Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. LRCCS Public Lecture Series | The Chinese World Order in Historical Perspective: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-States? (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67953 67953-16975338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

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

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

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

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

Visualizing Microbial and Cellular Chemistry in Situ

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

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

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

The End of Black Studies

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

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

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

Supported by the Institute for the Humanities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Trinity College, The University of Dublin

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

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

Panel #2: Black Feminisms in the Archive

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

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

Erica Edwards
“Extraliterature and the Black Feminist Imperative”

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


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


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

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

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

Abstract:

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

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

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

Tandem Team Bios:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Panel #3: Representing the Racial Imagination

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

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

Madhu Dubey
“Racecraft in Contemporary African American Fiction”

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:07:25 -0400 2019-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer of 11-01-19 NERS Colloquium: Sarah Mills, UM Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
CSAS Lecture Series | World Literature, the Global South and Indian Ocean Worlds (November 1, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65095 65095-16517507@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

World Literature has emerged as a vital field in twentieth-first century critical and comparative literary studies, one that reflects on the place and function of literatures in our global era. Straddling the established fields of English and Comparative literatures, area studies, postcolonial studies and globalization studies, world literature urges new approaches across a comparative, multi-scalar, translational and inter-cultural space-time continuum; a continuum that poses a serious challenge to a one-world and totalizing model of literary production in our capitalist era. In this regard, both the ‘oceanic’ and the global south have emerged as powerful analytical frames. Oceans straddle traditional boundaries of nations, races, languages, literatures and cultures. The millennial-long history of the Indian Ocean, in particular, encompasses scales of contact that radically transform our grasp of the history of global capitalism entwining Euro-American and Afro-Asian worlds. This talk will focus on the resonance of Indian Ocean worlds to imagining the Global South as a cartographic frame in the post-Cold War era, and argue that the idea of world literature is unthinkable without this longue durée perspective.

Debjani Ganguly is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia. She works in the areas of world literature, postcolonial studies, the global Anglophone novel, Indian caste and dalit studies, Indian Ocean literary worlds, war and human rights, and technologies of violence. Her books include This Thing Called the World: The Contemporary Novel as Global Form (Duke 2016), Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity (Routledge 2005), Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public Intellectual (ed. 2007) and Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality (ed.2007). She is currently working on two projects: a two-volume Cambridge History of World Literature (forthcoming 2020), and a monograph provisionally called Catastrophic Form: Drones, Toxins, Climate. Debjani is the General Editor of a new CUP book series, Cambridge Studies in World Literature and serves on the advisory boards of the Harvard Institute for World Literature (IWL), the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI), and the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory (University of the Bologna). She has held visiting positions & fellowships at the University of Chicago (2010), University of Oxford (2012), University of Cambridge (2013), and University of Wisconsin Madison (2015).

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, 18 Sep 2019 09:08:24 -0400 2019-11-01T16:30:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Debjani Ganguly
African American Literature and Culture Now Symposium: Teaching Panel and Symposium Reflection (November 1, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68783 68783-17147189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

Please join us for a concluding panel discussion of pedagogical practices within the discipline of Black Studies. All are warmly welcome.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:00:23 -0400 2019-11-01T17:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T18:30:00-04:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
John Cameron Mitchell: In Conversation (November 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65262 65262-16559492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Special Event: Friday, November 1, 7:00pm / Bethlehem United Church, 423 S. 4th Ave., Ann Arbor, MI

Best known for his double Tony Award-winning rock opera and 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Mitchell is an actor, playwright, screenwriter, and director. Off the stage, Mitchell works in the realm of feature film, documentaries, and advertising for Dior and Agent Provocateur. He has appeared in numerous acting roles in film and television, including a recurring character on the HBO series Girls, as Andy Warhol in the 2016 season of HBO’s Vinyl, and recently as a series cast member in Hulu’s Shrill. At a special UMS performance on Saturday, November 2 at Hill Auditorium, Mitchell will revisit songs from Hedwig and preview songs from his upcoming musical podcast Anthem presented by the Luminary podcast network and starring himself, Glenn Close, Patti Lupone, Cynthia Erivo, Denis O’Hare, Laurie Anderson, and Marion Cotillard. Mitchell’s creative work proudly focuses on explorations of sexuality and gender, celebrating nuance and individuality in all of its many forms.

Keep the Halloween spirit alive and arrive in costume to this special speaker series event. As part of the evening’s programming, John Cameron Mitchell will decide on the best costumes of the evening and two lucky winners will receive a pair of complimentary tickets each to “The Origin of Love Tour” on Saturday November 2 at Hill Auditorium.

Co-presented with University Musical Society (UMS).

Photo by Michael Muser.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:15:42 -0400 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/cameron-mitchell.jpg
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 1, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220002@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 1, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-01T19:00:00-04:00 2019-11-01T20:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Islam, Markets, Empires, Frontiers (November 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68830 68830-17161710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Poverty and charity in medieval lslamic societies, territories and frontiers in the early and middle Islamic period, the theory and practice of jihad, and the economic history of Arabia at the rise of Islam - these were some of the main themes in the work of Michael Bonner (1952-2019), Professor of Medieval Islamic History, who passed away earlier this year. Michael Bonner was a truly encyclopedic scholar and intellectual, admired for his linguistic breadth and philological depth, and his attention to detail and awareness of the big picture. His enthusiasm, curiosity, and creativity affected many of his students. At this symposium former students, teachers, collaborators will gather to celebrate his work and his memory, and present new research carrying on his legacy.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:05:22 -0400 2019-11-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-11-02T16:30:00-04:00 Michigan League Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Islam, Markets, Empires, Frontiers
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (November 2, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67848 67848-16960478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:32:17 -0400 2019-11-02T11:00:00-04:00 2019-11-02T11:20:00-04:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Feminist Art in Action Panel Discussion - Feminist Futures Series (November 2, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66991 66991-16792094@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 2, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us for a discussion about Feminist Art in Action with Stamps School of Art & Design Professors, Irina Aristarkhova, Carol Jacobsen, Joanne Leonard and LeAnn Fields, Senior Executive Editor, University of Michigan Press. A response to panelist presentations will be given by Stamps Assistant Professor Omar Sosa-Tzec. Books by all panelists will be available for sale. A book signing will follow the event. Light refreshments will be served.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design & Activism Series is organized by Stamps Gallery and co-sponsored by the Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+): Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund with support from the Institute for Research on Women & Gender (IRWG) and the U-M Library.

Event partner(s): University of Michigan Press.

Feminist Futures: Art, Design and Activism is an ongoing event series exploring the role of feminism in art, design, scholarship, and politics. The series brings together multigenerational artists and thinkers in contemporary art, design, art history, and related fields who have shaped, and are shaping, current discourses on gender and the fight for equality.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-art-in-action-panel-discussion-tickets-71557679947

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:15:37 -0400 2019-11-02T13:00:00-04:00 2019-11-02T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/nov2web.png
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (November 3, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67848 67848-16960483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 3, 2019 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:32:17 -0400 2019-11-03T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-03T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (November 3, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67972 67972-16977463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 3, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-11-03T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-03T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Mindfullness-based Dementia Care (November 4, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64758 64758-16444914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

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

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:03:34 -0400 2019-11-04T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation (November 4, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68521 68521-17094823@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Join us for a talk with award-winning author and Washington Post associate editor Steve Luxenberg, who will discuss his recent book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation.

Presented by the University of Michigan History Club, Department of American Culture, and Department of American History.

STEVE LUXENBERG is an associate editor at The Washington Post and an award-winning author. During his forty years as a newspaper editor and reporter, Steve has overseen reporting that has earned many national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes.

His new nonfiction book, Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, was published in 2019. It was named a New York Times Editor’s Choice, as well as a Best Book of the Month by Amazon and Goodreads. It has been featured in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and The Economist.

His first book was the critically-acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret, honored as a Michigan Notable Book and selected as the 2013-2014 Great Michigan Read. During that year, Annie’s Ghosts was the focus of a state-wide series of events and discussions.

A frequent speaker, Steve has given talks and participated in conversations about his books, journalism, and nonfiction writing at conferences, universities, and book festivals, and has made occasional guest appearances on radio and television.

Steve’s journalistic career began at The Baltimore Sun, where he worked for 11 years. He joined The Post in 1985 as deputy editor of the investigative/special projects staff, headed by assistant managing editor Bob Woodward. In 1991, Steve succeeded Woodward as head of the investigative staff. From 1996 to 2006, Steve was the editor of The Post’s Sunday Outlook section, which publishes original reporting and provocative commentary on a broad spectrum of political, historical and cultural issues.

Steve is a graduate of Harvard College. He grew up in Detroit, where Annie’s Ghosts primarily takes place. He and his wife, Mary Jo Kirschman, a former school librarian, live in Baltimore. They have two grown children, Josh and Jill.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:45:10 -0400 2019-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation
CMENAS Colloquium Series. South-South Relations in the Era of Far-Right Populism: The Syrian Refugee Crisis on Brazilian Television (November 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64317 64317-16314277@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

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

Brazil’s Arab and Arab-descended community, numbering an estimated 7-10 million, or 3.5-5% of the population, has been quite visible in national life, especially when compared to its counterpart in the United States, which numbers 2.5-3.5 million, or a mere 1% of the population. Since the early twentieth century, the turco stereotype has been widespread in Brazilian literature and popular culture, but in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, television melodrama O Clone (The Clone) captured the nation’s attention with its depiction of Islam and Muslim immigrants in Brazil. Less than two decades later, in April 2019, and a few months after the election of a populist, far-right president, a new Brazilian telenovela focusing on Arabs debuted. Orfãos da terra (Orphans of the Earth) depicts the plight of mostly Syrian, but also African and Haitian, refugees fleeing civil wars and natural disasters to Brazil. This presentation will analyze the representation of the latest wave of Arab arrivals and compare it to earlier representations in the context of current cultural politics in Brazil.

About the Speaker:
Waïl S. Hassan is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the President of the American Comparative Literature Association. A specialist in modern Arabic literature and intellectual history, he is the author of Tayeb Salih: Ideology and the Craft of Fiction (2003) and Immigrant Narratives: Orientalism and Cultural Translation in Arab American and Arab British Literature (2011). He has translated Abdelfattah Kilito’s Thou Shalt Not Speak My Language from Arabic into English (2008) and Alberto Mussa’s Lughz al-qāf from Portuguese into Arabic (2015); co-edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Naguib Mahfouz (2012); and edited The Oxford Handbook of the Arab Novelistic Traditions (2017). He is currently working on two books, one on the institution of Arabic literature in the U.S., and another on Arab literary and cultural relations with Brazil.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:52:03 -0400 2019-11-04T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Webinar: Community Collaboration: A Locally Driven Approach to Estuarine Management (November 4, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68957 68957-17197061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Graham Sustainability Institute

How do you modernize coastal land use planning in a way that balances responsible economic development, social interests, and the protection of natural resources? This is a common question for many coastal states including Oregon, where the management of the state's estuaries and surrounding shorelands is currently based on the economic and social drivers of the 1970s, when local land use plans were developed.

A diverse group of local stakeholders is collaborating to tackle this question for one Oregon estuary by: 1) compiling existing data to show current conditions and land uses within the estuary; 2) gathering stakeholder input, and land use and planning recommendations, from a diverse collection of interest groups; and 3) developing management options and detailed road maps for officials to use to update their land use plans.

This webinar will highlight the collaborative stakeholder engagement process that is driving this integrated assessment, and provide a snapshot of the products and recommendations developed through this process.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:42 -0400 2019-11-04T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Graham Sustainability Institute Lecture / Discussion
The Annual Bernard W. Agranoff Lectureship in Neuroscience (November 4, 2019 3:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68666 68666-17136728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 3:15pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Michigan Neuroscience Institute

This annual lectureship features a pre-eminent neuroscientist and honors Bernard W. Agranoff, a leader in biochemistry and an internationally recognized expert in the neurosciences. Dr. Agranoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan who returned as a faculty member in 1960. He served as the Director of Mental Health Research Institute (now known as the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute) from 1985 to 1995 and was the Neuroscience Laboratory Building Director from 1983-2002. His scientific career helped establish that long-term memory formation requires de novo protein synthesis and also enhanced our understanding of the processes involved in nerve regeneration. The Lectureship builds upon a career dedicated to promoting excellence in research, education, and mental health care and is an enduring legacy to those seeking to improve our understanding of the brain and apply that knowledge to help those with brain disorders.

Dr. Richard Huganir is the 2019 Agranoff Lecturer. Dr. Huganir is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. His career has focused on synapses in the brain. His research has shown that the regulation of receptor function is a major mechanism for the regulation of neuronal excitability and connectivity in the brain and is critical for many higher brain processes, including learning and memory, and is a major determinant of behavior. Moreover, dysregulation of these mechanisms underlies many neurological and psychiatric diseases including Alzheimer’s, ALS, schizophrenia, autism, intellectual disability, PTSD as well as in chronic pain and drug addiction. Dr. Huganir is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 10:00:19 -0400 2019-11-04T15:15:00-05:00 2019-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 University Hospitals Michigan Neuroscience Institute Lecture / Discussion Dr. Richard Huganir
STS Speaker. Working Things Out: Design-STS Transitions from Technical Formalization to Critical Imagination. (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66903 66903-16785542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

This talk will explore the notion that the fields of design and science and technology studies (STS) offer distinct but mutually enriching traditions of research and practice, and that at their nexus we may discover opportunities for critical and creative engagements with both technologies and the built environment. Drawing from the author’s recent efforts, including media archaeological, data-ethnographic, historiographic, and pedagogical explorations, the talk will articulate ways to mobilize STS themes and methods towards questions of design — broadly understood to encompass a diversity of conceptual and practical approaches to the production of artificial environments. It will show what we may gain by, on the one hand, creating the conditions for technologies to be formulated inquisitively to interrogate or renegotiate sociotechnical relations and, on the other, cultivating an interpretive attitude construing digital environments and human-machine entanglements as new and exciting sites of sociotechnical inquiry in the processes of designing and making. The picture that emerges is one of design as both a crucial phenomenon by which to understand and a sociotechnical ecology by which to thoughtfully re-imagine, intervene, and explore.

Bio: Daniel Cardoso Llach is an architecture and design scholar working on social and historical aspects of automation in design, the politics of representation and participation in software, and new methods for visualizing design as a socio-technical phenomenon. His book Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015) uses STS methods and themes to show how postwar era research on computer-aided design (CAD) and numerically controlled manufacturing shaped a technological imaginary of design shaping present-day architectural ideas and labors.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:05:24 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:30:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Tisch Hall
The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66516 66516-16744951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

As leading Christians sought to define the New Testament in the fourth and later centuries, they fashioned Christians as people, not of a book, the Bible, but of multiple books. The purportedly closed list of New Testament books generated new categories of Christian literature, such as “apocrypha” and “ecclesiastical writers,” which still shape how we understand the literary legacy of pre-modern Christians.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Department of Middle East Studies at mlbthayerevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4465.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:31:51 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity
Transformismo masculino: Drag King Performance in Post-Socialist Cuba (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68091 68091-17009820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI)

In this talk, I consider the work transformismo masculino (drag king performance) is doing during a time of social and economic transformation in post-socialist Cuba. Over the past ten years, Cuba has witnessed the growth of a private economic sector dependent on tourism and the unfolding of a so-called “sexual revolution” aimed at combating homophobia and transphobia. Both of these reform movements have been criticized, however, for the lack of material gains experienced by women and Afrodescendants on the island. In response, some independent projects have emerged that draw on histories of Afrofeminist and antiracist critique in Cuba to elaborate an Afroqueer social vision for the future. I examine the performances of Havana’s transformistas masculinas (drag kings) in this context to discuss how they critique normative masculinity, create space for Black lesbian women, and promote dignity for ordinary Cubans. This work, along with the broader Afroqueer movement of which it is a part, resonates with related artist-activism throughout the hemisphere that imagines social possibilities that go beyond the well-documented alliances between neoliberalism and LGBT rights.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:29:04 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T17:30:00-05:00 Lane Hall Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative (LGQRI) Lecture / Discussion photo of Matthew Leslie Santana
IOE 813 Seminar: Michael Krautmann, MSE (November 4, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68998 68998-17211731@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

Proven medicines and technologies already exist to address many of the world's biggest health challenges. But these products are only effective when they can be reliably delivered to the patients who need them, and in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), health product supply chains are not as efficient or reliable as they need to be. Patients and providers often lack access to quality, affordable medicines, and health outcomes suffer as a result.
 
Governments, businesses, multilateral agencies, and nonprofits are all play a critical role in LMIC health supply chains, but each have their own unique perspectives, processes, and goals. Improving supply chain performance in this context requires a systems thinking approach, one that combines traditional logistics management and optimization techniques with a more holistic understanding of how to incentivize and align the actions of diverse organizations.
 
In this session we will explore the William Davidson Institute's work in improving LMIC health supply chain performance, and will highlight lessons and experiences that are applicable in any complex health system environment.

Michael Krautmann joined the William Davidson Institute's Healthcare Initiative in 2015. His research and consulting work focuses on modeling, investment decisionmaking, and strategy development to improve the operational efficiency and service levels of public health supply chains. While at WDI Michael has helped develop several Excel tools and white papers that inform key elements of the supply chain design and strategy development process. He has also conducted strategic evaluations of ongoing supply chain programs in several countries, helping client organizations improve their approach for providing technical assistance and delivering health products.
 
Michael holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.  Prior to joining WDI, he worked for Lean Care Solutions, a healthcare technology startup that uses predictive analytics to help hospitals improve patient scheduling and postoperative care. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia, where he helped evaluate clinic-level supply chain practices for a United States Agency for International Development-funded health project.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:26:56 -0400 2019-11-04T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Michael Krautmann, MSE
Carrigan Lecture in Music Education: Frank Michael Diaz, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (November 4, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68040 68040-16988214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Walgreen Drama Center
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Mindfulness is the process of bringing a present-centered, intentional, and non-judgmental state of awareness to everyday experience. Emerging research suggests that practicing mindfulness may result in a number of beneficial outcomes for musicians, including improved focus, psychological resilience, and pro-social feelings and behaviors. But what do we truly know about mindfulness and its potential to transform our life and work? How can we separate the hype from the reality, and how might mindfulness fit into our already busy lives? In this talk, Diaz will discuss the promises and perils of mindfulness from his perspective as teacher, scholar, and practitioner of this ancient practice.

Diaz is associate professor of Music Education at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and an active scholar and teacher in the field of contemplative science. He is also affiliate faculty for IU’s Cognitive Science program and co-director of the Music and Mind Lab at Indiana. Diaz is the founder and director of the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy, where he collaborates with an international group of artists, educators, and scholars on disseminating research and best practices on the art of mindful living, teaching, and performance. Along with his work on mindfulness, Diaz maintains an active schedule as a performer, conductor, adjudicator, and clinician. His work on mindfulness has been published in top-tier music education and music psychology journals, and has been featured on NPR, The Huffington Post, and other local and national media outlets.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:54:28 -0400 2019-11-04T19:00:00-05:00 Walgreen Drama Center School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Frank Michael Diaz
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Estimating the Unofficial Income of Officials from Large Asset Purchases (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63873 63873-15955826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

From a paper co-authored by Yongheng Deng (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Shang-Jin Wei (Columbia University, FISF, and NBER) and Jing Wu (Tsinghua University)

Professor Deng and his co-authors propose a method to estimate not only the relative size of unofficial incomes but also the pervasiveness of corruption based on large asset purchases. Additionally, they applied this idea to a unique Chinese data and provide a first estimate of the proportion of officials who take in unofficial incomes. They have found that an average official’s unofficial income is 83% of his/her official income, and 57% of the officials have an unofficial income and this proportion rises with the rank. They also tested and reject the notion that unofficial incomes are a compensation for below-the-market government salaries.

Yongheng Deng is a Professor and the John P. Morgridge Distinguished Chair in Business, in the Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining Wisconsin School of Business, Professor Deng has served as a Provost's Chair Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Director of the Institute of Real Estate Studies, and Head of the Department of Real Estate, at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also a Professor in the Department of Finance at NUS Business School, and Director of the Lifecycle Financing Research Program at NUS Global Asia Institute. Professor Deng was also a Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), School of Policy, Planning and Development, and the Marshall School of Business.

Professor Deng holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of California at Berkeley, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Wharton Real Estate Center, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While Professor Deng’s recent research interest is in evaluating conditions in Asian and China’s real estate markets; his research pertains to a wide variety of issues in residential and commercial real estate finance and capital market worldwide. That includes real estate related financial capital market and asset-backed security pricing and risk analysis, econometric analysis of competing risks of mortgage prepayment and default with unobserved heterogeneity.

Professor Deng has published his research works in leading economics and finance journals. Some of those journals include “Econometrica,” “Journal of Financial Economics,” “Journal of Urban Economics,” “Review of Finance,” “China Economic Review,” “European Economic Review,” “Capitalism and Society,” and “Real Estate Economics,” among others. Major global media have frequently cited his research works, for example, “Wall Street Journal,” “New York Times,” “Economist Magazine,” “Telegraph,” “Forbes,” “People’s Daily” (China), and more.

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, 04 Sep 2019 10:44:56 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yongheng Deng, Professor and John P. Morgride Distinguished Chair in Business, Department of Real Estate and Urban Land Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mechanisms of Ribosome-Associated Quality Control- Biological Chemistry Seminar (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68247 68247-17035290@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Sichen Shao, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, will deliver the weekly Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar on Tuesday November 5th, 2019. Please join us in North Lecture Hall, MS II for this seminar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 07:46:26 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Sichen Shao
Sexual Harassment in STEM: A View from the National Academies (November 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68194 68194-17026799@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Sexual harassment damages research integrity and shrinks the talent pool in science engineering and medicine.

In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on this problem. They published a landmark report in 2018 titled, Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Committee member and contributing author, U-M Professor Lilia Cortina will present its key findings and recommendations. Preventing all forms of sexual and gender-based misconduct remains a top priority for the University of Michigan.

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Food will be provided. Limited capacity.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:00:17 -0400 2019-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lilia Cortina
Critical Conversations: Dissertation Showcase (November 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63108 63108-15576716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:29:29 -0400 2019-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
ChE Seminar Series: Qian Chen (November 5, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68768 68768-17147155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 1:30pm
Location:
Organized By: Chemical Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

ABSTRACT

“'Cinematography' at the nanoscale, from colloidal crystallization to protein transformation"

I will discuss my group’s recent progress on applying low-dose liquid-phase TEM to synthetic and biological colloidal systems. In the first system, we directly image the otherwise elusive crystallization pathways of nanosized colloids into superlattices, where the discreteness and multi-scale coupling effects complicate the free energy landscape and the application forms of the final superlattices. We find that there exist similarities to the prevalent model system of micron-sized colloids, such as a non-classical two-step crystallization pathway, and an agreement with the capillary wave theory. But there are also differences, in particular, a universal layer-by-layer growth mode that we observe consistently for diverse nanoparticle shapes. Single particle tracking, trajectory analysis, and simulations combined unravel the energetic and kinetic features rendering this crystal growth mode possible and universal at the unexplored nanoscale, enabling advanced crystal engineering. In the second system, we sandwich and capture moving membrane proteins in their native lipid and liquid environment at nm resolution. The proteins exhibit real-time “fingering” fluctuations, which we attribute to dynamic rearrangement of lipid molecules wrapping the proteins. The conformational coordinates of protein transformation obtained from the real-space movies are used as inputs in our molecular dynamics simulations, to verify the driving force underpinning the function-relevant fluctuation dynamics. This platform invites an emergent theme of structural biophysics as we foresee.

BIO

Qian Chen is currently an Assistant Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She obtained her PhD from the same department with Steve Granick (2012) and did her postdoc with Paul Alivisatos at UC Berkeley under Miller Fellowship. She joined the faculty of UIUC in 2015 and since then has received awards for the research in her group including Victor LaMer award in ACS (2015), Forbes 30 under 30 Science List (2016), Air Force Office of Scientific Research YIP award (2017), National Science Foundation CAREER award (2018), Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry (2018), and Unilever award in ACS (2018). The research in her group focuses on the broad scheme of imaging, understanding and engineering active soft matter, including systems such as colloidal self-assembly, protein aggregation, advanced battery devices, and energy-efficient separation strategies.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:36:42 -0400 2019-11-05T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T14:30:00-05:00 Chemical Engineering Lecture / Discussion North Campus Research Complex
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) (November 5, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67319 67319-16837720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:20:31 -0400 2019-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods (ISQM) Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Genetics of Invasive Glioblastoma Cells (November 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67119 67119-16803020@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

2019 – 2020 Center for Organogenesis Seminar Series
Faculty Host: Xing Fan, Ph.D.
For additional information contact: organogenesis@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 10:08:43 -0400 2019-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Genetics of Invasive Glioblastoma Cells
Ghetto: The History of a Word (November 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64968 64968-16499242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516; and Rome, where the ghetto endured until 1870, decades after it had been dismantled elsewhere. Over the nineteenth century, as Jews were emancipated and ghettos were dissolved, the word "ghetto" transcended its Italian roots and became a more general term for pre-modern Jewish life. It also came to designate new Jewish spaces—from voluntary immigrant neighborhoods like New York’s Lower East Side to the holding pens of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe—as dissimilar from the pre-emancipation European ghettos as they were from each other. After World War Two, ghetto broke free of its Jewish origins and became more typically associated with African Americans than with Jews. Chronicling this sinuous transatlantic journey, this talk reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with the struggle and argument over the meaning of a word.

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 Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:42:12 -0400 2019-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dan Schwartz Lecture Image
Conversations on Europe. Brexit Roundtable (November 5, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65983 65983-16678386@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for European Studies

Tough negotiations, shifting deadlines, and the constant threat of a “no deal” Brexit scenario have monopolized British headlines for months. What’s the big picture? A historian, a political scientist, and an economist will share their perspectives on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.

Kali Israel, associate professor of history at U-M, specializes in modern British and Scottish history. Her research focuses on women, modernities and cosmopolitanism in late 19th to mid-20th century Edinburgh. She teaches about contemporary events in Britain and Scotland through multiple genres and in historical context.

Scott L. Greer is a professor of health management and policy, public health, and political science at U-M. He is a Senior Expert Advisor on Health Governance for the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. He researches the politics of health policies, with a special focus on the politics and policies of the European Union and the impact of federalism on health care.

Kyle Handley, Alexander M. Nick Professor and associate professor of business economics and public policy at U-M, studies international trade, investment, uncertainty, and firm employment dynamics. He is a faculty research fellow in the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been featured in numerous media outlets.

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

Photo attribution: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manchester_Brexit_protest_for_Conservative_conference,_October_1,_2017_17.jpg
Captioned: “Manchester Brexit protest for Conservative conference, October 1, 2017” by iloveeu is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0]

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:19:54 -0400 2019-11-05T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for European Studies Lecture / Discussion Brexit
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (November 5, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65098 65098-16517510@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Cosponsored by the Department of Communication and Media.

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon of Korean pop culture, Youjeong Oh argues that pop culture-featured place selling mediates two separate domains: political decentralization and the globalization of Korean popular culture. The local election system introduced in the mid 90s has stimulated strong desires among city mayors and county and district governors to develop and promote their areas. Riding on the Korean Wave—the overseas popularity of Korean entertainment, also called Hallyu—Korean cities have actively used K-dramas and K-pop idols in advertisements designed to attract foreign tourists to their regions. Hallyu, meanwhile, has turned the Korean entertainment industry into a speculative field into which numerous players venture by attracting cities as sponsors.

By analyzing the process of culture-featured place marketing, Pop City shows that urban spaces are produced and sold just like TV dramas and pop idols by promoting spectacular images rather than substantial physical and cultural qualities. Popular culture-associated urban promotion also uses the emotional engagement of its users in advertising urban space, just as pop culture draws on fans’ and audiences’ affective commitments to sell its products. Oh demonstrates how the speculative, image-based, and consumer-exploitive nature of popular culture shapes the commodification of urban space and ultimately argues that pop culture–mediated place promotion entails the domination of urban space by capital in more sophisticated and fetishized ways.

Youjeong Oh is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her topics of interest include urban processes in Korea and East Asia, development and social movement, Korean popular culture, and media and space.

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, 27 Aug 2019 16:13:41 -0400 2019-11-05T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Youjeong Oh, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas
Business Won't Save the World: (November 5, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68264 68264-17037438@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Erb Institute / Ross Business School and School for Environment & Sustainability

Join us for a thought-provoking conversation about the culprits of and solutions for the largest issues facing the world today.

The Erb Institute is proud to host an evening with Anand Giridharadas, author of the National Best Seller, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. This candid conversation will examine the role of business in society, the flaws of philanthropy and the possibility of changing the world from the ground up. We'll discuss climate change—culprits, challenges and collaboration for progress—social inequality—who's winning, who's losing and why—and what needs to change.

Seating will be on a first come first served basis. Book signing in partnership with Literati to immediately follow the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:31:42 -0400 2019-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-05T18:30:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Erb Institute / Ross Business School and School for Environment & Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Image of Anand Giridharadas with event date/time: 11/5 from 5:30 - 6:30pm in Robertson Auditorium
The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution (November 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69096 69096-17244687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: International Youth and Students for Social Equality

LECTURE 2 OF A 3-PART SERIES

The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War and America’s Second Revolution – Speaker: Eric London
• The origins of the Civil War
• The role of white workers in the abolition of slavery
• How did Marx view the Civil War?
• Reconstruction, the emergence of the working class, and the origins of Jim Crow


Eric London is a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party and writer for the World Socialist Web Site with a focus on US politics, immigration, US history, Latin America, workers struggles and democratic rights. He is also the author of the recently released book Agents: The FBI and GPU Infiltration of the Trotskyist Movement.

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:59:04 -0500 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T21:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) International Youth and Students for Social Equality Lecture / Discussion "Effect of the Proclamation, Freed Negroes Coming Into Our Lines at New Bern, North Carolina" (Harper's Weekly, 1863)
HET Brown Bag Seminars | Extremal Black Holes and EFTs (November 6, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68797 68797-17153400@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Higher-dimension operators in the action modify the extremality condition for black holes. In this talk, I will explore implications for these extremality corrections as a consequence of bounds on Wilson coefficients coming from scattering amplitudes. I will discuss connections to the Weak Gravity Conjecture and generalizations to dyonic, spinning, and BTZ black holes, as well as bounds on Wilson coefficients coming from consistency of black hole entropy.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:41:48 -0500 2019-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Ph.D. Defense: Dakota Crisp (November 6, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68890 68890-17188749@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 2:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Epilepsy is characterized by spontaneously recurring seizures that severely disrupt quality of life and pose risks of injury and death. It is a highly heterogenous disease, with seizures seen in a wide range of other diseases (Alzheimer’s, autism, Down’s syndrome, etc.). Yet to date, there is no method of categorizing seizures that can help distinguish the link between pathology and seizures. The aim of this work is to validate and explore a method of categorizing seizures based on their fundamental dynamics to provide a framework for future research to better investigate the underlying mechanisms of seizures and therapeutic approaches to stop them.

The first study used predictions from a previously-published computational model to visually classify seizures using dynamical transition features in two large datasets (simulated and real human data). Machine learning was applied to raw signal features to verify the accuracy of the reviewer’s labels. It found that visual classification is consistent and supported by the signal feature analysis. We also investigate the model’s predictions in real human data, finding that most dynamic classifications were observed and patients can have varying seizure dynamics over time. A major unpublished aspect of this work is that the human data analysis was crucial in the original development of the model.

The second study used data mining and machine learning in a long-term rat model of epileptogenesis to investigate the viability of these same dynamic principles as a biomarker of epileptic brain state. It also applied the same rigor to an analysis of the response to electrical stimulation. We found that evoked responses can be used to predict if an injured brain would eventually develop seizures or not. Once seizures began manifesting, both evoked responses and seizure onset dynamics had strong correlation with the progression of epileptogenesis, suggesting they are independent biomarkers.

For the final study, we use the same principles of dynamics and machine learning to characterize differences between a low Mg2+ / high K+ mouse brain-slice seizure model with and without different anti-seizure drugs. It found that anti-seizure drugs can change the observed seizure dynamics, and each drug has a different effect on brain dynamics.

These three studies provide evidence that seizures can be categorized by their fundamental dynamics. These dynamics can provide mechanistic insights into current brain state, future brain states, and the response to anti-epileptic drugs. The results presented in this dissertation can be used as a framework to further investigate seizure mechanisms and personalize patient treatment and research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:41:55 -0400 2019-11-06T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Weekly Seminar (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68926 68926-17197024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Abstract: Although central architectures drive robust oscillations, biological clock networks containing the same core vary drastically in their potential to oscillate. What peripheral structures contribute to the variation of oscillation behaviors remains elusive. We computationally generated an atlas of oscillators and found that, while certain core topologies are essential for robust oscillations, local structures substantially modulate the degree of robustness. Strikingly, two key local structures, incoherent inputs and coherent inputs, can modify a core topology to promote and attenuate its robustness, additively. These findings underscore the importance of local modifications besides robust cores, which explain why auxiliary structures not required for oscillation are evolutionarily conserved. We further apply this computational framework to search for structures underlying tunability, another crucial property shared by many biological timing systems to adapt their frequencies to environmental changes.

Experimentally, we developed an artificial cell system to reconstitute mitotic oscillatory processes in water-in-oil microemulsions. With a multi-inlet pressure-driven microfluidic setup, these artificial cells are flexibly adjustable in sizes, periods, various molecular and drug concentrations, energy, and subcellular compartments. Using long-term time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, this system enables high-throughput, single-cell analysis of clock dynamics, functions, and stochasticity, key to elucidating the topology-function relation of biological clocks.

We also investigate how multiple clocks coordinate via biochemical and mechanical signals in the essential developmental processes of early zebrafish embryos (e.g., mitotic wave propagation, synchronous embryo cleavages, and somitogenesis). To pin down the physical mechanisms that give rise to these complex collective phenomena, we integrate mathematical modeling, live embryo and explant imaging, nanofabrication, micro-contact printing, and systems and synthetic biology approaches.

BlueJeans livestream: https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/live-event/rbuvycdc
Qiong Yang: https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/dcmb/qiong-yang-phd

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:42 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Donia Human Rights Center Distinguished Lecture. Global Challenges to Human Rights Today (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64681 64681-16426887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

From refugee crises and global poverty to rigged elections, growing populism – and the intolerance and oppression it breeds, we are at a pivotal moment in the fight for human rights. Throughout his years of service as a career diplomat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has been a champion for the protection of fundamental human rights. His work has involved the security of equality, justice, and respect – and has directly influenced international justice, United Nations peacekeeping, and women’s development. In this speech, Zeid discusses his concerns about the threats to global stability posed by such forces as racism, xenophobia, nationalism and authoritarian leaders, and poses that the safety of humanity will be secured only through vision, energy and generosity of spirit. According to Zeid, “Silence does not earn you any respect — none,” and only through civic activism can we ensure equality and justice.

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein of Jordan is the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Known for his outspoken criticism of the fascism, religious radicalism, and threats to civil liberties growing in countries around the world, Zeid was a powerful advocate for human rights and open societies. Zeid was the sixth High Commissioner for Human Rights, serving from 2014 to 2018. He was the first Arab and Muslim to hold the post. In his speaking engagements, Zeid draws from his career in diplomacy and as the Human Rights Chief to address the geopolitical climate, relations in the middle east, and the current challenges to human rights. At the U.N., he called upon powerful and small states alike to secure human rights in their own countries and internationally, drawing notable attention to atrocities committed in Syria, Venezuela, Nicaragua, by ISIS, to the treatment of migrants and refugees in Libya, and the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar. His principled approach to his role became most evident when he announced that he wouldn’t seek a second term due to the trying task of dealing with governments and the limited power of the U.N. security council. In his final U.N. address, Zeid shared his concern about the threat to global stability posed by increasing nationalism, and warned world powers against undermining civil liberties. A veteran multilateral diplomat, Zeid was Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the U.N. from 2000 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2014. From 2007 to 2010 he was Jordan’s Ambassador to the U.S. He also served as Jordan’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. with the rank of Ambassador from 1996-2000. An expert in the field of international justice, Zeid was a central figure in the establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC), chairing the complex negotiations to establish the exact terms of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. He was subsequently elected the first President of the governing body of the ICC in 2002, and grew it into the internationally recognized court that it is today. Zeid has been active on many legal issues, including international law, post-conflict peace-building, international development, counter-nuclear terrorism, and women’s development. Following allegations of widespread abuse being committed by U.N. peacekeepers, Zeid was appointed by Kofi Annan as Advisor to the Secretary-General on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse. His report on this subject was the first comprehensive strategy for the elimination of sexual exploitation and abuse in U.N. peacekeeping operations. He recently pledged to be an International Gender Champion, committed to advancing gender equality in the office of Human Rights. In 2018, the International Women's Health Coalition honored Zeid with the Visionary Leadership Award. He was also the Stockholm Human Rights Award recipient in 2015 and winner of Foreign Policy's Career Diplomat of the Year Award in 2018. In 1989, Zeid received his commission as an officer in the Jordanian desert police (the successor to the Arab Legion) and saw service with them until 1994. He spent two years as a political affairs officer for UNPROFOR, the United Nations (U.N.) force in the former Yugoslavia, before starting his diplomatic career. Zeid holds a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, a PhD. in history from Cambridge University, and was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by the Southern California Institute of Law for his work on international justice.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 12:11:54 -0500 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-18)
Hopwood Teaching Roundtable (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67264 67264-16966913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Hopwood Awards Program

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

RSVP and request accommodations at hopwoodprogram@umich.edu.

Moderator: Hopwood Program Manager Rebecca Manery

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:50:41 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Hopwood Awards Program Lecture / Discussion Books on teaching creative writing displayed in the Hopwood Room
Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature (November 6, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68795 68795-17153398@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Modern Languages Building
Organized By: Comparative Literature

The Philippines is an underrepresented area in the study of Global Hispanism. Despite the awareness about the links between this Southeast Asian archipelago and regions readily identified as Hispanic, attempts to ‘world’ Filipino Hispanism are sparse, if not invisible. What happens instead is a reiteration of a historical narrative that presents Spain as a backward imperial power in opposition to the liberating colonial project of the US, which ruled the archipelago from 1898. This plays out in Hispanofilipino literature. This presentation will reflect on the question of worlding in Hispanofilipino literature and will examine translation as an alternative tool for engaging with the allures and discontents of a literature produced under the colonial condition and circulated in an intensely multilingual space.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:21:13 -0400 2019-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 Modern Languages Building Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Toward An Alternative Hispanism: Translation and the Worlding of Hispanofilipino Literature
Nam Center Presentation | 유쾌한 반란, Joyful Rebellion (November 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68583 68583-17103248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

강의 김동연

전 경제부총리 겸 기획재정부 장관
전 아주대 총장

한국 경제·사회의 3개 ‘회색 코뿔소(Grey Rhino)’와 나아갈 방향을 짚어봅니 다. 현실을 극복하고 변화시키는 가장 적극적인 의지의 표현으로 자기 자신의

틀과 사회를 뒤집는 ‘유쾌한 반란’을 주창합니다.

오후 5시 30 분 | 리셉션: 오후 5시

There will be an opening reception stating at 5:00PM.

This discussion will be in Korean; no translation will be provided.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:10:04 -0400 2019-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Nam Center for Korean Studies Lecture / Discussion Nam Center Presentation | 유쾌한 반란, Joyful Rebellion
Signe Karlström Annual Lecture (November 6, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67462 67462-16857936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Germanic Languages & Literatures

Signe Karlström Annual Lecture "Swedish Food Cultures" from the Viking age until today, and how the 19th century Swedish food culture came to be preserved in Swedish-America.

Free and open to the public. For more info, contact Johanna Eriksson, Scandinavian Program Director johannae@umich.edu

PhD Richard Tellström is an assistant professor in food and meal science at the University of Stockholm.

He can be seen in several popular TV productions on Swedish Television dealing with food history. He has been consulted for several contemporary Swedish movies, making sure the food is time appropriate. Books published include Hunger och Törst (2015) and Från krog till krog (2018).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:07:45 -0400 2019-11-06T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Germanic Languages & Literatures Lecture / Discussion Signe Karlström Annual Lecture
Democracy Inaction: Why our elections are unfair (November 6, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68999 68999-17211733@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 6:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Mathematics

Public Lecture
American presidential primaries are examples of multicandidate elections in which plurality usually determines the winner. Is this the "best" way to decide who wins? While plurality is a common procedure, it has serious flaws. Are there alternative procedures that are in some sense more "fair?" How do we determine the "fairness" of an election procedure? With no more mathematics than arithmetic (to count votes), we will examine some alternate procedures and fairness criteria.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:39:08 -0400 2019-11-06T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Mathematics Lecture / Discussion Public Lecture
Frankel Speaker Series: Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny (November 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64971 64971-16499244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:13:41 -0400 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dennis Ross
Primulas (November 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64779 64779-16444936@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Susan Haddock, local garden enthusiast, will discuss cultivating the many varieties of primula, commonly known as the primrose.
Part of Ann Arbor Garden Club’s Hands-on Home Gardening series.

Presented by Ann Arbor Garden Club

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:44:27 -0400 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders (November 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65923 65923-16670251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

Michigan Leadership Collaborative (MLC) Speaker Event: In a Distracted World, Solitude is Practice for Tomorrow’s Leaders
with Mike Erwin

Introduction by Saddi Washington, U-M Basketball Assistant Coach

The volume of our communication, and our unfettered access to information and other people, have made it more difficult than ever to focus. Despite this reality, there is another truth: Opportunities to focus are still all around us. But we must recognize them and believe that the benefit of focus, for yourself and the people you lead, is worth making it a priority in your life. In other words, before you can lead others, the first person you must lead is yourself.

MIKE ERWIN was born and raised in Syracuse, NY. He has dedicated his life to serving the nation---and empowering people to build positive relationships.

A 2002 graduate of The U.S. Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics, Mike was commissioned as an Intelligence Officer, deploying three times between 2004 and 2009. Following his third deployment, Mike attended the University of Michigan from 2009-2011, where he studied positive psychology and leadership under the tutelage of Drs. Chris Peterson and Nansook Park. He went on to serve as an Assistant Professor in Psychology & Leadership at West Point from 2011-2014.

While in graduate school in 2010, Mike founded a non-profit organization named Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB). Team RWB’s mission is to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their communities through physical and social activity.

Mike is the co-author of LEAD YOURSELF FIRST by Bloomsbury Press (2017). The book focuses on how solitude strengthens people’s ability to lead with clarity, balance and conviction. The book profiles leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Winston Churchill and Jane Goodall, and how they used solitude in some of their most pivotal moments.

Currently, Mike is leading another non-profit organization that he co-founded in 2015: The Positivity Project. Its mission is to empower America’s youth to build positive relationships through a deeper understanding of positive psychology’s 24 character strengths. Currently partnered with over 625 schools in 24 different states, The Positivity Project is helping over 400,000 students to see the good in themselves---and in other people---which is giving them the foundation to build stronger relationships.

EVENT NOTE: Please enter the building at State and Hill, 735 S. State Street.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 17:34:43 -0400 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion event poster
Two Spirit Identity: Indigenous Gender & Sexuality (November 6, 2019 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68861 68861-17165970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Rebecca Lynn is a Two Spirit artist from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, in Harbor Springs, MI. She studied sociology at the University of Michigan and is currently the owner and beader of QueerKwe Designs. Becca’s work aims to create representation for LGBTQ+ & Two Spirit indigenous folks by combining modern pride flags into her traditional beadwork. You can check out her work and mission on Instagram, @queerkwe, and Facebook, QueerKwe Designs.

This lecture will explore the complexities of gender and sexuality within Native American communities and the ways these views continue to be impacted by colonization efforts. Traditionally fluid and accepting nations were forced to conform to rigid, Western binaries through assimilation tactics, such as compulsory Christianity and Native American Boarding Schools. Today, LGBTQ2S+ and gender non conforming Indigenous people are reclaiming their space and traditionally sacred roles within their communities. Join us in learning about the emergence of Two Spirit identity, a contemporary term created to reject colonial binaries and embrace traditionally fluid ideas of gender and sexuality within our Native American communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 21:43:30 -0400 2019-11-06T19:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T21:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Rebecca Lynn
BME Seminar: Michael Kolios, Ph.D. (November 7, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69110 69110-17244699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 9:00am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Photoacoustic imaging relies on the generation of ultrasound waves from optically absorbing structures. The physics of photoacoustic wave generation has been compared to lightning and thunder. The interest in photoacoustic imaging has been steadily growing as optical contrast can be probed deeper in tissues compared to optical methods alone, resulting in possibly one of the most exciting new biomedical imaging techniques of the decade. Ultrasound waves produced by the absorption of light in tissue can be analyzed by methods similar to those developed to analyze ultrasound backscatter signals in the field known as ultrasound tissue characterization or quantitative ultrasound. The physics of photoacoustic wave generation can help in the interpretation of the signals detected by ultrasound transducers in photoacoustics. In the absence of exogenous optical absorbers, hemoglobin in red blood cells is the primary endogenous chromophore in tissues (as melanin is predominantly confined to the skin). The spatial distribution of red blood cells, typically confined to the vasculature, determines the frequency content of the ultrasound signals produced. Analysis of the photoacoustic signals can reveal information related to the tissue vasculature. We have applied these principles to cancer treatment monitoring and other blood pathologies. Tumor blood vessels have a distinct organizational structure compared to healthy blood vessels: typical
vessel networks are hierarchically organized, with vessels that are evenly distributed to ensure adequate oxygen and nutrient delivery. Tumor vessels are structurally different: they are torturous and typically hyperpermeable. Therapies that target the vasculature can induce changes in the vascular networks that, in principle, should be detected using photoacoustic imaging. In this presentation, we will review the techniques we have developed, which depend on the analysis of the frequency content of the ultrasound photoacoustic waves. We will show how we can use this information to filter vessels according to size with high specificity (resulting in a technique we have termed F-mode) and for non-resolvable vessels, how the frequency content of the photoacoustic signals encodes information about the size, concentration and spatial distribution of blood vessels. We also show how these techniques can be used to assess treatment response and speculate how we can use photoacoustic imaging to guide drug delivery and monitor its effects on tissues.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:27:41 -0500 2019-11-07T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Election and Voting Security in the United States (November 7, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68344 68344-17060774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will include a review of some election security concerns across the United States, discussion of some of the methods used to detect these problems, and an overview of approaches being taken to mitigate them. Events and actions in and near Michigan will highlighted.

Walter R. Mebane, Jr., Professor of Political Science and Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, is a member of Michigan’s Election Security Task Force. His current research concerns Election Forensics, which develops statistical and computational tools to verify the accuracy of election results. His work includes analyses of U.S. presidential elections and many other elections. He has developed Bayesian models to detect frauds and a Twitter Election Observatory to monitor American elections

This is the second in a six-lecture series. The subject is Voting in America: Perennial Issues, Current Developments. The next lecture will be November 14, 2019. The title is: Why Do We Have the Electoral College? Should We?

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 13 Oct 2019 08:12:22 -0400 2019-11-07T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64206 64206-16212194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See also: November 9th, Sat. 13:30 - 15:00, Asia Library Seminar Room, Hatcher Graduate Library, 4th floor, "Conversation with Professor Konno" (in Japanese language) Open to the public.

Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the pronunciations of various Kanji (Chinese characters).

When Japanese people began to use Kanji to express both Chinese and Japanese characters, they began to adopt Kanji even when they express Japanese words.

Although Furigana, as phonetic characters, could express Japanese words, Chinese characters continued to be used because a significant amount of Chinese words had already become enrooted within the Japanese lexicon. Both Chinese characters, which are ideographic characters, and Furigana, which are phonetic characters, were used in the Japanese language. This lecture covers the development and the influence of Furigana as “linguistic phenomenon" in Japanese literary history.

Professor Konno’s specialty covers the history of the Japanese language from the 7th century to medieval to early modern period (Muromachi to Meiji period). His methodology is to find the common practice within the Japanese language during different periods of history and the language usage in art and everyday culture. His lecture is planning to focus on the development of KANA and the usage of FURIGANA and its influence on the literary expression found in various publications and art. His lecture should be of interest for both academic and layman audiences who are interested in Japanese Studies. His lecturer at Michigan should be informative for community members interested in Japanese culture.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:08:45 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University, Tokyo
UMMAA presents the 2019 Parsons Lecture: Current Issues in Jomon Archaeology (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68408 68408-17077951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Jomon is the name of the prehistoric period and culture on the Japanese archipelago that follows the Paleolithic period and precedes the agricultural Yayoi period. This talk reviews new developments and current issues in Jomon archaeology, with an emphasis on long-term continuity and change in landscape practices in different parts of the Japanese archipelago. New lines of archaeological evidence, including molecular isotopic investigation of pottery and summed probability distribution of 14C dates, can help archaeologists tackle key questions that still remain unanswered.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:12:26 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Goshizawa Matsumori
Anelise Chen Roundtable Q&A (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64367 64367-16332368@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Anelise Chen is the author of So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press 2017), an experimental novel that blends elements of sportswriting, memoir, and self-help. A finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, the novel challenges modes of contemporary mythmaking and the validity and usefulness of our current narratives of success.

This event is free and open to the public.

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

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

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

Chen’s essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, such as the NY Times, New Republic, Village Voice, and BOMB Magazine. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and she is currently a 2019-2020 Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Columbia University.

Chen is currently at work on a hybrid memoir, Clam Down (One World Random House), based on her mollusk column for the Paris Review. Bringing to mind Helen MacDonald, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson, Chen transforms the ordinary clam into an unlikely metaphor for deep self-examination—how the specific shells we build for ourselves reflect our experiences of grief, assimilation, and connection.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 17 Jul 2019 14:44:25 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Anelise.Chen.headshot
Leadership in an Era of Islamophobia (November 7, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68086 68086-17009815@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Muslim Students' Association

The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a not-for-profit research organization focused on Muslim-American communities, is collaborating with several campus units to bring Dr. Debbie Almontaser, an internationally recognized, award-winning educator and speaker, to campus to discuss the challenges of leading while Muslim post-9/11, religious-based bullying, and the industry of Islamophobia.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 23 Oct 2019 11:17:28 -0400 2019-11-07T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:30:00-05:00 North Quad Muslim Students' Association Lecture / Discussion picture of Dr. Debbie Almontaser smiling in a robin egg blue scarf with tortoiseshell glasses and event details.
CLASP Seminar Series: Dr. Julia Schmale (November 7, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66311 66311-16727889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Dr. Julia Schmale of the Paul Scherrer Institute.

Dr. Schmale will give a presentation titled:
"Aerosol-climate effects in extreme environments: Insights from measurements in Central Asia, the Southern Ocean and the high Arctic"

Abstract: Extreme environments such as polar and high altitude regions are more strongly affected by global change than other regions on Earth. At the same time, the change these environments undergo can strongly affect humanity, e.g. depleting water resources with retreating glaciers, or changing weather patterns in North America and Europe with a warming Arctic. Therefore, it is important to develop process-level understanding of such environmental change in order to more accurately simulate it and to develop future scenarios.
Among the many drivers of change are aerosol particles that can reflect radiation directly or indirectly via cloud formation, and hence influence Earth’s energy budget.

In this presentation, I will discuss the climate-relevant role of aerosol particles in extreme environments. The talk will cover field observations of deposited aerosols on glaciers in Central Asia and the implications for accelerated melt. It will also discuss how studying extreme environments that are in part still untouched by human influence -- such as the Southern Ocean or the high Arctic -- can help to better constrain anthropogenic radiative forcing globally caused by agents other than greenhouse gases. I will close the presentation with preliminary results from the recent Arctic Ocean 2018 expedition to the North Pole and give an outlook of what we expect from the currently ongoing one year long drift experiment MOSAiC in the Arctic.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:23:47 -0400 2019-11-07T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65231 65231-16555463@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Granham Chandler

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 13:02:46 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Donia Human Rights Center Lecture. Using the United Nations to Help Free Political Prisoners in the 21st Century – The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Theory and Practice (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68277 68277-17037503@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Donia Human Rights Center

In a period where the international human rights system faces growing strain, Jared Genser’s United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice is the first comprehensive review of the contributions of this important institution to understanding arbitrary detention, rule of law, and protecting human dignity today. The Working Group is a body of five independent human rights experts that considers individual complaints of arbitrary detention and decide whether a detention is compatible with international law. Since its establishment in 1991, it has adopted more than 1,200 case opinions and conducted more than 50 country missions. Written for both practitioners and scholars alike, this book also covers five case studies – from China, Turkey, Myanmar, The Maldives and France. The foreword is written by Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu.

Genser’s lecture will provide important background and commentary on this little-known but very important United Nations body and he will bring to life how its opinions can be combined with political and public relations advocacy efforts to free political prisoners.

Review of The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention: Commentary and Guide to Practice from Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2014-2018):

“This meticulously researched volume is the first book to review the extensive jurisprudence and reporting of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention since its creation in 1991. Authored by Jared Genser, one of the leading human rights lawyers in the world and someone who I had the pleasure of working with on many of his most challenging cases during my time as High Commissioner, the book is written to be highly accessible even for those without legal background. Importantly, Genser weaves into the narrative his experiences having successfully taken dozens of cases to the Working Group over his career, explaining how he has combined its opinions with focused political and public relations advocacy to secure the release of his clients from prison. This rare combination of serious scholarship with real world application is as powerful as it is inspiring, making this book a must read for anyone wanting to secure the release of political prisoners today.”

Jared Genser is Managing Director of Perseus Strategies, a public interest law firm, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Referred to by the New York Times as “The Extractor” for his work freeing political prisoners, he was previously a partner in the government affairs practice of DLA Piper LLP and a management consultant with McKinsey & Company. Genser has taught semester-long seminars about the UN Security Council at Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania law schools. He was an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University from 2014-2016. His past clients have included former Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed, incoming Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Liu Xiaobo, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. In addition to his most recent book, Genser is co-editor of The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2014), and The Responsibility to Protect: The Promise of Stopping Mass Atrocities in Our Times (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is the recipient of the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:37:54 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Donia Human Rights Center Lecture / Discussion speaker
EIHS Lecture: The Truth of Place in Cities of the Habsburg Monarchy (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63590 63590-15808571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

How is “historical truth” inscribed or obscured in the material presence of cities? While much of East Central Europe belonged for centuries to the empire known from 1867 until its demise in 1918 as Austria-Hungary, various agendas of this vast realm’s successor states were chiefly opposed to preserving its memory. And yet, traces of this past are more integral to the present reality of these cities than they at first appear. Parallel examples of a few cities from Ukraine to Romania to Italy will open questions of how contemporary subjects relate to their place in space and time, and of the landscape of memory and forgetting.

Scott Spector (PhD, The Johns Hopkins University, 1994) is the Rudolf Mrázek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies at the University of Michigan He is a cultural and intellectual historian of modern central Europe, specializing in Habsburg and Jewish culture. He is the author of Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle (University of California Press, 2000); Violent Sensations: Sexuality, Crime, and Utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and Modernism without Jews? German-Jewish Subjects and Histories (University of Indiana, 2017). He serves on the editorial board of the journal Jewish Social Studies as well as the series Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies and the book series Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany at the University of Michigan Press. He is currently working on a manuscript on the layers of historical traces in cities of the former Habsburg Empire, a project he has been researching in the past year as a DAAD visiting professor in Potsdam and a visiting fellow at the Institut für Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) in Vienna.

Free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:28:38 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Scott Spector
MedChem Seminar (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68815 68815-17155484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Pharmacy College
Organized By: Department of Medicinal Chemistry

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:36:22 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:00:00-05:00 Pharmacy College Department of Medicinal Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Pharmacy College
Professor Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, the Robert W. Parry Collegiate Professor of Chemistry and Biophysics, Inaugural Lecture (November 7, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64420 64420-16346365@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

In spite of the recent developments in structural biology, membrane proteins continue to pose tremendous challenges to most biophysical techniques. A major area of research in my group has been focused on the development of NMR techniques to study the dynamic structural interactions between membrane bound proteins that are implicated in the pathology of many diseases. My lecture will focus on the approaches to overcome the major challenges related two such examples. Strategies to study atomic-resolution structure and dynamics of membrane proteins, and the dynamic molecular events enabling the enzymatic function of cytochrome P450 will be presented. Protein misfolding and amyloid aggregation, structures of early amyloid intermediates and mechanisms of amyloid induced membrane disruption related to Alzheimer’s disease and type-2 diabetes will also be discussed.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:11:30 -0400 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Photo
Marina Willer: Design Why? (November 7, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65263 65263-16559493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Marina Willer is a graphic designer and filmmaker responsible for ground-breaking brand identities such as Tate, Serpentine, Oxfam, Amnesty International, and Battersea. Before joining the design studio Pentagram as a partner, she was head creative director for Wolff Olins in London. Willer has constantly expanded her approach to graphic design to include moving image, exhibition, and experiential design. She released her first feature film Red Trees at Cannes in 2017. The film is a personal story of her family’s survival and escape to Brazil during the Nazi occupation of Prague during World War II. Willer is responsible for the design of the Design Museum’s 2018 exhibition, Ferrari: Under the Skin and the museum’s 2019 offering, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition. Willer is the first female partner at Pentagram in London and she won the Hall of Fame award by Design Week in 2018. 

Supported by AIGA Detroit, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES), and Design Core Detroit.

There will be a screening of Red Trees at 7:30 pm, following the talk at the Michigan Theater. Use promo code "WILLER" to purchase tickets online for $6 with no online service fee; this offer is only available online, and not at the door. 

 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:15:10 -0400 2019-11-07T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/willer.jpg
Cognitive Science Community (November 7, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69078 69078-17242639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Join the Cognitive Science Community on Thursday, November 7, at 5:30 p.m. Guest speaker Dr. Mara Bollard will give a talk titled "Is there such a thing as genuinely moral disgust?" The talk will be followed by a Q&A and discussion.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:32 -0500 2019-11-07T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T18:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CogSci Community graphic
Weekly Bible Study - "Paul's Labor for the Church" (November 7, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66646 66646-16770092@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for prayer, worship, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Paul's Labor for the Church from Colossians 1:24-2:7.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:00:24 -0500 2019-11-07T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
U-M Structure Seminar: Ben McIlwain, Ph.D. (November 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66202 66202-16719581@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Associate, Stockbridge Lab

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Sep 2019 13:43:54 -0400 2019-11-08T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
The Department of Materials Science & Engineering presents (November 8, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68880 68880-17188741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 10:30am
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Organized By: Materials Science and Engineering

You are invited to attend this seminar presented by Professor Veerle Keppens, Chair, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This seminar will take place November 8, 10:30 a.m., rm. 1013 H.H. Dow.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:51:15 -0400 2019-11-08T10:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T11:30:00-05:00 Materials Science and Engineering Lecture / Discussion Professor Veerle Keppens
AIM Research (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67296 67296-16831273@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Center for Academic Innovation

Join us on Friday, November 8 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the East Conference Room (4th Floor) at Rackham Graduate School for AIM Research. More details to come. Lunch will be provided. Please register for this event if you plan to attend.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:56:22 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Center for Academic Innovation Lecture / Discussion AIM Research
Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66038 66038-16684586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Greg Landsman, a Cincinnati city council member, will give a talk titled "Beyond School: Where to Focus Collective Action to Support Children in Poverty" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:35:08 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Greg Landsman
BLI Leadership Lunch (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68978 68978-17205321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

The BLI is delighted to host U-M Alums Randi Olin and Francie Arenson Dickman for the BLI's first Leadership Lunch of the semester. Join us for a glimpse behind the curtain into these two writers' leadership journeys. From starting where you are to building a team, Randi and Francie will explore how what they do—and their creative process—interacts with the BLI leadership habits.
Lunch served.

Randi Olin (B.A., Political Science, 1990) is co-founder and executive editor of Motherwell, an award-winning online parenting publication. Before Motherwell, Randi was the Managing Editor at Brain, Child Magazine. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Modern Loss, Brain, Child Magazine, among other publications.

Francie Arenson Dickman is an author, essayist and writing coach. Her personal essays have appeared in publications such as The Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Today Parents, Motherwell Magazine, and Grown and Flown, among others, and have served as material for performances at TEDx Chicago, The MOTH and Listen to Your Mother. Her novel, Chuckerman Makes a Movie, winner of multiple awards, was published by SheWrites Press in 2018. She received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from The George Washington University School of Law. She lives outside of Chicago.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:37:29 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion Leadership Lunch
CSEAS Lecture Series. ‘Why should I keep loving you when I know that you're not true?’ A Cinema of Hiraeth (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68695 68695-17138818@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

In filmmaker Tan Pin Pin’s fixation with the geographical phenomenology of Singapore, one discerns ideas about local relations to space. Tan’s essayistic reflections on landscape are captivated by the unseen effects of rapid urban development, radical transformations necessitated by growth. Sifting through the affective and psychic experiences of accelerated change by way of a postcolonial economic miracle, she tries to find identity through evocative onscreen encounters with visual media, local soundscapes, architecture, and cartography. The films tend to refuse the more common artistic recourse to nostalgia, and defy a critical tendency to circumscribe the island’s national cinema in direct relation to social and political specificity in a traditional sense. Her most recent work casts aside the pretense of national essentialism, to dwell instead on the timeless qualities of non-places. Within these anonymous and alienating “any-space-whatevers,” we come upon the most lucid understanding of what it means to be from somewhere that perhaps, ironically, never was.

Gerald Sim is an associate professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University, the author of The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema (2014), and Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Distinguished Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia. His essay on Malaysian filmmaker Yasmin Ahmad, “Postcolonial Cacophonies,” was recently published in positions: asia critique.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:43:29 -0400 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion event_SIM
Psychology Methods Hours: Methods and Applications of Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback (November 8, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67382 67382-16846418@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 12:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

During this talk, Dr. Martz will provide an overview of real-time fMRI neurofeedback (rtfMRI-nf) and its clinical and research applications. She will also discuss her recently funded K01 grant that will examine developmental and sex differences in volitional control over reward responding using rtfMRI-nf. As a group, discussion will focus on better understanding the methodology of rtfMRI-nf and its potential as a tool to study neural correlates of self-regulation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 11:26:06 -0500 2019-11-08T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion East Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69103 69103-17244693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:02:02 -0500 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) Lecture / Discussion Sarah Khan
Ph.D Defense: James R. Day (November 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68888 68888-17188748@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

Cancer patient survivorship has increased substantially over the past few decades due to advances in anticancer treatments. However, a common deleterious effect of these lifesaving treatments is premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), as they are gonadotoxic. POI leads to infertility and loss of ovarian endocrine function, which is particularly devastating for female cancer survivors who experience POI prior to puberty, as puberty is the most crucial physiological event in a female’s life. Lack of ovarian endocrine function and absence of puberty leads to long-term co-morbidities such as poor bone health, diminished metabolic turnover, impacted cognition, and high risk of cardiovascular events. Current treatment options such as hormone replacement therapy and ovarian auto-transplantation are associated with non-physiological delivery of hormones and risk of re-implanting cancerous cells. This thesis details the work to prove our hypothesis that allo-transplantation of donor ovarian tissue can be utilized to restore ovarian endocrine function without evoking an immune response. We hypothesized the concept of immuno-isolation could be utilized to protect encapsulated allogeneic ovarian tissue in murine and non-human primate models.

First, we developed a dual poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) that was appropriate for both ovarian tissue transplantation and immuno-isolation. The Dual PEG capsule contained a proteolytically degradable core crosslinked via Michael-type addition which was conducive for the dynamic growth of ovarian tissue and a non-degradable PEG shell that would serve as the immuno-protective barrier. We demonstrated in an ovariectomized syngeneic murine model that ovarian tissue encapsulated in Dual PEG survived and functioned until removed 60 days after implantation, which was shown through resumption of cyclicity, restoration of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis, and presence of healthy developed follicles.

Next, we demonstrated the capsule was immuno-isolating as allogeneic ovarian tissue encapsulated in Dual PEG and implanted in recipient mice did not evoke a significant allo-specific antibody response compared to controls and the capsule did not allow cellular infiltration; protecting the encapsulated allograft from the outside immune environment and leading to ovarian endocrine restoration. After we proved that the Dual PEG capsule can prevent cellular infiltration, we demonstrated that the capsule can also retain cells encapsulated within, which can possibly be applied towards ovarian tissue auto-transplantation through retention of cancerous cells present in the graft and preventing cancer spreading and metastasis. We then demonstrated that encapsulation of ovarian allografts in Dual PEG precludes sensitization of the host immune system which proves the capsule is immuno-isolating and the host immune system is not exposed to allo-antigens while the graft is encapsulating, possibly allowing multiple implantations of the capsule.

Lastly, we demonstrate that non-human primate ovarian tissue can survive and develop in the Dual PEG capsule restoring ovarian endocrine function, while being protected from an immune response as indicated by the lack of active, dividing T cells in a syngeneic and allogeneic NHP model. This proves the capsule can withstand the volumetric change present in NHP folliculogenesis, protecting the encapsulated allograft, which promotes graft survival and ovarian endocrine restoration. Taken together, this dissertation works towards allowing the implantation of allogeneic ovarian tissue to restore ovarian endocrine function in a physiological manner without the risk of immune rejection.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:26:48 -0400 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Phondi Discussion Group (November 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 66303-16725832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:57:38 -0400 2019-11-08T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
Logics in Conflict: Campus Sexual Assault in a Time of Legal Uncertainty (November 8, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68560 68560-17096959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

In 2011, the Office for Civil Rights, the Department of Education unit responsible for compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, circulated a “Dear Colleague Letter” (DCL) clarifying that peer sexual assault was sexual harassment and thus negligent responses could place schools in violation of Title IX. The 2011 DCL had major implications for the adjudication of peer sexual violence. Compliance with the DCL required American universities receiving federal funds to change their policies. Most did, a few did not. Among those that did, responses were more heterogenous than might have been expected given that federal funding is at stake. This heterogeneity is also puzzling theoretically, as socio-legal theorists expect organizations to display at least symbolic compliance with legal mandates. We argue that one reason for this puzzling response was that prior to 2011, most universities had policies to address what they referred to as “student sexual misconduct.” Peer-to-peer sexual violence was understood as a form of student misconduct, to be handled by student conduct professionals. While civil rights lawyers had come to understand peer sexual assault as a Title IX issue, this was not obvious to student conduct professionals. Nor were student conduct professionals prepared to cede their turf to civil rights experts. The ensuing collision between civil rights and student conduct logics generated a range of heterogeneous outcomes. Theoretically, we will discuss how organizational change is produced out of processes of organizational bricolage, or hybridization.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:23:44 -0400 2019-11-08T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HistLing Discussion Group (November 8, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64925 64925-16491242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Guest speaker Steve Dworkin will speak on "Latinisms as lexical substitutes in late medieval and early modern Spanish."

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 08:59:34 -0400 2019-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion HistLing graphic
Department Colloquium: Michael Strevens (NYU) (November 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63897 63897-15979783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of Philosophy

You can know a fact while having very little grasp of what it is that you know. You might, for example, know from Wikipedia that pycnogonids are arthropods, without having much idea what a pycnogonid is or what it is to be an arthropod. In a case like that, what is this thing you are missing — "grasp"? Arguably, it is a mind/world relation that matters even more to our understanding of inquiry than representation or knowledge. In this talk, I will survey some possible accounts of grasp, and sketch a theory of my own according to which grasp is rooted in recognitional capacities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 08:57:36 -0400 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of Philosophy Lecture / Discussion 2019-20 Colloquia Series, Grasp, Michael Strevens, New York University
HET Seminars | EDMs and CP-odd nucleon forces (November 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68939 68939-17197041@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will describe two recent papers [in the last stages of preparation]:
1. Paramagnetic EDMs (usually interpreted as electron electric dipole moment)
have seen a lot of experimental progress in the last decade. I evaluate the sensitivity
of electron EDM experiments to hadronic CP-violation, finding an independent limit on
e.g. theta-term at the level of 10^(-8). 2. In the second part of my talk I revisit the question
of CP-odd axion-nucleon vertices, relevant for the searches of the axionic 5th force.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:59:40 -0400 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
SynSem Discussion Group (November 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66692 66692-16770214@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:32:03 -0400 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion SynSem graphic
The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "New face to an old name: Recent fossil discoveries from Woranso-Mille, Afar region, Ethiopia" (November 8, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68429 68429-17080062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Woranso-Mille, a paleoanthropological site located in the Afar region of Ethiopia, has become one of the most important sites to understand the evolutionary history of early hominins during the mid-Pliocene. The geological sequence at this site (~150 meter-thick) samples almost one and a half million years, between >4.3 and <3.0 million years ago (Ma). It is the only site thus far that has provided incontrovertible fossil evidence showing that there were multiple related hominin species co-existing in close geographic proximity during the mid-Pliocene (3.5 – 3.3 Ma). Recently, a 3.8-million-year-old almost complete hominin cranium was discovered at the site and it was assigned to A. anamensis - the earliest known species of the genus Australopithecus – dated to 4.2 – 3.9 Ma. In addition to revealing the face of A. anamensis for the first time, the new cranium also challenged the long-held hypothesis of anagenetic transition from A. anamensis to Lucy’s species, A. afarensis, and added about 100kyr to the younger end of A. anamensis."

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:45:00 -0400 2019-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 West Hall Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67243 67243-16829004@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 10:40:55 -0400 2019-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
The Vietnam War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters (November 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67982 67982-16977571@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

Keith W. Taylor, Cornell University
“Fashionable Myths and Unacknowledged Lessons”

Americans continue to remember the Vietnam War according to Hanoi wartime propaganda recycled via the anti-war movement into textbooks, documentaries, and talking heads. This has contributed to long-term effects of the war on domestic politics, foreign policy, and narratives of American history during the past half century. Does recent scholarship about the war allow a fresh perspective?

Olga Dror, Texas A&M University
“Civilians and Memories of Massacre.”

Communist forces massacred approximately 3,000 civilians in Hue City during the 1968 Tet Offensive. How and why did this happen, and why is it important for Americans to remember massacres committed by US troops but to ignore massacres committed by enemy forces? Memories of civilian massacres continue to influence history and politics in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora.

Biographies

Keith W. Taylor, a veteran of the Vietnam War, received his PhD in Vietnamese history at the University of Michigan in 1976. He subsequently taught at universities in Japan and Singapore and has conducted extensive research in Vietnam. For the past thirty years he has been Professor of Sino-Vietnamese Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. He regularly teaches a course about the Vietnam War and has published many articles and books about Vietnamese history and literature, including A History of the Vietnamese (Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Educated in Russia, Israel, and the United States, Olga Dror is currently an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University and Fellow at the National Humanities center (2019-2020). She has authored, translated, and co-edited five books and numerous articles on topics from theistic to political religions to Vietnamese non-combatants’ experiences during the War. Her most recent monograph Making Two Vietnams: War and Youth Identities, 1965-1975 was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Ho Chi Minh’s Cult in Vietnamese Statehood.

Presented by the Department of History, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, and Michigan War Studies Group.

Free and open to the public. Veterans are welcome to attend.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:50:37 -0400 2019-11-08T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-08T17:00:00-05:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Lecture / Discussion Olga Dror (left) and Keith W. Taylor
Practice Session No. 9 Lecture: Nader Tehrani and Arthur Chang (November 8, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69208 69208-17267183@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 8, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Nader Tehrani is the Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union in New York. Tehrani is also Principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. He was previously a professor of architecture at MIT, where he served as Head of the Department from 2010-2014. Tehrani’s work has been recognized with notable awards, including the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture (2007), the United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture and Design, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. He has also received the Harleston Parker Award for the Northeastern University Multi-faith Spiritual Center and the Hobson Award for the Georgia Institute of Technology Hinman Research Building. Throughout his career, Tehrani has received eighteen Progressive Architecture Awards as well as numerous AIA, BSA and ID awards. Over the past six years, NADAAA has consistently ranked as a top design firm in Architect Magazine's Top 50 U.S. Firms List. He served as the Frank O. Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto and the inaugural Paul Helmle Fellow at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He also recently served as the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.

Arthur Chang is a Principal at NADAA. In Arthur Chang’s 15 years of professional practice he has acted as Designer and Project Manager of a variety of institutional, commercial, public and residential projects. Arthur has served as design lead on numerous award-winning projects. Arthur recently completed the Melbourne School of Design, a $98M project and winner of over a dozen international awards. Arthur is currently designing a new subway head-house for the MBTA in Boston’s Seaport District. He is also leading construction administration for a residence hall for the Rhode Island School of Design.

Practice Sessions is part of the University of Michigan’s Third Century Initiative which funds experimental pedagogies in a bid to change how teaching and learning happen within the bounds of the institution. Over a five-year period, ten architectural practices will be invited to Taubman College to run a practice session.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 11:57:48 -0500 2019-11-08T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-08T20:00:00-05:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion NADER TEHRANI WITH ARTHUR CHANG
Literati Bookstore Presents: Andre Aciman (November 9, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68652 68652-17130519@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 9, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement

Literati Bookstore is excited to welcome bestselling author André Aciman to Rackham Auditorium on the campus of the University of Michigan in support of the follow-up to Call Me By Your Name, Find Me. The program will feature a conversation with writer Zahir Janmohamed and an audience Q&A. A book signing will follow. Ticketed, but free student tickets are available.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:59:46 -0400 2019-11-09T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-09T20:15:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Major Events - Center for Campus Involvement Lecture / Discussion Books
In Conversation: Copying and Creativity in Human and Machine Learning (November 10, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65026 65026-16503317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, UMMA's exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. But what is the connection between copying and invention? How does the practice of copying an artist’s work increase a drawing student’s own creativity? How do computers look at works of art to learn how to emulate a particular artist’s style? Consider these questions along with Raj Rao Nadakuditi, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computers and expert in machine learning and signal processing; Jeff Evans, Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical School, Lecturer in the Residential College, and scholar of the psychology of creativity; and Natsu Oyobe, UMMA Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 09 Nov 2019 18:16:53 -0500 2019-11-10T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T15:45:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
In Conversation: Copying and Creativity in Human and Machine Learning (November 10, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65733 65733-16631992@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 10, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Through works of art spanning ancient to contemporary times, UMMA's exhibition Copies and Invention in East Asia challenges our understanding of originality, and presents copying as an act of imaginative interpretation. But what is the connection between copying and invention? How does the practice of copying an artist’s work increase a drawing student’s own creativity? How do computers look at works of art to learn how to emulate a particular artist’s style? Consider these questions along with Raj Rao Nadakuditi, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computers and expert in machine learning and signal processing; Jeff Evans, Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical School, Lecturer in the Residential College, and scholar of the psychology of creativity; and Natsu Oyobe, UMMA Curator of Asian Art.

Lead support is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, School of Information, and College of Engineering. Additional generous support is provided by the University of Michigan Fabrication Studio at the Duderstadt Center, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and SeeMeCNC 3D Printers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18:08 -0400 2019-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-10T16:45:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Mindfullness-based Dementia Care (November 11, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64758 64758-16444915@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

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

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:03:34 -0400 2019-11-11T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
A History of Boarding Schools (November 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68862 68862-17165971@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Heather Bruegl, a member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, is a graduate of Madonna University in Michigan and holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in U.S. History. Inspired by a trip to Wounded Knee, South Dakota, a passion for Native American History was born.

A History of Boarding Schools: In the 1800's assimilation was the government’s policy to work Native Americans into mainstream society. One of the ways was taking Native children from their homes and sending them to boarding schools. "Save the man, Kill the Indian" was the motto that was used by these schools as they stripped Native children of their language, culture and identity.  Learn how the schools operated and what we did to help overcome the abuse.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:05:45 -0400 2019-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T13:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Heather Bruegl
EVENT CANCELLED [CMENAS Colloquium Series. Trafficking Cuneiform: Valuing the Past over the Present?] (November 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67742 67742-16926553@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER-RELATED CIRCUMSTANCES


The 2019 CMENAS Colloquium Series theme is “Migration in the Islamicate World.”
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Since the 1991 Gulf War, artifacts looted from archaeological sites and museums in Iraq have been sold openly on the international market. Most in-demand have been cuneiform-inscribed objects – the material texts of Iraqi prehistory. Many thousands of these cuneiform objects have entered private collections in North America, Europe and beyond, where their texts are being studied and published by university-based scholars. These scholars have identified texts from what were previously unknown and presently unlocated sites – from intact archives now broken up and dispersed on the market. Ethical challenges to the scholarly reception of trafficked cuneiform objects are deflected with what can be construed as orientalist arguments of rescue, preservation, and scholarship. While ‘western’ scholarship has certainly benefited from this unexpected windfall of ‘recently appeared’ texts, the damage suffered by Iraqi archaeological heritage and the associated loss to Iraqi intellectual and cultural life remain to be assessed. This talk will offer an up-to-date assessment of the situation and engage with the cultural, legal and ethical issues raised by this large-scale movement of cuneiform objects out of Iraq.

Neil Brodie is Senior Research Fellow on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project at the University of Oxford’s School of Archaeology. He has published widely on issues concerning the market in trafficked cultural objects, with more than fifty papers and book chapters devoted to the subject. Most recently he has co-authored Trafficking Culture: New Directions in Researching the Global Market in Illicit Antiquities (2019, Routledge). Since 2017, he has been working with the Lebanese NGO Biladi and officials from the Iraqi Ministry of Culture towards recovering looted and trafficked objects.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 10:18:22 -0500 2019-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T15:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Veterans Week - The USS Liberty Incident: Lecture and Discussion (November 11, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68361 68361-17069180@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli Air Force jet fighter aircraft and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats, on 8 June 1967, during the Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two marines, and one civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. Here from a survivor of that attack and efforts to have a full investigation and recognition of the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:38:17 -0400 2019-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T15:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Damage to USS Liberty
Conversation on National Security, Service, and Policy (November 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68562 68562-17096962@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Please join the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy for a conversation with LTG James Clapper (USAF, ret.), LTG Michael Nagata (USA, ret.), and Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on national security, service, and policy. This wide-ranging discussion in honor of Veterans Day will cover current national security issues, as well as the importance of public service. The conversation will be moderated by Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali.

This event is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

This event will be live streamed. Please check back to the event page just before the event for viewing details.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:50:14 -0500 2019-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion National Security, Service, and Policy
RNA Innovation Seminar, Bruce Sullenger, Duke School of Medicine (November 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65141 65141-16539451@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Bruce A. Sullenger, Ph.D.
Joseph and Dorothy Beard Professor
Department of Surgery
Professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology
Duke University Medical Center

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:30:39 -0400 2019-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion flyer
STS Speaker. We Are All Well - A Partial History of Public Information Infrastructures after Disasters (November 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66685 66685-16770200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

When an earthquake happens in California today, residents may look to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) for online maps that show the quake's epicenter, turn to Twitter for government bulletins and the latest news, check Facebook for updates fromfriends and family, and hope to count on help from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This information order articulates a particular epistemic experience of earthquake for some Americans.

In this talk, I discuss how people produce and circulate information in earthquake publics using a comparative historical lens. I analyze the institutions, policies, and technologies that shape today's post-disaster information landscape, paying close attention to not only the circulationof knowledge, but also to the production of ignorance.

Bio: Megan Finn is the author of Documenting Aftermath (2018) with MIT Press. She teaches information policy and ethics at University of Washington's School of Information where she is an assistant professor. Megan is a faculty member of the DataLab at the Information School, and at the eScience Institute where, as a part of the data science studies group, she convenes a talk series called Data Then and Now. She is currently working on an NSF-sponsored project on ethical practices in computer security research.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:04:35 -0400 2019-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 North Quad Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion North Quad
IOE 813 Seminar: Lavanya Marla, PhD (November 11, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69237 69237-17269241@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL)
Organized By: U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering

We present an efficient data-driven computational solution and bounding approach for static allocation of an ambulance fleet and its dynamic redeployment, where the goal is to position (or re-position) ambulances to bases to maximize the system's service level. Central to our approach is a discrete-event simulator to evaluate the impact of ambulance deployments to logs of emergency requests. We first model ambulance allocation as an approximately-submodular-maximization problem, and devise a simple and efficient greedy algorithm that produces both static allocations and dynamic repositioning policies. In parallel, we find data-driven information-relaxation bounds for both static and dynamic cases. We build even tighter information-relaxation bounds by penalizing the previous relaxations. Our approach allows the computation of tight bounds without incurring the curse of dimensionality common to such approaches. Our bounding methods help inform policymakers about the viability of proposed fleet sizes and policies being adopted by the contracted EMS agencies. Our computational experiments on an Asian city's EMS demonstrate the tractability and efficiency of our greedy algorithm and our bounding methods.

The first part of this work is with Ramayya Krishnan and Yisong Yue, and the latter part with Achal Bassamboo.

Lavanya Marla is an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to her current position, she was a Systems Scientist with the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University; and earned her PhD in Transportation Systems from MIT and Bachelors degree from IIT Madras. Her research interests are in robust and dynamic decision-making under uncertainty and game theoretic analysis for large-scale transportation and logistics systems; combining tools from data-driven optimization, statistics, simulation and machine learning. Her research is funded by an integrative National Science Foundation grant, a Department of Homeland Security cyber-security grant, the Department of Transportation, the US-India Educational Foundation, the INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society and aviation companies. Her work has received an Honorable mention for the Anna Valicek award from AGIFORS, a best presentation award from AGIFORS, a KDD Startup Research award, and a Top-10 cited paper recognition from Transportation Research – Part A.

1123 LBME is room 1123 in the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (LBME). The street address is 1101 Beal Avenue. A map and directions are available at: https://bme.umich.edu/about/maps-directions/.

This seminar series is presented by the U-M Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS): Our mission is to improve the safety and quality of healthcare delivery through a multi-disciplinary, systems-engineering approach.

For additional information and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please contact genehkim@umich.edu.

Photographs and video taken at this event may be used to promote CHEPS, College of Engineering, and the University.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:23:33 -0500 2019-11-11T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering (formerly ATL) U-M Industrial & Operations Engineering Lecture / Discussion Lavanya Marla, PhD
Michigan Radio 'Same Same Different' Podcast Listening Event (November 11, 2019 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68014 68014-16983968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 5:00pm
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

The Trotter Multicultural Center is proud to be a partner and sponsor to the upcoming Michigan Radio podcast called 'Same Same Different'.

The Trotter Multicultural Center is hosting a student-centered Listening Event with the Michigan Radio team. Launching on October 7th, this five-part podcast series will explore questions such as “who are you to tell me that I’m an OTHER anyway?” It is being produced to not only offer skills for surviving “otherness” but also it will provide tools to be a better human. The series highlights voices from marginalized and misunderstood communities, including LGBTQ, African-American, Muslim, evangelical Christian, Latinx, people with disabilities, and the body-positive community.

Food will be provided. RSVP here: https://myumi.ch/51Arp

We look forward to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 11:21:49 -0400 2019-11-11T17:00:00-05:00 2019-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Trotter Multicultural Center Trotter Multicultural Center Lecture / Discussion Same Same Different Podcast logo
Annual Copernicus Lecture. Working Around, Against, and Without: An Artist’s Excursion on Shifting Political Ground (November 11, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65641 65641-16627844@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 11, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

After the fall of communism, Eastern Europeans enjoyed a deep sense of freedom and engagement, convinced that profound social and political change was underway. In 1990s Poland, boundary-pushing artists like Artur Żmijewski played an active role in shaping the new reality. As time progressed, however, the promise of transformative change was revealed to be illusory, and the communists' dominant style of politics persisted. Art became a target for political attacks because of its critical stance toward the Catholic Church and “wild” capitalism.

How should artists react in this increasingly authoritarian situation? Resist? Adapt? Or perhaps create a sort of hybrid position? In this lecture, Żmijewski will discuss the relationship between his art and political engagement in the context of the past thirty years.

Artur Żmijewski was born in Warsaw in 1966. He graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts under the supervision of Professor Grzegorz Kowalski. A multimedia artist, he uses primarily photography and film to explore the line between fiction and documentary. Żmijewski is also an accomplished curator and art critic. He is one of the founding members of the art journal "Czereja," serves as the artistic editor of "Krytyka Polityczna," and directed the 7th Berlin Biennale. In 1995, Żmijewski was a fellow at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam; he received the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte Prize for his work "An Eye for an Eye." In 2005, his “Repetition” was shown in the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and two years later his film *Them* was screened at Documenta in Kassel. Żmijewski also participated in the 14th edition of Documenta, presenting his films *Glimpse* and *Realism*. From 2007-2008, he was a DAAD Artist in Residence in Berlin where he prepared his project “Democracies.” In 2010 he received the Ordway Prize from the New Museum in New York and Creative Link for the Arts. Żmijewski's films can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Neue Pinakothek in Munich, the Tate Modern in London, the Rubell Family Foundation in Miami, Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Erste Bank Collection in Vienna, and the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:51:36 -0400 2019-11-11T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Artur Żmijewski
Hypoxia and Mitochondrial Disease: Can Two Wrongs Make a Right?- George William Jourdian Lectureship in Biological Chemistry (November 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68289 68289-17043839@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Medical Science Unit II
Organized By: Biological Chemistry

Dr. Vamsi Mootha, Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, will present the 3rd Annual George William Jourdian Lectureship in Biological Chemistry On Tuesday November 12th, 2019 at 12 noon in North Lecture Hall, MS II

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:37:52 -0400 2019-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Medical Science Unit II Biological Chemistry Lecture / Discussion Mootha
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Liu Liangmo (刘良模1909-1988) —Transpacific Mass Singing, Journalism, and Christian Activism (November 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63874 63874-15955827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Professor Gao’s talk lifts out of the dustbin of history the life and career of Liu Liangmo, a talented musician, prolific journalist, and Christian activist. Liu agilely navigated slippery trans-Pacific political and ideological landscapes throughout the World War II and Cold War. After “coaxing the Chinese (civilians and soldiers) into mass signing” and helping to invent the new genre “songs of resistance” to promote national morale and unified resistance against Japan, Liu sojourned to the United States. There, despite close surveillance by the FBI, he formed an unusual alliance with African Americans by contributing a weekly column to the biggest black newspaper “Pittsburgh Courier” and cooperating with Paul Robeson, the world famous singer and actor, in popularizing Chinese songs of resistance. Robeson and Liu brought the future national anthem of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) into global circulation. Meanwhile, Liu traveled more than 100,000 miles to speak and sing about China to grassroots white Americans on behalf of the United China Relief. Later, as a top official representing Protestant denominations in the PRC, Liu helped to bring Christianity into line with the new regime, served China as its authoritative interpreter of the United States, and facilitated the alliance between the PRC and such African American cultural giants as W.E.B Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, and Paul Robeson.

Yunxiang Gao is Associate Professor of History at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her current research focuses primarily on trans-Pacific cultural history in World War II. Professor Gao’s book, “Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-1945,” appeared in 2013 with the University of British Columbia Press. She has published articles in “The Du Bois Review,” “Gender and History,” “The Journal of American East-Asian Relations,” “Modern Chinese Literature and Culture,” and “Sport in Society.” Several of her articles have been translated into Chinese. Currently, Professor Gao is finishing two books: One is entitled "Arise, Africa! Roar, China!: Sino-African-American Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century." It focuses on the cultural network of Chinese and African Americans, including W.E.B Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, actress Wang Yung, founder of mass singing Liu Liangmo, and modern dancer Sylvia Si-lan Chen; The other one is a biography tentatively entitled “Soo Yong (1903-1984): A Hollywood Actress and Cosmopolitan of the Asian Diasporas.”

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:35:50 -0400 2019-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yunxiang Gao, Associate Professor of History, Ryerson University
DAAS Africa Workshop with Khalid Medani (McGill University) (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68656 68656-17130524@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Biography:
Khalid Mustafa Medani
Chair, African Studies Program
Graduate Program Director, Islamic Studies Institute
Associate Professor
Political Science Department and the Islamic Studies Institute

Education
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
MA, Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1995
MA, Development Studies, Georgetown University, 1990
BA, Brown University, 1987

Teaching and research interests
African Politics, Islam and Politics, Informal Economies, Middle East Politics, Ethnic and Civil Conflict, Comparative Politics, Political Economy of Development.

Representative publications
"State Building in Reverse: The Neo-Liberal "Reconstructio" of Iraq", Middle East Report, Summer 2004.

"Financing Terrorism or Survival? Informal Finance, State Collapse and the US War on Terrorism", Middle East Report, 2002.

"The Political Economy of an Islamist State: Sudan", Political Islam, Joel Beinin and Joe Stork, eds. (University of California Press, 1997).

"Identity in Sudan’s Foreign Policy (with Francis M. Deng)", Africa in the New International Order, eds. Edmond J. Keller and Donald Rothchild (Lynn Reiner Press, 1996).

"Sudan’s Human and Political Crisis", Current History, May, 1993.

"Funding Fundamentalism: Sudan", Review of African Political Economy, September-October, 1991.

Selected Conference Papers
“Informal Economies, Identities and Islamic Extremism,” Sociology Lecture Series, Yale University, March 31, 2005.

“The Political Economy of Religious Fundamentalism: A Comparative Perspective,’ Paper delivered at the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 3, 2004.

“Globalization and Islamic Militancy: Giving some context to the attacks of 9/11,” paper delivered at the 45th Annual International Studies Convention. “Hegemony and its Discontents,” Montreal, March 17-20, 2004.

“Informal Markets and the Changing Face of Political Islam: the View from Cairo,” paper delivered at the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2-5, 2003.

“US Policy in Iraq: Prospects and Perils,” Paper delivered to the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISC), Stanford University, May 2003.

“Globalization, State Building and Collective Action: The Politic Economy of Remittance Inflows and Identity Politics in Northwest and Northeast Somalia,” Annual Conference of the Joint Berkeley-Stanford Conference on African Studies, April, 2001

Current Book Project
Globalization, Informal Markets and Collective Action: The Development of Islamic and Ethnic Politics in Egypt, Sudan and Somalia

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:36:30 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Genomic insights into human cortical development (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68647 68647-17130514@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

2019-2020 Center for Organogenesis Seminar Series
Faculty Host(s): Jack Parent, Ken Kwan, Shigeki Iwase
For additional info contact: organogenesis@umich.edu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:35:14 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Kriegstein Flyer
Jews, Genetics and the Search for Lost Ancestors (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64975 64975-16499249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Genetic breakthroughs have created a newly scientific way to reveal one's distant ancestors, and spawned a multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry in the process. What does such research reveal about the origin of the Jews? Can it trace their ancestry all the way back to the biblical past? This presentation will survey recent efforts to use genetics to illumine the ancestry of the Jews, weighing its insights against the criticisms and fears of skeptics.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:39:28 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Blake_Jacobs_Ladder
Unruly Figures, Vernacular Idioms: Politics of Sexuality in India (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68964 68964-17203245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Center for South Asian Studies

This talk reflects on the key interventions of Navaneetha Mokkil’s recently published book Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala. Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures are produced in the public imagination and how these figures are accessed and deployed by marginalized sexual subjects, primarily the sex worker and the lesbian, as they stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization. She argues that such intermedial and intertextual cultural traffic is the basis of a vernacular politics of sexuality.

By assembling and analyzing a Malayalam language archive, Mokkil demonstrates how vernacular formations of the politics of sexuality cannot be contained within scripts of visibility, rights, and recognition. Her explorations captures the need to revise politics in favor not of a set path but of one that holds within it different possibilities. Mourning and loss, failure, and rewriting are integral to such itinerant political topographies. This talk explores how we have to tactically reinvent categories of analysis so that we can engage with the unstable horizons of the
political.

Navaneetha Mokkil is an Assistant Professor at Center for Women’s Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her areas of research and teaching include feminist politics in India, print and visual culture, and public formations of sexuality. She completed her PhD in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan in 2010. She is the author of Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala (2019, Seattle: University of Washington Press) and co- editor of Thinking Women: A Feminist Reader (2019, Kolkata: Stree Samya Publishers).

The events are generously sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies; the Colonialism, Race, and Sexualities Initiative (CSRI) of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender; the Department of English Language & Literature; and, the Department of Women's Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 07 Nov 2019 09:52:34 -0500 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Center for South Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Unruly Figures, Vernacular Idioms: Politics of Sexuality in India
WCED Panel. Authoritarian Crisis and Adaptation (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65984 65984-16678387@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Presenters: Andrea Kendall-Taylor, senior fellow and director of the Transatlantic Security Program, Center for a New American Security; Anne Pitcher, professor of political science and professor of Afroamerican and African studies, U-M; Victor Shih, Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations and associate professor of political economy, University of California San Diego.

Most analyses of authoritarian regimes focus on what makes these regimes either durable or vulnerable to collapse. This roundtable shifts our focus to how authoritarian regimes adapt and confront crises arising from forces that are largely beyond their control: e.g. external sanctions, urbanization, financial downturns, and rapid technological change.

Dan Slater is the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of Emerging Democracies, professor of political science, and WCED Director at the University of Michigan. He specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus on Southeast Asia. His research interests include comparative politics, international relations, world politics, and methodology.

Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security challenges facing the United States and Europe, focusing on Russia, populism and threats to democracy, and the state of the Transatlantic alliance. Prior to joining CNAS, Andrea served for eight years as a senior intelligence officer. From 2015 to 2018, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Prior to joining the NIC, Andrea was a senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where she worked on Russia and Eurasia, the political dynamics of autocracies, and democratic decline. Andrea is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her work has been published in numerous political science and policy journals, including the Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Journal of Democracy, Foreign Affairs, the Washington Post, the Washington Quarterly, and Foreign Policy. Andrea received her B.A. in politics from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. She was a Fulbright scholar in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, where she conducted dissertation research on oil and autocracy.

Victor C. Shih is Ho Miu Lam Chair Professor in China and Pacific Relations at the University of California at San Diego specializing in China. He is the author of a book published by the Cambridge University Press entitled “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.” It is the first book to inquire the linkages between elite politics and banking policies in China. His second book, “Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability,” will be published by the University of Michigan Press. He is further the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and business journals, including The American Political Science Review, The China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, The Wall Street Journal and The China Business Review, and frequent adviser to the financial community. Dr. Shih holds a B.A. from the George Washington University and a doctorate in Government from Harvard University. He also was a former principal at the Carlyle Group in the global market group.

Anne Pitcher is a Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She studies the comparative politics of developing countries, especially those in Africa. Her current research examines party politics, urban political economy, state-business relations, and goods provision under authoritarian and democratic conditions. She has conducted fieldwork, survey and archival research in Angola, Mozambique, Kenya, Zambia, and South Africa and has published several books and dozens of articles in scholarly journals. She recently received a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study election related violence in Africa. She formerly served as President of the African Studies Association.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:55:27 -0500 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Authoritarian Crisis and Adaptation
Bioethics Discussion: Body/Politics (November 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/52721 52721-12974153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on government.

Readings to consider:
1. Bioethics as Politics
2. ‘Fat Ethics’: The Obesity Discourse and Body Politics
3. HB 481
4. A Man, Burning: Communicative Suffering and the Ethics of Images

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings contact Barry Belmont at belmont@umich.edu or visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/035-body-politics/.

Be it resolved that the policy of this group is to read the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Aug 2019 10:52:51 -0400 2019-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Body/politics
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat (November 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68844 68844-17163795@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Former Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin takes us to the front lines of a global but little understood fight as the Justice Department and the FBI chases down hackers, online terrorist recruiters, and spies. Today, as our entire economy goes digital, from banking to manufacturing to transportation, the potential targets for our enemies multiply.

This firsthand account is both a remarkable untold story and a warning of dangers yet to come. Books will be available for purchase and signing after the event.

Free Admission. Open Seating. Free Parking.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:50:31 -0400 2019-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T21:00:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Lecture / Discussion John Carlin and Dawn of the Code War
CDB Seminar: Defining the role of ER-associated degradation in health and disease (November 13, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68707 68707-17138827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 9:30am
Location: Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building
Organized By: Cell & Developmental Biology

2019 Cell & Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hosted By: Qing Li, MD

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:56:34 -0400 2019-11-13T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T10:30:00-05:00 Taubman Biomedical Science Research Building Cell & Developmental Biology Lecture / Discussion CDB Seminar - Qi
Veterans Week - Global War on Terrorism Veteran Panel (November 13, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/57207 57207-17071644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

9/11, New York and Washington D.C.,  Iraq,  Afghanistan, Syria, Africa ...  These major events and deployments continue to shape the modern military and those who serve in it,  Soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and coast guard members are stationed on every contentment and every sea to protect the homeland from attack and to help defend America's allies.  We have been on a wartime footing for 17 years, longer than any other time in our nations history.  Come and hear from those who served during this time.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:40:51 -0400 2019-11-13T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T12:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion US Military on patrol
HET Brown Bag Seminars | "Fundamental Physics with Supernovae and Superconductors" (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68809 68809-17155478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Randall Laboratory
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

In the first part of this talk I will describe how type 1a supernovae (SN) can be used to constrain the interactions of heavy dark matter (DM), which may heat a white dwarf (WD) sufficient to trigger runaway fusion and ignite a SN. Based on the existence of long-lived WDs and the observed supernovae rate, we constrain ultra-heavy DM candidates that produce high energy SM particles in a WD. This rules out supersymmetric Q-ball DM in parameter space complementary to terrestrial bounds. We also constrain DM which is captured by WDs and forms a self-gravitating DM core. Such a core may form a black hole that ignites a SN via Hawking radiation, or which causes ignition via a burst of annihilation during gravitational collapse. It is intriguing that these DM-induced ignition scenarios provide an alternative mechanism of triggering SN from sub-Chandrasekhar mass progenitors. In the second part of the talk, I will present a new technique which utilizes superconducting RF cavities to significantly improve the sensitivity of "light shinning through walls" searches for axion-like particles (ALPs). Our design uses a gapped toroid to confine the static magnetic field responsible for axion-photon conversion, and thereby prevent quenching of the superconducting cavities . Such a search has the potential to probe axion-photon couplings to g ~ 2 x 10^-11 GeV^-1, comparable to future optical and solar searches.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:45:58 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Randall Laboratory Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion Randall Laboratory
Veterans Week - VA Eligibility and Supportive Services (November 13, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/57165 57165-14121968@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Come and learn about the different services available to veterans through the VA healthcare system, what criteria are used to assess their needs how they can best access care. Eligibility, services, case management and crisis intervention programs will be discussed by AAVAMC Healthcare support staff. Current research studies will also be reviewed.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 10:41:41 -0400 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Mental Health Cart
Can machine generated works enjoy copyright protection in the EU? (November 13, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68405 68405-17077947@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Can machine generated works enjoy copyright protection in the EU? We have invited Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič, to talk to us about how this issue regarding the copyright of machine created works is treated in different EU regimes.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:36:43 -0500 2019-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Copyright
Veterans Week - Suicide Prevention in Veteran and Military Service Members (November 13, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68516 68516-17094817@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The rate of suicide was 2.2 times higher among female veterans than their civilian counterparts. The suicide rate is 1.3 times higher among male veterans than their civilian counterparts. The suicide rate is highest for those between the ages of 18-35 and those over 55. An estimated 22 veterans kill themselves every day.

With those alarming and disturbing statistics in mind, come and learn what the Ann Arbor VA is doing to lower the rate of suicide attempts and suicides among the veterans that it sees. Also we will discuss steps the Ann Arbor VA is taking to reach more veterans and military families that are in critical need of mental health care to try to reduce the risk of suicide.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:41:42 -0400 2019-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Veterans Crisis Line
EER Seminar Series (November 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68977 68977-17205320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

As the data tsunami washed over everything including college campuses, universities invested heavily in data management systems and then layered on services to create the highly digitally-engineered environments in which we work today. Within that context, I’ll review the seeding and ongoing nurturing of two U-M services (Atlas and Problem Roulette) that share common themes of access and transparency. As examples of research enabled by these services, I’ll present evidence showing that: (i) on average, females study more for less reward in STEM subjects than male students, and (ii) increased selectivity, as measured by ACT/SAT scores, is a minor factor driving undergraduate grades upward. The talk will close by inviting your thoughts and discussion on potential future directions for these and similar services.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Prof. August E. (Gus) Evrard is a first-generation computational cosmologist and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy at U-M. Author of the first algorithm to enable multi-fluid simulation of galaxy and large-scale cosmic structure formation, Prof. Evrard's research is focused on understanding the population of clusters of galaxies, the rarest and largest gravitationally bound systems in the universe. Named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2012, his research is documented in over 200 refereed papers with 22,000 total citations. Within the Office of Academic Innovation he leads two separate projects, one offering visual summaries of Michigan's recent academic landscape (Atlas) and another providing “points-free” study support using local exam content (Problem Roulette). Both are used by thousands of students each year at U-M.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:52:04 -0400 2019-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:20:00-05:00 Lurie Robert H. Engin. Ctr Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion August Evrard
MIPSE Seminar | Substorms, Dipolarization, and Particle Acceleration in the Magnetosphere (November 13, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65976 65976-16678379@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)

Abstract:
Magnetosphere plasma dynamics continue to challenge our understanding of energy release in the near-earth environment. Magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD), particle-in-Cell (PIC), and test particle simulations are used to describe the dynamic evolution of the magnetotail, associated with substorms (energy releases from the magnetotail) and other dipolarization events. Simulations show the formation of thin current sheets embedded in the wider plasma sheet due to solar wind interactions. PIC then demonstrates the onset of tearing instabilities and magnetic reconnection, causing fast plasma flows and dipolarization. These phenomena are then followed by MHD simulations which form the basis of test particle simulations, which pro-vide details on acceleration mechanisms, and phase space distributions. Results compare favorably with THEMIS and MMS observations.

About the Speaker:
Joachim Birn received his PhD. in 1973 at the Technical Univ. Berlin studying the Stability of the Planetary System. From 1973-82 he was at Ruhr-University Bochum working on equilibrium modeling and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the Earth’s magnetotail. In 1980 he was a visitor at Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), where he extended his 2D MHD code to 3D, simulating substorm dynamics of the magnetotail. From 1982 to 2012 he was at LANL continuing his simulation work, working on satellite data interpretation and studying acceleration of ions and electrons in magnetospheric substorms. Since 2012 he is a Senior Research Scientist at the Space Science Institute in Boulder. Birn’s research experience includes 3D equilibrium theory, development of 3D MHD codes with applications to magnetotail and solar corona dynamics; and MHD stability theory on which he has published 260 refereed papers. Birn is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and LANL Fellow.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:35:07 -0400 2019-11-13T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T16:30:00-05:00 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE) Lecture / Discussion Joachim Birn
Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics Seminar (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68641 68641-17128443@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: DCMB Seminar Series

Talk Title: Reproducibility with high-dimensional data

Abstract: With the expanding generation of large-scale biological datasets, there has been an ever-greater concern in understanding the reproducibility of discoveries and findings in a statistically reliable manner. We review several concepts in reproducibility and describe how one can adopt a multiple testing perspective on the problem. This leads to an intuitive procedure for assessing reproducibility. We demonstrate application of the methodology using RNA-sequencing data as well as metabolomics datasets. We will also outline some further problems in the field.

This is joint work with Daisy Philtron, Yafei Lyu and Qunhua Li (Penn State) and Tusharkanti Ghosh, Weiming Zhang and Katerina Kechris (University of Colorado).

DCMB Faculty Host: Alla Karnovsky, PhD

3:45 p.m. - Light Refreshments
4:00 p.m. - Lecture

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:05:22 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons DCMB Seminar Series Lecture / Discussion
Medical Ethics on the Border: A Look at Immigration Detention (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68151 68151-17018323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: University Hospitals
Organized By: Eisenberg Family Depression Center

The community is invited to join the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry for the 24th Annual Waggoner Lecture on Ethics & Values in Medicine. The title of this year’s talk is “Medical Ethics on the Border: A Look at Immigration Detention.” The talk will be presented by Pamela K. McPherson, M.D., FAPAon Wednesday, November 13 from 4:00 – 5:30 p.m. in Ford Auditorium at University Hospital.

Pamela K. McPherson, M.D., FAPA is a medical doctor triple-boarded in general, child and adolescent, and forensic psychiatry. She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Shreveport Behavioral Health Clinic, a gratis assistant professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport, and a mental health subject matter expert for the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security. Dr. McPherson focuses her research on the mental health of justice-involved youth as well as conditions of juvenile confinement, and consults for the U.S. government and non-profits on mental health services for justice-involved youth.

In 2018, she and colleague Dr. Scott A. Allen exposed the serious health risks to children who are separated from their parents and detained as part of the U.S. administration’s zero tolerance policy at the southern border. Learn more about their work from this CNN article published in May: These doctors risked their careers to expose the dangers children face in immigrant family detention.

“We are delighted to welcome Dr. McPherson to our campus in November for this esteemed lectureship,” said Debra A. Pinals, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry and director of the Program in Psychiatry, Law and Ethics at U-M and chair of the Waggoner Lectureship Committee. “Dr. McPherson has incredible insight into the conditions of immigrants entering the United States. She could not be better suited to address our campus for this lecture devoted to medical ethics and values in medicine.”

The University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry established the Raymond W. Waggoner Lectureship on Ethics and Values in Medicine in 1996. This lectureship was created in honor of the late Dr. Waggoner, emeritus professor and past chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, who throughout his career and to all who knew him, exemplified the highest standards of integrity and ethics.

The lectureship is an annual event to recognize Dr. Waggoner’s enormous contributions to the Michigan Medicine medical center and to the profession, and to promulgate his interest in medical ethics.

For more information, please contact:

Debra A. Pinals, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry

dpinals@med.umich.edu

or

Sandra Bigler

Administrative Assistant Senior to Debra A. Pinals, M.D.

sabigler@med.umich.edu

734-647-8762

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Oct 2019 10:52:52 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 University Hospitals Eisenberg Family Depression Center Lecture / Discussion 2019 Waggoner Lecture
Professor Valerie Kivelson, the Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor of History, Inaugural Lecture (November 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64421 64421-16346366@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Early modern Russia was an autocratic state ruled by a despotic tsar and a powerful Orthodox Church. Its population was largely illiterate. This combination of severely controlled expression and limited literacy makes it difficult to peer beyond official representations. Although harshly condemned by the authorities, magical spells, filled with dark poetry, circulated widely. These spells offer a route to understanding how people of all social standings experienced and navigated life in a radically unfree and unequal society. Through the seemingly marginal economy of witchcraft, we can see people accommodating to conditions of inequality and carving out paths to survival.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 09:04:00 -0400 2019-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Image
Authority, Accountability, and Responsibility: Translating Military Leadership Lessons for Business and Policy Leaders (November 13, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68916 68916-17194955@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

An armchair conversation between Secretary Donald Winter and Mike Barger, Executive Director, Office of Strategy and Academic Innovation at the Ross School of Business.

Donald C. Winter served as the 74th Secretary of the Navy from January 2006 to March 2009. As Secretary of the Navy, he led America’s Navy and Marine Corps Team and was responsible for an annual budget in excess of $125 billion and almost 900,000 people. Previously, Dr. Winter held multiple positions in the aerospace and defense industry as a systems engineer, program manager and corporate executive. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Winter served as chair of the National Academy of Engineering Committee charged with investigating the causes of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout for the Secretary of the Interior.

He is currently an Independent Consultant and a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan. At the University of Michigan, he teaches graduate level courses on Systems Engineering, Space Systems, and Maritime Policy. Dr. Winter received a doctorate in physics from the University of Michigan. In 2009, he received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

Michael Barger is a professor of business administration and executive director, office of strategy and academic innovation, at University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Dr. Barger served as officer in the United States Navy for 13 years. He spent his naval career in pilot education highlighted by a tour as a student, and chief instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He was a founding member of JetBlue Airway after leaving the navy in 1999, creating JetBlue University. He served as senior pilot on JetBlue aircrafts, was senior leader responsible for all Flight Operations, Maintenance Operations, Talent Management and Enterprise Strategy. Following his 13-year career with JetBlue, Dr. Barger served as chief operating officer of CorpU for six years.

Dr. Barger received a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Michigan and a Master’s Degree in Learning Leadership and a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania.

Co-sponsored by the Ross School of Business, College of Engineering, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:29:01 -0400 2019-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-13T18:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
What if we aren't alone? Human reactions to the possibility of extraterrestrial life (November 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69014 69014-17213806@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Department of Astronomy

"What if we aren't alone? Human reactions to the possibility of extraterrestrial life"

Following this talk, Dr. Michael Meyer (U-M Astronomy) will lead an interdisciplinary conversation on the topic of life in the Universe with Dr. Varnum, Dr. David Baker (U-M Philosophy) and Dr. Edwin Bergin (U-M Astronomy).

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 12:21:54 -0500 2019-11-13T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T20:30:00-05:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Department of Astronomy Lecture / Discussion What if we aren't alone?
2019 MIDAS Symposium (November 14, 2019 8:45am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68984 68984-17205332@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 8:45am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Department of Political Science

On Novembers 14, at 8.30 am, Prof. Rayid Ghani of Carnegie Mellon University
will be delivering a keynote on Machine Learning for Social Good.
Rayid was Chief Scientist for the Obama election campaigns.

This will be followed by a panel discussion on modern opinion polling and how pollsters failed to call the Trump election.
Please come. Rackham amphitheater.
Registration (free) is requested.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:15:04 -0400 2019-11-14T08:45:00-05:00 2019-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Why Do We Have the Electoral College? Should We? (November 14, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68345 68345-17060775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Professor Kollman will provide an historical and analytical analysis of the Electoral College, an institution that was created through the U.S. Constitution. He will review the origins of this curious institution, and will discuss the pros and cons of its continued use.

Professor Kollman’s research focuses on political parties and organizations, elections, lobbying, and federal systems. He has published numerous articles and books in a variety of fields. His recent book, “Perils of Centralization”, includes research on the European Union, Roman Catholic Church, General Motors Corporation, and United States government. His popular American government textbook is now in its third edition, and the New York Times and Washington Post have published his essays. He also co-founded and is co-principal investigator of the Constituency-Level Election Archive (CLEA), the world’s largest repository of elections results data.

This is the third in a six-lecture series. The subject is Voting in America: Perennial Issues, Current Developments. The next lecture will be November 21, 2019. The title is: Making Voting More Convenient: Implementing Michigan’s Proposal 3 (Promote the Vote).

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:14:55 -0400 2019-11-14T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion olli image
Veterans Week - Therapy Dogs (November 14, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/45832 45832-14121983@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:00am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Come join us as we host therapy dogs and the organizations that train them; Therapaws and Paws for a Cause. The organizations will talk about how the dogs are trained and whom benefits from therapy dogs and why. Meet service dogs, therapy dogs and emotional support animals and learn how you can get involved and support animals caring for wounded warriors. Must love dogs!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 09:00:19 -0400 2019-11-14T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T12:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Military Therapy Dog
Fridays in the Wilderness: Indigeneity in Space and Story (November 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68819 68819-17155493@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Join Dr. Bethany Hughes from the Department of American Culture and Steven Pelletier from English Language and Literature for a conversation about Robinson Crusoe, television, Native American literature, and the impact representation has on Indigenous peoples. A complimentary lunch will be served, but we ask that participants register in advance.

What’s the connection between Netflix’s Lost In Space reboot, Star Trek, Avatar, and a 300 year old adventure novel? How does a story about shipwrecks speak to the “discovery” of America? Why did an Indigenous Caribbean character, Friday, come to be represented as an enslaved African? How are contemporary Indigenous artists responding to the history of erasure and misrepresentation that Robinson Crusoe illustrates?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:37:34 -0400 2019-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
LACS Central American Contexts Series. Crises of Care: Violence, Impunity, and Hospitality along the Central American Migrant Trail (November 14, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68907 68907-17194942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:30am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

In this talk, John Doering-White examines how grassroots migrant shelters that aid Central Americans transiting through Mexico rely on religious traditions of hospitality to align their work with state humanitarian frameworks while simultaneously distancing themselves from economies of corruption that allow for such widespread impunity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork along the Central American migrant trail between 2014 and 2017, Doering-White traces how religion allowed shelter workers to seek to maintain a single moral face while dialoguing with duplicitous state functionaries whom shelter workers presumed to be complicit in sustaining widespread impunity. Integrating scholarship that examines hospitality as both an ethical imperative and a calculated political performance, he shows that duplicity is often central to pursuing humanitarian recognition via idealized human rights frameworks. He also considers how migrant shelters navigate the risks and rewards associated with broader recognition in the context of rising anti-immigrant sentiment both in the United States and across Mexico.

John Doering-White, Assistant Professor of Social Work and Anthropology at the University of South Carolina, is an ethnographer of migration and community organizing. Since 2014, Doering-White has conducted ethnographic fieldwork alongside humanitarian migrant shelters that aid Central Americans migrating undocumented through Mexico, often by hopping freight trains. Doering-White is a graduate of the Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:08:48 -0400 2019-11-14T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion speaker_image
Brown Bag: "Henry Clinton and British Strategy in the American Revolutionary War" (November 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68504 68504-17090629@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: William Clements Library
Organized By: William L. Clements Library

In this Brown Bag lunch talk, Huw Davies will discuss his current research at the Clements Library as recipient of the Howard H. Peckham Fellowship. His research focuses on re-evaluating the history of the British Army in Colonial and Revolutionary America, India, and Europe, 1750-1850.

In the space of seven decades between 1740 and 1810, the British Army fought wars on four continents, producing a unique accumulation of knowledge, experience and ideas about tactics, operations and strategy. Henry Clinton was at the centre of this knowledge network, and had vociferous opinions about how Britain should use its military power.

Davies will present a paper, using research conducted at the Clements Library, to illustrate Clinton’s thinking on war and how he influenced the direction of the British Army. Attendees are welcome to bring a lunch and eat during the presentation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:33:31 -0400 2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 William Clements Library William L. Clements Library Lecture / Discussion Battle of Monmouth, 28th June 1778, with notations by Henry Clinton.
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan (November 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64207 64207-16212195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political forces that are pushing Japan to admit more immigrants? Michael Strausz will answer this question by drawing on insights from nearly two years of intensive field research in Japan. In addition to answering this question by outlining the central argument of his 2019 book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan, this presentation provide context to recent developments in Japanese immigration policy – particularly the December 2018 decision to admit more than 300,000 low skilled foreign laborers.

Michael Strausz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Director of Asian Studies at Texas Christian University. He earned his BA from Michigan State University and his MA and PhD from the University of Washington. His book, Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan was recently published with SUNY Press.

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, 03 Jul 2019 11:01:49 -0400 2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion cover
The Valley as the City: Extended Pastoral Urbanism in the Inner Asian Steppe (November 14, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69296 69296-17299781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Education
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

Despite productive developments in comparative studies of early urbanism, mobile pastoral societies of the steppe continue to receive cursory attention and constructed ‘urban’ centers are persistently deemed incompatible with mobile lifeways and pastoral economies. Sites with prominent buildings and production facilities in Inner Asia, however, evidence the development of permanent centers of intensive social, economic, and ritual activities among steppe pastoralists. Through remains of the first ‘proto-urban’ establishments of the first steppe empire (the Xiongnu, ca. 200 BCE - 100 CE), I argue here that the components and arrangements of these urban settings would have been structured according to the logistical and social parameters of large herds and small-holder herding households that made up the majority of the populations that moved though and occupied such centers in the steppe. This study thus adapts concepts of ‘low-density’ urbanism and fluctuating ‘urban sprawls’ to formulate a model of extended pastoro-urban landscapes – a lattice of monumental structures as well as permanent workshops, corralling and pasturing spaces, and fluid yet structured residential areas, equally defined by natural geography and built environments.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 11:43:59 -0500 2019-11-14T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 School of Education Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion School of Education
Understanding and Recognizing Mental Health Conditions and Structuring aConversation of Concern (November 14, 2019 12:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65919 65919-16670247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Many families have faced mental health issues. Mr. Waldecker will provide advice on how to understand and recognize the issues and how to discuss them.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 14:25:05 -0400 2019-11-14T12:15:00-05:00 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Engaging with the Public: Approaches and Concerns for Public Scholars (November 14, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67156 67156-16805230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will discuss various ways scholars in the Humanities can engage with the public. Themes addressed will include differences between public outreach vs. engagement, engaging with digital history as part of a research profile and equity/inclusion mission, and incorporating technology in the classroom to encourage civic engagement.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Sep 2019 13:41:34 -0400 2019-11-14T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Colophon_portrait_from_the_Khamsa_of_Nizami
Dare to be 100 (November 14, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65899 65899-16670228@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Katch is professor emeritus of movement science, School of Kinesiology, and a fellow of the research consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Since the early 1900's American life expectancy has climbed from about 50 to 80 years. Advances in the biological sciences are now entering a new era with the developement of drugs and therapies to combat common diseases with aging. It may now even be possible to expand our life expectancy by decades. Dr. Katch will talk about ways to increase life expectancy and do so at a healthy level.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:42:53 -0400 2019-11-14T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
CLASP Seminar Series: Prof. Kevin Reed (November 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66317 66317-16727895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Space Research Building
Organized By: Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

CLASP is very pleased to welcome Prof. Kevin Reed of Stony Brook University.

Prof. Reed will give a presentation titled:
"Attributing Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Weather"

Abstract: The next century will see unprecedented changes to the climate system with direct consequences for society. As stated in the National Climate Assessment, “changes in extreme weather events are the primary way that most people experience climate change.” In this sense, the characteristics of extreme weather are key indicators of climate change impacts, at both local and regional scales. Understanding potential changes in the location, intensity and structure of such extremes (e.g., tropical cyclones, severe thunderstorms and flooding) is crucial in planning for future adaptation as these events have large economic and social costs.

The goal of this work is to better understand climate impacts on extreme weather events in various high-resolution configurations of the Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) run at horizontal grid spacings of approximately 28 km and forced with prescribed sea-surface temperatures and greenhouse gas concentrations for past, present, and future climates. This analysis will include the evaluation of conventional (AMIP-style) decadal simulations typical of climate models, short 7-day ensemble hindcasts of recent devastating events (e.g., Hurricane Florence in 2018), and reduced complexity simulations of idealized states of the climate system. Through this hierarchical modeling approach the impact of climate change on the characteristics (frequency, intensity, rainfall, etc.) of extreme weather, including tropical cyclones, can be quantified.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 12:44:37 -0400 2019-11-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:00:00-05:00 Space Research Building Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Lecture / Discussion generic seminar image
AE Chair's Distinguished Seminar Series: "Characterization of Previously Inaccessible Supersonic and Hypersonic Flows" (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69308 69308-17301829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Asst. Professor Nick Parziale, Stevens Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Reacting/high-speed flow investigation with non-intrusive optical techniques permits researchers to probe fluid flows in harsh or otherwise previously inaccessible environments. New insight into the flow physics of the wicked problems in supersonic and hypersonic flows can be had with the clever application of recent advances in laser, camera, and electronics technologies. In this talk, two examples of such efforts will be discussed. The first example is the previously unexplored boundary-layer instability on a slender cone in hypersonic, reacting flow which was characterized by the implementation of focused laser differential interferometry (FLDI). The second example is a laser-based technique that measures velocity in a high-speed gas which utilizes trace amounts of krypton for the purposes of flow tagging called Krypton Tagging Velocimetry (KTV). Example results are given for a study of supersonic shock-wave/turbulent boundary-layer interaction and characterization of Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) Hypervelocity Tunnel 9 at Mach 10 and Mach 14.

About the Speaker...
Nick’s current research interests include high-speed and reacting flows, chemical-thermodynamics, and heat transfer with applications in the fields of defense and energy/sustainability. Current projects include novel methods of high-speed flow velocimetry, hypersonic boundary-layer instability, shock-wave/boundary-layer interaction, biomass to bio-oil conversion, and nitrogen-based fuels research.

Nick received his BS in Mechanical Engineering from SUNY Binghamton in 2008, then received his MS and PhD degrees in 2009 and 2013 from the Caltech Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT). In 2013, he was a PostDoc at Caltech and then a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stevens. Currently, Nick is currently an Assistant Professor (2014-present) in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. Nick spent four summers, from 2014-2017, as an Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow at AEDC White Oak in Silver Spring, MD.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:46:59 -0500 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Prof. Nick Praziale
Critical Conversations: Media Studies at the Intersection of Theory and Practice (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68097 68097-17009828@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: Department of Film, Television, and Media

Established in Fall 2017, the Department of Film, Television, and Media’s speaker series creates a space for film and media scholars and artists/practitioners to engage in dialogues about past and contemporary topics that influence media industries, audiences, and society at large. This particular conversation will center on documentary filmmaking practices in domestic and international settings and the association of documentary with political and social causes. The participants are documentary director Rayka Zehtabchi (winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Documentary Short--PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE) and Assistant Professor Joshua Glick, who writes about documentary (and who, in 2018, published LOS ANGELES DOCUMENTARY AND THE PRODUCTION OF PUBLIC HISTORY, 1958-1977).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 10:55:09 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Hatcher Graduate Library Department of Film, Television, and Media Lecture / Discussion Poster
Human rights on the brink (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68582 68582-17103246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

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

From the speaker's bio:

Michael Breen is president and chief executive officer of Human Rights First, one of the nation’s leading human rights advocacy organizations. Established in 1978, Human Rights First’s mission is to ensure that the United States is a global leader on human rights. The organization works in the United States and abroad to promote respect for human rights and the rule of law. Breen leads a staff with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and Houston. Before joining Human Rights First, Breen served as president and CEO of the Truman National Security Project, a nationwide membership organization of diverse leaders inspired to serve in the aftermath of 9/11 and committed to shaping and advocating for tough, smart national security solutions.

Prior to his work at the Truman Project, Breen led soldiers in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Army officer, including by serving for a year as a platoon leader in the Pech and Korengal Valleys with the 173rd Airborne. After leaving the military, he served in the Office of White House Counsel and co-founded the International Refugee Assistance Project, working with refugee families in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan. Breen holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Dartmouth, having also studied in Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and the United Kingdom.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Oct 2019 10:34:45 -0400 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:20:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Michael Breen, President & CEO of Human Rights First
The Rise of the Contemporary Novella (November 14, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69109 69109-17244700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

The Rise of the Contemporary Novella

The novella has emerged as a premier global form of contemporary literature. The subject of popular writing workshops and major reprint series by both trade and experimental publishing houses, it caters to a desire for novelness in a moment of compressed time for writers and readers alike. But what is it about the form that drives our love of it? How does the relationship between time and technology structure its compelling status as well as the narratives of its history chosen to contextualize it? My examples, from the crucial subgenre of the SF novella as well as its experimental counterparts, will suggest that the mechanics of narrative length and ambition have been mobilized by contemporary writers and readers alike through the novella to reflexively recast relationships between fiction, media, and genre.


Kate Marshall is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves on the faculty of the history and philosophy of science. She is the author of Corridor: Media Architectures in American Fiction (2013), and articles on technology, media, and narrative. She is co-editor of the Post45 book series at Stanford University Press and is on the collective’s editorial board. She has just completed a study of the desire for nonhuman narration in contemporary literature and theory that traces its history in the old, weird American fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current project is a minor theory of the novella, especially as it frames conceptions of completeness in contemporary culture

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:02:17 -0500 2019-11-14T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion A shelf of books.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series: Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (November 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65669 65669-16629878@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her work incorporates the visions and voices of scores of people, in a practice that recognizes the essential collaborations involved in creativity. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues of sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, gender identity, labor, and aging. Working collaboratively within traditions of fine art performance and community organizing, Lacy has realized large-scale projects in London, Brooklyn, Medellin, Los Angeles, Quito, Northwest England, Madrid, and, most recently, along the Irish border exploring local reactions to Brexit. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Bilbao Museum in Spain, and most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a two-museum career retrospective.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18:06 -0400 2019-11-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here (November 14, 2019 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65265 65265-16559495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:10pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Los Angeles-based artist Suzanne Lacy is internationally renowned as a pioneer in the field of socially engaged and public art. Her work incorporates the visions and voices of scores of people, in a practice that recognizes the essential collaborations involved in creativity. Her installations, videos, and performances have dealt with issues of sexual violence, rural and urban poverty, incarceration, gender identity, labor, and aging. Working collaboratively within traditions of fine art performance and community organizing, Lacy has realized large-scale projects in London, Brooklyn, Medellin, Los Angeles, Quito, Northwest England, Madrid, and, most recently, along the Irish border exploring local reactions to Brexit. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum, the New Museum, and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Bilbao Museum in Spain, and most recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in a two-museum career retrospective.

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

Image: Across and In-Between, 2018. Photo by Helen Sloan.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:54:48 -0400 2019-11-14T17:10:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:40:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/lectures/lacy.jpg
FAST Lecture | Urbanism in the Empire of Kush: New Archaeological Research around Jebel Barkal, Northern Sudan (November 14, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69058 69058-17222097@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

In this presentation we discuss our recent work around the site of Jebel Barkal, thought to have been the location of the Kushite city of Napata (9th c. BCE–3rd c. CE). Four seasons of geophysical prospection in the region led to the identification of architectural features of different form and scale to the monumental temples, palaces, and pyramids that had been the focus of archaeological research in the region up until this point. A preliminary excavation season earlier this year confirmed the results of the geophysical survey, in addition to providing dates and some tantalizing finds, including a deposit of seal impressions. When put together, our research forms the basis for a new understanding of Kushite urbanism in the region and gives us a clear roadmap for our future work at Jebel Barkal.

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 PM, lecture to follow at 6:00 PM.

FAST lectures are free and open to the public.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this tour, please call the Kelsey at 734-647-4167 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, 07 Nov 2019 14:54:26 -0500 2019-11-14T17:30:00-05:00 2019-11-14T18:30:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan
Lilly Stalks, Pounded Murphies, and Caramel Ice Cream: Investigating the Food System that Fed U-M Students a Century Ago (November 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68680 68680-17136738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Gerald Ford Library
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join anthropologist Lisa Young as she discusses how and what U-M students ate a hundred years ago, and the system that supplied the food. The lecture is aided by work that Young's students did at the Bentley Historical Library exploring menus for student banquets.

This lecture is part of a new series on the history of the University of Michigan sponsored by the Bentley Historical Library. Lectures are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:35:52 -0400 2019-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T20:30:00-05:00 Gerald Ford Library Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Student Banquet Menu
Weekly Bible Study - "Freedom" (November 14, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66647 66647-16770093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4
Organized By: Maize Pages Student Organizations

Join us for prayer, worship, Bible study and discussion as we go through Philippians and Colossions this semester. Tonight's topic will be Freedom from Colossians 2:8-23.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:00:24 -0500 2019-11-14T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T20:30:00-05:00 Michigan League, 1st Floor, Room 4 Maize Pages Student Organizations Lecture / Discussion
ISD Design Science Seminar (November 15, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69358 69358-17310299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 9:30am
Location: Chrysler Center
Organized By: Integrative Systems + Design

Join us Friday, November 15, 2019 from 9:30-11:00 am in Chrysler Center, Room 151 (2121 Bonisteel Blvd, Ann Arbor) for our Design Science Seminar Series with speaker Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Ph.D. Dr. Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks is a a Behavioral Scientist and Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he co-directs the Leadership + Design Studio.
In deciding whether a pitched opportunity seems worth exploring further, individuals are influenced by the emotional qualities they observe in nascent entrepreneurs and founding teams.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:34:50 -0500 2019-11-15T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Chrysler Center Integrative Systems + Design Lecture / Discussion DESCI Seminar
U-M Structure Seminar: Haley Brown, Ph.D. (November 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/65702 65702-16629963@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Life Sciences Institute
Organized By: U-M Structural Biology

Postdoctoral Associate, Koropatkin Lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 15:05:54 -0400 2019-11-15T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T11:00:00-05:00 Life Sciences Institute U-M Structural Biology Lecture / Discussion Life Sciences Institute
Veterans Week - Assessment and Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress in Today's Veterans (November 15, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68513 68513-17094816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 11:30am
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

What is PTSD? How is it diagnosed? What are the treatment and caregiving options? What are the outcomes both short-term and long-term for veterans with PTSD? What is Post Traumatic Growth? How does gender affect PTSD manifestations and outcomes? These are some of the questions that the Ann Arbor VA Hospital looks to find answers for. Come and hear about the latest research and studies involving PTSD and treatments from Sarah Richards, one of the leaders in the Ann Arbor PTSD Clinical Team.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:58:59 -0400 2019-11-15T11:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T12:30:00-05:00 Michigan League Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion PTSD in Veterans and Servicemembers
CSEAS Lecture Series. Crafting Theravada Buddhism: Touch and Material in the lives of Thai Buddhists (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67467 67467-16857942@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Forming, touching, and repairing Buddhist objects and architecture are central to the religious lives of Thai Buddhists, be they monks, craftspeople, or laypeople. Thai historical chronicles, local legends, and everyday discourse position the intentional physical contact with Buddhist material (through ritual and everyday labor) as generating spiritual benefit and constructing ethical values. Drawing on historical analysis and ethnographic work, this talk presents a number of cases that show how Thai Buddhists hold hand-based religious touch to be spiritually powerful and socially efficacious.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:54:52 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Southeast Asian Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
From the Segway to Medical Devices: Inventing People-Centered Solutions (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66039 66039-16684587@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Poverty Solutions

Engineer and inventor Dean Kamen, who is known for inventing the Segway and other types of appropriate technology, will give a talk titled "From the Segway to Medical Devices: Inventing People-Centered Solutions" as part of the 2019 Real-World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions speaker series.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:40:55 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Poverty Solutions Lecture / Discussion Dean Kamen
LSI Seminar Series: Ronald Raines, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68971 68971-17205311@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:

The lipid bilayer that encases human cells has evolved to keep the outside out, and the inside in. This barrier is not, however, impenetrable. Some small molecules, including drugs, can burrow through and manifest therapeutic activities. Others can be “cloaked” to endow membrane permeability, and then uncloaked inside cells. We have learned how to beneficially cloak proteins, which are typically 100-fold larger than small-molecule drugs. Specifically, the conversion of protein carboxyl groups into esters enables the protein to traverse the lipid bilayer. The nascent esters are substrates for endogenous enzymes that regenerate native proteins within cells. The ability to deliver native proteins directly into cells opens a new frontier for medicine.

Speaker:
Ronald Raines, Ph.D.
Firmenich Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:44 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
PhD Defense: Cameron Miller (November 15, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69389 69389-17316495@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

Title: Improved Active Interrogation Methods for Nuclear Nonproliferation Applications

Chair: Prof. Sara Pozzi

Abstract: Highly enriched uranium is arguably the most difficult material to detect in the realm of nuclear security and safeguards, but is of great concern for its possible role in developing nuclear weapons. Uranium-235 emits very few neutrons, and the low energy photons it emits are easily shielded, making passive detection of highly enriched uranium very difficult. Actively interrogating the material with neutron or photon sources can provide a much more prominent detection signal. These sources of radiation can be used to either induce detectable emissions in the material, or radiograph the material to distinguish it from possible shielding. Active interrogation presents detection challenges in signal quality and operational feasibility, especially because currently-available sources mostly emit photons that can be easily shielded and are below photonuclear energy thresholds. My research will focus on addressing these challenges by demonstrating advantages of photon interrogation based on recent enabling technologies, both from the perspective of the interrogating source and the detection system.

Inverse Compton scattering quasi-monoenergetic photon sources using a laser-driven plasma accelerator are a developing technology that has strong potential to advance photon interrogation methods. These sources use the laser wakefield phenomenon to accelerate electrons to very high energy. Photons from a secondary laser beam interact with these electrons through inverse Compton scattering, producing a photon source highly focused in energy and space. The energy of these photons can be tuned to penetrate shielding and induce photonuclear reactions. The work presented here is based on quasi-monoenergetic photon sources at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Through Monte Carlo simulations, I have demonstrated the capability to image heavily shielded nuclear material, validated by experiment. These studies showed increased accuracy for hidden nuclear material detection over traditional bremsstrahlung sources.

A 9-MeV linac has been installed at UM, which outputs a high intensity of photons capable of inducing photonuclear reactions. This high photon intensity makes neutron detection and identification challenging, but we are developing methods to detect prompt neutrons in-pulse with organic scintillators. These methods incorporate high throughput data acquisition, active background reduction, and collaboratively developed neural-network based pulse discrimination and recovery. Initial experiments interrogating lead and tungsten surrogates for highly enriched uranium have identified elevated neutron counts for the cases with target present over active background.

Compared to a quasi-monoenergetic photon source, the bremsstrahlung source produces many low-energy photons that only contribute to surrounding dose rates. To demonstrate this dosimetric advantage, and verify shielding for the operation of various accelerators, a method for measuring dose rates was required. An organic scintillator based strategy was developed to provide a replicable and dual-particle dose rate detection method. This method has been used to simultaneously measure neutron and gamma dose rates from isotopic sources; these results show reasonable agreement with traditional instruments. Future experiments will demonstrate the method with active interrogation sources.

The results of my research will enable the use of organic scintillators and novel photon sources for use in an active interrogation scenario to prevent the spread of nuclear material.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 10:48:33 -0500 2019-11-15T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion flyer for PhD Defense of Cameron Miller
Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP) (November 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63912 63912-15987741@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:03:13 -0400 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T14:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Phondi Discussion Group (November 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66303 66303-16725833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 11:57:38 -0400 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
AE285 Undergraduate Seminar: "Space is Open for Business" (November 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64938 64938-16491256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Tess Hatch, Investor, Bessemer Venture Partners

Entrepreneurs are flocking to the final frontier, where Moore’s Law has unleashed massive, enduring opportunities. This is how humanity will colonize cis-lunar, the moon, asteroids, Mars and beyond — through the emergence of a distributed, commercial ecosystem infinitely more powerful than any single company or government.

About the Speaker...

Tess is an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners primarily focused on frontier tech, specifically commercial space, drones, and autonomous vehicles. She currently serves as a board director for Phantom Auto and a board observer for Impossible Aerospace, Iris Automation, Rocket Lab, Spire, Velo3D, Forever Oceans, and Smule. Previously, she was a mission manager at SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating its payloads with the Falcon 9 rocket. Tess earned a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford. She is passionate about space exploration and imagines a future where we all travel to space. She hopes to make the trip herself soon.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:40:33 -0400 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Space Infographic
Leader Emotional Unpredictability Tears Teams Apart: Effects on Power Struggles and Team Performance (November 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65123 65123-16517537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS

Emotional displays of leaders convey social information to followers that can help bolster their motivation and understanding of the situation, thereby facilitating team performance. An implicit assumption in previous theorizing and research using this social-functional approach to leader emotions has been that leaders’ emotional expressions logically follow from the situation for followers and thus help followers who observe these expressions to better understand the situation. However, leader's emotional expressions are not always predictable to followers. We extend the social-functional approach by investigating what happens when leader emotional displays are perceived as unpredictable by followers. We propose that leader emotional unpredictability sparks uncertainty among followers about how the leader allocates ranks and resources within the team, which triggers intra-team power struggles. Such power struggles—intra-team conflicts over resources among followers—in turn undermine team performance. Using a multi-method approach, we find support for our model in three studies, including two laboratory experiments and a field study of 246 retail teams. The findings inform our understanding of how leaders’ emotional displays influence team performance, extending the social-functional approach to emotion by illuminating how the perceived unpredictability of leaders’ emotional expressions can be dysfunctional for teams.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:04:00 -0400 2019-11-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies - ICOS Lecture / Discussion Ross School of Business
HET Seminars | “A Canonical Purification for the Entanglement Wedge Cross-Section” (November 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69282 69282-17293660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: West Hall
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

I will discuss a new entry in the AdS/CFT dictionary relating a geometric quantity called the entanglement wedge cross-section to the entropy of a canonical purification. I will also speculate about a connection to the split property in QFT.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:17:43 -0500 2019-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 West Hall Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion West Hall
Junior Faculty Speaker Series (November 15, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63503 63503-15759487@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latino politics and political theory. She is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. From 2001 until 2011, she taught in the Political Science Department at Haverford College; in 2013-14, she was a resident member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Her current research project (provisionally titled *The Right Kind of Difference: Latino Republicans and the Pleasures of Race*) is a book-length exploration of how Latino conservative thought is shaped not only by ideology but through a potent combination of emotion, expression, and aesthetics

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:25:45 -0500 2019-11-15T14:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 Haven Hall Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion Cristina Beltrán
Medieval Pilgrim Libraries: Crowdsourcing Sanctification (November 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69016 69016-17213809@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Lecture by Professor George Greenia
3:00PM - 4:30PM

Hors d'oeuvres and break
4:30PM - 5:00PM

Reflection on the retirement of Professor Steven Dworkin
(Professor Emeritus, Romance Languages and Literatures, Linguistics)
5:00PM - 6:00PM


The history of written culture involves social practices intertwined with material history. During medieval pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Rome or Santiago, readers and writers suffered from specific constraints occasioned by the rigors of their laborious journeys which were frankly nasty, brutish and long. An international team is tackling the oxymoron of “pilgrim libraries” attempting to catalog the challenges faced by pre-modern people on the move against their tools of literacy. Packing lists for Palestine survive, but fall silent about supplies for readers or writers. What readings prompted medieval folk to undertake sacred travel and what textual trail did they leave in their wake?

If you have any questions, please contact Nicholas Henriksen at nhenriks@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Nov 2019 11:04:26 -0500 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T18:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Medieval Pilgrim Libraries: Crowdsourcing Sanctification
SoConDi Discussion Group (November 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65545 65545-16611718@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Lorch Hall
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Aug 2019 11:50:40 -0400 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 Lorch Hall Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion Lorch Hall
The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: "Patagonian Prehistory: Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants" (November 15, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64391 64391-16340378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Department of Anthropology

"Climate scientists have shown that the middle Holocene (8000 – 4000 years ago) was characterized by increased temperatures and prolonged droughts in several world regions, including Patagonia. As in other affected areas, there are gaps in Patagonia’s archaeological record coincident with middle Holocene droughts. This is often interpreted in terms of population decline, particularly since much of Patagonia is arid even in non-drought years. In this lecture, Garvey presents data that indicate middle Holocene droughts may not have had a negative effect—and perhaps even had a positive one—on foraging efficiency in Patagonia, and that population decline is not the most likely explanation for the region’s sparse middle Holocene record."

This lecture series presents a book manuscript titled Patagonian Prehistory, Human Ecology and Cultural Evolution in the Land of Giants. Following an introduction to the region and some of its archaeological puzzles, Dr. Raven Garvey will describe novel hypotheses related to colonization, abandonment, and meeting basic needs in a region widely considered marginal for human habitation. In particular, this series will examine unconventional evidence for gauging colonization speed, alternative explanations for a purported abandonment of the region between 8000 and 4000 years ago, and reasons Patagonians might have remained foragers despite farming-favorable conditions.

Lectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. on
September 13, 2019
October 11, 2019
November 15, 2019
& December 6, 2019
in the Forum Hall, Palmer Commons


The Roy A. Rappaport Lectures are a series of lectures on a work in progress, designed both as free public lectures and as a special course for advanced students to work closely with a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology on a topic in which the instructor has an intensive current interest. As the description written by Professor Roy “Skip” Rappaport in 1976 states, “…it offers the opportunity for other students and faculty to hear a colleague in an extended discussion of their own work.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:11:27 -0400 2019-11-15T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Palmer Commons Department of Anthropology Lecture / Discussion Fall 2019 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures
Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics (IWAP) (November 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67244 67244-16829005@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:00:58 -0400 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Haven Hall Interdisciplinary Workshop in American Politics Lecture / Discussion Haven Hall
Smith Lecture: Unraveling the Signature of Metasomatized Subcontinental Lithospheric Mantle in the Basaltic Magmatism of the Payenia Volcanic Province, Argentina (November 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63124 63124-15576732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: 1100 North University Building
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

The intra-back arc region of the Andean Southern Volcanic Zone (34-38ºS) is characterized by more than 800 monogenetic cones erupting alkalic basalts ranging in composition from volcanic-front to ocean-island type basalts. The origin of this latter group is debated. We suggest the isotopic and trace element variations reflect the contribution of the metasomatized subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) in the Payenia source. We present a simple forward model of cumulate formation and metasomatism and subsequent melting within the SCLM that predicts the observed Payenia lava compositions.  Variations in 143Nd/144Nd and 176Hf/177Hf suggest that the age of the SCLM cumulates is 100-150 Ma, which coincides with the development of the proto-Pacific Andean arc and the breakup of Gondwana. Variations in δ18Ooli­ values from modeled cumulate-derived melts indicate that differentiation and melting within the SCLM represents a process that can fractionate oxygen isotopes even when the melt forming the cumulate has MORB-like δ18O values, explaining the observations of low-δ18O signatures of Payenia.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Aug 2019 12:59:06 -0400 2019-11-15T15:30:00-05:00 2019-11-15T16:30:00-05:00 1100 North University Building Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion 1100 North University Building
NERS Colloquium: Piyush Sabharwall, PhD, Idaho National Laboratory (November 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68945 68945-17197048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Cooley Building
Organized By: Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

ABSTRACT: The development of more-efficient, reliable, and cost-effective nuclear technologies has been accomplished by testing and evaluating the performance of fissile and non-fissile materials in neutron-rich environments, such as Advanced Test Reactor (ATR), High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR), etc. In addition, irradiation tests have been done to support the verification and validation of systems and components of nuclear reactors for licensing purposes. Currently, there are very few fast-neutron sources for civilian research. Recently, access to fast-neutron technologies has been fulfilled by using foreign nuclear research reactors, but many research institutions and industries do not have access to this technology and resource, which can limit development of advanced nuclear energy technologies. Furthermore, this limits the expansion of practical knowledge and feasibility in the area of nuclear physics, chemistry, material science, and instrumentation and measurement. Therefore, efforts have begun to develop the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), a bridge to advance nuclear future. The objective of which is to perform irradiation tests on fuels, materials, and components to understand and evaluate their performance. The access to VTR will significantly increase the knowledge base in terms of irradiation of materials, reactor fuels and components. The inclusion of these experiment vehicles will enable the VTR to perform multiple tests that can support various mission areas while enhancing technical readiness levels for its anticipated life of 50 to 100 years.

BIO: Dr. Piyush Sabharwall is a staff research scientist working in Nuclear System Design and Analysis Division at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He has expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal design, thermodynamics, and nuclear safety analyses. Over the last few years, he has been researching high temperature heat exchanger design and optimization, system integration and power conversion systems, energy storage, and safety and reliability for Advanced Reactor Concepts. He has exhibited leadership qualities by leading several external partnerships both at regional/international levels, engagements with industry, national laboratories and academia. He has co-authored two books, contributed chapters to technical books on advanced reactors and thermal systems and process heat transfer and published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and serves on the ASME Heat Transfer Division's K-9 and K-13 committees. Dr. Sabharwall received the ASME New Faces of Engineering Award in 2011, the ANS Young Member Excellence National Award in 2013, and the ANS Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award in 2019.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 19:49:16 -0500 2019-11-15T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T17:00:00-05:00 Cooley Building Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences Lecture / Discussion Thermal Hydraulic Experiments and Modeling to Support Design, Development, and Deployment of Advanced Nuclear Reactors
Webster Reading Series Featuring Zell MFA Students (November 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69029 69029-17220003@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

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

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

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

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:05:42 -0400 2019-11-15T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T20:00:00-05:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Webster Reading Series
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (November 16, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67848 67848-16960488@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:32:17 -0400 2019-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-16T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (November 16, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67972 67972-16977460@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 16, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-11-16T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-16T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Teaching Jewish American Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the State of the Field in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (November 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64980 64980-16499294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Drawing from her experience co-editing a volume on pedagogy and Jewish American literature, Rachel Rubinstein discusses new frameworks for thinking about Jewish American literature, and provides a sense of a complex, vigorous and dynamic field that is absolutely relevant in today’s classroom.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:39:01 -0400 2019-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Teaching Jewish American Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Science Forum Demo: How to Become a Fossil (November 17, 2019 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67848 67848-16960485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 11:00am
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

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

Saturdays and Sundays, 11:00 a.m.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:32:17 -0400 2019-11-17T11:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T11:20:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Scientist in the Forum (November 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67972 67972-16977465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Biological Sciences Building
Organized By: Museum of Natural History

Check at the Welcome Desk for schedule.

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

Schedule subject to change.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-11-17T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T13:15:00-05:00 Biological Sciences Building Museum of Natural History Lecture / Discussion Biological Sciences Building
Don Chisholm Jazz Vocal Masterclass with Sunny Wilkinson (November 17, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66788 66788-16778976@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Stearns Building
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:15:45 -0400 2019-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 Stearns Building School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Sunny Wilkinson
Mindfullness-based Dementia Care (November 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64758 64758-16444916@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

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

Presented by MI Alzheimer’s Disease Center.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 31 Jul 2019 12:03:34 -0400 2019-11-18T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Lecture / Discussion
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69183 69183-17261059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Fertility and mortality trends are the most fundamental determinants of human populations, and Western industrialized countries have witnessed notable changes in these patterns in recent decades: fertility rates have declined, and life expectancy has continued to increase. While demographers and other social scientists have explored the broad implications of population aging, less well understood are the individual-level consequences of conjoint changing fertility and mortality patterns. In particular, there is limited information about the extent to which life courses overlap today versus in prior decades and the implications of such. In this paper, we provide new evidence about generational overlap between grandparents and grandchildren using population register data from Denmark. We describe changing patterns of grandparents being alive-and life expectancy-at grandchildren's birth. Then, we evaluate differences in these patterns by socioeconomic status. These findings have implications for the transmission of inequality, as well as resource demands on governments.



BIO:
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her recent work is focused on changing patterns of parenthood and family complexity, including differences by socioeconomic status. She has published in a range of demography, family and general social science journals.


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, 06 Nov 2019 14:56:21 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69285 69285-17295702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location:
Organized By: SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by a daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of immigration enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects and what it looks like from the perspective of the people who experience it. Focusing on those left behind, he reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 10 Nov 2019 21:12:24 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:30:00-05:00 SSW Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
AE Dissertation Defense: "Investigation of the Hall Thruster Breathing Mode" (November 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68875 68875-17188735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
Organized By: Aerospace Engineering

Hall thrusters can support a wide range of instabilities, many of which remain poorly understood but are known to play a critical role in the fundamental operation of these devices. In this work, the dominant low-frequency oscillations known as the “breathing mode” is investigated to provide a more analytically rigorous yet intuitive description of the instability. The new understanding of Hall thruster oscillations yielded by this effort can improve the reliability of these devices.

Time-resolved laser-induced fluorescence paired with an ion kinetic analysis is used to characterize the near-field and internal thruster plasma during breathing oscillations. A frequency scaling study indicates that several existing theories for the breathing mode are consistent with observed oscillation trends. However, an examination of the dynamic properties of the discharge reveals that these same theories are fundamentally inconsistent with the experimental data.

A novel physical process for the breathing mode is proposed and found to agree with the experimental findings. A model corresponding to this process is developed and shown to predict positive linear growth and realistic real frequencies. A simpler model is derived and used to produce simple analytical descriptions of the real frequency and growth of the breathing mode.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 12:29:25 -0400 2019-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building Aerospace Engineering Lecture / Discussion Ethan Dale
Cognitive Science Seminar Series (November 18, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67489 67489-16864388@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Graduate student Stella Hao (Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience) will give a talk on "Bounded Rationality of Moral Cognition."

ABSTRACT

My work investigates moral cognition (i.e., moral decisions, moral judgments, and moral inferences, Yu, Siegel, \& Crockett, 2011) in the framework of bounded rationality. Moral cognition is not only a reflection of personal values and a gateway for explaining human behaviors, but also a field of work that provides insights relevant to the dynamics of human society and the development of artificial intelligence. Thus, it is extremely important to bridge the gap between morality and human rationality while taking into account the ecology of the environment and the agent. Bounded rationality provides a way to approach decision making research by taking into account how rationality is constrained by the characteristics of the environment and the cognitive limitation of the mind. In this talk, I will provide an overview of the current research on bounded moral cognition and present some empirical results of finding context effects in ethical decision making. Finally, I will present some research goals of my dissertation work.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:25:02 -0500 2019-11-18T15:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
"Communities of Interest" and Michigan's New Approach to Redistricting through an Independent Citizens Commission (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64955 64955-16493258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weill Hall (Ford School)
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Annenberg Auditorium (1120)
735 S. State Street, Ann Arbor 48109-3091
4:00pm-5:30pm

Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.

Panelists:
-Jocelyn Benson, Michigan Secretary of State.
-Connie Malloy, Chair, 2010 California Citizens Redistricting Commission.
-Chris Lamar, Legal Counsel for Redistricting with the Campaign Legal Center.
-Christopher Thomas, former Director of Elections for the State of Michigan.
-Nancy Wang, Voters Not Politicians, Executive Director - will moderate the discussion.

In November, 2018, the citizens of Michigan passed Proposal 2, which amended the Michigan Constitution to place legislative and congressional redistricting in the hands of a 13-member Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The amendment requires the Commission to draw Michigan's election district maps in a fair and transparent way using public input. Commission-drawn maps must meet strict, prioritized criteria listed in the amendment. "Communities of Interest" (COIs) are high on the list of priorities in drawing new districts, after equal population, compliance with the Voting Rights Act, and contiguity. However, COIs are a new concept for Michigan redistricting and are defined broadly in the amendment.

A panel of experts will share how COIs factor into the redistricting process, and how citizens can be involved in helping the Commission incorporate COIs in Michigan's next set of election district maps.

Panelists will discuss:
-- what are communities of interest (COIs)
-- how are they defined (some examples from Michigan and other states)
-- where do they factor into the redistricting process
-- why is it important for district maps to respect community boundaries
-- what is the actual process for drawing lines around communities, and
-- what to do with overlapping communities of interest

This panel discussion is part of a larger CLOSUP research and service project being conducted on behalf of the Michigan Department of State to advise the Department and the Commission on best practices for the implementation of the COI criteria.
Sponsored by: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Co-sponsors: Voters Not Politicians, Ginsberg Center, Domestic Policy Corps, Detroit Public Television, Program in Practical Policy Engagement (P3E)

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

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:16:55 -0500 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 Weill Hall (Ford School) Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion poster
2019 James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship Lecture and Reception (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68195 68195-17026820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Patricia Gurin, 2019 recipient of the James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship, will present her lecture, "Collectivity, Community, and Connections in the Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion." A reception will be held immediately afterward. Please RSVP using the link below.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 12:30:55 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Patricia Gurin
Collectivity, Community, and Connections in the Pursuit of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68133 68133-17011974@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: East Hall
Organized By: National Center for Institutional Diversity

The National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ODEI) are pleased to announce that Dr. Patricia Gurin — the Nancy Cantor Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Psychology and Women’s Studies — was selected as the 2019 recipient of the James S. Jackson Distinguished Career Award for Diversity Scholarship.

Please join us for Dr. Gurin's lecture in honor of her award.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:56:23 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 East Hall National Center for Institutional Diversity Lecture / Discussion Image of Patricia Gurin
Job Talk (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69313 69313-17301837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:27:17 -0500 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 Angell Hall Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Padnos Lecture: The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64982 64982-16499297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk introduces Jacobo Glantz’s 1939 Mexican Yiddish epic poem Kristobal Kolon, arguing that Glantz’s poem is a point of origin for his daughter, historian and writer Margo Glantz’s later feminist reexaminations of the colonial histories of Mexico. Jacobo Glantz’s counter-canonical retelling of the Americas’ most iconic foundational myth relied on Columbus’s journals and the new, more critical histories of Columbus emerging in the 1930s. But Luis de Torres, not Columbus, is at the center of Glantz’s retelling. De Torres was the only Jew on Columbus’s crew, hired by Columbus to serve as an interpreter. Written in a deliberately multilingual Yiddish with Spanish, Taino, Latin and Hebrew borrowings, Glantz’s epic functions as critical counter-history, a wild re-imagining of a history he knew so well. This lecture explores the ways in which the myth of Columbus can be mobilized to unearth “underground” indigenous, African, Muslim and Jewish histories in the New World, and suggests a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of English and the United States.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:38:00 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Padnos Lecture Image
Positive Links Speaker Series (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65989 65989-16678391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations

Positive Links Speaker Series
Are Diversity Initiatives Effective?
Lisa M. Leslie

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

Register here: http://myumi.ch/QAA1W

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

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

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

About the talk:
Diversity initiatives are prevalent, but not necessarily effective. These initiatives at times not only fail to result in the intended consequence of increased diversity and inclusion, but also produce unintended consequences that undermine their effectiveness. In this presentation, Leslie will describe the unintended consequences diversity initiatives can produce and provide examples of how even well-intentioned efforts to foster diversity and inclusion can go astray. She will also discuss strategies for making diversity initiatives more effective and thus better leveraging the positive consequences of diversity for individuals, organizations, and societies.

About Leslie:
Lisa M. Leslie is an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business, New York University. She received her AB in Social Psychology from Princeton University and her MA and PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Maryland. Prior to joining Stern in 2013, she spent six years as an Assistant Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

Leslie’s research focuses on diversity in organizations, and specifically understanding why organizational diversity initiatives often produce unintended consequences and what can be done to make them more effective. She also has secondary research interests in cross-cultural organizational behavior and conflict management. Leslie has received many awards for her research, which has appeared in journals spanning a number of different disciplines, and has served as an Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal.

Host:
Lindred Greer, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations

Sponsors:
The Center for Positive Organizations thanks University of Michigan Organizational Learning, Sanger Leadership Center, Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, Lisa and David (MBA ‘87) Drews, and Diane (BA ‘73) and Paul (MBA ‘75) Jones for their support of the 2019-20 Positive Links Speaker Series.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Aug 2019 14:51:58 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:00:00-05:00 Ross School of Business Michigan Ross Center for Positive Organizations Lecture / Discussion Lisa M. Leslie
Author's Forum Presents: "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean" (November 18, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66150 66150-16709270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Institute for the Humanities

Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (American culture) and Felix Contreras (host of NPR’s Alt.Latino, https://www.npr.org/people/4607354/felix-contreras) discuss Hoffnung-Garskof's new book "Racial Migrations New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean." Q & A follows the conversation.

In the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individuals—including Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician; Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher; and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havana—built a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat José Martí’s writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.

In Racial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.

A model of transnational and comparative research, Racial Migrations reveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Nov 2019 13:12:04 -0500 2019-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Institute for the Humanities Lecture / Discussion Racial Migrations
Trans Awareness Week Keynote (November 18, 2019 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68558 68558-17096956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 6:30pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Please join this year's Transgender Awareness Week Keynote speaker, Kavi Ade, on Monday, November 18th, 6:30-7:30 pm at the School of Social Work, Room ECC (located on the first floor). To learn more about the event details, including directions to the event, please visit http://bit.ly/TAWkeynote19.

Kavi Ade is a Black Trans Queer speaker, arts educator and nationally recognized poet of Afro & Indigenous Caribbean descent. Speaking on race, gender, sexuality, mental health, domestic violence, and sexual assault Kavi’s work grapples with being set at the throne of violence, and exploring the ways a body can learn to survive. Using art as resistance they create transformative dialogue that aims to combat supremacist powers and heal communities that have been harmed. Kavi has given poetry readings and keynote speeches, led workshops and spoken on panels in numerous cities and communities, including over 100 colleges and universities domestically and internationally. Kavi received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award that honors “women and trans* artists and cultural producers who create art for social change, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work." More about Kavi can be found at kaviadepoetry.com.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:55:44 -0400 2019-11-18T18:30:00-05:00 2019-11-18T19:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion The Spectrum Center's Transgender Awareness Week Keynote speaker is Kavi Ade. The image includes date, time, and location, the logos of our co-sponsors, and a description of the artist, as well as a picture of Kavi Ade. Kavi has dark brown skin, a thin line of facial hair, and hair bunched up behind Kavi's head. Kavi is wearing large goggle-like sunglasses, a multicolored jacket, black shirt and pants, and is holding a black tote bag that says "Artist. Creator. Threat."
Lunch & Learn: Food Insecurity in Washtenaw County (November 19, 2019 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69166 69166-17259013@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:00am
Location: Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
Organized By: Ginsberg Center

Access to enough food is necessary to live an
active and healthy lifestyle, yet there are over
47,000 people who are food insecure in
Washtenaw County, including college students.

We will have a discussion regarding food
insecurity in Washtenaw County with
representatives from Food Gatherers and the U-M
Maize and Blue Cupboard. They will discuss their
organizations and the multiple ways in which the
community can engage with this issue. Come
learn how to get involved on campus and in the
larger community, volunteering with local
organizations and learning to advocate for better
policy.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 10:57:09 -0500 2019-11-19T00:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T01:00:00-05:00 Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning Ginsberg Center Lecture / Discussion flyer for Lunch & Learn
BIONIC Lunch: Precision Health (November 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63778 63778-15873596@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: North Campus Research Complex Building 10
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

Join us for a lunchtime discussion honing in on the ever truer you.

Please RSVP: https://forms.gle/Zxqo17yGh4PUB46cA

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:00:36 -0400 2019-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T13:30:00-05:00 North Campus Research Complex Building 10 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Precision Health