, Sudan, Greece and the United States. After double majoring in history and classical and near eastern archaeology at Bryn Mawr College, she received her MPhil in museology and Egyptian archaeology and PhD in Egyptian archaeology from Cambridge University. She previously directed the Animal Mummy Project, the North Kharga Darb Ain Amur Survey, Valley of the Kings KV10/KV63 Mission co-directed the Predynastic Gallery project and the North Kharga Oasis Survey. She has also participated in several other archaeological missions throughout Egypt. She has lectured on her work internatioinally, and publishes in both scholarly and popular journals. She also has an active media presence.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 13:49:22 -0400 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Salima Ikram
ZVWS Presents: Edwidge Danticat (April 9, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58277 58277-14452831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:21:29 -0500 2019-04-09T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Edwidge Danticat
Unlikely General: ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America (April 9, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61729 61729-15178976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

With the young republic in crisis, President Washington chose as general an aging brigadier whose private life was mired in scandal. Follow the story of General Anthony Wayne, drawn from his own passionate letters where he vividly confessed his deepest thoughts.

Writer and historian Mary Stockwell was an Earhart Foundation Fellow at the Clements Library. Her book “Unlikely General: ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America” was published by Yale University Press in 2018. She has a B.A. in history from Mary Manse College and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Toledo.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:53:06 -0500 2019-04-09T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T19:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion "Unlikely General" Book Cover
Food Literacy for All (April 9, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 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 2019-04-09T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
Bioethics Discussion: Replicability of Medical Studies (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49436 49436-11456549@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A roundtable discussion on the significance of our results.

Readings to consider:
"Reproducibility in science"
"Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science"
"How many scientists fabricate and falsify research?"
"Is the replicability crisis overblown?"

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/029-replicability-of-medical-studies/.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 15 Sep 2018 03:36:18 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-09T20:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Replicability of medical studies
Virginia Martin Howard Stearns Lecture: Professor Jacqueline C. DjeDje (April 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56685 56685-13963069@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje is Professor Emeritus, former Chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, and former Director of the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive. In addition to numerous articles on African and African-American music, DjeDje is author and editor of several books, including Fiddling in West Africa: Touching the Spirit in Fulbe, Hausa, and Dagbamba Cultures (2008); Turn Up the Volume! A Celebration of African Music (1999); and California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West (co-edited with Eddie S. Meadows, 1998). Fiddling in West Africa won both the Alan Merriam Prize from the Society for Ethnomusicology for the best book in 2009, and the Kwabena Nketia Book Prize (the inaugural award) from the Society for Ethnomusicology African Music Section for the most distinguished book published on African music in 2010. At present, DjeDje is conducting research on fiddling in African American cultures.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:13:19 -0400 2019-04-09T19:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
Decoding the Brain Serotonergic System: from Breathing to Behavior (April 10, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61233 61233-15054325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted by:
Dawen Cai, Ph.D.
Bing Ye, Ph.D.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:58:58 -0500 2019-04-10T09:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T10:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Susan Dymecki
CREES Noon Lecture. How the West Corrupts the East: Swedish Bribes and Uzbek Dictators (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59380 59380-14737032@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

With a world record fine and the CEO now on trial in Sweden, Europe’s fifth largest telecommunications provider, Telia Company AB, is slowly getting out from an expensive and morally corrupt endeavor in Uzbekistan. Award-winning Swedish journalist and 2019 Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan Fredrik Laurin presents Swedish Public Service TV’s exposure of international corruption. The lecture will address the effects of corruption in Central Asia and the role of U.S. legislation as the only working law against corruption.

Fredrik Laurin is editor of special projects for Swedish Television’s (SVT’s) Current Affairs program. Before this he was editor of the investigative department for Swedish Radio, a reporter for SVT, and investigative reporter for National TV 4. Laurin’s investigations exposed tax havens and tax evasion by the global corporate elite and corruption in the Swedish government and abroad. One such investigation exposed how purportedly alliance-free Sweden secretly cooperates with U.S. authorities in eavesdropping, intelligence gathering, extraordinary rendition, and torture in the war on terror. He has received the Stora Journalistpriset, the Swedish equivalent to the Pulitzer Prize, and Guldspaden, the Swedish Investigative Reporters and Editors award. He has received several other awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for his collaborative efforts on the Panama Papers with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Laurin graduated from the Gothenburg School of Journalism and studied political science at Gothenburg University. Currently he is a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:59:24 -0500 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:20:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Fredrik Laurin
Gravity amplitudes from the ultraviolet (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62639 62639-15416698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Scattering amplitudes in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills can be described in terms a geometrical object, the Amplituhedron. Special properties of loop integrands seem to indicate that this picture persists beyond the planar limit. My talk will describe a first step, and several challenges, in finding similar structures in gravity amplitudes.
I will explain how their ultraviolet behaviour, usually considered problematic, might hold the key to this problem

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:06:53 -0400 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Print Culture as Platform in Late Ming China (April 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61056 61056-15027184@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan

Two truisms: One, we encounter multiple platforms in our digital lives; in fact, both platform development and figuring out how to use a new platform can be exciting, creative activity. Two, many of the ways in which woodblock printing was used in early modern China do not translate easily into standard print media. I am interested in considering early-modern print media from the perspective of both these truisms, specifically turning my attention to a text that has traditionally been considered the purview of intellectual history, Chuanxi lu (usually translated as Record for Practice).

About the speaker:

Tina Lu received an AB and PhD from Harvard. She taught at Penn from 1998 to 2008 and has been at Yale since then. She currently serves as the department chair and also inaugural head of Yale’s newest residential college. She is the author of several books. Current special interests include the digital humanities and cognitive approaches to literature.

*Photocredit: Wang Wencheng gong quanshu (1572)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:14:31 -0500 2019-04-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T13:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan Lecture / Discussion Tin Lu
EER Seminar Series (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62434 62434-15364115@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Duderstadt Center
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

“Engineering science” courses are technical courses at the sophomore or junior level that are non-lab and non-design courses. While these courses make up a significant portion of students’ engineering education, they have received less research focus than design courses. In this talk we will present the beginnings of a framework capturing two overarching research questions: What should students learn in engineering science courses? And How should students learn in engineering science courses? We will then present two current research studies that each address these two questions. In the first we will describe the development of a coding scheme to characterize the degree to which instructors facilitate student sense-making in class and demonstrate how it is applied to question-initiated dialogue in two courses. In the second we will examine how students in one engineering science course solved and evaluated their answers for open-ended mathematical modeling problems.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:21:21 -0400 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 Duderstadt Center Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Aaron Jess
Ling.A.Mod Discussion Group (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59362 59362-14734864@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 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 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T15:50:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Psycholinguistics Discussion Group (April 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61045 61045-15024931@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 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 09:25:39 -0500 2019-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T16:30:00-04:00 East Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion East Hall
DCMB Seminar (April 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62715 62715-15434135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Ophthalmology is heavily dependent on imaging and numerical data, making it an excellent candidate for the application of deep learning to tasks in image analysis and clinical decision support. In this seminar, we will discuss the rapid automated segmentation of anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and its implications for the clinical investigation of the cornea and the intraoperative guidance of surgical maneuvers. In addition, we will discuss the relevance of deep learning to lens implant selection for cataract surgery -- the most commonly performed surgical procedure in the United States. We will conclude by examining the potential roles for deep learning in the analysis of the SOURCE database -- a comprehensive repository of ophthalmic clinical and imaging data being built at UM Kellogg Eye Center to encompass data across 18 institutions.

3:30 PM - Refreshments in Atrium Hall, Palmer Commons
4:00 PM - Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:37:32 -0400 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Helmut W. Baer Lecture | The Neutron Lifetime Puzzle (April 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60984 60984-15000011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department Colloquia

Neutrons make up half of all matter but become unstable when freed from the nucleus. The precise value of the neutron lifetime plays an important role in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology. Professor Liu will describe the latest measurement, which traps neutrons by levitating neutrons with a large array of permanent magnets. The lifetime measured this way appears different than that measured with a beam of neutrons leading some to conjecture their disappearance into an undetectable state.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Mar 2019 13:43:05 -0500 2019-04-10T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T17:00:00-04:00 West Hall Department Colloquia Lecture / Discussion Chen-Yu Liu
"Celebrating the Poromboke Commons: Climate Change, Land-Use Change and Cultural Activism" (April 10, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59234 59234-14719613@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Chennai, India-based environmental activist Nityanand Jayaraman investigates and reports on corporate abuses of environment and human rights. In this lecture, he discusses shared use and communally owned resources known as the poromoboke and the blatant encroachment on the poromboke for building construction and garbage dumping.

Poromboke is a Tamil word meaning shared-use and communally owned resources like bodies of water, seashores and grazing lands. Today, it has a negative connotation and is used to describe worthless people or places. This erosion in meaning is the result of a property-making agenda of the state that views open, unbuilt and unbuildable spaces as wasteland. But poromboke commons are layered with multiple land uses, cultures and economies. Far from being worthless, poromboke spaces are the backbone of any economy, and the basis for the planet's resilience. India is witnessing a wave of protests against land acquisition for infrastructure projects that prioritize built infrastructure over unbuilt and open spaces. Surviving climate change is a fight to prevent degrading land-use change, and the re-orienting of values. The task then is a cultural one—of revalorizing the poromboke and changing our notions of value and worth with respect to places, economies, cultures and peoples.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:00:55 -0400 2019-04-10T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Nityanand Jayaram
The Serengeti Rules: The Regulation and Restoration of Biodiversity (April 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61894 61894-15230394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

In conjunction with the U-M Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Noted author and biologist Dr. Sean B. Carroll will discuss the discovery of the "The Serengeti Rules," the ecological rules that regulate the numbers and kinds of animals and plants in any given place, and how they are being applied to restore some of the greatest wildernesses on the planet.

Sean B. Carroll is an award-winning scientist, writer, educator, and film producer. He is Vice President for Science Education of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the largest private supporter of science education activities in the U.S., and Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:30:44 -0400 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Sean b. Carroll
Cognitive Science Community (April 10, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62981 62981-15528492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Guest speaker Felix Warneken, Associate Professor of Psychology at U-M, will join the group to discuss the cognitive foundation of reciprocal cooperation.

Overview of Professor Warneken’s talk: Reciprocity is a powerful strategy to sustain cooperation, but little is known about its cognitive prerequisites. Professor Warneken argues that studies on the developmental emergence of reciprocal sharing behaviors can provide insight into its cognitive underpinnings. Professor Warneken will present data on children’s delay of gratification and future-directed thinking abilities and how they might be related to reciprocal sharing behaviors of different complexity. Professor Warneken concludes with some thoughts on how the study of psychological mechanism can explain similarities and differences in the cooperation of humans and other great apes.

Speaker bio: Professor Felix Warneken studies the origins of human social behavior, with a focus on the development and evolution of cooperation and morality. He uses developmental and cross-cultural studies with children, as well as comparative studies with nonhuman apes. He completed his Ph.D. and postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, was a faculty member at Harvard University and is now an Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:17:41 -0400 2019-04-10T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-10T20:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSciCom logo
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (April 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61472 61472-15110432@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 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, 10 Apr 2019 18:00:12 -0400 2019-04-10T20:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME: GENDERSOCIALIZATION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD (April 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61680 61680-15170128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Karin A. Martin is a Professor and Chair of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. She has published extensively on gender, sexuality, and childhood in everyday life. Her research has appeared in many outlets including American Sociological Review, Gender & Society, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Journal of Family Issues. She is author of Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self: Girls and Boys at Adolescence (Routledge, 1996).

Since the feminist movements of the 1970s, has childhood become more gender equal? We have seen enormous social changes with respect to gender in educational attainment, in the work- place, in politics, and in some aspects of marriage over the last 50 years. But what about early childhood? Do boys and girls have the same experiences and opportunities in childhood? Research suggests somewhat of a mixed picture, with some changes, some stalls, and some regression.

This is the second in a six-lecture series. The subject is Changing Gender Roles. The next lecture will be April 18, 2019. The title is: Changing Gender Economic Roles.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:21:23 -0500 2019-04-11T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
#MeToo: A WeListen Staff Discussion (April 11, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62379 62379-15357471@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 11:30am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: WeListen Staff

#MeToo: A WeListen Staff Discussion

This session of WeListen is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and lunch will be provided!

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/LzEYO

The #MeToo movement has highlighted issues of sexual misconduct across the globe since going viral in October 2017. Initially centered around sexual misconduct in the workplace, the movement has since allowed survivors of sexual harassment and assault to speak about their experiences in broader contexts. The hashtag has reached the entertainment industry, higher education, politics, and more as people like Aziz Ansari, Matt Lauer, Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Larry Nassar, and Brett Kavanaugh have their reputations called into question. Some remain unscathed after public scrutiny while others lose their jobs or are sentenced to prison time.

Have we seen true change in sexual misconduct policy since the hashtag began? Does the #MeToo movement violate the American value of "innocent until proven guilty?" Can allegations of sexual misconduct be managed by the court of public opinion or should all consequences be withheld until a trial has taken place?

Join us at this WeListen Staff Discussion to learn about the #MeToo movement and to participate in small group discussions about this complex topic. Our aim is to bring liberals, conservatives, libertarians- everyone across the political spectrum- together for constructive conversation. The goal of WeListen discussions is not to debate or argue, but to understand the views and values of others and to learn from their perspectives. The session will begin with a brief content presentation to provide a basic understanding of the topic. No specific level of knowledge is required to participate in WeListen discussions.


By participating in WeListen sessions, staff members will:
- Expand understanding of a prominent political topic
- Practice discussing difficult topics with others,
- Gain openness to new ideas and perspectives,
- Learn to productively challenge an idea, and
- Form a sense of community among fellow staff members.

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is co-sponsored by the UM Office of DEI and the LSA DEI Implementation Leads. The planning committee includes staff members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology, the Opportunity Hub, UM Poverty Solutions, and the UM Shared Services Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 09:33:47 -0400 2019-04-11T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) WeListen Staff Lecture / Discussion WeListen Sexual Harassment Flyer
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58689 58689-14544792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new safety myth by downplaying the harmful effects of radioactive exposure on the human body and the environment. How have citizens’ activism responded to the ruses of the safety myth? The talk will introduce various sites and forms of anti-nuclear activism that ordinary citizens have organized to defend their basic rights to health, safety, and dignity.

Katsuya Hirano teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan." He has published numerous articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history of Japan, Fukushima nuclear disaster, settler colonialism, and critical theory. His Fukushima interview series is available in the "Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus."

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:37:58 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Old, Raw or New: A (New?) Deal for the Digital Age (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62312 62312-15346472@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

American historians debate whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Depression-era legislation was, in fact, a New Deal, or perhaps an “Old Deal” or a “Raw Deal.” Considering multiple perspectives and voices, combined with the long sweep of history, stokes this lively, ongoing debate. In this CRITICAL x DESIGN talk, Rankin turns her attention to American computing in the 1960s and 1970s to consider whether the academic networks of that era may be inspiration for a Digital New Deal.

The users of 1960s and 1970s academic computing networks built, accessed, and participated in cooperative digital commons, developing now-quotidian practices of personal computing and social media. In the process, they became what she calls “computing citizens.” She uses several case studies to illustrate the dynamic - and unexpected - relationships among gender, community, computing, and citizenship, including the Old Deals and the Raw Deals of computing citizenship. How might these computing citizens inform crucial contemporary debates about technology and justice?

About the speaker
Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin is a feministi, anti-racist historian, and a Contributing Editor for Lady Science. She is also a consultant for the documentaries The Birth of BASIC and The Queen of Code and for the television show Girls Code. Rankin was an Exchange Scholar at MIT while earning her doctorate in History from Yale University, as well as a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prior to entering the academy, she had a successful career launching educational programs for students of all ages, which took her around the country. Her website is joyrankin.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 Department of Communication Studies in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:45:56 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Joy Lisi Rankin
The Changing Nature of Information Acquisition and Knowledge Dissemination (April 11, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57875 57875-14365964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Hilton is University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, as well as Vice Provost for Academic Innovation at the U-M, where he leads one of the world's largest and most innovative library systems, and spearheads the development of campus-wide strategies, policies and programs around educational technology. A national leader in technology issues around higher education, he has led, championed and fostered technology initiatives that cross boundaries between institutions, and between academic and information technology units.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:42:07 -0500 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
CLaSP Seminar Series - Prof. Stephen Bougher (April 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61753 61753-15179567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 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 CLaSP Professor Stephen Bougher.

Title: "The Responses of the Mars Upper Atmosphere to the 2018 Planetary Encircling Dust Event"

Abstract: The Mars upper atmosphere, encompassing the thermosphere, ionosphere, and lower portion of the exosphere (~100 to 400 km), constitutes the reservoir that regulates present day volatile escape processes from the planet. The characterization of this upper atmosphere reservoir (composed of neutrals and ions) is therefore one of the major science objectives of the NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN Mission (MAVEN). MAVEN also provides a unique opportunity for the first time to sample the upper atmosphere systematically during a global dust storm event, thereby capturing feedbacks among the processes occurring across these atmospheric regions. Connections to the Mars lower atmosphere are gleaned from concurrent non-MAVEN observations.
The recent planet encircling dust event (PEDE-2018) started May 30, 2018, as viewed in imaging from the MRO/MARCI (Mars Context Imager). The growth of the dust storm over the next 6-weeks (up to 10-July) witnessed the horizontal redistribution of dust around the planet (lofting dust up to ~60-70 km), resulting in substantial warming of middle atmosphere temperatures (~25-80 km) as observed by the MRO/MCS (Mars Climate Sounder). Corresponding upper atmosphere (~150-220 km) responses by neutral densities, temperatures, and winds were measured by the MAVEN/NGIMS (Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer), the MAVEN/IUVS (Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer) during this onset period, and the 2-month decay phase that followed. NGIMS measured neutral composition includes major gas species (e.g. He, O, CO, N2, O, Ar and CO2). IUVS measured dayside CO2+ UVD airglow emissions, from which CO2 densities and corresponding temperatures can be extracted. The time evolving density, temperature, and wind fields during the PEDE-2018 event will be presented.
Corresponding Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model (M-GITM) predictions can be compared to these NGIMS (IUVS) measurements along orbit tracks (along tangent height paths). New M-GITM model simulation are driven by time-evolving solar EUV-UV fluxes (measured by the MAVEN/EUVM–Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor) plus time-evolving dust opacities (measured by the MRO/MCS) during the onset and decay phases of the storm. This data-model study provides a first look at the processes driving these upper atmosphere variations and the dust storm trends gleaned from these MAVEN measurements.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Mar 2019 09:45:16 -0500 2019-04-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
Webinar: New research to inform living shoreline design, placement and monitoring (April 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62319 62319-15346481@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

Living shoreline techniques can be effective tools for bolstering coastal habitats, controlling erosion, and protecting coastal areas from the impacts of storms, sea level rise and boat wakes. Under the right conditions, they can provide a variety of services while being cost-competitive with traditional approaches, such as bulkheads. Despite their potential, living shoreline designs are not applied as broadly or effectively as might be expected.

Members of the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) and partners, in part supported by Science Collaborative resources, have been studying how different living shoreline designs perform in a variety of coastal locations from Mississippi to New York, and have been developing tools to enhance the use of these techniques.

This webinar will: a) facilitate a candid panel discussion of the lessons learned, management implications and next steps related to a series of applied research projects; and b) give audience members the opportunity to engage and ask questions about opportunities and challenges associated with living shorelines.

Panelists:
Christine Angelini, University of Florida
Stuart Findlay, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Denise Sanger, ACE Basin NERR
Eric Sparks, Mississippi State University
Jennifer Raulin, Chesapeake Bay- Maryland NERR

Moderator:
Jennifer Read, Science Collaborative Director

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:31:13 -0400 2019-04-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
BME Seminar Series (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60042 60042-14814808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Take part in the Winter 2019 BME Seminar Series and join us for a seminar with Raj Kothapalli, Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University.
More details to come!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Jan 2019 15:23:03 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Biomedical Engineering
Donia Human Rights Center Distinguished Lecture. Sexual Harassment: The Law, the Politics and the Movement (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53838 53838-13467971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

Professor Catharine A. MacKinnon will address the politics and law of sexual harassment, focusing on its violation of equality rights, in light of the #MeToo movement, exploring those developments in light of the theory of her most recent book, "Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women."

This event is co-sponsored by: Center for the Education of Women+ Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund, Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Law School, and Women's Studies Department.

Catharine A. MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at Michigan Law and the long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She holds a BA from Smith College, a JD from Yale Law School, and a PhD in political science from Yale. She specializes in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative, criminal, and constitutional) law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation and the Swedish model for abolishing prostitution. The Supreme Court of Canada has largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech, which have been influential internationally as well. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic under the Alien Tort Act, the first recognition of rape as an act of genocide. Among the schools at which she has taught are Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Harvard, Osgoode Hall (Toronto), Basel (Switzerland), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Columbia. She was awarded residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the University of Cambridge. Professor MacKinnon's scholarly books include the casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007), Are Women Human? (2006), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Only Words (1993), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Feminism Unmodified (1987), and Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979). She is widely published in journals, the popular press, and many languages. Professor MacKinnon practices and consults nationally and internationally and works regularly with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. Serving as the first special gender adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (The Hague) from 2008 to 2012, she implemented her concept of "gender crime." In 2014, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association of American Law Schools Women's Division and was elected to the American Law Institute. Studies document that Professor MacKinnon is among the most widely-cited legal scholars in the English language.

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 contact: umichhumanrights@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 13:49:06 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
Planet in Peril: Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62539 62539-15399283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The seventh environmental conference presented by Michigan Law's Environmental Law and Policy Program kicks off on Thursday, April 11, with a talk by Jonathan Overpeck, Dean of the UM School for Environment and Sustainability. Dean Overpeck will set the stage for the conference by discussing how best to meet climate challenges.

The conference will continue on Friday, April 12. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote our entire conference to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and broad-based environmental sustainability efforts. Panels and break out sessions will be held throughout the day on topics as wide-ranging as the Paris Accord, U.S. federal climate policy, and how law and business intersect to address climate change.

This event is free and open to the public. Please see a complete conference schedule at events.law.umich.edu/elpp

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:21:08 -0400 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
The 2019 Miller Converse Lecture (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61971 61971-15250103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Presenter: Diana Mutz (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract: Drawing on evidence from her book in progress, Mutz presents survey and experimental evidence on the psychological underpinnings of attitudes toward international trade. Picking up where economic explanations have failed, she argues that people extend what they know about human interaction to understand international relationships. In this respect, globalization runs headlong against the grain of much of basic human psychology, asking us to trust distant, impersonal and often dissimilar others.

A livestream and recording of this event will be available.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:44:41 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Miller Converse Lecture
The Miller Converse Lecture (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58580 58580-14511767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:43:18 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (April 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61385 61385-15097058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Emily Atkinson, Language Learning Visiting Assistant Professor, will present "The learnability of a novel cue to prediction: An artificial language learning study of filler-gap dependencies."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 13:00:04 -0400 2019-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
The Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering (April 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61780 61780-15179596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Zhenan Bao
K. K. Lee Professor, School of Engineering
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Stanford University

ABSTRACTS

Lecture 1: April 11, 2019, 5:30 pm
Glick Ballroom, Postma Family Clubhouse

Skin-Inspired Electronics

Skin is the body’s largest organ, and is responsible for the transduction of a vast amount of information. This conformable, stretchable, self-healable and biodegradable material simultaneously collects signals from external stimuli that translate into information such as pressure, pain, and temperature. The development of electronic materials, inspired by the complexity of this organ is a tremendous, unrealized materials challenge. However, the advent of organic-based electronic materials may offer a potential solution to this longstanding problem. In this talk, I will describe the design of organic electronic materials to mimic skin functions. These new materials and new devices enabled arrange of new applications in medical devices, robotics and wearable electronics.




Lecture 2: April 12, 2019, 9:00 am
Research Auditorium, B10 Research Auditorium

Skin-Inspired Electronic Material Design

Future electronics will take more important roles in people’s life. They need to allow more intimate contact with human beings to enable advanced health monitoring, disease detection, medical therapies, and human-machine interfacing. However, current electronics are rigid, non-degradable and cannot self-repair, while the human body is soft, dynamic, stretchable, biodegradable and self-healing. Therefore, it is critical to develop a new class of electronic materials that incorporate skin-like properties, including stretchability for conformable integration, minimal discomfort and suppressed invasive reactions; self-healing for long-term durability under harsh mechanical conditions; and biodegradability for reducing environmental impact and obviating the need for secondary device removal for medical implants. These demands have fueled the development of a new generation of electronic materials, primarily comprised of polymers and polymer composites with both high electrical performance and skin-like properties, and consequently led to a new paradigm of electronics, termed “skin-inspired electronics”. In this talk, I will discuss our general material design concepts to realize skin-like properties without compromising electronic properties. Such fundamental understandings will allow us to further develop skin-inspired materials to meet future requirements for various new applications.

BIO

Zhenan Bao joined Stanford University in 2004. She is currently a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering, and with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She is the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018.

She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors. She founded the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR) and is the current faculty director. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Precourt Institute, Woods Institute, ChEM-H and Bio-X. Professor

Bao received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1995 and joined the Materials Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2001.

Professor Bao currently has more than 400 refereed publications and more than 60 US patents. She served as a member of Executive Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society and Executive Committee Member for the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering division of the American Chemical Society. She was an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Science, Polymer Reviews and Synthetic Metals.

She serves on the international advisory board for Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, Accounts of Chemical Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Chemical Communications, Journal of American Chemical Society, Nature Asian Materials, Materials Horizon and Materials Today. She is one of the Founders and currently sits on the Board of Directors of C3 Nano Co. and PyrAmes, both are silicon valley venture funded companies.

She was a recipient of the Wilhelm Exner Medal from the Austrian Federal Minister of Science in 2018, the L'Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Award North America Laureate in 2017. She was awarded the ACS Applied Polymer Science Award in 2017, ACS Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013 ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, and was selected by Phoenix TV, China as 2010 Most influential Chinese in the World-Science and Technology Category. She is a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008, American Chemical Society Team Innovation Award 2001, R&D 100 Award, and R&D Magazine Editors Choice Best of the Best new technology for 2001.

She has been selected in 2002 by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee as one of the twelve Outstanding Young Woman Scientist who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century. She is also selected by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2003 as one of the top 100 young innovators for this century. She has been selected as one of the recipients of Stanford Terman Fellow and has been appointed as the Robert Noyce Faculty Scholar, Finmeccanica Faculty Scholar and David Filo and Jerry Yang Faculty Scholar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:25:23 -0500 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Zhenan Bao
ZVWS Presents: Edwidge Danticat (April 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58277 58277-14452832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

A 2009 MacArthur fellow, Edwidge Danticat is the author of several books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection, Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist. She is also the editor of The Butterfly’s Way: Voices from the Haitian Dyaspora in the United States, Best American Essays 2011, and has written six books for children and young adults, including Anacaona, Behind the Mountains, and Eight Days. Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, was a 2007 finalist for the National Book Award and a 2008 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, published in 2017, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Feb 2019 12:21:29 -0500 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-11T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Edwidge Danticat
FAST Lecture | Theorizing Image and Abstraction in the Roman Villa Farnesina (April 11, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62366 62366-15355268@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

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

Reception at the Kelsey Museum at 5:30 p.m., lecture to follow at 6:00 p.m.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:48:18 -0400 2019-04-11T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T19:00:00-04:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion FAST poster
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Unison, featuring John Herbert (bass) and Clarence Penn (drums) (April 11, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60689 60689-14939402@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

For their Chamber Music Forum, Unison (featuring SMTD professor Andy Milne) will be working with students, both individuals and groups, to explore the boundaries shared among classical playing, free improvisation, and jazz performance.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:27:48 -0400 2019-04-11T19:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Unison
Planet in Peril: Averting Climate Catastrophe Through Law and Social Change (April 12, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62539 62539-15399284@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 8:45am
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

The seventh environmental conference presented by Michigan Law's Environmental Law and Policy Program kicks off on Thursday, April 11, with a talk by Jonathan Overpeck, Dean of the UM School for Environment and Sustainability. Dean Overpeck will set the stage for the conference by discussing how best to meet climate challenges.

The conference will continue on Friday, April 12. With climate change accelerating and the window for climate change mitigation and adaptation narrowing, this year we will devote our entire conference to how the legal system can promote meaningful action on climate change and broad-based environmental sustainability efforts. Panels and break out sessions will be held throughout the day on topics as wide-ranging as the Paris Accord, U.S. federal climate policy, and how law and business intersect to address climate change.

This event is free and open to the public. Please see a complete conference schedule at events.law.umich.edu/elpp

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 15:21:08 -0400 2019-04-12T08:45:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Jeffries Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion
The Donald L. Katz Lectureship in Chemical Engineering (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61780 61780-15179597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

Zhenan Bao
K. K. Lee Professor, School of Engineering
Senior Fellow, Precourt Institute for Energy
Stanford University

ABSTRACTS

Lecture 1: April 11, 2019, 5:30 pm
Glick Ballroom, Postma Family Clubhouse

Skin-Inspired Electronics

Skin is the body’s largest organ, and is responsible for the transduction of a vast amount of information. This conformable, stretchable, self-healable and biodegradable material simultaneously collects signals from external stimuli that translate into information such as pressure, pain, and temperature. The development of electronic materials, inspired by the complexity of this organ is a tremendous, unrealized materials challenge. However, the advent of organic-based electronic materials may offer a potential solution to this longstanding problem. In this talk, I will describe the design of organic electronic materials to mimic skin functions. These new materials and new devices enabled arrange of new applications in medical devices, robotics and wearable electronics.




Lecture 2: April 12, 2019, 9:00 am
Research Auditorium, B10 Research Auditorium

Skin-Inspired Electronic Material Design

Future electronics will take more important roles in people’s life. They need to allow more intimate contact with human beings to enable advanced health monitoring, disease detection, medical therapies, and human-machine interfacing. However, current electronics are rigid, non-degradable and cannot self-repair, while the human body is soft, dynamic, stretchable, biodegradable and self-healing. Therefore, it is critical to develop a new class of electronic materials that incorporate skin-like properties, including stretchability for conformable integration, minimal discomfort and suppressed invasive reactions; self-healing for long-term durability under harsh mechanical conditions; and biodegradability for reducing environmental impact and obviating the need for secondary device removal for medical implants. These demands have fueled the development of a new generation of electronic materials, primarily comprised of polymers and polymer composites with both high electrical performance and skin-like properties, and consequently led to a new paradigm of electronics, termed “skin-inspired electronics”. In this talk, I will discuss our general material design concepts to realize skin-like properties without compromising electronic properties. Such fundamental understandings will allow us to further develop skin-inspired materials to meet future requirements for various new applications.

BIO

Zhenan Bao joined Stanford University in 2004. She is currently a K.K. Lee Professor in Chemical Engineering, and with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Material Science and Engineering. She is the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering from 2018.

She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Inventors. She founded the Stanford Wearable Electronics Initiative (eWEAR) and is the current faculty director. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Precourt Institute, Woods Institute, ChEM-H and Bio-X. Professor

Bao received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from The University of Chicago in 1995 and joined the Materials Research Department of Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2001.

Professor Bao currently has more than 400 refereed publications and more than 60 US patents. She served as a member of Executive Board of Directors for the Materials Research Society and Executive Committee Member for the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering division of the American Chemical Society. She was an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Science, Polymer Reviews and Synthetic Metals.

She serves on the international advisory board for Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, Accounts of Chemical Reviews, Advanced Functional Materials, Chemistry of Materials, Chemical Communications, Journal of American Chemical Society, Nature Asian Materials, Materials Horizon and Materials Today. She is one of the Founders and currently sits on the Board of Directors of C3 Nano Co. and PyrAmes, both are silicon valley venture funded companies.

She was a recipient of the Wilhelm Exner Medal from the Austrian Federal Minister of Science in 2018, the L'Oreal UNESCO Women in Science Award North America Laureate in 2017. She was awarded the ACS Applied Polymer Science Award in 2017, ACS Creative Polymer Chemistry Award in 2013 ACS Cope Scholar Award in 2011, and was selected by Phoenix TV, China as 2010 Most influential Chinese in the World-Science and Technology Category. She is a recipient of the Royal Society of Chemistry Beilby Medal and Prize in 2009, IUPAC Creativity in Applied Polymer Science Prize in 2008, American Chemical Society Team Innovation Award 2001, R&D 100 Award, and R&D Magazine Editors Choice Best of the Best new technology for 2001.

She has been selected in 2002 by the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee as one of the twelve Outstanding Young Woman Scientist who is expected to make a substantial impact in chemistry during this century. She is also selected by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2003 as one of the top 100 young innovators for this century. She has been selected as one of the recipients of Stanford Terman Fellow and has been appointed as the Robert Noyce Faculty Scholar, Finmeccanica Faculty Scholar and David Filo and Jerry Yang Faculty Scholar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:25:23 -0500 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T10:00:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion Zhenan Bao
U-M Structure Seminar (April 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55766 55766-13777535@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Zhenyu Tan, Graduate Student, Michael Cianfrocco Lab, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:47:43 -0400 2019-04-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. German and Vietnamese Refugees: Interactions and Comparisons (April 12, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58865 58865-14567903@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

This paper examines Germany as a country of and for refugees by focusing on two waves of refugees. The first is the influx of German refugees from Eastern Europe after the Second World War; the second is the influx of Vietnamese refugees to Western Germany and Vietnamese contract laborers to Eastern Germany around 1979. The paper asks a number of questions about the concept of ‘empathy’, about humanitarian ethics, and about global and national politics. It attempts to develop a comparative approach.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:54:29 -0500 2019-04-12T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T12:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Junior Faculty Speaker Series (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53077 53077-13218006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:15:53 -0400 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
My Brothers Empowerment Series (April 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58117 58117-14737078@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:59:32 -0500 2019-04-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Event
Phondi Discussion Group (April 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58814 58814-14737046@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 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 2019-04-12T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
EEB Museums Friday Seminar - Fungal dinosaurs from the lost world (April 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62648 62648-15416714@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Tepui region of South America contains some of the most remote and pristine forests on the planet. Mycological expeditions over the last 15+ years have yielded a cornucopia of unusual fungi including hundreds of new species and genera of macrofungi. This talk will cover the basics of conducting fieldwork in remote areas, and the contributions that only long term studies combined with specimen vouchering and various molecular approaches can bring to understanding the ecology and diversity of any system.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Apr 2019 10:21:26 -0400 2019-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Image of Mushroom
HistLing Discussion Group (April 12, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59361 59361-14734857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 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 12:52:26 -0500 2019-04-12T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Afrofuturist Challenges to Humanism: The Fiction of Sharon Dodua Otoo (April 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60389 60389-14868648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

In her short story, “Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin,” Sharon Otoo engages with the topic of posthumanism from an Afrofuturist perspective in this parody of an encounter between a German married couple at breakfast. Riffing on famous German comic Loriot’s sketch, “The Breakfast Egg,” which mocked the lack of communication between husbands and wives from the perspective of the husband, Otoo’s story is a feminist re-reading of this scenario that strips the white man of his agency by granting agency to a breakfast egg that has refused to cook properly. In this story, the posthumanist strategy of granting agency and reflection to non-human objects allows readers to consider who else in German history might have been treated similarly – Women? People of color? Queer folx? It is therefore fitting that the story ends with Herr Gröttrup’s interaction with his non-German maid, a woman whose presence he was unaware of until then because her status as a woman, a domestic worker and a non-German made her and her labor invisible to him. It is only on the day that he contemplates the possibility of the egg having agency that he is able to really see the others who populate his world.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:26:32 -0400 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Modern Languages Building Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Layne
Cosmology and Astrophysics of the Twin Higgs (April 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62644 62644-15416707@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The Twin Higgs model is an attractive solution to the little Hierarchy problem with top partners that are neutral under SM gauge charges. The framework is consistent with the null result of LHC colored top partner searches while offering many alternative discovery channels. Depending on model details, the phenomenology looks very different: either spectacular long-lived particle signals at colliders, or a plethora of unusual cosmological and astrophysical signatures via the existence of a predictive hidden sector. I will examine the latter possibility, and describe how the asymmetrically reheated Mirror Twin Higgs provides a predictive framework for a highly motivated and highly non-trivial interacting dark sector, with correlated signals in the CMB, Large Scale Structure, and direct detection searches, as well as higgs precision measurements at colliders. This provides a vivid example of the collider-cosmology complementarity, and motivates a variety of new astrophysical searches, including the search for X-ray point sources from Mirror Stars, that are motivated by the hierarchy problem.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 13:39:58 -0400 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Department Colloquium: Equivalence from a Metaphysical Point of View (April 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52607 52607-12899826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

"Equivalent" theories represent the very same state of the world; any differences are merely conventional or notational. According to one view of the metaphysics of equivalence - of what equivalence consists in - equivalent theories say the same thing about fundamental reality, understood in a certain fine-grained way. According a second view, which I call "quotienting" (short for "quotienting-out conventional content by hand"), theories may be equivalent even when we cannot state, in an intrinsic or "artifact-free" way, the content that the theories have in common. These two views are in a sense the extremes. The first view (which I accept) leads to uncomfortable conclusions about the kinds of questions that are genuine (e.g., whether negation and conjunction, as opposed to negation and disjunction, form the metaphysically correct basis for propositional logic). The second is dizzying, but sheds light on various otherwise perplexing viewpoints in metaphysics, philosophy of physics, and philosophy of mathematics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:52:56 -0400 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion ted sider
SoConDi Discussion Group (April 12, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58466 58466-14734947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 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 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (April 12, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 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 2019-04-12T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space (April 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52923 52923-13148783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium and employment opportunity—links the changing look of contemporary Hindi cinema’s mise-en-scène to the current commodification of land and leisure, the technologization of environment, and the shifting social range of Bollywood’s workers in globalizing India. Conceiving of filmed space as a tensile relationship between a film’s onscreen space and its defining social spaces, which together constitute a film’s visual appearance and its institutional materiality, I look at the ways in which Bollywood’s backgrounds register India’s politico-economic transitions. The composition and appearance of a film’s backgrounds encode socio-economic histories of India’s transition from an era of economic protectionism to the current phase of privatization and the commodification of everyday life. Based on my interviews with professionals who work on producing Hindi cinema’s locations and backgrounds, conducted in the months leading up to the national elections that put Narendra Modi in power in 2014, this talk proposes a spatial film historiography to account for the complex spatialities of a media form and society, when both are in transition.

Priya Jaikumar is Associate Professor at the Division of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. Her talk will draw on her forthcoming book, Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space, in production with Duke University Press.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 01 Aug 2018 08:15:59 -0400 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Jessye Norman Vocal Master Class Series: Dr. Robert Mirshak (April 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60498 60498-14901373@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Robert Mirshak, DMA, an artist's representative based in NYC, founded his own artist management agency 15 years ago after working with Columbia Artists (CAMI) and the Herbert Barrett Agency. He earned a DMA at SMTD in 1996 (student of George Shirley) and has represented artists such as Lawrence Brownlee and Anthony Dean Griffey.

Dr. Mirshak will work with six SMTD voice students on all aspects of auditioning and presentation, followed by a Q&A period.

The Saturday master class will offer a lecture on "Education about the Business" and other topics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:15:11 -0400 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
NERS Colloquium: Gautam Agrawal, Vision Radiology (April 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62948 62948-15520075@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Abstract: Opportunities exist in many shapes and forms and how we accept them is often molded by the people and environments around us. Returning to the department after 23 years, I am privileged to be able to discuss how the NERS department shaped my 'atypical' career path. Ideas gestated within NERS allowed me to start a company which has grown to become the premier company in its space.

The discussion will go through the foundation of the company, elaborate on results we've achieved in the last 15 years and how they pertain to knowledge workers in a remote workforce.

Bio: Dr. Agrawal (BSE Nuc. Eng '95, M. Eng '96) is a practicing Radiologist and co-founder of Vision Radiology (premier Teleradiology practice in U.S.). He credits much of the success of his company to work, ideas and ideals formed while a student in NERS.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:59:49 -0400 2019-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Flyer of NERS Colloquium 4-12-19
Jessye Norman Vocal Master Class Series: Dr. Robert Mirshak (April 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60498 60498-14901374@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, April 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Robert Mirshak, DMA, an artist's representative based in NYC, founded his own artist management agency 15 years ago after working with Columbia Artists (CAMI) and the Herbert Barrett Agency. He earned a DMA at SMTD in 1996 (student of George Shirley) and has represented artists such as Lawrence Brownlee and Anthony Dean Griffey.

Dr. Mirshak will work with six SMTD voice students on all aspects of auditioning and presentation, followed by a Q&A period.

The Saturday master class will offer a lecture on "Education about the Business" and other topics.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 12:15:11 -0400 2019-04-13T11:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Earl V. Moore Building
WCEE Lecture. From Montenegro to the Red Carpet: A Life of Giving (April 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62435 62435-15364116@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Emina Cunmulaj Nazarian was born in Farmington Hills, Michigan in 1984 to Albanian parents from Montenegro. She spent her childhood on a farm at the footstep of Montenegrin hills, helping with chores, earning good grades, and participating in village life. Emina has fond memories of those years, but what stands out to her was the fatalistic view of the plight of women, which motivated her to follow an atypical path. At 15, she was selected to represent Yugoslavia in a global modeling competition, leading to a successful modeling career that included appearances in Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, and work for the fashion houses Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Valentino, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Giorgio Armani, and Roberto Cavalli.

But Emina was destined to pursue philanthropy. From a young age, she witnessed her mother’s generosity as the family harbored, fed, and dressed fugitives of war during the Balkan conflict in the ’90s. As a result, Emina constantly seeks to promote humanitarian endeavors and organizations such as the Fundjavë Ndryshe, which she discovered in the summer of 2017 on a trip to rural Albania. Her involvement intensified, and in 2018 she helped secure food supplies, wood burning stoves, and new homes for needy families in Albania. Emina is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Fundjavë Ndryshe and is actively planning her next Albanian campaign this summer. Her talk will explore “the love that I give and share with those in need,” the potential for a better life for many, and how to channel our capacity for good to make the world a better place.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 02 May 2019 10:29:58 -0400 2019-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-14T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Emina Cunmulaj
MLK, Jr. Luncheon III (April 15, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62127 62127-15299878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 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 Sara Pozzi from the Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences department. Professor Pozzi is also the Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the College of Engineering.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 09 Apr 2019 21:42:38 -0400 2019-04-15T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Tau Beta Pi Lecture / Discussion [
Studying migration processes using Facebook data (April 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63035 63035-15536930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (2 of 4)

Professor Zagheni will discuss his work around Big Data in Population Science.

Emilio Zagheni (PhD in Demography, UC Berkeley 2010; MA in Statistics, UC Berkeley 2008) is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also a Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute. Zagheni is a demographer who uses mathematical, statistical and computationally-intensive approaches to study the causes and consequences of population dynamics. Motivated by the ambition to improve people's lives through the scientific study of our societies, he is consolidating a portfolio that leverages interdisciplinary approaches to monitor demographic change, to explain population processes, and to predict future demographic outcomes. He is best known for his pioneering work on using Web and social media data for studying migration processes. In 2016, he received the Trailblazer Award from the European Association for Population Studies for his pivotal role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Emilio Zagheni has published in top journals in Demography (e.g.Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Research and Policy Review) and Statistics (e.g., Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biostatistics) as well as in computer science conference proceedings (e.g. WebSci, WWW, WSDM, ICWSM). He co-chairs the IUSSP Panel for Digital Demography.

Michigan Population Studies Center (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 Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:55:37 -0400 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Emilio Zagheni
Race, Gender and Feminist Philosophy: Commentary Panel (April 15, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61058 61058-15027191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

SPEAKERS
Mercy Corredor (UM, Philosophy)
Sara Chadwick (UM, Psychology & Women's Studies)
Valerie Kutchko (UM, Psychology & Women's Studies)

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Feb 2019 12:18:12 -0500 2019-04-15T14:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59570 59570-14752329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 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 15, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Health: Developmental Mechanisms During the Transition to Adulthood.”

By Enrique Neblett, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology-Child/Family Track, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:53:14 -0500 2019-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Economic Dignity (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62638 62638-15416697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

POLICY TALKS @ THE FORD SCHOOL

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

Join the conversation: #policytalks

From the speaker's bio:

The only person to serve as director of the National Economic Council under two Presidents, Gene Sperling provides unique perspective and insights on the intersection between the U.S. and global economy and the most pressing economic policy issues of the day.

From serving as director of the National Economic Council (NEC) for both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to consulting for four seasons on NBC’s award-winning political drama The West Wing, Sperling is widely respected across the political spectrum as one of the top White House economic advisors with a reputation for merging economic policy and economic analysis to get things done. As NEC director, Sperling was the President’s economic adviser responsible for coordinating economic policy and chairing policy meetings with the economic cabinet. The New York Times has called Sperling "a prolific idea generator." Under President Obama, he served as a key negotiator on fiscal issues and an architect of the payroll tax cut, expansions of tax credits for low-income Americans, the Small Business Jobs Act and the American Jobs Act. Under President Clinton, Sperling was a key architect of the 1993 Deficit Reduction Act and its major expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit and a top negotiator of the 1997 Bipartisan Balanced Budget Act, He also served as senior counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, where he helped navigate the financial crisis and was a member of the President’s Auto Task Force and the Treasury’s point person for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Currently, Sperling heads Sperling Economic Strategies and writes as a contributing editor for The Atlantic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Mar 2019 12:30:33 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:20:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Gene Sperling
Lecture: "The Bishop, the Devil, and the Playwright: Responding to Air Pollution in Early Modern England" (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59974 59974-14806092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Hosted by the Animal Studies & Environmental Humanities RIW.

Please RSVP to lageiger@umich.edu or cvfair@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:44:16 -0500 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
The Queer Art of Dying in Video Games (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62308 62308-15346468@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

What can video games teach us about death and dying in the real world? Amanda Phillips, assistant professor of English, Film & Media Studies at Georgetown University, looks at the queer bodily configurations that emerge from dying in video games, from unnaturally flexible ragdoll physics to invasive and spectacular x-ray visions.

Examining the queer art of dying in video games helps us think about how power is written on the digital body through the norming procedures that structure both computers and games. From there, we can find new ways to think about the politics of life and death in the real world.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:26:54 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Game Controller courtesy of B.D. on flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0
The United States vs. Jackie Robinson (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62496 62496-15372995@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and the University of Michigan Law School Present "The United States vs. Jackie Robinson"

In August 1944, Second Lieutenant Jack R. Robinson faced a court-martial at Camp Hood, Texas, related to two charges of insubordination of a superior officer following an incident on a bus in which he refused to obey Jim Crow-era laws.

Recently, Army historians have discovered the identity of an unheralded defense attorney who was instrumental in Jackie Robinson's acquittal. This attorney, Captain Robert H. Johnson, was a graduate of the University of Michigan and Michigan Law. The presentation will detail the African-American experience in WWII, analyze the court-martial, and discuss its effects on this American icon.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:07:14 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion Robinson poster
WCED Lecture. Politics Goes Pear Shaped. Old Regime Cultures and Revolutionary Politics, ca. 1792-1825 (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57820 57820-14314717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Can the story of a pear help us understand the rise of democracy in the West? This talk uses the career of Louis-Augustin Bosc, a French revolutionary and botanist—and namesake of the familiar pear—to explore the ambiguous political legacy of the Atlantic revolutions. The talk argues that revolutionary movements in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were united not just by a set of similar political structures and ideologies but by their reliance on a matrix of old regime, eighteenth-century cultural practices. These old regime practices left a common and illiberal stamp on the polities and political traditions that they helped to create.

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a historian of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic world. He focuses on the political and cultural history of Europe and the Americas in the age of revolution, with particular attention to the transnational influences that shaped modern national politics. He received his PhD in history from Columbia University in 2011, with a dissertation on epistolarity and revolutionary organizing, and then in 2015 published a first book on a different topic: "Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution" (Belknap/Harvard). His current book project is a wide-angle cultural history of the Atlantic age of revolutions, from the 1760s through the 1820s, which rethinks the era’s role in creating modern democratic politics. Nathan also maintains interests in early modern legal history; historical methods and historiography; and histories of material culture.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:11:24 -0500 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Perl-Rosenthal
How the Civil War Transformed America (April 15, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61733 61733-15178980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

The Civil War began as a battle to save the union but it ended as a struggle to abolish slavery and usher in "a new birth of freedom." No aspect of society was left unchanged by the years of war and its effects continue to resonate more than one hundred and fifty years later.

Dr. Louis Masur is Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. A graduate of the University at Buffalo and Princeton University, he is a cultural historian who has written on a variety of topics. His most recent work is "Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction & The Crisis of Reunion" (2015), "Lincoln’s Hundred Days: The Emancipation Proclamation and the War for the Union" (2012), and "The Civil War: A Concise History" (2011).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:13:34 -0500 2019-04-15T17:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Louis Masur
The Sally Fleming Masterclass Series: Unison, featuring John Herbert (bass) and Clarence Penn (drums) (April 15, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60711 60711-14941644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

For their Jazz Forum, Unison (featuring SMTD professor Andy Milne) will examine and demonstrate the importance of critical and constructive listening within an ensemble.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:27:07 -0400 2019-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Unison
Ideology on Campus (April 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62918 62918-15494570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

A conversation about how political ideology acts in our personal lives and on campus. Learn about your own beliefs and how to have productive interactions that challenge that ideology.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 05 Apr 2019 14:35:12 -0400 2019-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T20:30:00-04:00 North Quad The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
AIM for DE&I Speaker Series (April 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63127 63127-15576735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, April 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (1st Floor, 913 S. University Ave.) for the all new Academic Innovation at Michigan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (AIM for DE&I) Speaker Series. This talk will be the first of four throughout April and May aimed at exploring issues at the intersections of teaching and learning; technology; and diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will welcome in members of the Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) to kick off the series.


Title: Rooted in Community: The Equitable Internet Initiative

Description: Through the Equitable Internet Initiative we work to ensure that more Detroit residents have the tools to leverage digital technologies for social and economic development. We do this by fostering the development of community rooted technologists, those who build, design and facilitate a healthy integration of technology into people’s lives and communities.

In this session, we’ll share:

How Digital Stewards, through the practice of common ownership, environmental and digital justice, openness, and skill building - bring their communities online

How we use collaborative design to engage our partners, communities and stakeholders

A brief history of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition

All members of the University of Michigan community including faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:02:14 -0400 2019-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T12:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DE&I Series
LSI SciComm Speaker Series: Tom Clynes (April 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61886 61886-15230361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:00am
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Surveys indicate that Americans have a considerable interest in science and an appetite for more scientific news and information. And yet two-thirds of American adults cannot name a single living scientist, and the gap continues to widen between the informed conclusions of scientists and public understanding. Political divisions increasingly dictate science’s role in public discourse as well as funding priorities. With many researchers lacking a command of effective communication strategies, science often punches below its weight when it comes to influencing policy on vital issues such as climate change, vaccinations and science education.

In this interactive talk, science journalist Tom Clynes will present ways to harness the power of narrative to create compelling and influential stories that bridge the divide between scientists and the public. Emerging evidence-based communication strategies and a shifting media landscape have opened up new possibilities (and a few pitfalls too) that can empower researchers who seek a broader audience for discoveries that might otherwise languish in lecture halls and academic journals.

Tom Clynes is an award-winning author and photojournalist who travels the world covering science and environmental issues. His feature stories have appeared in National Geographic, Nature, The New York Times Magazine, Nature, Popular Science, and Scientific American, among other publications.

Tom is the author of three books, including, most recently, The Boy Who Played With Fusion, which tells the story of the 14-year-old who became the youngest person on Earth to build a working nuclear fusion reactor. He’s a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow and an International Reporting Project Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:19:56 -0400 2019-04-16T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI SciComm Speaker Series
TOWN HALL CELEBRITY LECTURE / LUNCHEON SERIES (April 16, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55471 55471-13743348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Waterman Alumnae Group

Louis Masur is a Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Princeton University, he is a cultural historian who has written on a variety of topics. His most recent work is Lincoln’s Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction & The Crisis of Reunion (2015). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. He has also written for the American Scholar; the Chronicle of Higher Education; the news and opinion website, Salon; and the online magazine, Slate. Mr. Masur has been elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the Society of American Historians and has received teaching prizes from Harvard University, the City College of New York, and Trinity College. He lectures frequently for One Day University, and some of his most popular topics are: “Learning from Lincoln, How the Civil War Transformed America” and “Hamilton vs. Jefferson: The Rivalry that Shaped America.”

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 16 Sep 2018 15:09:05 -0400 2019-04-16T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Waterman Alumnae Group Lecture / Discussion Louis Masur
Comparative Politics Workshop (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53064 53064-13217955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 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 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
ELPP Lecture Series featuring Professor Richard Revesz from NYU Law School (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60983 60983-15000009@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program

Please join us for the latest installment of the Environmental Law & Policy Program Lecture Series, featuring Professor Richard Revesz from NYU Law.

This event is free and open to the public.

Richard Revesz is one of the nation’s leading voices in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. His work focuses on the use of cost-benefit analysis in administrative regulation, federalism and environmental regulation, design of liability regimes for environmental protection, and positive political economy analysis of environmental regulation. His book Retaking Rationality: How Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Better Protect the Environment and Our Health (with Michael Livermore ’06, 2008) contends that the economic analysis of law can be used to support a more protective approach to environmental and health policy. In 2008, Revesz co-founded the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law to advocate for regulatory reform before courts, legislatures, and agencies, and to contribute original scholarly research in the environmental and health-and-safety areas. Revesz received a BS summa cum laude from Princeton University, an MS in civil engineering from MIT, and a JD from Yale Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal. After judicial clerkships with Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the US Supreme Court, Revesz joined the NYU School of Law faculty in 1985 and served as dean from 2002 to 2013. Revesz is the director of the American Law Institute, the leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Feb 2019 13:20:15 -0500 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Hutchins Hall Michigan Law Environmental and Energy Law Program Lecture / Discussion Hutchins Hall
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Reinstalling the Detroit Institute of Arts’ Asian Galleries: New Voices and New Perspectives (April 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60372 60372-14866473@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

In November 2018, the Detroit Institute of Arts opened expanded Asian galleries in its new Robert and Katherine Jacobs Asian Wing, completing the museum-wide reinstallation that had been inaugurated in 2007. To develop thematic ideas and object groupings for the galleries, DIA staff collaborated with both academic specialists and community members, bringing a range of voices into the planning process. In this talk, Dr. Kasdorf will discuss the DIA’s methodology of co-creation, its visitor-centered exhibition practices, and the ideas, objects, and interactive features in the new Asian galleries, with emphasis on areas where Chinese works of art are on view.

Katherine Kasdorf is Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Most recently, she collaborated with colleagues on the reinstallation of the Asian collection, opening new galleries of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South & Southeast Asian, and Buddhist art in November 2018. Prior to joining the DIA in May 2017, she held a Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at the Walters Art Museum, where her work focused primarily on the Tibetan, Nepalese, and South & Southeast Asian collections. She received her Ph.D. in South Asian art history from Columbia University in 2013.

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

Photo: Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:59:34 -0500 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T13:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Courtesy of the Detroit Institute of Arts
Africa Workshop “How to get away with blasphemy: the politics of religious offense in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”. (April 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59214 59214-14717519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

On April 27, 2012, Birame Abeid, a renowned Mauritanian activist planned carefully and executed the public burning of several books of Islamic jurisprudence. Nearly two years later,​ ​in December 2014, Muhamed Mkhaitir, a blogger claiming to speak for the community of “blacksmiths”, published a lengthy text in which he accuses the Prophet Muhammad himself of “favoritism." Both offenders claimed afterwards they only wanted to denounce the ways in which the local elite has been consistently using Islam and Sharia to sanction the oppression/marginalization of former slaves and other occupational groups. In so doing, these human rights activists have indeed thrown their country, a self-proclaimed Islamic Republic, into an uproar. As they no doubt must have expected, their unprecedented religious offenses sparked nationwide protests. With few exceptions, almost all political figures and religious elites campaigned for their execution for “apostasy” in accordance with the (Islamic) law of the land. Yet, despite being promptly arrested and thrown in jail, the two “defendants” were ultimately able to essentially get away with blasphemy. In this presentation, I draw on a treasure trove of qualitative data collected on the field over several years in order to demonstrate that, at least in this context, what is at stake in these "blasphemy controversies” has less to do with the usual tension between secular criticism and religious censure and more to do with ongoing public negotiations over what it means to be Muslims amid heated political debates over race, gender, social hierarchies, belonging, citizenship and inequality. Shifting the focus away from the usual framing of blasphemy accusations in terms of conflict between religious freedom and Islamic taboos, I offer a detailed comparative account of these two “cases” in order to go beyond the notion that “outdated, medieval blasphemy laws” illustrate the so-called stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values.”

Zekeriah Ould Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa in the Program of African Studies. He specializes in Islam and Muslim Politics in Africa in comparative perspective. His research engages contemporary academic debates regarding religion and politics, especially the interplay in contemporary African societies of a variety of issues such as: the state, religious authority, race, social hierarchies, identity politics, Islamic knowledge and political power. Ahmed Salem secondary research interests include everyday negotiations over citizenship, bureaucratization and the Institutionalization of the state in Africa.

He is the author of: Prêcher dans le Desert: Islam, Politique et Changement Social en Mauritanie (published by Karthala, Paris, in 2013, with an English translation forthcoming as Preaching in the Desert: Islam, Politics and Social Change in Mauritania) and the editor of: Trajectoires d’un Etat-Frontière. Espaces, Evolutions Politiqiues et Transformations Sociales en Mauritanie (Dakar, Council for The Development of Social Research In Africa, Book Series: 2004).
His research appeared in numerous book chapters. His journal articles are published in : The Journal of North African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Nomadic Peoples, Cahiers d’études africaines, Islam et Sociétés au Sud du Sahara, Politique Africaine, Annuaire de l’Afrique du Nord, L’Ouest Saharien….

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:13:10 -0400 2019-04-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-16T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Food Literacy for All (April 16, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57760 57760-14287019@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 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 2019-04-16T18:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T20:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Lecture / Discussion Food Literacy for All Flyer
PFAS in Health and the Environment (April 16, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58267 58267-14450689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

PFAS, perfluorinated compounds, is an umbrella term for some 5,000 chemical compounds that have been manufactured and used in consumer products since 1960. Stephen Brown, Ph.D., chemist and co-chair of the Sierra Club Huron Valley conservation committee, provides a non-technical review of aspects of concern about PFAS. Presented by Sierra Club Huron Valley.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 06 Dec 2018 11:01:23 -0500 2019-04-16T19:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T21:00:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Washtenaw County Consensus Conference: Water Security (April 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63212 63212-15593437@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy

Across Michigan and throughout Washtenaw County, issues related to water safety, access, and usage have become prominent topics of public discussion. Despite access to 4 out of 5 Great Lakes, the past few years have repeatedly demonstrated challenges in providing safe water to all current and future Michigan residents. These challenges have drawn the attention of policy makers and experts, but a critical component of the discussion on improving water security must be the values and perspectives of impacted community members.

Join us on April 20th for a discussion between community member panelists and experts in various topics of water security, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities that Washtenaw County faces in guaranteeing access to clean water for all of its residents and the steps policy makers should take to improve water security now and into the future.

Please register:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/washtenaw-county-consensus-conference-tickets-59903418738

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:34:03 -0400 2019-04-17T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 Engaging Scientists in Policy and Advocacy Lecture / Discussion Event Flyer
Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works (April 17, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62590 62590-15407991@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
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 2019-04-17T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Rucker C. Johnson
Applied Physics Seminar: Spike patterns of neuronal populations in the hippocampus during wake and sleep (April 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61442 61442-15106028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Applied Physics

My lab is interested in the role that neuronal firing patterns play in the encoding, storage, transfer and retrieval of information by the brain. To study this question, we focus on in-vivo extracellular recordings and computational analyses of spike trains from up to 100 neurons from the hippocampus and cortex during activity and sleep, combined with optogenetic and chemogenetic manipulations. In this talk, I will discuss the distinct patterns that we see in these spike trains on multiple timescales and how they change during and across different brain network states. Because these activities are found in the hippocampus, I will discuss their relationship to memory. Finally, I will describe current efforts to evaluate the temporal structure in neuronal spike trains using unsupervised machine learning by hidden Markov models.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:13:14 -0400 2019-04-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 West Hall Applied Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
DCMB Seminar || Can cancer cells "engineer" regulatory pathways? (April 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62789 62789-15466655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Over the past few years, small non-coding RNAs (smRNAs) have emerged as major regulators of metastatic progression. While micro-RNAs were among the first characterized post-transcriptional regulators of metastasis, we have now demonstrated that other annotated smRNAs, such as tRNAs and tRNA fragments, also impact metastatic progression. In their capacity as master regulators of gene expression, smRNAs play a major role in development, normal cell physiology, and homeostasis. However, they are often co-opted by cancer cells to help reprogram their gene expression landscape as the disease progresses. Our group has recently discovered a new class of small RNAs, which we have named orphan non-coding RNAs or oncRNAs [Fish et al, Nature Med 2018], that are largely undetected in normal cells and tissues and emerge as a consequence of cellular transformation. Because they were not previously annotated, oncRNAs had gone unnoticed in prior studies by us and others that were instead focused on quantitative changes in the expression of common smRNA regulators, such as miRNAs and tRNA fragments. These oncRNAs, which we first identified in breast cancer, provide a pool of new biomolecules with regulatory potential that can be subsequently adopted by tumor cells to carry out new oncogenic functions. We have demonstrated that breast cancer cells adopt a specific oncRNA (named T3p) to regulate the expression of two key promoters of metastasis. This finding demonstrates that oncRNAs can serve as potential building blocks for “cancer-emergent” regulatory pathways. We posit that oncRNA-mediated regulatory interactions add a new layer of complexity to gene regulation in cancers.

3:30 pm to 4:00 pm - Light refreshments in Atrium Hall, Palmer Commons
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Lecture in Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 09:22:50 -0400 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Fourth Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture. “More Perfect”: A Politics of Empathy in a Challenging American Moment (April 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62079 62079-15284751@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

“We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union.” Those are the first eight words of the preamble of our Constitution, the foundation of our system of government and politics. When I ran for Governor in Michigan, I aimed to advance universal healthcare, a sustainable energy system, access to public goods and services, and against corporate capture of our economy. And yet the focus was nearly always on my name, my faith, and my ethnicity—that I could be “first Muslim Governor.” In union halls, living rooms, and town watering holes across Michigan, I had the opportunity to listen to and learn from Michiganders—as a millennial, Muslim-American candidate. In this talk, I reflect on the roles of identity and ideals in our current political moment. I argue for a politics of empathy, that centers our actions on the systems of oppression, rather than its symbols, and embrace the responsibility to speak truth to power, only after we’ve learned to empathize with pain. I center these in what it means to be “more perfect,” advancing mutual aims from diverse perspectives in a pluralistic society.

Named “The new Obama” by The Guardian, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a physician and public health expert who ran to be the first Muslim-American governor of Michigan. His campaign excited Americans, with his progressive focus on public health, education, diversity, and dialogue. Before running for governor, El-Sayed served as Health Commissioner in Detroit, where he rebuilt Detroit’s Health Department after it had been privatized during the city’s municipal bankruptcy.

Prior to his work in public service, El-Sayed was tenure-track faculty member at Columbia University’s Department of Epidemiology; director of the Columbia University Systems Science Program, and co-director of Global Research for Population Health. El-Sayed holds a doctorate in public health from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, as well as an MD from Columbia University. He graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan. At graduation, El-Sayed was selected to deliver the Student Commencement Address alongside President Clinton, who said of him, “I just wish every person in the world could have heard you speak today.”

For full bio, visit http://myumi.ch/6k4q8.

The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) aims to provide students with global perspective on Islam and the Muslim world by coordinating an Islamic studies curriculum across the Big Ten via synchronous videoconferencing and distance learning technology. DISC is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and housed at the U-M International Institute. The Annual DISC Distinguished Lecture features a prominent scholar or public figure speaking about issues related to Islamic studies.

Organized by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC), with support from the Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar, and International Institute.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:36:59 -0400 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion Abdul El-Sayed
Understanding the Social Implications of AI (April 17, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62790 62790-15466656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Information and Technology Services (ITS)

"If we are going to augment humanity with the machine, we need to do it in a way that doesn’t bring along our mistakes of the past."
— Gregory Simpson, Chief Technology Officer for Synchrony Financial

Through mobile phones, the Internet of Things, and web computing, every single day around the globe we create a quintillion bytes of data. Pairing that trove of data with enormous computational power, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making strides into every aspect of everyday living, from emails and targeted advertising, to healthcare and education. But with great power comes great responsibility. This Dissonance Event Series discussion will take a multidisciplinary look at the social implications of artificial intelligence and consider the promises and potential pitfalls we may look forward too.

Panelists include
- Ella Atkins, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering
- Kentaro Toyama, W.K. Kellogg Professor of Community Information, School of Information; Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values, MIT

- Ram Vasudevan, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

- Michael Wellman, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering,College of Engineering (Moderator)

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:05:19 -0400 2019-04-17T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T19:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Information and Technology Services (ITS) Lecture / Discussion Understanding the Social Implications of A.I.
Wed@8: Small Group Discussion on Life and Faith (April 17, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61473 61473-15110462@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 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, 17 Apr 2019 18:00:17 -0400 2019-04-17T20:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T21:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
Engineering Education Research Community-Led Research Discussions (April 18, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60777 60777-14963957@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 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 2019-04-18T08:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T10:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building American Society for Engineering Education Student Chapter Lecture / Discussion Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Navigating a Highly Politicized Landscape (April 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62290 62290-15344263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

Whether presenting at congressional hearings or engaging in local policy, scholars have leveraged their positions and work to combat social injustices. This panel discussion examines the experiences of scholars in policy engagement, including the decision-making process on how and when to engage, share highly politicized data, and determine the most effective processes and structures to share their work.

The panel will share the nuanced experiences of scholars who conduct, disseminate, and apply research on contemporarily relevant topics such as immigration, affirmative action and race — topics often viewed as inherently political. Additionally, panelists will discuss the often missed ways in which a scholar’s identity, particularly historically underrepresented or marginalized identities, impact the ways their scholarship is received, interpreted, and legitimized by the public.

Moderator: Tabbye Chavous, Director of the National Center for Institutional Diversity and Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Michigan

Panelists:
William Elliott, Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan

Kristina Ko, Assistant Vice President for Research — Federal Relations for Research at the University of Michigan

Laura W. Perna, James S. Riepe Professor and Executive Director of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy (AHEAD) at the University of Pennsylvania

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 10:16:46 -0400 2019-04-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T10:30:00-04:00 Michigan League National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion A person walks through a highly populated area
CHANGING GENDER ECONOMIC ROLES (April 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61682 61682-15170129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Frank P. Stafford (Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1968) is co- investigator of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), research professor at the Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center, and professor of economics at the University of Michigan. His current research interests include household saving and human capital formation, time use, international technology flows, and the impact of monetary policy on household spending and portfolio adjustment.

Proessor Stafford will discuss the role of changing technology and social factors on intergenerational economic mobility; the changing division of labor in housework roles; and the change and persistence of women’s role in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields.

This is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is Changing Gender Roles. The next lecture will be April 25, 2019. The title is: Current Topics in Gender Identity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Feb 2019 14:32:18 -0500 2019-04-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli-image
PhD Defense: Haining Zhou (April 18, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63190 63190-15587265@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 11:00am
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Sparse Functional Expansion Based Method for Solving High-dimensional Uncertainty Quantification Problems and Its Application to the Nuclear Transient Test Reactor (TREAT)

Chair: Prof. Thomas Downar

Abstract: The uncertainty quantification (UQ) in computational calculations is to quantitatively characterize the uncertainties in the quantities of interest resulted from input parameter uncertainties. UQ is essential in computational analysis since it predicts the range and the likelihood of possible model outcomes when some model parameters are not known as exact values. It is also usually the case that UQ is computationally intensive when the models are sophisticated, and the random space can have high dimensionality as it often requires multiple model evaluations. The effort in developing UQ methods that requires fewer sample evaluations includes the development of adjoint-based methods and the design of efficient sampling schemes. However, to apply these methods to specific models of interest, users must have either specialty in the modeling of the responses or must adopt some assumptions on the distribution of the model responses prior to the analysis. Methods to effectively reduce the number of sample evaluations required while being able to extract the detailed distribution information of the responses of interest remains a critical challenge facing researchers in the UQ community.
In this thesis, we propose a lasso regularization-based data-driven adaptive algorithm for finding a sparse solution of the generalized polynomial chaos expansion of a response of interest. The sparsity in the functional expansion solution determines the reduction in the dimensionality of the uncertainty space in the system that can be achieved. This makes it possible to effectively reduce the necessary number of sample evaluations without compromising the UQ analysis. The terms “data-driven” and “adaptive” mean that the sparsity in the provided solution is a model property that is inherent in the design of the algorithm. The algorithm automatically estimates the importance of the random parameters in the system and decides on the active set of orthogonal polynomials to use in the resulting expansion. Hence our method is very general, and users do not have to adopt model-based assumptions or make intrusive modifications to their deterministic program in order to apply it.

The development of the algorithm was inspired by the high-dimensional and computationally expensive UQ problems that are encountered while modeling the TREAT reactor. In this application we developed the algorithm for the uncertainty quantification of the modeling of the transient tests that were previously performed with the TREAT reactor. Results show that our algorithm can effectively reduce the number of sample evaluations for high-dimensional UQ problems while providing functional expansion solutions that are stable and that can accurately predict a wide range of responses of interest.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:00:37 -0400 2019-04-18T11:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Flyer of Haining Zhou defense
A Bioethical Lunch on Game of Thrones (April 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/54454 54454-13585505@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A lunchtime discussion on the bioethics of Westeros and beyond for this lunch and all the lunches to come.

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

RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/scE3aM6M5vr1DWbA2

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:21:34 -0500 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Game of Thrones
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era (April 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58148 58148-14433279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This event was originally on our calendar in January but had to be rescheduled because of inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will join us on April 18!

Seemingly, Japan has adapted to Trumpian foreign policy like no other. Whereas many “western democracies” have maintained a distance to the Trump administration, Japan has not, and embraced it fully. How and why has this been done? Are the Japanese public behind? The lecture will focus on Japan’s choice in the Trump era.

Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at Keio University. Japan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC until August 2019. Currently working on the long term effect of Trumpian foreign policy on American international commitment and its image around the world.

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, 11 Apr 2019 09:57:27 -0400 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Toshihiro Nakayama,Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy,Policy Management,Keio University, Japan
PhD Defense: Jipu Wang (April 18, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63189 63189-15587264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Application of the Method of Manufactured Solutions to Verify the Method of Characteristics for Reactor Analysis

Chair(s): Prof. Bill Martin, Prof. Benjamin Collins

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to theoretically analyze the error of the method of characteristics (MOC) with respect to different independent variables and to develop the methodology to apply the method of manufactured solutions (MMS) to verify an MOC-based code system for reactor analysis. The MMS methodology has been applied to fixed source problems, criticality eigenvalue problems, as well as multiphysics problems coupling neutronics with other physics essential to reactor analysis. Theoretical predictions for the order of accuracy as a function of mesh spacing (spatial and angular meshes) are compared with numerical results with MMS. The coupling of spatial and angular errors obscured the convergence with the spatial mesh, and a method for removing the angular error from the numerical solution was developed, resulting in excellent agreement between theory and numerical results for the spatial order of accuracy. The application of MMS to the criticality eigenvalue problem yields an inhomogeneous eigenvalue problem, which does not have a unique solution. This was addressed by adding a constraint to the application code eigenvalue solver. An alternative method for applying MMS to the criticality eigenvalue problem was developed, based on modifying the fission cross section, and this avoids the inhomogeneous eigenvalue problem. Both methods yielded numerical results for the order of accuracy that were in excellent agreement with theory. The MMS methodology was also applied to the C5G7 benchmark problem, a seven-group small core with realistic geometry, and the numerical solution reproduced the assumed MMS solution everywhere to within negligible error.
The findings and conclusions are that MMS is a powerful, flexible and rigorous tool for reactor code verification, which is an essential step in developing a complex scientific computing code. This study contributes to reactor analysis by quantifying and removing errors associated with certain numerical approximations, revealing the rate of convergence with respect to the refined variable and providing a verification methodology for both reactor physics and coupled multiphysics applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 May 2019 10:21:18 -0400 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T15:30:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Flyer for Jipu Wang defense
Burton L. Baker Memorial Lecture - Neural Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury (April 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61548 61548-15126028@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

Burton L. Baker Memorial Lecture

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Feb 2019 17:36:34 -0500 2019-04-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T16:30:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion Mark Tuszynski - Burton L. Baker Memorial Lecture
CLaSP Seminar Series - Dr. Katariina Nykyri (April 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61265 61265-15063348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 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. Katariina Nykyri of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Title: On the Plasma Transport and Energization at the Magnetospheric Boundary Layers

Abstract:
While the solar wind cools as it flows through the heliosphere, it is rapidly heated when interacting with magnetized planets. The first part of this heating occurs at the planetary bow-shocks, followed by additional heating at the magnetospheric boundary layers, until reaching the highest temperatures inside the planetary magnetospheres. In-situ spacecraft observations have clearly demonstrated that the magnetosheath plasma has been strongly heated and significantly rarefied when it penetrates into the magnetosphere, indicating that the heating process is nonadiabatic. Meanwhile, the average temperature ratio between ions and electrons remains the same.. Exploring the detailed plasma acceleration, heating and transport mechanisms with in-situ satellite measurements in space-plasma provides a better understanding of the nature of plasma and may therefore be helpful in development of new energy source (e.g., fusion energy). In this talk we discuss results from multiple space missions (e.g., Cluster, THEMIS, MMS) and numerical simulations and discuss the physical mechanisms that provide plasma transport and energization at the magnetospheric boundary layers: the magnetosheath, the magnetopause, the low and high-latitude boundary layers and cusps. Understanding why magnetosphere is so hot is helpful in understanding plasma heating in solar corona and other astrophysical systems where we don’t have multi-point in-situ measurements of plasmas.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:26:52 -0500 2019-04-18T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion CLaSP logo
Beatnik Diplomacy: Allen Ginsberg, Maxine Hong Kingston, and the US-Chinese Writers' Conferences (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56887 56887-14017128@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

A lecture on issues of scale in the new sociologies of literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Oct 2018 19:19:09 -0400 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
EEB Thursday Seminar: Building predictive capacity in zoonotic disease ecology (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/49671 49671-11487556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

With the global rise of infectious diseases there is increasing demand for tools that enable us to better predict future disease threats. Ideally, such predictions would enable us to better target ongoing surveillance, and target research to understand when and why spillover infections are likely to occur. This seminar will give examples of predictive analyses that have been undertaken with the aid of machine learning algorithms, which were trained to identify particular wild species that may be the most likely carriers for human infectious pathogens. These analyses have also generated hypotheses about why some species seem to be so much better at carrying zoonotic pathogens compared to others. Some new and ongoing projects will be discussed that expand process-agnostic ecoinformatic methods with existing theory of disease dynamics and life history to build predictive capacity in disease ecology.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:40:41 -0400 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion predicting zoonotic disease ecology
EIHS Lecture: The Hoof of Destiny (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52322 52322-12631422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Does it make sense to think of pigs as having agency? Farmers, lawmakers, and philosophers in the early medieval West thought so. Pigs were smart enough, and delinquent enough, to make the process of domestication a two-way street. This talk explores the different ways that pigs made a dent in early medieval history, while also thinking about what their human collaborators thought was important (or not) when it came to thinking and acting and making a difference.

Jamie Kreiner is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is a historian of the early Middle Ages whose research focuses on the mechanics of culture, including how medieval communities themselves thought that knowledges and commitments were communicated, adopted, and affected by other forms of power. She's especially interested in the quieter forces that shape ethical systems—forces that were not always purposeful, individual, or human—and it's a thread that runs through her research on narrative, social forms of cognition, the interplay between science and religion, and animals. She explores the status of pigs as subjects and objects in her new book, Legions of Pigs, which will appear in Fall 2020 with Yale University Press. Her research has been supported by several grants and fellowships, including most recently a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the Institute for Advanced Study; and her publications have been awarded prizes from the Medieval Academy of America, the Society for French Historical Studies, and the Agricultural History Society.

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Nov 2018 13:27:26 -0500 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Jamie Kreiner
Membrane Biophysics and Mechanics in Alzheimer's Disease (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60044 60044-14814810@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most prevalent aging disease afflicting more than 44 million worldwide and projected increase to 75.6 million in 2030, and 135.5 million in 2050. AD has become an urgent health problem putting a heavy economic and emotional burden in the society. Thus this disease has been top research priority in many countries. The etiology of AD is not well understood, and the pathophysiology is complex involving different aberrant cellular and molecular mechanisms in the brain. Recent studies have demonstrated the important role of lipids, lipid signaling pathways and cytoskeletal reorganization in modulating pivotal cellular
processes, physical property of membranes, amyloid precursor protein (APP) processing, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and apoptosis. These are crucial factors and pathways leading to the decline of cognitive functions in AD. This talk will address the roles of cell membrane phase properties, membrane fluidity, membrane mechanics in oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, APP processing, altered cerebral endothelial functions, and microglial-mediated amyloid-beta peptide clearance in AD.


Dr. James Lee is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1996, and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Lee has established an interdisciplinary research program investigating the roles of membrane biophysics and cell mechanics in Neurodegenerative disease, especially Alzheimer’s disease. His research has been funded by National Institutes of Health, Alzheimer’s Association, Missouri Spinal Cord Injury Research Program, and Ministry of Education in the Republic of Kazakhstan. Lee received an Alzheimer’s Association New Investigator Award in 2006, and was invited as a keynote speaker for the International Conference of Regenerative Medicine & Healthy Aging in 2012. He has reported his research findings in over 50 peer-reviewed articles, including some published in well-respected journals, such as Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Cell Science, Molecular Neurobiology, Journal of Neuroinflammation, Macromolecules and Biotechnology and Bioengineering.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Apr 2019 13:19:52 -0400 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion JL
Statistical Learning Workshop (April 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58635 58635-14520018@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Statistical Learning Workshop

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:38:44 -0500 2019-04-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T17:30:00-04:00 Haven Hall Statistical Learning Workshop Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Improving Biomedical Practice (April 18, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62849 62849-15483796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Women's and Gender Studies Department

Learn about simple and sensible changes that could improve our healthcare system.

Hear about research into ideas that affect our healthcare experiences and outcomes such as:
Hospital Patient Sleep
Family Member Presence in Emergency Areas
Real Impact of Healthcare Costs
Effects of "Waiting Room" Time on Our Health and Experiences

Refreshments provided!

RSVP: http://evite.me/n18hEVnPUe

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Apr 2019 10:09:32 -0400 2019-04-18T18:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T19:30:00-04:00 East Hall Women's and Gender Studies Department Lecture / Discussion Flyer
U-M Structure Seminar (April 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/55767 55767-13777536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Filipe Cerqueira, Graduate Student, Nicole Koropatkin Lab, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:50:47 -0400 2019-04-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T11:29:00-04:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
CANCELED :: Roundtable and Q&A with Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan (April 19, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60967 60967-14997739@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 11:30am
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

****This event has been canceled due to changing travel plans. We hope to see you at the 4/18 Hopwood Awards Ceremony instead (Thursday, April 18, 6:00 PM, Rackham Auditorium).****

Please join us in the Hopwood Room for a discussion between essayists Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. This lunchtime event will be catered; food will be available at 11:30, and the discussion will start at noon.

Hilton Als began contributing to The New Yorker in 1989, writing pieces for ‘The Talk of the Town,’ he became a staff writer in 1994, theatre critic in 2002, and lead theater critic in 2012. Week after week, he brings to the magazine a rigorous, sharp, and lyrical perspective on acting, playwriting, and directing. With his deep knowledge of the history of performance—not only in theatre but in dance, music, and visual art—he shows us how to view a production and how to place its director, its author, and its performers in the ongoing continuum of dramatic art. His reviews are not simply reviews; they are provocative contributions to the discourse on theatre, race, class, sexuality, and identity in America. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her writing about race and current events is often coupled with analysis of art, film and pop culture. She studied English Literature at Carleton College and went on to earn an MA in Cultural Studies and Studio Art from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Arizona. Her essay collection, The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2013. Her most recent essay collection, Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, was just chosen by Maggie Nelson as the winner of the 1913 Open Prose Contest and will be published in 2017. She is currently a Helen Zell Visiting Professor in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 13 Apr 2019 19:07:21 -0400 2019-04-19T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Hilton Als and Aisha Sabatini Sloan
American Institutions Group (AIG) Lecture (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56893 56893-14021555@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: American Institutions Group (AIG)

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 18 Oct 2018 09:53:33 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall American Institutions Group (AIG) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
CRITICAL x DESIGN: Apparatuses of recognition: Google, Project Maven and targeted killing (April 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62315 62315-15346476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: School of Information

In June of 2018, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and, by implication, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other?

The focus of a growing body of scholarship, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171), Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. I close with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses, in the service of wider movements for social justice.

About the Speaker
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Her research interests within the field of feminist science and technology studies are focused on technological imaginaries and material practices of technology design, particularly developments at the interface of bodies and machines. Dr. Suchman’s current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-computer interaction to contemporary warfighting, including the figurations that inform immersive simulations, and problems of "situational awareness" in remotely-controlled weapon systems. Dr. Suchman is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into these systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world.

This lecture is also part of the ETHICS AND POLITICS OF AI series. Both series are generously supported by the School of Information; the Center for Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research; and the Science, Technology and 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 16:58:58 -0400 2019-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 North Quad School of Information Lecture / Discussion Lucy Suchman
Advancing Rigor and Relevance: Constructive Replication in the Social Sciences (April 19, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61750 61750-15179235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Replication is an essential part of any science, confirming or adjusting our understanding of the world through repeated exploration of a phenomenon of interest. While there has been an increased interest in the role of replication studies, there also exists skepticism regarding the need for more replication. Our empirical analysis of 470 recent studies that use the term ‘replication’ suggests that this criticism stems from a lack of appreciation of the different forms that replication can take, the prevalence (or lack thereof) of many of these forms, and the objectives that are met by one of the least common forms, constructive replication. As such, the purposes of our paper are 1) to explore the different forms that constructive replication can take and the objectives at which each can be directed, 2) to distinguish these forms from other forms of replication with which they are often confused, 3) to determine how common each form of replication is in our field, and 4) to provide concrete examples of different forms of constructiveness from published studies in order to pave the way towards more (and more useful) replications in the future.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 28 Feb 2019 13:30:32 -0500 2019-04-19T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
CSE Distinguished Lecture Series--Physics, Machine Learning, and Networks (April 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62714 62714-15434132@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: BBB
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 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 BBB Computer Science and Engineering Division Lecture / Discussion Cris Moore
EEB Friday Museums Seminar - Snapp: Guiding anti-venom selection with snake-identification imagery analysis based on artificial intelligence and remote collaborative expertise (April 19, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61918 61918-15239142@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Research Museums Center
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Snakebite is the second most deadly neglected tropical disease, being responsible for >100,000 human deaths & >400,000 victims of disability & disfigurement globally every year. It disproportionately affects poor and rural communities in developing countries, which also have high venomous snake diversity & the most limited medical expertise & access to antivenom. Antivenom can be life-saving when correctly administered but, since many are monovalent, their administration depends on the correct identification of the biting snake. Snake identification is challenging both due to snake diversity and the potentially incomplete or misleading information provided to clinicians by snakebite victims or bystanders. Clinicians do not necessarily have the knowledge or resources in herpetology to identify a snake from a carcass or photo. To reduce potentially erroneous and/or delayed healthcare actions, we are building the first medical decision-support mobile app for snake identification based on artificial intelligence (AI) and remote collaborative expertise. AI has been used to help identify of birds, plants, and other organisms, & our app will combine computer vision with the expertise from a global network of herpetologists to identify photos of snakes, supporting victims & clinicians when urgent and reliable snake identification is needed. Our ultimate objective is to improve clinical management of snakebite in poor countries with high snakebite burden by supporting clinicians, snakebite victims, and laypeople in the identification of snakes. To do this, we are building a massive global repository of photos of all snakes from museum collections (including VertNet & GBIF as well as digitized slides from historical archives), personal & researcher image collections, open online biodiversity platforms (e.g. iNaturalist, HerpMapper), books, and social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Flickr), updating global range maps for snakes, develop a computer system based on machine learning and computer vision capable of identifying snakes taxonomically using photos and geolocation, challenging communities of citizens & experts worldwide to identify snakes, comparing the speed and accuracy of machine learning with that of citizen scientists & of experts, and establishing an international working group of experts in snake identification to help validate images.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:30:08 -0400 2019-04-19T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 Research Museums Center Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Lecture / Discussion Image - Snakes
Comp Lit Colloquium (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52985 52985-13168223@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Comparative Literature

Prof. Xiaobing Tang and Megan Berkobien will each present.

Meg's presentation will be on her work Belaboring Translation: A Manifesto for the Emerging Translators Collective.

Prof. Xiaobing Tang's presentation is titled The Ocular Turn, Misty Poetry, and a Postrevolutionary Imagination: Rereading “The Answer” by Bei Dao.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 10:36:09 -0400 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:30:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
Drugs that delay somatic and reproductive aging in C. elegans (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63085 63085-15553768@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology and Gerontology Special Seminar

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:45:48 -0400 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion
Race, Gender and Feminist Philosophy: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie) (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58122 58122-14426747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

In recent work, I have argued that, when thinking about race as a social construction, it is important to distinguish between political constructionism, according to which differential relations of power are what is fundamental to the social construction of race, and cultural constructionism, acccording to which socialization into distinct identities and ways of life is what is fundamental. In this paper, I will argue that we find in W.E.B. Du Bois' 1940 book, Dusk of Dawn, the fascinating drama of one of history's greatest theorists of race experiencing and displaying the pull of both types of social constructionism. Focusing especially on the sixth and then the fifth chapters, I will argue that this pulling in different directions is, on the one hand, meant to lead us to confront the complexity and mysteriousness of race but also, on the other hand, ultimately able to suggest to us the path toward properly balancing political and cultural dimensions in our theorization of race.

Sponsored by the Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy reading group (a Rackham interdisciplinary working group), the Philosophy Department, and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 03 Apr 2019 11:50:21 -0400 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion chike jeffers
SynSem Discussion Group (April 19, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60369 60369-14866470@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:17:05 -0500 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:00:00-04:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (April 19, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53067 53067-13217993@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 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 2019-04-19T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture-The Rocky Road of Life on Earth: Microbial Mineral Dissolution, Tropical Forest Nutrient Cycles, and the Global Effects of Open Ocean Carbonate Production (April 19, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52688 52688-12927442@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Life on Earth is linked inextricably to the planet’s rocky substrate. This talk will present new work exploring this connection across scales of space and time, seeking to address the general question of how life and Earth co-evolve. At the microbial scale, lab experiments illuminate mechanisms of nutrient acquisition from minerals, including how specific molecules and biofilms allow microbes to dissolve minerals and “feed” on them in the process. In tropical forests of the Amazon basin, concentration-discharge relationships in small catchments provide hints about how ecosystems that tightly recycle nutrients may be “leaky” during storm events, an effect provisionally attributed to the permeability structure of tropical soils that controls hydrological response. Lastly, over the timescales of mass extinctions, global biogeochemical modeling reveals how the evolution of marine calcifying organisms may have changed the way that the planet responds to global-scale carbon cycle perturbation, perhaps providing one mechanism for explaining apparent correlations between large igneous provinces and mass extinctions. Considered together, these distinct studies have commonality in terms of how organisms and ecosystems shape their relationship with the geological world around them.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:41:15 -0400 2019-04-19T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T16:30:00-04:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
AIM for DE&I Speaker Series (April 21, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63130 63130-15628491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 21, 2019 3:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Tuesday, April 23 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (1st Floor, 913 S. University Ave.) for the all new Academic Innovation at Michigan for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (AIM for DE&I) Speaker Series. This talk will be the second of four throughout April and May aimed at exploring issues at the intersections of teaching and learning; technology; and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Talk Information:

Augmented Empathy: How can design bring empathy back in an increasingly disconnected world

Come join an interactive storytelling journey to explore identity; how identities are connected to the communities and sub-cultures to which we belong. Whether it evolves out of geography or perception, this is an exploration of the building blocks of augmenting empathy with Bayete Ross Smith.

Bayeté Ross Smith is a photographer and multimedia artist from New York whose collaborative projects Along The Way and Question Bridge: Black Males have shown at the Sundance Film Festival and several others. He is a TED Resident and an embedded media maker with POV/Am Doc and The New York Times, and he has exhibited his work internationally. He is a faculty member at the International Center of Photography and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Bayeté uses photography, video and public installation to investigate the ways we perform our racial, gender and cultural identities through clothing, music and the communities of affinity we choose. He reveals both the pleasure of performing our chosen personas, as well as the dangers of perceiving these personas in others.

All members of the University of Michigan community including faculty, staff, and students are encouraged to attend. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:15:48 -0400 2019-04-21T15:00:00-04:00 2019-04-21T16:00:00-04:00 Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM for DE&I Series
Why We Need Diversity on Complex Tasks (April 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63304 63304-15634624@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 10:00am
Location:
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Author and U-M Professor Scott E. Page will explore a variety of models that reveal how, when and why diversity produces better outcomes - as well as when it does not. Some of the ideas and models will come directly from computer science. Others will borrow insights from the social and biological sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:30:05 -0400 2019-04-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T11:00:00-04:00 Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Duotone portrait of Scott E. Page
CSEAS-WCED Forum. The Philippines Withdraws from the ICC: Now What? (April 22, 2019 11:20am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63055 63055-15543232@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 11:20am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

As the Philippines withdraws from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, what are the prospects for justice in the context of President Duterte’s war on drugs and other crimes against humanity?

Panel followed by Q& A discussion.
FRANCIS TOM TEMPROSA, SJD Candidate, Law School, University of Michigan; Former Legal Adviser, Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

LIGAYA LINDIO-MCGOVERN, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University, Kokomo; National Convenor of MALAYA-US Movement Against Killings and Dictatorship and For Democracy in the Philippines (organization works with victims of the drug war)

JUSTIN SUCGANG, LLM Student, Law School, University of Michigan

SONJA STARR, Professor, Law; Codirector, Empirical Legal Studies Center, University of Michigan

STEVEN R. RATNER, Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan

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After-forum activity:
Show your support for human rights advocacy and join us in holding up the “Stop the Killings” banner in front of the Weiser Building. The banner is made out of black mourning pins symbolizing the fallen victims of the Philippine drug-war.

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Sponsors: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Donia Human Rights Center, Michigan Journal of International Law, and International Law Society.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Apr 2019 09:40:22 -0400 2019-04-22T11:20:00-04:00 2019-04-22T12:40:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion image
STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63166 63166-15581084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (3 of 4)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are a key contributor to eco- nomic growth and national competitiveness. Yet STEM workers are perceived to be in short supply. This paper shows that the "STEM shortage" phenomenon is explained by technological change, which introduces new job skills and makes old ones obsolete. We find that the initially high economic return to applied STEM degrees declines by more than 50 percent in the first decade of working life. This coincides with a rapid exit of college graduates from STEM occupations. Using detailed job vacancy data, we show that STEM jobs changed especially quickly over the last decade, leading to flatter age-earnings profiles as the skills of older cohorts became obsolete. Our findings highlight the importance of technology-specific skills in explaining life-cycle returns to education, and show that STEM jobs are the leading edge of technology diffusion in the labor market.

BIO:
David Deming is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Director of the Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Program, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses broadly on the economics of skill development, education and labor markets. He is currently serving as a coeditor at the AEJ: Applied, and is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He recently won the David N. Kershaw Prize, which is awarded biannually to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40.

Michigan Population Studies Center (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, 19 Apr 2019 14:18:07 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion David Deming