Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 2020 Organ Conference: Carillon Collaboration (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76699 76699-19737033@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Joey Brink, University of Chigago

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
ENGAGE: The Power of Your Vote (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77828 77828-19933617@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This is a monumental year in our political history, with the upcoming election in November having the power to address various human and civil rights issues. Join us for a special virtual discussion on the power of your vote, how voting can combat supremacy and hate, the logistics of voting during a pandemic, and voter suppression. This session will feature special guests including Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Inclusion, Equity and Social Responsibility Partner at Honigman LLP and member of the Detroit NAACP, Attorney Khaliah Spencer. This session will be moderated by long-time voting justice advocate and Executive Director of Detroit Action, Branden Snyder. School of Social Work students will also have the ability to ask panelists questions about voting and voting rights.
ENGAGE is an initiative that connects the School of Social Work to community issues and movements for greater equity and social change.
RSVP and a zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event.
https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/rsvp-request/index.php?page=register&id=W130

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:50:56 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Inclusion, Equity and Social Responsibility Partner at Honigman LLP and member of the Detroit NAACP, Attorney Khaliah Spencer and Executive Director of Detroit Action, Branden Snyder
ENGAGE: The Power of Your Vote (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78091 78091-19963478@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This is a monumental year in our political history, with the upcoming election in November having the power to address various human and civil rights issues. Join us for a special virtual discussion on the power of your vote, how voting can combat supremacy and hate, the logistics of voting during a pandemic, and voter suppression. This session will feature special guests including Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, Inclusion, Equity and Social Responsibility Partner at Honigman LLP and member of the Detroit NAACP, Attorney Khaliah Spencer. This session will be moderated by long-time voting justice advocate and Executive Director of Detroit Action, Branden Snyder. School of Social Work students will also have the ability to ask panelists questions about voting and voting rights.

Attending this session counts for field credit. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:50:15 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion
Looking at Naturalist Fiction and the I-Novel Transnationally (October 8, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77827 77827-19933616@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Comparative Literature

After the naturalist approach to writing fiction crystallized in France in the 1860s, writers around the world embraced it. By the 1920s this kind of realistic fiction could be found from the Americas to East Asia, including the Japanese version known as the I-novel. Far from a story of influence, a close look at naturalist novels and stories written in different parts of the world shows writers departing from metropolitan models as they confronted new social conditions.

Christopher Hill is an Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. With a background in comparative literature, he writes frequently on literature and intellectual history from a transnational or global perspective. His first book, National History and the World of Nations (Duke University Press, 2009), was on the impact of nationalism on historical writing in late nineteenth-century Japan, France, and the United States. He has just published Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form (Northwestern University Press, 2020), on the global history of naturalist fiction. He is currently writing about postwar Japanese writers' responses to the decolonization of Africa and Asia.

Discussant: Christi Merrill, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature; Associate Professor of South Asian Literature and Postcolonial Theory.

Please register for the Zoom webinar at: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7XkNE5-uSRSBcB9uuBkggw

The University of Michigan Library has Professor's Hill's book, Figures of the World The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form, available in E-book format at: https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/018261248

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:13:15 -0400 2020-10-08T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Comparative Literature Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
RNA Journal Club (October 8, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76901 76901-19774602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

Zoom meeting link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98191021203

The RNA Journal Club meets to prepare for seminars and engage with their presenters. The Club studies and reviews the articles relating to upcoming talks.

In preparation for 10/8/20 Seminar with guest speaker: Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego https://events.umich.edu/event/75807

Publication to review: TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:21:44 -0400 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Glasses notebook and laptop
Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Youth (October 8, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78000 78000-19951595@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Spectrum Center

Registration: https://bit.ly/LGBTQ-UM-Events
All National Coming Out Week events: https://bit.ly/SC-NCOW

Young people who identify as LGBTQ+ face significantly higher risk for depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues than their peers who are not sexual or gender minorities. Gary Harper, Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education and Global Public Health at the School of Public Health, and his team are working to ensure that primary care clinics in the US are equipped to screen at-risk LGBTQ+ youth and provide them with welcoming, competent, and high-quality care. Listen to Dr. Harper as he talks about his research and advocacy to improve policy for LGBTQ+ youth.

Spectrum Center Event Accessibility Statement:
The Spectrum Center is dedicated to working towards offering equitable access to all of the events we organize. If you have an accessibility need you feel may not be automatically met at this event, fill out our Event Accessibility Form, found at http://bit.ly/SCaccess. You do not need to have a registered disability with the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities (SSD) or identify as disabled to submit. Advance notice is necessary for some accommodations to be fully implemented, and 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, 08 Oct 2020 11:49:59 -0400 2020-10-08T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Spectrum Center Lecture / Discussion Promotional flyer of the time, date, location, and a picture of Gary Harper. Dr. Harper is wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater over a white collared shirt, posing and smiling at the camera. Text below his photo states that he is a professor for The Department of Health Behavior and Health Education; and Global Public Health
EnginTalks: DEI Culture Shift. (October 8, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78093 78093-19963480@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

Michigan Engineering is working towards launching sustained, pervasive education around issues of race, ethnicity, unconscious bias and inclusion for everyone in Engineering – students, faculty and staff – within one year.

We have assembled a number of Community Teams to develop five proposals to bring DEI education and awareness, with an initial focus on race and ethnicity, to all persons in the Michigan Engineering community.

The proposals were developed to provide opportunities to expand our collective knowledge on matters related to diversity, equity and inclusion. 

EnginTalks is just one of many forums to come where our community can ask questions and most importantly, share ideas and recommendations regarding the proposals.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Oct 2020 15:06:10 -0400 2020-10-08T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-08T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Aerial photo of North Campus. Text "EnginTalks."
2020 Organ Conference: Visualizing Collaborative Sound (October 8, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76700 76700-19737034@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Ryan Mueller, Dobson Pipe Organ Builders

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-08T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
2020 Virtual EER Prospective Student Open House (October 9, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77361 77361-19844064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Students from all institutions are invited to attend. Participants will hear all about the program, meet the faculty and graduate students, learn about career opportunities as a UM graduate in this field and take a virtual tour of the beautiful University of Michigan campus.

Please note that applicants to the EER graduate program must have a Bachelor's and Master's degree in a traditional engineering discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:53:47 -0400 2020-10-09T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion EER Logo
2020 Organ Conference: Challenging Conventions: Student Perspectives on Collaboration on the Carillon (October 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76701 76701-19737035@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

University of Michigan carillon students Anthony DiBello, Michelle Lam, Isaac Levine, Kavitha Lobo, and Jenna Moon
Taking Turns: Ascanio Mayone and His Collaborators
Kaelan Hansson, graduate organ student and PhD candidate in Aerospace Engineering

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-09T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Stamps @ Home: Virtual Forum on Race, Justice, and Equity (October 9, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77756 77756-19911870@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design

Join us on Friday, October 9, 2020 at 1 pm to hear from a panel of Stamps students and alumni as they share the ways that they are pursuing racial justice, tackling systemic racism, and making a difference within their creative fields.

Moderated by Brian Banks, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design.

Panelists include:
- Titus Brooks Heagins (MFA ‘02), Photographer
- Keesa V. Johnson (MDes ‘21), Current Stamps Graduate Candidate, Integrative Design
- Beatriz Lozano (BFA ‘16), Designer, Sunday Afternoon
- Destini Riley (BFA ‘21), Current Stamps Undergraduate Student, Fine Art and Video Studies
- Shane Ward (BFA ‘96), Creative Director, GIII - Men’s Footwear Division, DKNY / G.H. Bass & Co.

Stamps events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to all attendees. This event will be online using the Zoom platform with an auto-generated Live Transcript available. If you anticipate needing any additional accommodations to participate, please email Melissa Herter at arnettm@umich.edu at least one week in advance of the scheduled event so we can arrange for your accommodation or an effective alternative. After receiving your request, our team will follow up with you directly.

Please RSVP to reserve your place for this free event: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsfuuqqT4iHdyo7iWcllmd8VhwrURLX50a

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:15:14 -0400 2020-10-09T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T14:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Penny W Stamps School of Art & Design Lecture / Discussion https://stamps.umich.edu/images/uploads/calendar/1000x501-Stamps_at_home-web-image.jpg
2020 Election: Voter Turnout and Access in Ohio and Michigan (October 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76127 76127-19901735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

The Ford School invites you to join us for a conversation on voting rights and voter access, featuring Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson (link is external) and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (link is external). Jenna Bednar, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, will moderate. Secretaries Benson and LaRose will discuss state-level approaches to voter access since 2016. Issues surrounding voter turnout during the upcoming 2020 election will also be discussed, including voting during the coronavirus pandemic.

For more details visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/2020-election-voter-turnout-and-access-ohio-and-michigan

From the panelists' bios:

Jocelyn Benson is Michigan’s 43rd Secretary of State. In this role she is focused on ensuring elections are secure and accessible, and dramatically improving customer experiences for all who interact with our offices. Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. A graduate of Harvard Law School and expert on civil rights law, education law and election law, Benson served as dean of Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. She continues to serve as vice chair of the advisory board for the Levin Center at Wayne Law, which she founded with former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin. Previously, Benson was an associate professor and associate director of Wayne Law’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights.

Frank LaRose took office as Ohio's 51st Secretary of State on January 14th, 2019. Prior to being elected to statewide office, he served two terms in the State Senate representing the 27th Senate District in northeast Ohio. As Ohio’s Secretary of State, LaRose is doing his part to deliver a thriving democracy and a prosperous economy. In his role as Ohio’s chief elections officer, he’s working to ensure Ohio’s elections are secure, accurate and accessible. He is also supporting Ohio entrepreneurs as the sole authority to receive and approve articles of incorporation for Ohio businesses. Among numerous recognitions, LaRose was named the Legislator of the Year in 2016 by the Ohio Association of Election Officials in recognition of his support and commitment to improving Ohio’s election process. LaRose, a native of northeast Ohio, graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in Consumer Affairs and Business.

Jenna Bednar is a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, the Edie N Goldenberg Endowed Director for the Michigan in Washington Program, and a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Her research combines positive political theory and systems theory to study how formal institutions, such as laws, electoral rules, or constitutions, remain effective in complex environments. Her most recent book,The Robust Federation demonstrates how complementary institutions maintain and adjust the distribution of authority between national and state governments.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:17:54 -0400 2020-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Jocelyn Benson and Frank LaRose
HET Seminar | A Double Copy for Celestial Amplitudes (October 9, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77375 77375-19846053@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar link:http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Celestial amplitudes which use conformal primary wavefunctions rather than plane waves as external states offer a novel opportunity to study properties of amplitudes with manifest conformal covariance and give insight into a potential holographic celestial CFT at the null boundary of asymptotically flat space. With the notion of energy traded for the conformal dimension under the Lorentz group acting on the celestial sphere, energetically soft theorems of QFT scattering amplitudes are replaced by "conformally soft" theorems. Moreover, since translation invariance is obscured in the conformal basis, features of amplitudes that heavily rely on it, such as the remarkable relations between gauge theory and gravity amplitudes known as the double copy, appear to be lost. My main focus in this talk is to show that there exists nevertheless a well-defined procedure for a celestial double copy. This requires a generalization of the usual squaring of numerators to first promoting them to generalized differential operators acting on external wavefunctions, and then squaring them. I will end with recent results on how to obtain celestial loop amplitudes from tree level ones.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:48:33 -0400 2020-10-09T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: Shock Compression Experiments of Natural Silicates to Elucidate Planetary Impact Processes (October 9, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75012 75012-19136114@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 91923221977
The Earth and other terrestrial planets experienced one to several energetic impacts during accretion and growth. Models of planet accretion suggest that the highest-energy impacts, like the one that resulted in the formation of Earth's moon, disrupt both the target proto-planet and the impactor, with a significant portion of material being melted or vaporized by the impact. However, the temperatures reached in such impact scenarios are only recently being experimentally constrained due to improvements in experimental capabilities. Improved understanding of temperatures during giant impacts are needed to understand the chemical outcomes, including miscibility, metal-silicate partitioning, and formation of atmospheres. Experiments that can simulate the conditions of a large impact have thus far been restricted to end-member oxides and silicates. However, natural minerals include small amounts of iron, which may have a large effect on the thermo-elastic parameters of the material. Here, we present shock compression experiments of olivine, orthopyroxene (bronzite) and wadsleyite to 1.5 TPa in pressure and over 50,000 K in temperature. These experiments will be used to inform planetary impact models and serve as a benchmark for dynamics simulations of large, hot exoplanets.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:17:53 -0400 2020-10-09T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-09T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
2020 Organ Conference: Audience Collaboration in 18th-Century Keyboard Improvisation (October 9, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76702 76702-19737036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 9, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Dr. John Mortensen, Cedarville University

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-09T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
2020 Organ Conference: Keyboard Improvisation in Collaborative Musical Settings (October 10, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76704 76704-19737038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 10, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

A roundtable discussion with musical performances featuring Matthew Bengtson, fortepiano/piano, Alcée Chriss, organ, Joseph Gascho, harpsichord, Andy Milne, piano, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, harpsichord/organ.For collaborative keyboard musicians in many musical worlds, improvisation provides a spontaneity, an adaptability, and an expressiveness that inspires and builds artistic communication and connection. Coming from a variety of musical backgrounds and experiences, five keyboard players will discuss the role of improvisation in their collaborative music-making. The webinar will also feature recorded performances.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 18:15:05 -0400 2020-10-10T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
Covering the campaign: A conversation with national political reporters (October 12, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76228 76228-19677561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join us for a conversation about covering the campaign trail with two senior political reporters, Jane Coaston of Vox and Daniel Strauss of The Guardian. Paula Lantz, associate dean of the Ford School and James Hudak Professor of Health Policy will moderate the conversation. The panelists will discuss what it's like to be a political reporter during an election season and what they think are the key political and policy issues at play in the upcoming Presidential election.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

For more information visit fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/covering-campaign-conversation-national-political-reporters

From the speakers' bios:

Jane Coaston is senior politics reporter at Vox with a focus on conservatism, the American Right, the GOP and white nationalism. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, National Review, the Washington Post, the Ringer and ESPN Magazine, among others. She attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 2009.

Daniel Strauss is a senior political reporter for The Guardian. Previously he was a politics reporter at Politico, covered campaigns and elections for Talking Points Memo, and was a breaking news reporter for The Hill newspaper. Daniel grew up in Chicago and graduated from the University of Michigan where he majored in history.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:18:15 -0400 2020-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Daniel Strauss and Jane Coaston
Four Years into the U-M DEI Strategic Plan: Lessons Learned and Ideas for the Future (October 12, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77830 77830-19933619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Engineering

University of Michigan Engineering is excited to welcome Vice Provost Robert Sellers to our DEI lecture series for the month of October. His lecture will be focused on lessons learned and ideas for the future.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 14:11:44 -0400 2020-10-12T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Engineering Lecture / Discussion Robert Sellers, Vice Provost for Equity and Inclusion & Chief Diversity Officer
STS Speaker. Timescapes of Behavior: Resilience and Long-Term Ecological Research (October 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77484 77484-19875779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:22:28 -0400 2020-10-12T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion
How Lean Culture is Fighting Against the Coronavirus (October 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78063 78063-19957560@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

We’ve all been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. For me, one of the ways was receiving a call to “deploy” to our ventilator manufacturing facility to help make an unprecedented volume of ventilators as fast as possible. The world needed ventilators to fight COVID-19 and we needed to ramp production using our best manufacturing methodologies.Using Lean techniques was once described by one of its founding leaders, Taiichi Ohno, as “looking at the timeline, from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect the cash. And we are reducing the timeline by reducing the non-value adding wastes.” GE Healthcare has incorporated Lean into its operational fabric just as described in the quote to delivery reliable daily output as well as to take on new manufacturing challenges. In this presentation, I will describe the challenge that COVID-19 presented to our company, to the production process & to the cross-functional group of people involved in supporting production. To tell this story, I will be sharing some basics about Lean Methodologies and how it influenced our approach, communications & the execution of an unprecedented ventilator output. Finally, I will discuss how these same methodologies and approach can be used to positively impact your business, career, or challenge you’re facing.

Passion: My passion is serving the Healthcare community by educating eager learners, utilizing Lean-6 Sigma methodologies & incorporating Advanced Technologies to challenge the status quo & bring about meaningful improvement.

Experience: I’ve been with GE Healthcare for 15 years in a variety of roles from a manufacturing engineer, to a site & national Lean Leader to a multi-state field service director. These roles have including manufacturing, service & commercial elements to them and always included a primary focus on healthcare. Additionally, I have worked within the aviation, energy & financial industries through cross-business projects. With my experience, I was recently called on by GE to help during the COVID-19 response to drive increased output, improved quality & to build a supportive culture in our ventilator manufacturing business. Additionally, I have used this knowledge to start an education & consulting group focused on Lean methodologies called ripple Solutions LLC. My small business has allowed me to expand outside of healthcare & connect with the printing, distribution, university & non-healthcare manufacturing industries.

Education: I have a degree in Industrial Engineering with additional courses in Medical Sciences from University of Michigan, class of 2007. I am a GE Healthcare Operations Management Leadership Program graduate, I’m a certified Black Belt in DMAIC Lean Six Sigma and I’m Green Belt certified in DFSS Six Sigma. I have also received extensive GE Healthcare & Shingijtsu Lean training.

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 the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@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, 01 Oct 2020 14:52:38 -0400 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion photo of speaker with event information
LACS and Latina/o Studies Virtual Panel Discussion. Monumental Injustice in the Americas (October 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77720 77720-19907803@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Free and open to the public. Registration required: http://myumi.ch/2DVXB

As a joint effort between the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACS) and the Latina/o Studies Program, this panel brings together scholars whose work helps us think about past and present efforts to topple physical monuments to historical figures across the Americas. As the United States recognizes "Hispanic Heritage Month," we push for thinking that cuts across borders. We highlight the hemisphere's interconnected histories of racism, colonialism, conquest and slavery that are at the center of both efforts to memorialize certain figures and stories, and efforts to upend these commemorative structures and the narratives they support. Public discussions around contested symbols of injustice are themselves opportunities to remake historical narratives, and we anticipate this panel will add a rich and important discussion.

Speaker Biographies:

ERIN L. THOMPSON is America’s only full-time professor of art crime (John Jay College, CUNY). She studies a variety of relations between art and crime, including the looting of antiquities, museum theft, art made by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, and the legalities and ethics of digital reproductions of cultural heritage. She has discussed these topics for the New York Times, CNN, NPR, and the Freakonomics podcast, among many others. She is currently writing Smashing Statues: On the Rise and Fall of America’s Public Monuments (Norton 2021). She has written and spoken about the science of public art, the history of protests, the legal barriers to removal of controversial art, and examples of innovative approaches to the problem in venues including Art in America, Hyperallergic, the LARB Blog, and the New York Times.

ANA LUCIA ARAUJO is a full Professor of History at the historically black Howard University in Washington DC, United States. Her single-authored books include Slavery in the Age of Memory: Engaging the Past (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), Brazil Through French Eyes: A Nineteenth-Century Artist in the Tropics (University of New Mexico Press, 2015), Shadows of the Slave Past: Heritage, Memory, and Slavery (Routledge, 2014), and Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic (Cambria Press, 2010). She also edited or coedited five books and published dozens of refereed articles in journals and chapters in edited books on topics related to the history and memory of slavery. In 2017, Araujo joined the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. She also serves on the board of editors of the American Historical Review (the journal of the American Historical Association) and the editorial board of the British journal Slavery and Abolition. She is a member of the executive board of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide Diaspora (ASWAD), the editorial review board of the African Studies Review, and the board of the blog Black Perspectives maintained by the African American Intellectual History Society. Currently, Araujo is working on two book projects: Human in Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery in the Americas (under contract with the University of Chicago Press) and The Gift: How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism (under contract with Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora series). She just finished Museums and Atlantic Slavery, a short-format book to be published in 2021 by Routledge in the series Routledge Museums in Focus.

ANDREA QUEELEY is a native of Berkeley, California and holds a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has a joint appointment in Florida International University’s Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the African & African Diaspora Studies Program. Her research interests include black and diasporic subjectivity, race and representation, intra-Caribbean migration, and the African Diaspora in Latin America. She has published several journal articles on these themes in addition to her book ”Rescuing Our Roots: The Anglo-Caribbean African Diaspora in
Contemporary Cuba” (University Press of Florida 2015).

OLIVIA CHILCOTE (San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University and a Critical Mission Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Riverside. Dr. Chilcote's research and teaching focus on the areas of interdisciplinary Native American Studies, federal Indian law and policy, Native American identity, and Native California. Dr. Chilcote grew up in the center of her tribe’s traditional territory in the North County of San Diego, and she is active in tribal politics and other community efforts.

VANESSA FONSECA-CHÁVEZ is an Assistant Professor of English at Arizona State University. She received her MA in Hispanic Southwest Studies from the University of New Mexico and her PhD in Spanish Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. She is the co-editor of Querencia: Reflections on the New Mexico Homeland (University of New Mexico Press, 2020). Her monograph, Colonial Legacies in Chicana/o Literature and Culture: Looking through the Kaleidoscope is out with the University of Arizona Press.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: alanarod@umich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 18:55:22 -0400 2020-10-12T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-12T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion Monumental_Injustice-image
AT HOME WITH LITERATI: LEE VAN DER VOO & REBECCA HARDIN (October 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77250 77250-19828102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location:
Organized By: School for Environment and Sustainability

When 21 youth activists filed Juliana v. United States, they asserted that the government’s continued negligence of the environment constituted a violation of their rights to life, liberty, and property. In As the World Burns, Lee van der Voo follows the still-evolving legal case as she tells the plaintiffs’ stories, all against the backdrop of the current climate-related crises and the mass protests happening and around the world. Granted unparalleled access to the plaintiffs and their legal team, van der Voo reveals the human side of the climate crisis, the dire effects of decades of inaction, and the reasons why tackling our environmental issues in the courts is possibly our last real hope for meaningful intervention. This book is a call to arms for all of us, young and old alike.

Author Bio:

Lee van der Voo is an award-winning investigative and environmental journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Guardian, among others. Her 2016 book The Fish Market, which chronicles the gentrification of the sea in the name of sustainable seafood, won an Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:51:45 -0400 2020-10-12T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-12T21:00:00-04:00 School for Environment and Sustainability Lecture / Discussion Literati
Efforts by the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center (October 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75607 75607-19544899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

Dr. Daniel Clauw will speak on the work done by the Chronic Pain Research Center. He will highlight accomplishments of the past, as well as plans for the future.

Daniel Clauw is a Professor of Anesthesiology Medicine (rheumatology) and Psychiatry at the University of Michigan. He serves as Director of the Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Center. The Research Center is a multidisciplinary center committed to improving the understanding and management of disorders distinguished by symptoms of chronic pain and fatigue. Until January 2009 he also served as the first Associate Dean for Clinical and Transitional Research at the University of Michigan Medical School.

This is the second of ten lectures to be presented once each month from September 2020 through June, 2021. The next lecture will be held November 10, 2020. The title is: What Happened Last Tuesday? Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:04:23 -0400 2020-10-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture Series
Race and Business Education: Deans Panel (October 13, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78092 78092-19963479@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Join us for a series of conversations addressing race in business and business education.

RACE AND BUSINESS EDUCATION: DEANS PANEL

Does business education make the grade on issues of race? A power panel of deans from leading business schools discuss the challenges and opportunities they face in their efforts to prepare their graduates to be inclusive leaders of a racially diverse workforce.

MODERATOR // DAVID WOOTEN // MICHIGAN ROSS
UNIVERSITY DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION PROFESSOR

WILLIAM BOULDING // DUKE FUQUA

KERWIN CHARLES // YALE SOM

FRANCESCA CORNELLI // NORTHWESTERN KELLOGG

SCOTT DERUE // MICHIGAN ROSS

NICOLE THORNE JENKINS // VIRGINIA MCINTIRE

JONATHAN LEVIN // STANFORD GSB

RAGHU SUNDARAM // NYU STERN

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Oct 2020 10:21:50 -0400 2020-10-13T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T16:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business and Society
Functional MRI 2020-21 Symposium Speaker (October 13, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77364 77364-19846044@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Abstract: MRI is an incredibly powerful medical imaging modality, but it is notorious for low signal levels, poor spatial resolution, and long scan times. In this talk, we will explore how concepts from Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting can be leveraged to overcome the conventional limitations of MRI.

For Zoom registration details please email Theresa Russ, truss@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:34:12 -0400 2020-10-13T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Seiberlich photo
Bioethics Discussion: Artificial Parts (October 13, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58829 58829-14563720@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 13, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on what is replaceable.

For the discussion, consider a few readings:
––Implant ethics
––Neuro-Prosthetics, the Extended Mind, and Respect for Persons with Disability
––Why Not Artificial Wombs?
––Going Out on a Limb: Prosthetics, Normalcy and Disputing the Therapy/Enhancement Distinction

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/048-artificial-parts/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Part way between "the real" and "the artificial", "the blog": https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 20:42:47 -0400 2020-10-13T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-13T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Artificial Parts
Critical Conversations (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78424 78424-20042429@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Digital Studies Institute

Please join the English Department next Wednesday on Zoom for the second Critical Conversations event of the semester. We have a great lineup of panelists and a very timely issue on the table, and we hope to see many of you there!

Sigrid Anderson | Hui-hui Hu | Silvia Lindtner | M. Remi Yergeau (chair)

Please RSVP by the end of the day on Tuesday to receive the Zoom Link

Sigrid Anderson is the Librarian for English Language and Literature and a lecturer in American Culture. Her research focuses on race and gender in print culture and new media. She is the author of Fictions of Dissent: Reclaiming Authority in Transatlantic Women's Writing of the Late Nineteenth Century (2010), and her current book project focuses on women writers’ use of regional magazines as a space to intervene in racialized land settlement questions in turn of the twentieth-century Los Angeles.

Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Greenhouses, Lighthouses (2013), and a study of digital culture, A Prehistory of the Cloud (2015). He is a contributor to the upcoming BBC Radio 4 program "Under the Cloud" on October 13. A fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the NEA, he is an associate professor of English at UM.

Silvia Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). Lindtner's research interests include cultures and politics of tech production, labor, industry, and governance. Lindtner draws from more than ten years of multi-sited ethnographic research, with a particular focus on China's shifting place in the political economy of tech innovation. Her book Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation (Princeton University Press, 2020) demonstrates that the promise of entrepreneurial life influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the persistence of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department Associate Chair’s Office. Each Critical Conversations session features panelists who will give flash talks about their current work as related to a broad theme.

Questions? Please contact Torre Puckett (puckettt@umich.edu), Sarah Jane Kerwin (sjkerwin@umich.edu), or Susan Scott Parrish (sparrish@umich.edu)

For more information and RSVP, visit the website: https://umcriticalconversations.wordpress.com/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:14:16 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Digital Studies Institute Lecture / Discussion
Critical Conversations: #Politics (October 14, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76730 76730-19741036@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2020-21. 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.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 15:37:52 -0400 2020-10-14T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood (October 14, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76248 76248-19679547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Active aging programs that encourage older adults to practice health-promoting behaviors are proliferating worldwide. In Poland, the meanings and ideals of these programs have become caught up in the sociocultural and political-economic changes that have occurred during the lifetimes of the oldest generations—most visibly, the transition from socialism to capitalism. Yet practices of active aging resonate with older forms of activity in late life in ways that exceed these narratives of progress. Moreover, some older Poles come to live valued, meaningful lives in old age despite threats to respect and dignity posed by illness and debility. Drawing on almost two years of ethnographic research with older Poles in a range of contexts, this talk shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives. This talk shows how memories and understandings of the Polish nation intersect with ideals and experiences of late life to produce forms of life that are not reducible to binary categories of health or illness, independence or dependence, or socialism or capitalism.

Jessica Robbins is an assistant professor at the Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan, and her B.A. in anthropology and music from Williams College. Her research explores aging, memory, kinship, and personhood in historical political-economic perspective, in both Poland and Michigan. Her research has been published in journals such as *Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Ageing & Society, Journal of Aging Studies,* and *East European Politics, Societies & Cultures*. Her first book, *Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood*, is forthcoming later this year with Rutgers University Press. She has received funding from organizations such as the NSF, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, IREX, and the Wilson Center.

This lecture is the CREES contribution to the "Area Studies Showcase Lecture Series: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia," of which CREES is a proud partner. See the full series lineup here: http://myumi.ch/BojQQ.

Register to attend at http://myumi.ch/dOD7V.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you before or during the event please contact us at crees@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is preferred as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:14:12 -0400 2020-10-14T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Jessica Robbins
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic (October 14, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77658 77658-19899717@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Roman Republican Reading Group (R3G to its friends) is excited to announce a virtual visit from Amy Richlin to discuss her book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic.

A zoom link will follow closer to the date.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 24 Sep 2020 09:33:39 -0400 2020-10-14T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Knowledge
Behind The Book Cover (October 14, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78069 78069-19957567@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

You know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but how does it end up with the cover it has, anyway? Join artist Ben Denzer for this informative and fun lecture on his experience designing book covers for the Penguin publishing house.

Register to receive your Zoom link!
U-M faculty, students, and staff: https://ttc.iss.lsa.umich.edu/ttc/sessions/behind-the-book-cover/
All others (Google form): http://umlib.us/behindthebookcover

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 16:17:55 -0400 2020-10-14T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-14T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion Book covers designed by Ben Denzer.
From the Edge of the Ghetto: The Quest of Small City African-Americans to Survive Post-Industrialism (October 15, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75676 75676-19560798@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This presentation uncovers perspectives about work and work opportunity held by socio-economically disadvantaged African Americans residing in Ypsilanti, Michigan, a declining “single-industry” town. In exploring their worldviews, this presentation elucidates how their thinking results from being caught between a traditional industrialism that is in decline and a proliferating post-industrialism exemplified by the neighboring city of Ann Arbor. It concludes with an illustration of how race, class, and gender factor into their thinking.

Professor Alford Young Jr., Ph.D. is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and Public Policy, attended Wesleyan University (BA) and the University of Chicago (MA and Ph.D.). His research generally focuses on low-income African American men. He is a former Chair of Michigan’s Sociology Department, and he serves as Associate Director of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions and Faculty Director of Scholar Engagement and Leadership at Michigan’s National Center for Institutional Diversity. He has published The Minds of Marginalized Black Men and Are Black Men Doomed?

This is the last of a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is: Poverty, Inequity and Disparity. The next lecture series will start October 22, 2020. The subject of the series is: 1619-Present.The many Consequences of Slavery. The Cost of Historical Injustices.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:05:59 -0400 2020-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday Lectures
3D organization of human genome in development and disease – A perspective from 3D genome engineering (October 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78431 78431-20044394@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Xiaotian Zhang, PhD
Research Investigator
Department of Pathology
Tomasz Cierpicki/Jolanta Grembecka lab
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:04:51 -0400 2020-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Zhang
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 15, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939591@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-15T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The ACA Turns 10: A Conversation with Health Policy Experts (October 15, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72848 72848-19867875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation

March 2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being enacted into law. The much-debated health care law was designed to improve access to health insurance for millions of uninsured Americans and to address the persistent problem of rising health insurance costs.

This event will feature national experts including Jonathan Cohn, Senior National Correspondent at the Huffington Post, John McDonough, Dr.P.H., M.P.A., Professor of Practice, Department of Health Policy & Management and Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Marianne Udow-Phillips, M.H.S.A., Founding Executive Director of the Center for Health and Research Transformation, and Gail Wilensky, Ph.D., Senior Fellow at Project Hope. The expert panel will share their insights about the ACA's accomplishments and challenges over the past decade and the future of the ACA in 2020 and beyond.

Moderators: John Ayanian, M.D., M.P.P., Director of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, and Howard Markel, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the U-M Center for the History of Medicine

This event serves as the Institue for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Director’s Lecture and the Center for the History of Medicine's Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This event is open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 20 Sep 2020 08:15:07 -0400 2020-10-15T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation Lecture / Discussion ACA Turns 10 - A Conversation with Policy Experts
CCPS Roundtable. Assessing the State of Play in Polish Politics: The 2020 Presidential Elections (October 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77794 77794-19931619@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Panelists: Anna Grzymała-Busse, Michelle and Kevin Douglas Professor of International Studies, Stanford University; Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages & literatures and comparative literature, U-M; Brian Porter-Szűcs, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, U-M.

In the first round of Poland’s 2020 presidential elections, the incumbent Andrzej Duda, from the ruling Law and Justice Party, received 43% of the vote. If this result suggested an early consolidation of conservative voters’ enthusiasm, the second round of voting revealed an evenly divided electorate, with Duda winning reelection with just 51% of the total against Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski. What does this result tell us about the current state of national politics in Poland and the Law and Justice Party’s claims to a popular mandate to alter democratic institutions? Does it suggest an erosion of populist politics in Central Europe, or is it rather an affirmation of the ruling party’s Euroscepticism and judicial reforms? Professors Anna Grzymala-Busse (political science, Stanford) and Brian Porter-Szücs (history, U-M) will walk us through this dynamic landscape, discussing what it reveals about Poland’s present and what it might portend for its future.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/er4dR.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at copernicus@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 12:57:50 -0400 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion photo by Milana Jovanov
David Miliband on international politics, humanitarian needs, and the global significance of the U.S. election (October 15, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77303 77303-19838048@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join us for a discussion with David Miliband, President of the International Rescue Committee and former Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom. John Ciorciari, Ford School Associate Professor and Director of the Weiser Diplomacy Center, will moderate the discussion.

Join the conversation: #policytalks

From the speaker's bio:

David Miliband is the President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He oversees the agency’s relief and development operations in over 30 countries, its refugee resettlement and assistance programs throughout the United States and the IRC’s advocacy efforts in Washington and other capitals on behalf of the world’s most vulnerable people.

David has had a distinguished political career in the United Kingdom. From 2007 to 2010, he served as the youngest Foreign Secretary in three decades, driving advancements in human rights and representing the United Kingdom throughout the world. His accomplishments have earned him a reputation, in former President Bill Clinton's words, as "one of the ablest, most creative public servants of our time.” In 2016 David was named one of the World’s Greatest Leaders by Fortune Magazine and in 2018 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

David is also the author of the book, Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time. As the son of refugees, David brings a personal commitment to the IRC's work and to the premise of the book: that we can rescue the dignity and hopes of refugees and displaced people. And if we help them, in the process we will rescue our own values.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:12:28 -0400 2020-10-15T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion David Miliband (Photo: U.S. Institute of Peace)
Reading and Q&A with Author Tea Obreht (October 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75397 75397-19463854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Tea Obreht’s *New York Times* bestselling novel, *Inland*, is grounded in true but little-known history of the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, the novel subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West.

Arriving onto the literary scene with her first bestselling novel, *The Tiger’s Wife*, Téa Obreht writes fiction that explores themes of narrative, myth and memory. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Obreht’s stunning debut novel links the past and present by stories and anecdotes in an unnamed Balkan country mending from war. Rapturously received, *The Tiger’s Wife* won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, was a 2011 National Book Award finalist, was an international bestseller, and was named one of the best books of the year by numerous publications including *The New York Times Book Review*, *Publisher's Weekly*, *Vogue*, *The Wall Street Journal*, and *O: The Oprah Magazine*.

In *Inland*, Obreht's second novel, Obreht takes on the sweeping mythology of the American West, reimagining myths and forging new truths about the American West. An Editor's Choice, T*he New York Times Book Review* praised *Inland*, "Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace. Remarkable in a novel with such a sprawling cast, Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions.” The book was named among President Obama’s summer reading list for 2019.

Obreht's work has been anthologized in *The Best American Short Stories* and *The Best American Non-Required Reading*, and has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Harper's*, *The Atlantic*, *Vogue*, *Esquire* and *Zoetrope: All-Story*, among many others. A recipient of fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and the National Endowment for the Arts, Obreht. was named by *The New Yorker* as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She lives in New York with her husband, and teaches at Hunter College.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:34:18 -0400 2020-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Tea Obreht
The Psychology of Pathogen Avoidance: How Does It Work and How Relevant Is It for Understanding Pandemic Behavior? (October 15, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78467 78467-20050321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Infectious diseases have been some of humanity's biggest killers. Fortunately, we possess an evolved psychology of pathogen avoidance - a system of mental mechanisms that help us identify, track, and respond to such dangers, thereby reducing risks of infection. Unfortunately, this system is imperfect - we mistake which information is diagnostic, leading to faulty assumptions, pernicious attitudes, and bad decisions. I will review recent work in our lab focusing on how we conceptualize pathogen threats and consequences of this process. Additionally, I will discuss when our understanding of pathogen avoidance psychology can inform explanations of pandemic behavior, and more importantly, why it might not.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96257205534
Meeting ID: 962 5720 5534
Password: cogsci

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:22:13 -0400 2020-10-15T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
CMENAS Virtual Event. Feminism, Faith, and Patriarchy: The Khorasan Archives (October 15, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77620 77620-19891783@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

CMENAS has partnered with the Journal of Narrative Theory at Eastern Michigan University to offer this lecture by Khan. She is the author of *The Khorasan Archives *fantasy series, *The Unquiet Dead*, *The Language of Secrets*, *A Death in Sarajevo, Among the Ruins,* and *A Dangerous Crossing*. She is also the former editor in chief of *Muslim Girl Magazine*. She holds a PhD in International Human Rights Law, with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as the main subject of her dissertation.


*If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: nkovacev@emich.edu*

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:22:35 -0400 2020-10-15T18:30:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Radical Roots, Contested Place: African American and African Studies at U-M (October 15, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78057 78057-19957547@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 15, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this "Making Michigan" webinar with U-M Professor Stephen Ward, who will discuss the impact of the Black Power movement and struggles around race, nationally and locally, at U-M during the 1960s and 1970s. You'll learn about the Black Action Movement (BAM I), an important moment in U-M's history of student activism. He'll also discuss the motivations and rationale for Black Studies as an academic discipline, and the origins of U-M's Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS). The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:51:06 -0400 2020-10-15T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Image of event poster, with title and picture of Stephen Ward
Lecture Series: The Latest Technology and Innovations in the Maritime Industry (October 16, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78471 78471-20050327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 8:00am
Location:
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Lecture series for experts, professors and industry leaders in the maritime sector.

Registration: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Design_and_Manufacture_of_MultiMaterials_Lightweight_Structures_5155

A number of recent major investigations in the US and aboard have concluded that the most effective lightweighting can be achieved through the adoption of multi-materials structures for which the right material can be used at the right place. However, the design and manufacture of such multi-materials structures faces unprecedented challenges that include design for producibility, jointability, and structural performance. This talk will highlight some of the key research issues and some solutions being developed at University of Michigan.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:47:28 -0400 2020-10-16T08:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T09:00:00-04:00 Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME Happening at UM
Craft Lecture: The Mystery of the Story (October 16, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75398 75398-19463855@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

This craft lecture will center on how every story is actually a mystery, the telling of which is dependent on a pact of exchange between writer and reader. Techniques of withholding and misdirection help us keep suspense alive in literary fiction.


Tea Obreht’s *New York Times* bestselling novel, *Inland*, is grounded in true but little-known history of the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, the novel subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West.

Arriving onto the literary scene with her first bestselling novel, *The Tiger’s Wife*, Téa Obreht writes fiction that explores themes of narrative, myth and memory. Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Obreht’s stunning debut novel links the past and present by stories and anecdotes in an unnamed Balkan country mending from war. Rapturously received, *The Tiger’s Wife* won the 2011 Orange Prize for Fiction, was a 2011 National Book Award finalist, was an international bestseller, and was named one of the best books of the year by numerous publications including *The New York Times Book Review*, *Publisher's Weekly*, *Vogue*, *The Wall Street Journal*, and *O: The Oprah Magazine*.

In *Inland*, Obreht's second novel, Obreht takes on the sweeping mythology of the American West, reimagining myths and forging new truths about the American West. An Editor's Choice, T*he New York Times Book Review* praised *Inland*, "Obreht’s simple but rich prose captures and luxuriates in the West’s beauty and sudden menace. Remarkable in a novel with such a sprawling cast, Obreht also has a poetic touch for writing intricate and precise character descriptions.” The book was named among President Obama’s summer reading list for 2019.

Obreht's work has been anthologized in *The Best American Short Stories* and *The Best American Non-Required Reading*, and has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *Harper's*, *The Atlantic*, *Vogue*, *Esquire* and *Zoetrope: All-Story*, among many others. A recipient of fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library and the National Endowment for the Arts, Obreht. was named by *The New Yorker* as one of the twenty best American fiction writers under forty. She lives in New York with her husband, and teaches at Hunter College.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:54:34 -0400 2020-10-16T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Tea Obreht
HET Seminar | Neural Networks and Quantum Field Theory (October 16, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77379 77379-19915834@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

We propose a theoretical understanding of neural networks in terms of Wilsonian effective field theory. The correspondence relies on the fact that many asymptotic neural networks are drawn from Gaussian processes, the analog of non-interacting field theories. Moving away from the asymptotic limit yields a non-Gaussian process and corresponds to turning on particle interactions, allowing for the computation of correlation functions of neural network outputs with Feynman diagrams. Minimal non-Gaussian process likelihoods are determined by the most relevant non-Gaussian terms, according to the flow in their coefficients induced by the Wilsonian renormalization group. This yields a direct connection between overparameterization and simplicity of neural network likelihoods. Whether the coefficients are constants or functions may be understood in terms of GP limit symmetries, as expected from 't Hooft's technical naturalness. General theoretical calculations are matched to neural network experiments in the simplest class of models allowing the correspondence. Our formalism is valid for any of the many architectures that becomes a GP in an asymptotic limit, a property preserved under certain types of training.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:05:30 -0400 2020-10-16T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: Impact basins as probes of planetary interiors (October 16, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75005 75005-19136107@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 96738249031
Multiring basins dominate the stratigraphy, tectonics, and crustal structure of the Moon. Large impacts likely dominated the evolution of all ancient planetary crusts. Despite their important role, the formation of multiring basins and their concentric topographic rings is poorly understood. In this talk I will present simulations of the formation of lunar multiring basins that directly resolve ring formation and reproduce basin gravity signatures. We find that the resultant basin structure is sensitive to impactor size and thermomechanical state of the target interior. Simulations of the formation of Venusian multiring basins imply relatively low lithospheric thermal gradients and imply Venus is not in a mobile lid convection regime. We also discuss how formation of Valhalla-class multiring basins on ocean worlds may provide insight into the thickness of the icy shells they form in.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:50:53 -0400 2020-10-16T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-16T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Tending our Gardens: Ethnomusicologists as Music Educators, Music Historians, and Administrators (October 16, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78400 78400-20028614@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

ZOOM Passcode: 919304 

Prof. Timothy Rice, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, Ethnomusicology, UCLA

It has been said that ethnomusicology is what ethnomusicologists do. Those of us who work in schools and departments of music often do many things and have multiple roles to play. As researchers, we may teach about the world's musical traditions, the musical traditions of the U.S. and the Americas, and the particular cultures, people, and genres we have researched in depth. In our roles as citizens of the university or college where we teach, we often take on other roles as performers, composers, music theorists, music educators, music historians, and administrators. In my own career these last three roles have figured most prominently. To these roles I have brought the values inherent in the discipline of ethnomusicology: advocating for diversity, equity, and inclusion and opposing ethnocentrism and racism. This presentation examines my own life-long experiences in such institutions, including course and curricular innovations that express these values. Among other things, I discuss my recent attempt to move the curriculum of a school of music away from the eurocentrism at its core by becoming, in effect, a music historian. And I conclude with some reflections on why moving away from ethnocentrism to inclusion in schools of music has proven so difficult and one approach to doing so.

Timothy Rice, Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, of ethnomusicology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has written many books and articles about the traditional music of Bulgaria and Macedonia. He also writes about theory and method in ethnomusicology, including Ethnomusicology: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Modeling Ethnomusicology (Oxford University Press, 2017). He was the editor of the journal Ethnomusicology (1981-1984); the founding co-editor of the ten-volume Garland Encyclopedia of World Music (1992-2002); and the President of the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM, 2003-2005). As the founding director of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music (2007-2013), he contributed to discussions of curricular reform at the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) and the College Music Society (CMS). In 2019 he was named an honorary member of the Society for Ethnomusicology for his contributions to SEM and the field of ethnomusicology.

Part of the Ethel V. Curry Distinguished Lecture in Musicology Lecture Series

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:15:04 -0400 2020-10-16T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion Tending our Gardens: Ethnomusicologists as Music Educators, Music Historians, and Administrators
A History of Native American Activism and Policy (October 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78322 78322-20006840@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Register on Sessions to receive the Zoom Link: https://myumi.ch/xm4Mz

From the very beginning the United States has dealt with Native Americans with a series of policies and treaties. Most of the policies were aimed at assimilation. For many years Native Americans were forced to live by standards set by the United States. But with the formation of the American Indian Movement, they started to fight back. Learn about the beginnings of the American Indian Movement and the organized protests that they led including the Occupation of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee. And also learn how the activism of the 1960's lives on today and how we are dealing with issues in the Native community today.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:59:26 -0400 2020-10-16T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Heather Bruegl
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: Philippa Hughes, Dismantling the Polarization Industrial Complex (October 16, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77117 77117-19798485@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 16, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

>the Penny Stamps Series Facebook: https://stamps.umich.edu/stamps.

Philippa P.B. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. She is an evangelist for dismantling the polarization industrial complex, one conversation at a time. Hughes has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious folks to engage with art and one another in unconventional and meaningful ways. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting politically diverse guests to break bread and talk to each other face-to-face using art as a starting point for relationship-building conversations. Hughes has engineered numerous public-private collaborations that have been funded by the Kresge Foundation, New American Economy, Center for Inclusion & Belonging, and the DC Office of Planning. She has served as a commissioner on the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among numerous other boards throughout Washington, D.C., where she is based. Hughes has spoken at TEDxAmericanUniversity, Creative Placemaking Week 2018 in Amsterdam, Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, TomTom Festival, Smart Growth America’s Intersections. Her work has been featured by CNN, PBS Newshour, CityLab, and The Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets. Her formal training took place at the University of Virginia, which launched her into a six-year legal career that ended with the Washington City Paper declaring 2007 “The Year of Philippa.” Deep curiosity about the world and the people in it provided the education that mattered most.

In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, this event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:15:59 -0400 2020-10-16T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-16T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
A History of Native American Activism and Policy (October 18, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78322 78322-20006842@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 18, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA

Register on Sessions to receive the Zoom Link: https://myumi.ch/xm4Mz

From the very beginning the United States has dealt with Native Americans with a series of policies and treaties. Most of the policies were aimed at assimilation. For many years Native Americans were forced to live by standards set by the United States. But with the formation of the American Indian Movement, they started to fight back. Learn about the beginnings of the American Indian Movement and the organized protests that they led including the Occupation of Alcatraz and Wounded Knee. And also learn how the activism of the 1960's lives on today and how we are dealing with issues in the Native community today.

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.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:59:26 -0400 2020-10-18T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-18T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Multi Ethnic Student Affairs - MESA Lecture / Discussion Heather Bruegl
Writing a Diversity Statement for the Faculty Job Search (October 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77540 77540-19879857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a “diversity statement” as part of the faculty job application process. In this interactive session, we will discuss best practices for writing diversity statements, examine sample statements, and work through activities designed to help participants start writing their own statement.
This workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. For faculty and staff, please contact RackhamEvents@umich.edu to see if we can accommodate your attendance.
Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/qgPv0.
We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would promote your full participation in this event, please follow the registration link to indicate your accommodation requirements. Please let us know as soon as possible in order to have adequate time (one week preferred) to arrange for your requested accommodation(s) or an effective alternative.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:15:54 -0400 2020-10-19T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 1 (October 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77840 77840-19933638@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan's Medieval "Mirror" Genre

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:20:07 -0400 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T17:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Medieval Genre Scene
RNA Seminar featuring: Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego (October 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75807 75807-19608023@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CcI2trSATJy47aGtwrzhew

Abstract: The life-cycle of RNA from transcription to translational regulation is mediated by a diverse (>2000) set of proteins called RNA binding proteins. My lab studies the many roles that RNA binding proteins have in affecting RNA expression, splicing, transport and translation. Through our studies on RNA processing, we have introduced therapeutic strategies to treat neurodegenerative and muscular diseases, built cellular models of neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases and developed experimental and computational tools that enable the community to probe RNA binding protein-RNA interactions at scale. I will discuss (1) our established and new technologies to identify RNA targets of human RBPs at scale, (2) systematic assays to assign molecular roles to RBPs and (2) functional screens to identify RBPs implicated in cancer / RNA granule formation.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:57:16 -0400 2020-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-19T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion Gene Yeo, University of California, San Diego
Tracking A Pandemic: An Analytical View of the COVID-19 Progression and Implications for Business Plans to Re-Engage in the Economy (October 19, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78333 78333-20010773@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 19, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

The SARS-CoV-2 virus caused widespread disruption across the globe, affecting literally every aspect of human life. The business environment was not spared in this disruption, as customers, the workforce, workplace environments and supply chains were each turned upside-down, almost overnight. Operating practices needed to be challenged, re-engineered and re-adopted – at the speed of business. That is akin to replacing the aircraft engine while the plane is mid-flight.

The challenge faced by business leaders from the outset of the pandemic, and remains true today, is that objective, analytical information on the state of the virus was and remains woefully inadequate. Further, every organization operating in multiple geographical and political jurisdictions has to navigate different and every-changing rules governing the ability to conduct operations.

In mid-March, I launched an effort to build a repository of critical virus-related information (tests, positives, infections, recoveries, fatalities) at various levels of granularity – world, country, state or province, and metropolitan area. From this, I established a daily reporting mechanism and underlying analyses, designed to equip business leaders, economic and investment advisors and clinicians with insight about the state of the virus spread and underlying trends. My intent was to inform these leaders with actionable intelligence, free of both the fearmongering and denial perspectives that were dominating the general and social media.

These efforts have resulted in my direct engagement with four organizations’ operational planning efforts around the pandemic: two for-profit organizations involved in the manufacture and distribution of critical medical/life sciences products to consumers around the globe, a not-for-profit agency supporting families of critically-ill children and a governmental agency charged with administering a state-wide pandemic response effort. Additionally, I provide daily reports on the state of the virus to an estimated 2,000 clinicians, health organization managers, economists and investment managers.

These lessons provide strong insight for the analytical practitioner. Through this effort, I have discovered the challenges of making actionable sense of data from a novel virus . . . in real-time. Data sources and definitions are in constant flux, external reporting lacks analytical rigor, and, new knowledge frequently trumps previously held scientific beliefs. More profoundly, models reported on and used extensively by government officials are often accepted as dogma but, may be nothing more than assumptions built upon several more layers of assumptions.

Mark currently serves as the Board Chair of Crown Healthcare Laundry Inc., a Quilvest Private Equity-portfolio company and as Strategic Advisor to Terso Solutions Inc., a subsidiary of Promega that provides Real Time Location Services (RTLS) for field-based inventory of leading medical implant and biotech companies.

He previously served as chief strategist and business intelligence officer for Owens & Minor, Inc.; as a Partner in the healthcare consulting practice at Ernst & Young, where he launched the firm’s health care supply chain practice; and as a Management Engineer at the Detroit Medical Center.

Mark also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Congenital Heart Center at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan, and on the Advisory Board of the Medical Device Supply Chain Council. He recently completed two terms on the Board of the Bellwether League Inc.

In the midst of the COVID-19 situation, Mark is producing an objective and analytical daily report on the virus progression in the US and worldwide. This report has become a go-to source for nearly 2,000 physicians, scientists, health system and supplier executives, economists, investment bankers and, one former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Mark holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Operations Engineering, also from the University of Michigan.

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 the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@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, 08 Oct 2020 11:38:55 -0400 2020-10-19T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-19T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion photo of speaker with event information
U.S.-China relations during COVID-19: Finding a path forward (October 20, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76231 76231-19679532@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join the conversation: #policytalks.

Panelists:

Ken Lieberthal, senior fellow emeritus in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings

Mary Gallagher, Professor of Political Science, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, and faculty associate at the Center for Comparative Political Studies at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan

Ann Lin, Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan

Moderator:

Michael S. Barr, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, Frank Murphy Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Roy F. and Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/us-china-relations-during-covid-19-finding-path-forward

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:27:53 -0400 2020-10-20T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Ann Lin, Ken Lieberthal, and Mary Gallagher
LHS Collaboratory-LHS as a Driver of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (October 20, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77545 77545-19879862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

Healthcare and health remain unconscionably inequitable. This year, the disproportionate toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on those historically least well-served by our health system, has highlighted the pressing societal challenge of health disparities.

Beyond simply striving to do no harm, Learning Health Systems (LHSs) have the potential to serve as forces for justice in healthcare and health; indeed, they can be powerful drivers of diversity, equity, and inclusion. LHSs are anchored in multi-stakeholder consensus Core Values that explicitly incorporate principles such as inclusiveness, transparency, and accessibility. Their proximal goal is "to efficiently and equitably serve the learning needs of all participants, as well as the overall public good."

The October 2020 LHS Collaboratory will share lessons from health advocates working on the front lines to make healthcare and health more equitable. These thought leaders and do-ers will illuminate the transformative power of LHSs - and the diverse and inclusive communities of interest that are collaborating to realize them.

Moderator:
Joshua C. Rubin, JD, MBA, MPP, MPH
Program Officer, Learning Health System Initiatives, Department of Learning Health Sciences, University of Michigan

Panelists:
Luis Belén
Chief Executive Officer of the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved (NHIT Collaborative)

Danielle Brooks, JD
Director of Health Equity, Amerihealth Caritas

Melissa S. Creary, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor
Department of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 27 Sep 2020 21:18:37 -0400 2020-10-20T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-20T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion LHS Collaboratory Logo puzzle pieces
"Neural Control of Breathing" (October 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78213 78213-19991038@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is pleased to present this seminar as a part of our ongoing Seminar Series with speaker Peng Li, PhD.

Dr. Li is a Research Assistant Professor at the Life Sciences Institute, and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biologic and Materials Sciences and Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology here at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Neural Control of Breathing”.

Faculty Host: Linda Samuelson, PhD

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:48:04 -0400 2020-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion
EIHS Lecture: Medical Science and Legal Personhood: Remaking “Unsoundness” in English Civil Law, 1745-1830 (October 20, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63595 63595-15808576@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

During the early nineteenth century British judges and juries remade the legal condition “unsound of mind.” Understood as the inability to manage one’s affairs, unsoundness of mind created the potential to tangle the legal, the social/economic, and the medical, and foregrounded the place of claims about the mind as a means of rationalizing decisions as to the extent of one’s legal personhood. Using the famous wills case Dew v. Clark and Clark as a jumping off point, this talk will explore some of the ways in which an individual’s legal personhood became, in part, a matter of medical judgment and the law itself became to a certain extent medicalized.

John Carson is associate professor of history at the University of Michigan. He was born in Philadelphia and received his PhD in history (of science) from Princeton University in 1994. He specializes in history of the human sciences and US intellectual/cultural history. His publications include The Measure of Merit: Talents, Intelligence, and Inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940 (Princeton University Press, 2007) and “‘Every Expression Is Watched’: Mind, Expertise, and Display in the Nineteenth-Century English Courtroom,” Social Studies of Science 48 (2018). John’s current research project explores the development and deployment of the medico-legal category “unsoundness of mind” in Anglo-America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Note: This event was rescheduled from September 10 to October 20.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAud-qorT0iGdDu-NmL1AbwoQa04n40fZvF

This event is presented by 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, 07 Oct 2020 16:48:12 -0400 2020-10-20T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion
Virginia Martin Howard Lecture Series “Instruments of Italy: The Violin Family” Joseph Gascho (October 20, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78662 78662-20099530@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

How could a simple wooden box with a few strings and tuning pegs become the world's most expensive and popular instrument? Joseph Gascho, director of the Stearns Collection, will discuss and play recordings of violins, violas, and cellos. Although focused on the tradition that flourished in Italy in the 17th century, the lecture will also feature other string instrument traditions that have existed around the world for millienia.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Oct 2020 12:15:04 -0400 2020-10-20T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Music, Theatre & Dance Lecture / Discussion
WCED Panel. Flashpoint: Hong Kong (October 20, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78387 78387-20020765@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Nicholas Howson, Pao Li Tsiang Professor of Law, U-M; Mary Gallagher, Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights, Director of the International Institute, U-M; Xiaohong Xu, assistant professor of sociology, U-M; Samson Yuen, assistant professor of government and international studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. Moderator: Jundai Liu, WCED Postdoctoral Fellow.

When handed over from British to Chinese rule in 1997, Hong Kong’s special autonomous status was guaranteed by the principle of “one country, two systems” for fifty years. Since then, this status has been eroded. From the Umbrella Movement in 2014 to large-scale protests against the “Extradition Bill” and the “National Security Law ” in 2019 and 2020, Hong Kong has become an epicenter of contentions. In light of these events, the experts of this panel will share their observations and insights on the judicial, political, and social developments in Hong Kong.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at https://myumi.ch/mnbv3.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. 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, 14 Oct 2020 15:22:58 -0400 2020-10-20T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-20T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Flashpoint: Hong Kong
CHM 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities (October 21, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78729 78729-20113300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for the History of Medicine

The Center for the History of Medicine is pleased to announce its 19th Annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities.

This year’s lecture will feature Dr. Powel Kazanjian, Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Kazanjian is also Professor of History at the University of Michigan, where he teaches on the history of epidemics and the history of sexually transmitted diseases. He has written extensively about the history of AIDS, syphilis, commercial botulism, plague, and the development of bacteriology in America.

Dr. Kazanjian will deliver his lecture, “The Persistence of Contagious Diseases.” By the later 20th century, it had become common for public health officials and lay writers to envision a future in which epidemic diseases had been eliminated. The appearance of the new deadly disease that would eventually be known as AIDS in 1981, however, challenged their confident vision. The potent antiretroviral therapies (ART) introduced in 1996 enabled individuals receiving treatment to survive a full lifespan. By 2014, a global UNAIDS campaign sought to “end AIDS as a global health threat” by 2030” by maximizing the distribution of ART to infected people. The UNAIDS campaign is conceptually similar to earlier 20th century programs that sought to end syphilis by expanding specific therapy. The failure of these syphilis campaigns, together with the realization that today’s efforts to end AIDS is falling short of their 2020 milestones, however, raise uncertainties about whether the ongoing UNAIDs campaign will succeed. Socioeconomic and behavioral factors have hindered the biomedical campaigns to eliminate syphilis and AIDS. To be effective, scientific public health campaigns must also address how to rectify the socioeconomic conditions and human behaviors that vex elimination efforts and lead to emerging epidemics like AIDS and Covid-19. Epidemic diseases, along with efforts launched to contain them, have been and continue to be an inescapable part of our existence.

Please join us for this engaging and timely online lecture from one of the nation’s premiere infectious disease experts.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Zoom link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/93152555886

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:06:52 -0400 2020-10-21T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for the History of Medicine Lecture / Discussion CHM 19th Annual Davenport Lecture
U.S. health policy directions: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood (October 21, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/76236 76236-19679533@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

From the speaker's bio:

Len M. Nichols has been the Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics (CHPRE) and a Professor of Health Policy at George Mason University since March 2010. He has been intimately involved in health reform debates, policy development, and communication with the media and policy makers for 25+ years, after he was Senior Advisor for Health Policy at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in the Clinton Administration. Since that time he has testified frequently before Congress and state legislatures, published extensively and spoken to a wide range of health care and insurance organizations and associations, boards of directors, and health policy leadership forums around the country.

After OMB, Len was a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, Vice President of the Center for Studying Health System Change, and Director of the Health Policy Program atthe New America Foundation. In addition to his positions at GMU Len is on the Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and in 2015 was appointed by the Comptroller General to serve on the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee (PTAC), which advises the Secretary of HHS on Medicare payment policies. Len was an Innovation Advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at CMS in 2012, and recently been the Principal Investigator on PCMH evaluation studies as well as in more general studies of how to use payment and delivery reform to achieve triple aim and health equity goals. Recently he has helped develop an economic model to incentivize sustainable investments in upstream social determinants of health, and is actively engaged in teaching that model and attendant processes to communities around the country. Len received a B.A. from Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, with his wife Nora Super of the Milken Institute.

For more information visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/us-health-policy-directions-two-roads-diverged-yellow-wood

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:19:43 -0400 2020-10-21T11:30:00-04:00 2020-10-21T12:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Len Nichols
CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series (October 21, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78174 78174-19989054@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation

After a long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CCAT Distinguished Lecture Series returns virtually this October with Trevor Pawl!

On July 2nd, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer formally announced the launch of the Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) with Trevor Pawl named as Chief Mobility Officer. Trevor will provide insight into the creation of OFME, its vision, and its use as a tool for all key mobility stakeholders in Michigan. This webinar will include a Q&A session.
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About the speaker: Trevor Pawl is the Chief Mobility Officer for the State of Michigan, and leads Michigan’s Office of Future Mobility and Electrification. In this position, Pawl is responsible for working across state government, academia and private industry to grow Michigan’s mobility ecosystem through strategic policy recommendations and new support services for companies focused on the future of transportation. Prior to this position, Pawl served as the Senior Vice President of Business Innovation at the MEDC, where he led the official state programs for mobility (PlanetM), supply chain assistance (Pure Michigan Business Connect), export assistance (Michigan International Trade program) and entrepreneurial assistance (Michigan Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program). Before joining the MEDC, Pawl brought with him experience in supply chain matchmaking, having led the creation of the economic development program, Connection Point, at the Detroit Regional Chamber, which later became Pure Michigan Business Connect. Trevor has been named Crain’s Detroit Business’s “40 Under 40” and “50 Names to Know in Government”. He’s also been named Development Counsellors International’s “40 Under 40 Rising Stars of Economic Development” and the Great Lakes Women’s Business Council’s “Government Advocate of the Year”. Pawl holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Marketing from Grand Valley State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Detroit Mercy.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:35:03 -0400 2020-10-21T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Connected and Automated Transportation Lecture / Discussion Decorative Image
The Educated Voter (October 21, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78504 78504-20052323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

With the 2020 election looming and the ever-present noise coming from the internet and tv, it can be hard to sort through all of the information to become an educated voter. But what is an educated voter and how do we become one? Join us as we discuss the absentee voting process, how to find your sample ballot, how to research candidates and more.

Presenters: Deborah Lynn Bunkley, League of Women Voters, Catherine Morse, U of M Libraries, and Dr. Kimberly Saks McManaway, U of M Flint

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:37:28 -0400 2020-10-21T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion The Educated Voter
Lecture: Kate Orff (October 21, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78388 78388-20020766@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Join Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning for a lecture by Kate Orff, Founding Principal of SCAPE Studio, followed by presentations of some ongoing projects from SCAPE designers.

Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founding Principal of SCAPE. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects. She is known for leading complex, creative, and collaborative work processes that advance broad environmental and social prerogatives. In 2019, Kate was elevated to the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Council of Fellows—one of the highest honored bestowed on landscape architects practicing in the U.S.

Kate was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2017, the first given in the field of landscape architecture. In 2019, she accepted a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, on behalf of SCAPE, and was named a Hero of the Harbor by the Waterfront Alliance. She was a 2012 United States Artist Fellow, dubbed an Elle Magazine “Planet Fixer,” and has been profiled and interviewed extensively for publications including The New York Times, The Economist, National Geographic, and more.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 17:04:46 -0400 2020-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Kate Orff, SCAPE
Me, the "Other" Panel Discussion (October 21, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78303 78303-20004862@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 21, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM

As part of the U-M DEI Summit celebrating Arts and Social Change, Voices of the Staff is hosting a virtual panel discussion. Me, The Other a gripping documentary film about otherness and oneness featuring twelve diverse students living in Washtenaw County, is available on MiVideo to stream at your convenience prior to the event.
The panel discussion will feature authentic conversation and Q&A with the film's Director and Co-Producer, Shidan Majidi. Shidan will be joined by several cast members, including: Celia, Hussain, Kit, Taylor, Veronica and soundtrack composer, Levi Taylor.
The panel discussion will be moderated by Steve Vinson, Sanam Arab and Jane Berliss-Vincent. Pedro Coracides will emcee the virtual event.
For more information and to sign up for the panel discussion: myumi.ch/GklPP

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:47:46 -0400 2020-10-21T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-21T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location VOICES OF THE STAFF- ADVANCING DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION TEAM Lecture / Discussion Me, The "Other" flyer
Election Integrity: A WeListen Staff Discussion (October 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78175 78175-19987076@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: WeListen Staff

This WeListen session is open to all UM staff members. All voices and views are welcome and the Zoom link will be shared once you've RSVP'd!

RSVP here: http://bit.ly/WLOctober20

We will discuss Election Integrity as the 2020 Presidential Election approaches amidst conversation around mail-in voting, the counting of absentee ballots and access to the polls across the country.

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

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

Questions? Email us at welistenstaff@umich.edu.

This event is supported by the WeListen Staff Series planning committee with members from the Ginsberg Center, the International Institute, LSA Psychology and Michigan Medicine.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:03:47 -0400 2020-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location WeListen Staff Lecture / Discussion WeListen October 2020
The scientific case against racism (October 22, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/77302 77302-19836072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Neuroscientist and author David Linden will discuss some of the findings from his upcoming book, Unique: The Science of Human Individuality, which explores the origins and importance of human individuality.

It is surprising that, with all of the ongoing examination of racism in general and anti-Blackness in particular, the compelling scientific case against racism has not been part of the discussion. This is a problem even people who are not overtly racist have imagined a scientific basis for certain racial myths and stereotypes. This talk will examine the assertions and assumptions of racist pseudoscience and show how contemporary genetics and neuroscience refute them.

About the speaker:
David Linden, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His laboratory has worked for many years on the cellular basis of memory storage, recovery of function after brain injury and a few other topics. He has a longstanding interest in scientific communication and served for many years as the chief editor of the Journal of Neurophysiology. He is the author of three bestselling books on the biology of behavior: The Accidental Mind (2007), The Compass of Pleasure (2011) and Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind (2015) which, to date, have been translated into 19 languages. Most recently, he edited a collection of short essays on brain function written for a general audience: Think Tank: Forty Neuroscientists Explore the Biological Roots of Human Experience (2018). His has appeared on the TED Radio Hour, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and many other media outlets. His next book, Unique: The Science of Human Individuality will be published by Basic books on September 29, 2020.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:14:46 -0400 2020-10-22T11:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion David Linden, Ph.D.
Communication and Media Speaker Series (October 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76949 76949-19780540@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Communication and Media

Panel Discussion with:
Kris Harrison: Children's and Parents' Fright Reactions to News about COVID-19
Sol Hart: Politicization and Polarization in COVID-19 News Coverage
Hang Lu: Mask on while Asian: How Acculturation, Media Use and Perception, and Alienation Influence U.S.-Dwelling Chinese’s Protective Barriers during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:34:53 -0400 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
Perspectives on the 2020 Presidential Election (October 22, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76324 76324-19687517@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Join faculty members from the Center for Political Studies on Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 4 PM Eastern for a panel discussion of the issues shaping the 2020 Presidential Election. Panelists include Jenna Bednar, Vincent Hutchings, and Angela Ocampo. This event is part of the ISR Insights Speaker Series.

Please register for this event at http://myumi.ch/7ZA9g
The event will be live-streamed at http://myumi.ch/YyjAE

Jenna Bednar is professor of political science and public policy at the University of Michigan, a member of the external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the Edie N. Goldenberg Endowed Director of Michigan in Washington. Her research focuses on how collective action builds social goods and the role that government plays in that collaboration. Current work includes: robust system design, especially of federalism; states as innovators in federal systems; out of district campaign contributions; how culture affects the way people respond to laws and norms; transboundary water system governance; and governance to support human flourishing. Her book The Robust Federation: Principles of Design was awarded the APSA Martha Derthick Best Book Award in recognition of its enduring contribution to the study of federalism. In 2020, she was named APSA Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar.

Vincent Hutchings is a Research Professor in the Center for Political Studies and Professor in the Department of Political Science. Professor Hutchings’ general interests include public opinion, elections, voting behavior, and African American politics. He is also interested in the ways that campaign communications can “prime” various group identities and subsequently affect candidate evaluations.

Angela Ocampo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research examines the political incorporation of racial, ethnic and religious minorities both as every-day participants and as political leaders within American institutions. Her current book project investigates the concept of perceived belonging to U.S. society and its influence on political interest and political engagement among Latinas/os/xs.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 13:13:04 -0400 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer for Perspectives on the 2020 Presidential Election
Reading and Q&A with Author Jenny Zhang (October 22, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75399 75399-19463856@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Jenny Zhang’s debut story collection, *Sour Heart*, centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. Zhang is currently adapting *Sour Heart* into a feature-length film for A24.

From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, *Sour Heart*'s seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

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


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:10:00 -0400 2020-10-22T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jenny Zhang
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: Live Q&A with ​Philippa Hughes (October 22, 2020 5:10pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78338 78338-20012744@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 5:10pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Please join us for a live question and answer session with Philippa P.B. Hughes. Hughes is a social sculptor and creative strategist who produces art-fueled projects that spark humanizing and authentic conversations across political, social, and cultural divides. She is an evangelist for dismantling the polarization industrial complex, one conversation at a time. Hughes has designed and produced hundreds of creative activations since 2007 for curious folks to engage with art and one another in unconventional and meaningful ways. She leads CuriosityConnects.us, a partner in Looking For America, a national series inviting politically diverse guests to break bread and talk to each other face-to-face using art as a starting point for relationship-building conversations. Hughes has engineered numerous public-private collaborations that have been funded by the Kresge Foundation, New American Economy, Center for Inclusion & Belonging, and the DC Office of Planning. She has served as a commissioner on the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities among numerous other boards throughout Washington, D.C., where she is based. Hughes has spoken at TEDxAmericanUniversity, Creative Placemaking Week 2018 in Amsterdam, Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit, TomTom Festival, Smart Growth America’s Intersections. Her work has been featured by CNN, PBS Newshour, CityLab, and The Washington Post, among numerous other media outlets. Her formal training took place at the University of Virginia, which launched her into a six-year legal career that ended with the Washington City Paper declaring 2007 “The Year of Philippa.” Deep curiosity about the world and the people in it provided the education that mattered most.

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email lherbert@umich.edu and chrissti@umich.edu -- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. High quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided. Please make any additional requests no later than October 15.  

In partnership with the Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, this event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, and the Center for World Performance Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 18:15:52 -0400 2020-10-22T17:10:00-04:00 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Psychology and Computer Science: What Goes On In Our Brains When We Read And Write Code? (October 22, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78684 78684-20105419@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

Is reading code more like reading prose or more like doing math? Is balancing a tree data structure like balancing a pencil on your finger? Is learning a programming language like learning a natural language? How can we make novices more like experts faster? To answer these questions, this talk presents a high-level summary of work at the intersection of computer science and psychology, in which techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging are used to study patterns of neural activity associated with coding tasks. We will cover some background information on psychology as well as some recent results in computer science. In addition, we will highlight efforts involving U-M undergraduate researchers and elaborate on career paths for those interested in pursuing similar topics.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97316042553
Meeting ID: 973 1604 2553
Password: cogsci

Interested in getting involved or want to attend one of our events? Contact us at cogscicmty@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 08:54:09 -0400 2020-10-22T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion csc logo
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in State Government Panel (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78591 78591-20068100@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

Leading Women of Tomorrow at the University of Michigan is hosting the first event in its new Bridging the Gap Series on Thursday, October 22nd from 7-8:30pm!

The first event will be a Women in State Government Panel featuring Michigan State Representatives Christine Greig, Kristy Pagan, and Padma Kuppa. Each representative will introduce themselves followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:20:21 -0500 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in State Gov Panel
Dr. Nahum Melamed on Asteroid Interception (October 22, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78685 78685-20105421@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Join the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics this Thursday, October 22nd, for a lecture by Dr. Nahum Melamed on Applying Guidance, Navigation, and Controls Solutions to the Problem of Asteroid Interception for Planetary Defense.

Dr. Melamed is a project leader in the Embedded Control Systems Department in the Guidance and Control Subdivision at The Aerospace Corporation who validates and certifies the flight software and mission parameters for the Delta IV launch vehicles, and conducts planetary defense technical and policy studies. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

If you're interested please add your name to the spreadsheet linked below.

When: Thursday, 22 October 2020 at 7pm ET (4pm PT)
Where: Zoom (see link below, passcode 424378)

We hope to see you there!!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 10:08:36 -0400 2020-10-22T19:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T20:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Lecture / Discussion lecture flyer
Craft Lecture: Bringing Literary Sensibilities to Film and TV (October 23, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75400 75400-19463857@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Literature is uniquely suited to express the interior lives of characters, whereas film and television are visual mediums. With writers more in demand than ever in Hollywood, this craft lecture will explore how literary writers can put themselves in a position to do both.


Jenny Zhang’s debut story collection, *Sour Heart*, centers on immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City. Zhang is currently adapting *Sour Heart* into a feature-length film for A24.

From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, *Sour Heart*'s seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.

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


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:09:24 -0400 2020-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Jenny Zhang
GISC Event. Muslims in Comics: Superheroes & Scapegoats (October 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78302 78302-20004861@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Friday, October 23, 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Zoom Webinar Link: http://bit.ly/MuslimsInComics

Panelists will include: Esra Mirze Santesso, Chris Gavaler, Aliyah Khan, & Karla Mallette. The event will be moderated by Sena Duran

This event is free and open to the public but please RSVP: Zoom Webinar Link: http://bit.ly/MuslimsInComics

Schedule:
2:00 PM: Esra Mirze Santesso - Human Rights, Narratives of War in Iran and Kashmir

2:15 PM: Karla Mallette - Resistance of Muslims in Comics

2:30 PM: Aliyah Khan - Orientalist Representations of Muslim Female Superheroes

2:45 PM: Chris Gavaler - Islamic History of 20th Century Superhero

3:00 PM: Talkback

3:30 PM: Q&A


From dissidents to villains to superheroes, how are Muslim characters written--and how does the public read them--in comic books today? This workshop explores the roles open to Muslim characters in serialized comics and graphic novels. The medium of serialized comics, commercialized in the twentieth century by mainstream comics publishers such as Marvel and DC, and epitomized by their respective superhero universes, has long been associated with a lack of racial and religious diversity, the sexualization of female characters, and a reader base that is stereotypically young, male, and white. Minority characters were often limited to tokenized villains or sidekicks designed for comic relief. But the contemporary young Muslim female superhero Ms. Marvel symbolizes a comics landscape that is changing. In the contexts of the Gulf Wars, 9/11, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian conflict, ongoing civil unrest in the Middle East, and worldwide refugee migrant crises, writers and artists from the Muslim and Arab worlds, and others writing journalistically and historically about those locales, are at the forefront of graphic medium literary production.

Graphic novels and comics by and about Muslims and Arabs comprise a growing and distinctive narrative strain within comics studies—one that this event of comics and Muslim and Arab Studies artists and scholars seeks to investigate.

Chris Gavaler (On the Origin of Superheroes: From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1, 2015) explores the Islamicist history of the 20th-century superhero.

Esra Mirze Santesso (Disorientation: Muslim Identity in Contemporary Anglophone Literature, 2013) discusses human rights discourse in narratives of war and dissidence in Iran and Kashmir.

Karla Mallette (European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean, 2010) reports on resistance to Muslim and other minority identity politics from some comics readers.

Aliyah Khan (Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean, 2020) examines orientalist representations of Muslim female superheroes.

Sena Duran is a third-year PhD student in the department of American Culture. Her research approaches representations of Muslims in U.S. visual media through Feminist and Genre Studies frameworks, with specific attention to the use of monstrosity and eroticism in narratives of U.S. nationalism, empire, and racial subjugation.


The presenters bring postcolonial, decolonial, comics studies, and historicizing methodologies to bear on understanding commonalities and differences among Islamic, Muslim, and Arab graphic narratives, reading them as transnational works that, as many of their subjects do, cross borders and resist authoritarian states.


Cosponsored by: The Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, The Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Middle East Studies, and Arab and Muslim American Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:13:47 -0400 2020-10-23T14:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
HET Seminar | Feynman Integrals and Intersection Theory (October 23, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77380 77380-19846064@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar Link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Singularity structure of scattering amplitudes is as intricate as it is inscrutable. Work in this area over the recent years has been hinting at an existence of a “scalar product” between Feynman integrals, which would tell us how to characterize their analytic behavior. In this talk I will explain how to formulate this notion using the tools of intersection theory as well as review its theoretical and practical applications.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Oct 2020 22:05:17 -0400 2020-10-23T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: Petrological Modeling of Subduction of the Oceanic Crust: Insights into Slab Dehydration and Melting (October 23, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75006 75006-19136108@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 96620344427
Subduction of oceanic lithosphere at convergent margins drives plate tectonic motion on Earth. Determining the petrophysical changes that occur to subducted crust along the downgoing slab–asthenospheric mantle interface is critical to defining mass and energy transport between the hydrosphere and deep interior, and for constraining long-term geochemical cycles. Here, I show via petrological modelling how phase assemblages, the P–T conditions of key devolatilization reactions, and the effect of densification with depth vary for typical MORB along newly defined “hotter” subduction zone geotherms for cold, warm, and average environments. The depth and extent of devolatilization of typical MORB is strongly dependent on the geotherm under which the oceanic crust subducts. At the onset of subduction along a warm geotherm, metabasites contain ~3 wt% of H2O, and release ~45% of the bulk-rock H2O in a fluid pulse at ~20 km. Below these depths, metabasites will dehydrate gradually liberating 45% of the bulk-rock H2O and complete dehydration will be achieved at ~70 km. Oceanic crust subducting along an average geotherm will contain ~3.5 wt% of H2O at the onset of subduction, and will release ~40% of the bulk-rock H2O in two fluid pluses occurring at ~30 and 50 km. Below these depths, the metabasite will dehydrate gradually liberating ~50% of the bulk-rock H2O and complete dehydration will be achieved at ~80 km. By contrast, at the onset of cold subduction, metabasites will typically be H2O undersaturated, and will dehydrate gradually at different depths, subducting ~0.6 wt% of H2O to sub-arc depths. Metabasites subducting along a warm and average geotherm will liberate most of the fluids at shallower depths, suggesting that these lithologies might preferentially exhume, yet MORB subducting along cold geotherms will not dehydrate until greater depths, inhibiting buoyancy-driven exhumation. While we show that metabasites formed along warmer geotherms are denser than metabasites from colder geotherms, buoyancy-driven exhumation provoked by fluids play a most important role than the overall metabasite bulk-rock density. We also put forward that slab melting occurs only along the hottest subduction geotherms. In these subduction zones, whereas melting is predicted to occur at subarc depths—allowing adakitic magmatism. We posit that in the hottest subduction zones, aqueous fluids and hydrous melts enhance chemical recycling.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:00:00 -0400 2020-10-23T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Linguistics Colloquium: Accessibility and timing (October 23, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77591 77591-19885836@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Linguistics

Linguist Matt Wagers of the University of California, Santa Cruz, will give a talk on Friday, October 23, titled "Accessibility and timing."

ABSTRACT
Subject relative clauses are generally easier to comprehend than non-subject relative clauses. This subject gap advantage (SGA) is a fact that grounded, conjecturally, Keenan & Comrie (1977)’s Accessibility Hierarchy and one which has been extensively investigated (e.g., Kwon, Lee, Gordon, Kluender & Polinsky, 2010). In recent years a new generation of studies has challenged or re-characterized the SGA by incorporating data from language users whose grammars provide better resources for disentangling competing theories, and who are not typically included in psycholinguistic experiments. This has certainly resulted in a more nuanced understanding of the SGA and relative clause processing. But more than that, it has also mapped out new topics, such as the processing of verb-initial clauses or ergative-absolutive case systems. In the first part of the talk, I will tour this new state-of-the-art to highlight some of these emerging findings and research agendas. In the second part of the talk, I will draw on work from my own group on Chamorro and Zapotec to support the idea that the SGA is driven fundamentally by timing, that is, the order in which syntactic hypotheses are projected from partial evidence.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:26:37 -0400 2020-10-23T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Linguistics Lecture / Discussion
Penny Stamps Speaker Series & UMMA Present: ​Ibrahim Mahama, In-Between the World and Dreams (October 23, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77116 77116-19798484@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 8:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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This conversation brings together collaborators of the ambitious Institute for the Humanities-led project, In-Between the World and Dreams: Amanda Krugliak, Arts Curator UM Institute for the Humanities and Lead Curator; Ozi Uduma, Assistant Curator for Global Contemporary Art at UMMA; Neil Alan Barclay, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History; and Ibrahim Mahama, internationally known Ghanaian artist and Director of the Savannah Center for the Arts in Tamale, Ghana. 

The project presents public facing installations at a time when our indoor spaces and opportunity for engagement with the arts are limited. Mahama's work acknowledges the troubling histories of colonialism and slavery in the Western world, and the labor of Black and brown people behind global exchange. At the same time, the work and overall project speaks to building new worlds out of failed systems, futures out of disappointments, asking the question, What can we do? Mahama addresses this prompt in a statement for the project: “promises of the present can start with ghosts from both the future and past. Ghosts are an embodiment of failed revolutions and unrealized futures, which need to be used as a starting point for new conversations within this century and beyond. Every life form is a gift.” The conversation discusses the critical role art and artists can play in times of crisis, and the significance of public art at a time when we are changing the picture as to who we honor and what we value. 

In-Between the World and Dreams is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, supporting the Institute for the Humanities commitment to High Stakes Art. In partnership with Institute for the Humanities, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, Charles Wright Museum of African American History, and UMMA. This event is part of the Democracy & Debate theme semester.

Notice of uncensored content: In accordance with the University of Michigan’s Standard Practice Guidelines on “Freedom of Speech and Artistic Expression,” the Penny Stamps Speaker Series does not censor our speakers or their content. The content provided is intended for adult audiences and does not reflect the views of the University of Michigan or Detroit Public Television.

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 24 Oct 2020 00:15:51 -0400 2020-10-23T20:00:00-04:00 2020-10-23T21:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
RNA Seminar featuring: Aleksandra Filipovska, University of Western Australia (October 26, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75809 75809-19608025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

ZOOM REGISTRATION REQUIRED:https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f8wC8rrJQzuhYzTEXoW69Q

ABSTRACT:Mitochondria produce more than 90% of the energy required by our bodies and thereby have a fundamental role in cell and energy metabolism. Mitochondria are composed of proteins encoded by both the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes and the coordinated expression of both genomes is essential for energy production. Impaired energy production leads to mitochondrial dysfunction that causes or contributes significantly to a variety of diseases including metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases. Mitochondrial dysfunction is caused by mutations in nuclear or mitochondrial genes that encode proteins or regulatory RNAs essential for mitochondrial biogenesis. How uncoordinated gene expression causes mitochondrial dysfunction and compromised energy production in heart and metabolic diseases is poorly understood, making it difficult to develop effective treatments. To unravel how mitochondrial function fails and to identify therapeutic targets it is necessary (i) to understand how gene expression is regulated between mitochondria and the nucleus and (ii) how this regulation is disrupted in disease. We have created new and unique models of metabolic and cardiovascular diseases caused by mutations or loss of nuclear encoded RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) that regulate mitochondrial RNA metabolism and protein synthesis. These new models have identified that energy dysfunction can differentially affect specific organs such as the heart or liver, or multiple organs leading to heart failure or metabolic diseases that can be devastating, such as mitochondrial diseases, or may be as common as insulin resistance and obesity. I will discuss the mechanisms behind these diverse pathologies caused by impaired gene expression and energy dysfunction in heart and metabolic disease.

KEYWORDS: mitochondria, RNA, ribosomes, translation

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 14:16:54 -0400 2020-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
STS Speaker. Permeability as Pathology: Leaky Gut and Other-Threatened Borders (October 26, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77485 77485-19875781@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Oct 2020 09:44:33 -0400 2020-10-26T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion Dr. Nitin Ahuja
Analyzing the Value of Flexibility in Design & Operations of Outpatient Health Centers (October 26, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78742 78742-20115266@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 26, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

Although it is understood that healthcare systems are complex and dynamic systems, many times the operations of these systems, particularly around the allocation of fixed resources and physical space, is treated as fixed or static. As such policies regarding (i) the flow of patients, (ii) allocation of exam rooms, or (iii) the assignment of medical assistants to physicians are set at the beginning of the day, week or month, and remain unchanged across that duration. While the static nature of these schemes are meant to support stability and reduced complexity in the operations, this fixed mindset can hinder the ability to drive quality improvement. This presentation will review applications of simulation modeling in support of assessing the value that can be obtained from integrating flexibility into operational policies. We will review dynamic room allocation policies and staffing policies as applied to a crowded cardiovascular clinic. Additionally, we will explore similar concepts in multiple orthopedic clinics. Finally, we will present how these concepts can be similarly examined with a continuous-time Markov model.

Jackie Griffin is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Northeastern University. Her research focuses on applications of Operations Research, Optimization, and Simulation methodologies in designing, managing and operating resilient healthcare delivery systems, ranging from outpatient clinics to regional emergency response networks to global pharmaceutical supply chains. Currently she leads a National Science Foundation funded project focused on tackling the ongoing challenge of drug shortages in the United States through the analysis of analytical models of pharmaceutical supply chains. Additionally, she has partnered with many prominent healthcare organizations to examine new strategies for improving the design and operation of health care systems while accounting for the need to balance multiple system objectives in ensuring delivery of high quality health care services. Her recent collaborations include organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. Other past collaborators include the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, DeKalb Medical Women’s Center, Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, and World Vision International. She received her PhD from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Additionally, she completed her MS and BS degrees in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Lehigh University.

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 the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@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 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:19:55 -0400 2020-10-26T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-26T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion Jackie Griffin, Ph.D.
Monumental Friendship: Chinese Ceramics in the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (October 27, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78958 78958-20162586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

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Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art for the University of Michigan Museum of Art, will bring to life the incredible James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection of Chinese ceramics in this talk for the Lieberthal Rogel Center for Chinese Studies Noon Lecture Series. The collection, consisting of bronze wares, Buddhist sculptures, and other East Asian art works, was donated by Plumer's family and friends in memory of the prominent U-M professor of East Asian art. Plumer (1899 – 1960), who served as a “Monument Man” in the occupied Japan of the post-World War II, developed a phenomenal network of scholars, collectors, and artists, and is known for his research of Jian (Tenmoku) and Yue wares and for his teaching at U-M.  In this talk, Dr. Oyobe will highlight the Chinese ceramics in the Plumer Collection, and illuminate his remarkable scholarship and humanism that connected the people of diverse backgrounds from China, Japan, and the US. 

Natsu Oyobe is Curator of Asian Art at the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art, she has curated numerous Japanese art exhibitions, including Wrapped in Silk and Gold: A Family Legacy of 20th-Century Japanese Kimono (2010), Turning Point: Japanese Studio Ceramics in the Mid-20th Century (2010), and Mari Katayama (2019). Dr. Oyobe is also involved in cross-cultural projects from a variety of historical periods, including Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930 (2013), Xu Weixin: Monumental Portraits (2016) and Copies and Invention in East Asia (2019). She served as the consulting curator for the Detroit Institute of Arts’ new Japan Gallery (2016 – 2017). Dr. Oyobe earned a PhD in art history from the University of Michigan in 2005.

This event is cosponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies.
 

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:15:50 -0400 2020-10-27T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T13:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-20162611@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location:
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
Bioethics Discussion: Dia de los Muertos (October 27, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58830 58830-14563721@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on the celebration of the living and the dead.

REMOTE: https://bluejeans.com/7569798571

A few readings to consider are
––Dead Bodies: The Deadly Display of Mexican Border Politics
––Primum Non Nocere Mortuis: Bioethics and the Lives of the Dead
––Cultures of Death: Media, Religion, Bioethics
––The Day of the Dead, Halloween, and the Quest for Mexican National Identity

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/049-dia-de-los-muertos/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Celebrations of life and ruminations on death can be found at the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:20:29 -0400 2020-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-27T18:30:00-04:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Dia de los Muertos
"Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair" (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78214 78214-19991039@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is proud to present our Transitional Cross Talks series with speakers Katherine A. Gallagher, MD, & Bethany Moore, PhD.

Dr. Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Surgery and an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Moore is a Professor and the Interim Chair of Microbiology & Immunology, the Galen B Toews MD Collegiate Professor of Pulmonary Care & Critical Medicine, and a Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

The talk is titled, “Macrophages in Diabetic Wound Repair”.

Moderator: Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:47:28 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
CREES Noon Lecture. Music and Resilience in Early Postwar Poland (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76039 76039-19655370@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

This talk examines the composers who survived the Second World War in Poland and the music they wrote during the war’s aftermath. It analyzes longer-range continuities in composition in Poland across the war period. To do so, Mackenzie Pierce examines previously unconsidered archival materials to show how the wartime survival of the composers Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Zygmunt Mycielski, and Roman Palester informed their postwar aesthetics. He shows how these individual reactions to the war gained—or failed to gain—broader social support. Ultimately, he argues, these composers reactivated deep-seated beliefs about the power of the aesthetic to mediate individual and collective experience, bolstering an expressive, emotional musical style that would resonate through postwar Polish composition for years to come.

Mackenzie Pierce is assistant professor of musicology at the School of Music, Theater & Dance at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the cultural aftermath of WWII among Poland’s composers, musicologists, and performers, and he has overseen world and US premieres of the works of Roman Palester and Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, among others. His articles appear in *19th-Century Music*, *The Journal of Musicology*, and *The Cambridge Companion to Music and Fascism*. His research has been supported through fellowships from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and the Kościuszko Foundation.

Registration for this Zoom webinar is required at http://myumi.ch/dOX55.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 14:48:33 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:20:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Mackenzie Pierce
LSA Book Talks: Just Mercy (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77890 77890-19939592@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Please join us for our group discussions on the title, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, facilitated by LSA DEI Manager, Jessica Garcia. You may contact Mikalia Dennis, LSA DEI Administrative Coordinator, with any special accommodation requests that you may have.

Discussions will run from 12pm to 1:30pm on the following dates:

- Wednesday, October 7: Introduction to Chapter 4
- Thursday, October 15: Chapters 5-10
- Wednesday, October 28: Chapters 11-16

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 11:36:07 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture / Discussion Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76628 76628-19733024@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

Dr. Fisher will present on her 2020 book, The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance. Her talk will be followed by open discussion. Attendees must RSVP to receive the Zoom link. Please email emaloul@umich.edu to do so.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 23:12:08 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion Image displays one image of book cover and one of book's author
(Re)Engaging the Role of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Engineering Graduate Education (October 28, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78529 78529-20058230@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Increasingly, engineering graduate programs have emphasized the need to train individuals who are capable of working in diverse teams so they are better able to address complex problems in a global society. Yet, discourse related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in engineering is often focused on recruiting and retaining students who are racially minoritized and/or women in the field. Less attention is given to what students learn about DEI during their graduate training. Drawing from findings across multiple research projects, this talk will explore what graduate students learn about the role of DEI in engineering and the implications these lessons have for racially minoritized students’ retention, success, and career pathways.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: Dr. Rosemary (Rosie) Perez is an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. She earned her B.S. in biological sciences and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, her M.Ed. in higher education and student affairs at The University of Vermont, and her Ph.D. in higher education from University of Michigan. Dr. Perez’s scholarship has three interrelated lines of inquiry and explores: (a) how people make meaning of collegiate experiences; (b) diverse learning environments and intercultural development; and (c) the professional socialization of graduate students and new practitioners. Across projects, Dr. Perez explores the tensions between structure and agency, and how power, privilege, and oppression affect individuals and groups within higher education. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, and ACPA-College Student Educators International.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 12:58:11 -0400 2020-10-28T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-28T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. Rosemary Perez
AIGA Get Out the Vote: Empowering the Women's Vote Exhibition Panel Discussion (October 29, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78930 78930-20156696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)

lease RSVP to reserve your place for this free event..

Join us for a virtual panel discussion with designers from the AIGA “Get out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition at Stamps Gallery. Hear about the ideas behind their poster designs, why they believe it is important to vote, and what the 19th amendment means to them. Panelists will include Stamps School of Art & Design Professors Audrey Bennett and Hannah Smotrich, and Michigan State University Professor Kelly Salchow Macarthur. Panelists will be joined by the U-M Museum of Art Student Engagement Council members Emily Considine and Sarah Jacob who have worked closely with partners across campus to develop voter participation initiatives for U-M students. The discussion will be moderated by Stamps Gallery Outreach and Public Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Junkermeier-Khan and followed by a Q&A. U-M Students, Faculty, and Staff will be able to register to vote, request an absentee ballot, and vote early at UMMA every weekday between Sept. 24 and election day. To find out more visit UMMA Vote2020.

 

Organized by Stamps Gallery in partnership with UMMA.

 

Find out more about the AIGA “Get out the Vote: Empowering the Women’s Vote exhibition here. Read more from the U-M Museum of Art Student Engagement Council on their blog. 

UMMA's Vote2020 initiative is presented in connection with the U-M Democracy & Debate theme semester. Thanks to our partners at the Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, the Ginsberg Center for Community Service & Learning, the Ann Arbor City Clerk's Office, MUSIC Matters, and the Center for World Performance Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:15:47 -0400 2020-10-29T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T13:30:00-04:00 Museum of Art University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) Lecture / Discussion Museum of Art
IISS Lecture Series. Theology, Ideology and Polemic: The Image of the Rāfiḍa in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Corpus (October 29, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78780 78780-20123141@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

IISS is pleased to announce the public lecture "Theology, Ideology and Polemic: The Image of the Rāfiḍa in al-Jāḥiẓ’s Corpus" by Professor Hussain Abdulsater (Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame):

Texts are mirrors that can reflect sentiments and tactics that authors captured and channeled into society in their portrayals. In particular, sectarian polemics served as discourses of legitimation in the formative period of Islamic theological schools. According to the great Muʿtazilī master Abū ʿAlī al-Jubbāʾī (d. 915), his ancestor the great littérateur Abū ʿUthmān al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 868-9) is famed for his obsessive compulsion to argue against the Rāfiḍa.

This talk examines how Jāḥiẓ portrayed the Imāmī community (rāfiḍa) in terms of both its theological views and its social practices. What emerges from his writings on the Rāfiḍa is an image of a community of simple-minded fanatics. One the one hand, the Imāmīs adhere to anthropomorphic and deterministic beliefs and are blind followers of authority. On the other hand, they are passionate believers who strongly stand in solidarity with one another. This, for Jāḥiẓ, explains their coalition with the superficial traditionalists against the rationalist Muʿtazilīs.

Please register at https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqceyhpj4vGdK2ABUNb1QFv1UbVT3ZX6ih

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:57:59 -0400 2020-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
Distinct Analyses, One Sustainable Direction: Students and Faculty Share Insights from U-M’s Carbon Neutrality Push (October 29, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78539 78539-20060198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality

This event is free and open to the public. Register for the event here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CC1y8Qp2SduEZBjeEsGoYg

Tasked with identifying opportunities for U-M to achieve net-zero carbon emissions, the President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality brings together students, staff, and faculty from across the university to develop and recommend bold, transferrable, and sustainable solutions. Join student researchers from the commission’s various analysis teams, as well as co-chair, Jennifer Haverkamp, for a panel discussion on what it means for U-M to pursue carbon neutrality. Students will share their distinct expertise on buildings, commuting, campus culture, food, and mobility electrification, and answer questions from the U-M community. Attendees will learn how they can contribute ideas and get involved.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:40:14 -0400 2020-10-29T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location President's Commission on Carbon Neutrality Lecture / Discussion PCCN Logo
A "Common Spectacle" of the Race: The Visual Politics of Founding in the Age of Garveyism (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75583 75583-19542895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

Addressing a crowded Liberty Hall full of members of the New York Division in the summer of 1920, Marcus Garvey declared, “We are a new people, born out of a new day and new circumstance. We are born out of the bloody war of 1914-1918.” This essay is concerned with the constitution of a new people, attending in particular to the role of images, performance, and practices in the project of political founding. Focusing on the 1920 and 1921 convention, I argue that for the United Negro Improvement Association, political founding was a vehicle through which participants came to understand themselves as constituting the figure of Universal Negro—a figure represented through the convention as a transnational and empowered political subject. Political founding was on this view a process of transforming one’s self-perception, of cognizing oneself as a member of a transnational people politically capable of transforming the prevailing conditions of racial domination.

Professor Getachew will present a short introduction to her pre-circulated paper; this will be followed by brief comments by Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (University of Michigan) and audience questions.

***NOTE: The link to the pre-circulated paper will be supplied in the Zoom registration confirmation email.***

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (PUP, 2019).

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prwS5vb6R2ORRvW9taPevQ

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

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:17:06 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Adom Getachew
Communication and Media Speaker Series (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76952 76952-19780541@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Communication and Media

Lecture with Professor Stuart Soroka, Michael W. Traugott Collegiate Professor in Communication and Media and Political Science, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:31:41 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
Now More Than Ever: The Increasing Public Value of Social Science Research (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76325 76325-19687518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Please join the Center for Political Studies (CPS) on Thursday, October 29, 2020 for an event celebrating 50 years of excellence in social science research at CPS. Arthur Lupia will give the keynote address, “Now More Than Ever: The Increasing Public Value of Social Science Research.”

Our families, our communities, and our nation face historic challenges. At the same time, we have incredible opportunities to improve quality of life, particularly for vulnerable populations. Dr Lupia will discuss these challenges and opportunities, offering examples of social science research's increasing public value. He will also detail how more of us can serve others more effectively in the years ahead.

October 29, 2020 | 4:00-5:30 PM EDT
Event will be live-streamed at http://myumi.ch/O4DRK

About the Speaker:
Dr. Arthur Lupia is Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation and serves as head of the National Science Foundation’s Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. At the University of Michigan, he is the Gerald R Ford Distinguished University Professor and a Research Professor at its Institute for Social Research. He also co-chairs the National Science and Technology Council’s Subcommittee on Open Science. Dr. Lupia’s research examines factors that guide decision-making, trust, and learning in complex or adverse circumstances. His work is used to improve communication and quality of life in contexts around the world. Dr. Lupia has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Andrew Carnegie Fellow, and is a recipient of the National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rochester and a social science PhD at the California Institute of Technology.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 14:30:45 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer for CPS anniversary lecture
Professor Webb Keane, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professorship in Anthropology Inaugural Lecture (October 29, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75454 75454-19495324@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

We often say the purpose of the liberal arts is to foster critical thinking. This rather vague expression allows a wide diversity of scholarly disciplines and pedagogical styles to cohabit more or less peacefully. But what about the world beyond the academy? Drawing on anthropology’s “ethical turn,” this talk looks at how social interaction prompts people to reflect critically on their ethical intuitions and bring them into a public realm. It considers examples from American feminism, eighteenth century Mongolia, and Vietnam’s anti-colonial struggle to show the ethical underpinnings of political thought.

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Oct 29, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Professor Webb Keane, the George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professorship in Anthropology, Inaugural Lecture, October 29, 2020

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/94491790448
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Webinar ID: 944 9179 0448
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.us/u/acszwfuBL1

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:33:14 -0400 2020-10-29T16:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion image
Reading and Q&A with Author Megha Majumdar (October 29, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75401 75401-19463858@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, *A Burning*, follows three unforgettable characters whose lives are entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Her work tackles class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism.

Majumdar was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University, where she was a Traub Scholar, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an associate editor at Catapult, and lives in New York City.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:12:17 -0400 2020-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Megha Majumdar
Identity (and) Politics (October 29, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78762 78762-20121153@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR)

The 2020 Election is fast approaching, and this election season has seen a lot of division and tension. As a program, IGR focuses on intergroup dialogic experiences across social identity groups. In preparation for the election, we wanted to provide an opportunity to look at the intersection of identity as it relates to politics. Using the UMMA and Ginsberg Center Dialogue Deck, we will examine 12 art pieces from UMMA that provide commentary on the intersection of identity, democracy, and politics. We will have a free-form dialogue on what we see in these images and what we can learn about the impact of identity on politics and what it means for this election.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:38:12 -0400 2020-10-29T17:30:00-04:00 2020-10-29T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The Program on Intergroup Relations (IGR) Lecture / Discussion The United States Capitol Rotunda
Quantitative Methods in my Work (at U-M!) (October 29, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78831 78831-20131190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 29, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

This session will be facilitated by U-M LSA/QMSS students, Sarah Childs and Jack Lee

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Oct 2020 13:39:00 -0400 2020-10-29T18:00:00-04:00 2020-10-29T19:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Lecture / Discussion Session 2 flyer
Books and Press under Different Regimes of Power: The Philippines between 1850 and 1950 (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78740 78740-20115264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University Library

Join us for these four talks about book history in the Philippines, organized by the University of Michigan and Universidad Complutense de Madrid:

“Under Three Flags, 1896-1946: A Brief History of Philippine Book History,” Vernon R. Totanes, Ateneo de Manila University
"Contested Readings of US Empire in the Philippines," Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, University of Alabama
"Culture and Science in Philippine Journalism, 1850-1900," Jorge Mojarro, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
"The Printing of Spanish language Literature in the Philippines and its Digital Preservation Today," Rocío Ortuño Casanova, University of Antwerp
Chair: Marlon James Sales, University of Michigan

Registration is limited to 100. After we receive your registration we'll be in touch to share the Zoom details. Register here: http://myumi.ch/4p9DX

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:06:08 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location University Library Lecture / Discussion The Bridge of Spain, over the Pasig River in the Philippines, 1900/1902 (U-M Library digital collection)
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (October 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-10-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Craft Workshop: Opening Pages, Acquisitions, and Demystifying Publishing (October 30, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75402 75402-19463859@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

This is a two-part craft workshop. In the first part, we will look at the opening page of selected students' novels (or of a short story) and consider how an acquisitions editor might read that page—what they might look for in an opening, and how the story can present the best possible opening. In the second part, we will discuss the acquisitions process (How are decisions made? What are editors looking for?) as well as publishing process, answering practical questions (At what stage should you look for an agent? At what stage does the agent submit to editors? What kind of edits will an editor do with you? How can you be sure the integrity of your work is protected during the publication process?). Attendees will come away feeling that the acquisitions and publishing process has been demystified to some degree.


Megha Majumdar’s debut novel, *A Burning*, follows three unforgettable characters whose lives are entangled in the wake of a catastrophe in contemporary India. Her work tackles class, fate, corruption, justice, and what it feels like to face profound obstacles and yet nurture big dreams in a country spinning toward extremism.

Majumdar was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She moved to the United States to attend college at Harvard University, where she was a Traub Scholar, followed by graduate school in social anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She works as an associate editor at Catapult, and lives in New York City.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:12:53 -0400 2020-10-30T10:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Megha Majumdar
Policing reform or revolution? (October 30, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78594 78594-20068102@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Join us for a panel discussion on police reform and mass incarceration. Featured panelists include Lisa Daugaard, Director of the Public Defender Association in Seattle, and Broderick Johnson, Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School and chair of President Obama's My Brother's Keeper Task Force. Professor Christian Davenport will moderate the conversation.

Visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2020/policing-reform-or-revolution for more information and viewing details.

From the speakers' bios:

Lisa Daugaard is Director of the Public Defender Association in Seattle. PDA works to develop
and implement alternatives to the criminal legal system that advance public safety, racial equity,
community health and reconciliation, and provides technical support to other communities
seeking similar solutions nationally and internationally. Previously, Lisa served as Interim
Deputy Director at the King County Department of Public Defense, and was Deputy Director
and Misdemeanor Supervisor at the Defender Association. She is a 2019 recipient of the
MacArthur Fellowship.

Broderick Johnson is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School and a partner in the Washington office of Bryan Cave. With over three decades of leadership at the highest levels of government, he served most recently as assistant to the president and cabinet secretary under President Obama. There, Johnson also was appointed chair of the White House's My Brother's Keeper Task Force. Earlier, he was deputy assistant for legislative affairs in the Clinton White House and previously held senior positions on Capitol Hill, during which time he drafted landmark legislation including the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from the College of the Holy Cross and his JD from the University of Michigan Law School.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 15 Oct 2020 15:45:37 -0400 2020-10-30T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-30T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Lisa Daugaard and Broderick Johnson
Smith Lecture: Probing Surface-Interior Mass Exchange in the Earth Using Nitrogen (October 30, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75007 75007-19136109@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 30, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 97208617457
Volatile exchange between the Earth’s surficial and deeper reservoirs due to subduction determines the dynamics and evolution of the reservoirs through geological time. In spite of being a ubiquitous volatile element in the Earth and abundantly present in the Earth’s mantle, the behavior of nitrogen (N) in the mantle and exchange of N between the surficial and deeper terrestrial reservoirs have only gained attention recently. Previous studies have estimated the recycling efficiency of N (the percentage of incoming N in subduction zones surviving the arc filter and entering the deep mantle) by difference of incoming and volcanic outgassing fluxes; these have obtained disparate estimates ranging between 0% to 80-92%. Also, such an approach ignores the possibility that a fraction of the N released from the subducted slab may not be outgassed but rather sequestered in the overriding plate. Here I empirically constrain the recycling efficiency of N by focusing on the mechanism of N transfer from slabs by aqueous fluids and/or hydrous partial melts, addressing a broad range of thermal regimes applicable in modern-day subduction zones. I find that globally 45-74% of incoming N in subduction zones survives past the arc magmatism filter and enters the deep mantle. I will briefly discuss the possible implications of such recycling efficiency on the evolution of the atmosphere and the mantle through time.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:57:58 -0400 2020-10-30T15:30:00-04:00 2020-10-30T16:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood (November 2, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78910 78910-20152764@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Latina/o Studies

Register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aTALEtuLRdiO6kd8TjtaCA

In Manufacturing Celebrity, Vanessa Díaz pulls the curtain back on Hollywood, tracing the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary American celebrity culture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Díaz examines the racialized and gendered labor involved in manufacturing and selling relatable celebrity personas. The predominantly male Latino paparazzi can face life-threatening situations and endure vilification that echoes anti-immigrant rhetoric. On the other hand, celebrity reporters, most of whom are white women, are expected to leverage their sexuality to generate coverage, which makes them vulnerable to sexual exploitation and assault. In pointing out the precarity of those who hustle to make a living by generating the bulk of celebrity media, Díaz highlights the profound inequities of the systems that provide consumers with 24/7 coverage of their favorite stars. Highlighting the highly visual nature of Manufacturing Celebrity, this talk explores the main themes and theoretical frameworks of the book while engaging with several of the images that fill its pages.

Vanessa Díaz is a multimedia ethnographer and journalist whose work focuses on issues of race, gender, and labor in popular culture across the Americas. Grounded in her experience as a red carpet reporter for People magazine, Díaz’s first book Manufacturing Celebrity: Latino Paparazzi and Women Reporters in Hollywood focuses on hierarchies of labor as well as racial and gender politics in the production of celebrity-focused media. Díaz is a co-author of UCLA’s 2017 Hollywood Diversity Report, director of the film Cuban HipHop: Desde el Principio, and the media editor for Transforming Anthropology. Her research has been profiled in such outlets as the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, and NBC News. Díaz is an assistant professor in the Department of Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 13:20:57 -0400 2020-11-02T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-02T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Latina/o Studies Lecture / Discussion Book Cover
Rightsizing Prenatal Care: Tailoring Prenatal Services to Match Patients’ Needs (November 2, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78743 78743-20115267@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 2, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

Please note the seminar starts at 5:30 PM EST, an hour later than our usual seminar time.

Each year, nearly 4 million women who give birth in the United States receive prenatal care—a crucial preventive service that improves pregnancy outcomes for mothers and their children. National guidelines currently recommend 12 to 14 in-person prenatal visits for all patients regardless of medical or social needs. This schedule recommends more care for low-risk women than peer countries with better outcomes that the U.S., and has remained unchanged since 1930, failing to adapt to the needs of modern patients. Current prenatal care has also failed to address significant inequities in maternity care: low-income and black patients less likely to receive recommended services before delivery, and are more likely to suffer from severe maternal morbidity and mortality in pregnancy.

Although we know that prenatal care services (e.g. laboratory tests and vaccinations) are evidence based, these evidence-based services can be delivered in fewer than 14 visits. There is also evidence that patients do not need to visit clinics in person to receive all maternity services. This schedule results in overutilization of care for low-risk pregnant patients, and potential access issues for patients with more intense needs in pregnancy. In this talk, we will review the evidence supporting prenatal care and new delivery models. We will then introduce a new conceptual model for redesigning prenatal care to meet patients’ diverse medical and social needs, and demonstrate how this model can be used to test new models of prenatal care to drive appropriate resource allocation. We will conclude with early findings from new models that were launched during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on ensuring new prenatal care delivery is effective, efficient and equitable.

Dr. Alex Peahl is an Obstetrician Gynecologist and physician-investigator in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of reproductive health care through developing, studying and disseminating high-quality maternity care interventions. She is a nationally recognized expert on prenatal care redesign and innovation and has completed seminal studies and thought pieces on how to best incorporate patients’ preferences and needs into rightsized prenatal care plans: plans that match patients’ needs to services delivered. She is the research lead for prenatal care redesign at the University of Michigan, and new guidelines driven by her team were recognized by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as the example for nationwide practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is currently leading the Michigan Plan for Appropriate, Tailored Healthcare in Pregnancy, a national consensus process to develop new prenatal care guidelines in pregnancy.

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 the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@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 Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:28:03 -0400 2020-11-02T17:30:00-05:00 2020-11-02T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion Alex Peahl, MD, MSc
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 2 (November 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77843 77843-19933641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

How Milk Became "Ethnic" in China: Koumiss Rituals of the Qing and Its Contemporary Legacies

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:51:42 -0400 2020-11-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-03T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion Koumiss-fermented mare's milk
"Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer" (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78215 78215-19991040@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center of Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is proud to present our Translational Cross Talks series with speakers Filip Bednar, MD, PhD, FACS, & Howard Crawford, PhD.

Dr. Bednar is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Crawford is a Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Epithelial Plasticity in Pancreatic Cancer”.

Moderator: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor of General Surgery

Zoom Information:
Zoom Link: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/92442599246

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 06 Oct 2020 10:45:03 -0400 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
HET Brown Bag | Detecting terrestrial dark matter traffic jams (November 4, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79063 79063-20184347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Subcomponent dark matter having large interactions with the standard model or with itself can accumulate terrestrially over the age of the earth leading to massive build-ups. This thermalized population is too cold to be visible in traditional direct detection. In this talk I outline a few detection strategies including accelerating this slow dark matter with metastable nuclear isomers or with electrostatic accelerators like LUNA. Intriguingly such a terrestrial component could explain the neutron bottle-beam anomaly and can cause anomalous heating in cryogenic detectors.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 14:52:45 -0500 2020-11-04T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-04T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Clinical Simulation Center Brown Bag Series (November 5, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79224 79224-20231467@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 11:00am
Location:
Organized By: Clinical Simulation Center

Dr. Munzer is a Clinical Lecturer, in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Michigan Medicine. He joined the University’s Medical Education Fellowship after completing his training in Emergency Medicine with the University of Michigan/St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Residency Program.

He will give an update on the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) training and simulation program, including the new simulator in the Clinical Simulation Center, as well the goals of the program.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 11:34:01 -0500 2020-11-05T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T12:00:00-05:00 Clinical Simulation Center Lecture / Discussion Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO)
LSI Seminar Series: Yves Chiswili Chabu, Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia (November 5, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78701 78701-20107391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

Abstract:

Oncogenic RAS mutations are associated with tumor resistance to radiation therapy. The underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Emergent cell-cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment (TME) profoundly influence therapy outcomes. The nature of these interactions and their role in Ras tumor radioresistance remain unclear. Using Drosophila and human Ras cancer cells we discovered that oncogenic Ras co-opts genotoxic stress-induced p53 function to drive tumor recurrence via paracrine JAK/STAT signaling in the TME.
p53 is heterogeneously activated in Ras tumor tissues in response to irradiation. This mosaicism allows high p53-expressing Ras clones to stimulate JAK/STAT cytokines, which activate JAK/STAT in the nearby low p53-expressing resistant Ras clones, leading to robust tumor re-establishment. Blocking any part of this cell-cell communication loop re-sensitizes Ras tumor cells to irradiation. This finding suggests that coupling STAT inhibitors to radiotherapy might improve clinical outcomes for Ras cancer patients.

Speaker:
Yves Chiswili Chabu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
University of Missouri-Columbia

Yves Chiswili Chabu received his Ph.D. at the University of Oregon. He did his postdoctoral work and Fellowship at Yale University where he used Drosophila and human tissue culture models to understand how intercellular RAS signaling evolves in the tumor microenvironement. Chabu is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the scientific director of the Cancer Research Center in Columbia Missouri. His research interests at the University of Missouri includes delineating therapy resistance mechanisms in EGFR/RAS-driven tumors and understanding how these signals emerge and support disease progression.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 13:51:21 -0400 2020-11-05T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion LSI Seminar Series
Reading and Q&A with Poet Patricia Smith (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75556 75556-19521130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, *Incendiary Art* (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms— from her Motown crown of sonnets to elegant ghazals— and fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies.

Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including *Incendiary Art*, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; *Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah* (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist; and *Gotta Go, Gotta Flow* (CityFiles Press, 2015), a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes *Teahouse of the Almighty* (Coffee House Press, 2006), *Close to Death* (Zoland Books, 1998), *Big Towns Big Talk* (Zoland Books, 2002), *Life According to Motown* (Tia Chucha, 1991); the children's book *Janna and the Kings* (Lee & Low, 2013), and the history *Africans in America* (Mariner, 1999), a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The Baffler*, *The Washington Post*, *The New York Times*, *Tin House* and in *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Essays* and *Best American Mystery Stories*. She co-edited *The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks* (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), and edited the crime fiction anthology *Staten Island Noir* (Akashic Books, 2012).

Writing about *Incendiary Art*, *Publisher’s Weekly* praised Smith’s “razor-sharp linguistic sensibilities that give her scenes a cinematic flair and her lines a momentum that buoys their emotional weight.” Smith is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:55:15 -0400 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Patricia Smith
Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Object-Interaction Tasks in a First-person Simulated 3D Environment (November 5, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79137 79137-20215738@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science

First-person object-interaction tasks in high-fidelity, 3D, simulated environments such as the AI2Thor virtual home-environment pose significant sample-efficiency challenges for reinforcement learning (RL) agents learning from sparse task rewards. To alleviate these challenges, prior work has provided extensive supervision via a combination of reward-shaping, ground-truth object-information, and expert demonstrations. In this work, we show that one can learn object-interaction tasks from scratch without supervision by learning an attentive object-model as an auxiliary task during task learning with an object-centric relational RL agent. Our key insight is that learning an object-model that incorporates object-relationships into forward prediction provides a dense learning signal for unsupervised representation learning of both objects and their relationships. This, in turn, enables faster policy learning for an object-centric relational RL agent. We demonstrate our agent by introducing a set of challenging object-interaction tasks in the AI2Thor environment where learning with our attentive object-model is key to strong performance. Specifically, by comparing our agent and relational RL agents with alternative auxiliary tasks with a relational RL agent equipped with ground-truth object-information, we find that learning with our object-model best closes the performance gap in terms of both learning speed and maximum success rate. Additionally, we find that incorporating object-relationships into an object-model's forward predictions is key to learning representations that capture object-category and object-state.

Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/99927591266
Meeting ID: 999 2759 1266
Password: cogsci

Wilka Carvalho is currently a PhD student studying machine learning at UM. Check out his website for research publications, experiences, helpful resources in machine learning or pursuing grad/PhD, and ways to reach out.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 07:31:35 -0500 2020-11-05T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weinberg Institute for Cognitive Science Lecture / Discussion CSC logo
Lecture Series: The Latest Technology and Innovations in the Maritime Industry (November 6, 2020 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78473 78473-20050328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 8:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering

Lecture series for experts, professors and industry leaders in the maritime sector.

Registration: https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/Integrated_Power_Systems_for_Electrified_Ships_Realtime_Control_and_Optimization_9051

Electrification is a major trend for both military and commercial ships, bringing in enormous opportunities for energy saving, environmental protection, and mission expansion. Integrated power systems (IPS) have been a critical enabling technology for vehicle electrification, particularly for all-electric ships. In this presentation, we will explore the special characteristics of the IPS and discuss the challenges and solutions from the perspectives of control and real-time decision making.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 13 Oct 2020 09:52:14 -0400 2020-11-06T08:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T09:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering Lecture / Discussion NAME Happening at UM
BME PhD Defense: Zhonghua (Aileen) Ouyang (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78398 78398-20022735@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Biomedical Engineering

NOTICE: This event will be held via Zoom. The link will be provided below.

Zoom: https://umich-health.zoom.us/j/94734899583?pwd=MDNEMjE3QU5xVGgwZzNQajE4UlJQUT09

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a highly prevalent condition which negatively affects the physical and mental health of millions of people worldwide. Sacral neuromodulation (SNM), currently serving ~300,000 patients worldwide, is a promising third-line therapy that provides improved efficacy and minimum adherence issue compared to conventional treatments. While current SNM is delivered in an open-loop fashion, the therapy could have improved clinical efficacy by adopting a closed-loop stimulation paradigm that uses objective physiological feedback. Therefore, this dissertation work focuses on using sacral level dorsal root ganglia neural signals to provide sensory feedback for adaptive SNM a feline model.

This work began with exploring machine learning algorithms and feature selection methods for bladder pressure decoding. A Kalman filter delivered the highest performance based on correlation coefficient between the pressure measurements and algorithm estimation. Additionally, firing rate normalization significantly contributed to lowering the normalized error, and a correlation coefficient-based channel selection method provided the lowest error compared to other channel selection methods.

Following algorithm optimization, this work implemented the optimized algorithm and feature selection method in real-time in anesthetized healthy and simulated OAB feline models. A 0.88 ± 0.16 correlation coefficient fit was achieved by the decoding algorithm across 35 normal and simulated OAB bladder fills in five experiments. Closed-loop neuromodulation was demonstrated using the estimated pressure to trigger pudendal nerve stimulation, which increased bladder capacity by 40% in two trials.

Finally, closed-loop SNM stimulation with DRG sensory feedback was performed in a series of anesthetized experiments. It increased bladder capacity by 13.8% over no stimulation (p < 0.001). While there was no statistical difference in bladder capacity between closed-loop and continuous stimulation (p = 0.80), closed-loop stimulation reduced stimulation time by 57.7%. Interestingly, bladder single units had a reduced sensitivity during stimulation, suggesting a potential mechanism of SNM.

Overall, this work demonstrated that sacral level DRG are a viable sensory feedback target for adaptive SNM. Validation in awake and chronic experiments is a crucial step prior to clinical translation of this method.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Oct 2020 22:08:12 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Biomedical Engineering Lecture / Discussion BME Logo
Craft Lecture: Writing The Terrifying During Terrifying Times (November 6, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75557 75557-19521131@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Login here (no pre-registration needed): https://tinyurl.com/ZellWriters

Patricia Smith's latest book of poetry, *Incendiary Art* (Triquarterly Books, 2017), showcases her mastery of poetic forms— from her Motown crown of sonnets to elegant ghazals— and fearlessly engages with America’s continuous war on black bodies.

Smith is the award-winning author of eight critically-acclaimed books of poetry, including *Incendiary Art*, winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the 2018 NAACP Image Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; *Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah* (Coffee House Press, 2012), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; Blood Dazzler (Coffee House Press, 2008), a National Book Award finalist; and *Gotta Go, Gotta Flow* (CityFiles Press, 2015), a collaboration with award-winning Chicago photographer Michael Abramson. Her other books include the poetry volumes *Teahouse of the Almighty* (Coffee House Press, 2006), *Close to Death* (Zoland Books, 1998), *Big Towns Big Talk* (Zoland Books, 2002), *Life According to Motown* (Tia Chucha, 1991); the children's book *Janna and the Kings* (Lee & Low, 2013), and the history *Africans in America* (Mariner, 1999), a companion book to the award-winning PBS series. Her work has appeared in *Poetry*, *The Paris Review*, *The Baffler*, *The Washington Post*, *The New York Times*, *Tin House* and in *Best American Poetry*, *Best American Essays* and *Best American Mystery Stories*. She co-edited *The Golden Shovel Anthology—New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks* (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), and edited the crime fiction anthology *Staten Island Noir* (Akashic Books, 2012).

Writing about *Incendiary Art*, *Publisher’s Weekly* praised Smith’s “razor-sharp linguistic sensibilities that give her scenes a cinematic flair and her lines a momentum that buoys their emotional weight.” Smith is a Guggenheim fellow, a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient, a finalist for the Neustadt Prize, a two-time winner of the Pushcart Prize, a former fellow at both Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and a four-time individual champion of the National Poetry Slam, the most successful poet in the competition’s history.

Smith is a professor at the College of Staten Island and in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada College, as well as an instructor at the annual VONA residency and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.


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. Copies of the readings and live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at all events.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:55:48 -0400 2020-11-06T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Zell Visiting Writers Series Lecture / Discussion Patricia Smith
Q&A with Poetry Editor Jeff Shotts (Graywolf Press) and Prof. Khaled Mattawa (November 6, 2020 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75599 75599-19542914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 11:30am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program

This student-moderated Q&A will focus on the editing and publishing process, with particular emphasis on the interactions between Prof. Mattawa and Jeff Shotts of Graywolf Press in the publication of Prof. Mattawa's forthcoming book of poetry, *Fugitive Atlas*.

Jeff Shotts is Executive Editor at Graywolf Press, where for more than twenty years he has acquired and edited many works of poetry, nonfiction, translation, and multi-genre forms that resist categorization. He has worked with many authors including Kaveh Akbar, Elizabeth Alexander, Mary Jo Bang, Eula Biss, Eduardo C. Corral, Natalie Diaz, Tarfia Faizullah, Fanny Howe, Leslie Jamison, Ilya Kaminsky, Donika Kelly, Layli Long Soldier, Khaled Mattawa, Carl Phillips, D. A. Powell, Claudia Rankine, Erika L. Sánchez, Vijay Seshadri, Solmaz Sharif, Danez Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Stewart, Mary Szybist, Natasha Trethewey, Mai Der Vang, Jenny Xie, Monica Youn, and Kevin Young. Books that he has acquired and edited have received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other honors, and authors whose works he has acquired and edited have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize. Shotts received the 2017 Editor’s Award from *Poets & Writers* and was named a 2017 Notable Person of the Year in *Publishers Weekly*. He lives in Minneapolis with his family.

Khaled Mattawa is the author of five books of poetry; his latest, *Fugitive Atlas*, is forthcoming from Graywolf in October 2020. He is also the author of *Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation*, a critical study of the great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, recently published by Syracuse University Press; and *How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry* (University of Michigan Press, 2016).


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. Live, high quality auto-captions/transcriptions will be provided at the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:12:35 -0400 2020-11-06T11:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program Lecture / Discussion Khaled Mattawa and Jeff Shotts
Native American Graves and Repatriation Act: A Roundtable Discussion (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79064 79064-20184348@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology

This event will highlight the collaboration and cooperation between Tribes and the University of Michigan as the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) nears the 30th year since its passing. This legislation provides a process for the return of Native American human remains, funerary and sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony from museums and federal agencies to federally recognized Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian organizations. This roundtable will engage four panelists, including members of the Michigan Anishinabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance (MACPRA), to consider past NAGPRA work, and the work that lies ahead.

Zoom https://umich.zoom.us/j/96225720948

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:46:16 -0400 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Museum of Anthropological Archaeology Lecture / Discussion UMMAA_11.6 bb image
We Voted. What's Next? BLI Leadership Lunch (November 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79178 79178-20225557@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Barger Leadership Institute

A lot has happened — and is still happening — in the 2020 presidential election.

Join the BLI students to discuss the 2020 election in a safe and welcoming space. There will be two speakers, Erin Byrnes — lead for the Big Ten Voting Challenge at the Ginsberg Center, Getty Kasole — Cofounder of ACTIVE:CHI, who will share what civic engagement looks like beyond voting and how to create change in your communities.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:07:38 -0500 2020-11-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Barger Leadership Institute Lecture / Discussion BLI Leadership Lunch
HET Seminar | Direct Detection Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter (November 6, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77382 77382-19846065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

Seminar link: http://myumi.ch/O4P7E

Absorption of fermionic dark matter leads to a range of distinct and novel signatures at dark matter direct detection and neutrino experiments. We study the possible signals from fermionic absorption by nuclear or electron targets, which we divide into two classes of four Fermi operators: neutral and charged current. In the neutral current signal, dark matter is absorbed by a target nucleus or electron and a neutrino is emitted. For nuclear targets, this results in a characteristically different nuclear recoil energy spectrum from that of elastic scattering. For electron targets, we calculate electron recoil spectra in xenon-based detectors for sub-MeV dark matter. The charged current channel is specific to nuclear targets and leads to induced beta decays in isotopes which are stable in vacuum as well as shifts of the kinematic endpoint of beta spectra in unstable isotopes. Last, we present UV completions of the four Fermi operators which give rise to these signals and study the prospects of seeing an absorption signal in light of other constraints, such as dark matter decays and mediator searches.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:23:29 -0400 2020-11-06T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Rob Van der Voo Lecture: Some Observations on the Evolution of the Earth System: Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, Paleoclimate, and Paleobiogeography (November 6, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75008 75008-19136110@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 98989652032
We'll discuss:
•The Earth System:  Plate Tectonics, Land, Air, Sea, Climate, Ice, & Life
•Earth System Connections (~ 24 important linkages)
•Change Through Time: Plate Tectonic Animation, Paleogeographic Animation, Rainfall Animation, Temperature Animation
•Icehouse to Hothouse Transitions
•Global Warming the Next 300 Years
•How has the Earth changed through time?
•How have changes in each Earth System affected the other Earth Systems
•Can we build a computer model that describes these changes and interactions? (Earth System Model)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 16:59:23 -0400 2020-11-06T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-06T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
RESCHEDULED: The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture on Native American Studies: A Conversation with Tommy Orange (November 6, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72820 72820-20058231@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 6, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Native American Studies

The Department of Native American Studies presents The 5th Annual Robert J. Berkhofer Jr. Lecture: A Conversation with Tommy Orange, award-winning, New York Times Best-selling novelist.

The Berkhofer Lecture is scheduled for Friday, November 6th, 2020, at 7:00 pm on Zoom: https://umich.zoom.us/j/97486211859

Tommy Orange is the author of the bestselling New York Times novel There There, a multigenerational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever explored – the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of the New York Times’ 10 Best books of the year and won the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize and the Pen/Hemingway Award. There There was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Orange graduated from the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts, and was a 2014 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2016 Writing by Writers Fellow. He is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. He was born and raised in Oakland California.

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

For more information on this speaker please visit www.prhspeakers.com

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:28:33 -0400 2020-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-06T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Native American Studies Lecture / Discussion Tommy Orange
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 7, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, November 7, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-07T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-07T23:59:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
Annual Copernicus Lecture. An Interview with Agnieszka Holland (November 8, 2020 12:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78760 78760-20121151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 12:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

As part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival (AAPFF), acclaimed Polish film director Agnieszka Holland returns to the University of Michigan to deliver her second Annual Copernicus Lecture, an interview with Johannes von Moltke, professor of Germanic languages and literatures and of film, television and media, and acting director of the Weiser Center for Europe & Eurasia, U-M; and Benjamin Paloff, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature, and acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies, U-M.

Agnieszka Holland is justly famous for the way in which her films tackle “the perversely captivating 20th century,” as she put it, in all of its complexity. She has devoted her talents as a filmmaker to thoughtful explorations of fascism and communism, their aftermaths, and their lasting effects on those who were caught up in the political, moral, and ethical decisions that these regimes demanded of everyone in their orbit. In this hour-long interview, Agnieszka Holland discusses the role of history and politics in her filmmaking, her interest in characters who face difficult moral dilemmas, her work in Europe and Hollywood, her most recent film *Charlatan* (2019), and her desire to help shape a “cinema of the middle” by making thoughtful, artistic films with broad popular appeal.

Agnieszka Holland was born in Warsaw and graduated from FAMU, the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Upon her return to Poland she joined the group of promising young Polish directors, “the filmmakers of moral unrest,” associated with Andrzej Wajda. Her early Polish films earned her a great deal of critical acclaim, but Holland is best-known for her Academy Award-nominated films *Angry Harvest* (Best Foreign Language Film 1985), *Europa Europa* (Best Screenplay 1990), and *In Darkness* (Best Foreign Language Film 2011). Recent films include *Spoor (Pokot)*, based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk; *Mr. Jones*; and *Charlatan*. As a screenwriter, Holland collaborated with Krzysztof Kieślowski (*Three Colours*, 1993), and wrote several scripts for her mentor, Andrzej Wajda. She has worked extensively in television, directing episodes of *The Wire* and *Treme*, for which she received an Emmy nomination in 2009. Recently she directed and produced the pilots for *The First* (Hulu), and *1983* (Netflix).

The Annual Copernicus Lecture is presented as part of the 27th Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. While the festival requires tickets, the lecture will be broadcast at no charge. More information at https://www.annarborpolishfilmfestival.com/.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 08:48:34 -0400 2020-11-08T00:00:00-05:00 2020-11-08T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Agnieszka Holland
[CANCELED] In-Gallery Conversation | Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past (November 8, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69150 69150-17252917@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 8, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Join University of Michigan photographer Randal Stegmeyer as he discusses the stories behind the photographs on view in the special exhibition *Randal Stegmeyer: Exposing the Past.* This will be an informal conversation with the artist himself and an opportunity for you to ask him your questions. The event is free and open to the public.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:05:57 -0400 2020-11-08T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-08T15:00:00-05:00 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion coffin of Djehutymose
Brick by Brick: Building Hope and Opportunity for Women Survivors Everywhere (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76237 76237-19679534@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

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

From the speaker's bio:

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

For more information visit https://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/brick-brick-building-hope-and-opportunity-women-survivors-everywhere

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 01 Sep 2020 09:57:31 -0400 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Karen Sherman
LACS Brazil Initiative Webinar. Fake News Brazil: How a Misinformation Campaign Has Aroused Hatred of Minorities and Negatively Impacted Democracy in Brazil (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79233 79233-20233428@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Zoom webinar registration link: http://myumi.ch/gjVmP

Jean Wyllys was the first LGBTQ activist to serve in Brazil’s federal congress. His platform focused on human rights and the rights of minorities, and policies for social and political inclusion. A vocal opponent of current President Jair Bolsonaro, since 2018, Wyllys has been in exile. He continues to work as a journalist, writer, and human rights activist.

The event will be moderated by Victoria Langland, Director, UM Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center. Interpretation provided by Lucas Koutsoukos Chalhoub, Graduate Student, Ph.D. Program in History.

This public lecture is sponsored by the Brazil Initiative, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 12:43:12 -0500 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Lecture / Discussion event_image
Veterans Week: Lessons learned from military service and how it can help in the era of COVID 19 (November 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79010 79010-20170607@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Military Healthcare has had a strong relationship with civilian health care for many years. They say that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Overtime military research and innovations have been adopted into civilian medicine. For the last 8 months our national health system has been dealing with the challenges of COVID-19. Unlike a “normal” mass casualty event, the COVID-19 pandemic poses unique challenges to the health system and to the execution of health care. As a military veteran I was able to use and apply many lessons learned and leadership concepts from my military background to my experience at Swedish Edmonds Hospital.

This presentation will cover topics such as: Planning, Training, Human Factors, Concept of Mission Command, Logistics and Personnel.
Additional topics will be discussed as time allows.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:12:50 -0400 2020-11-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Destist student. #dorinabeqiraj
STS Speaker: The Animal Condition (November 9, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77487 77487-19875782@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

The Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (STeMS) Speaker Series features scholars doing research across the range of STS subject matter. This term:

Are we humans cooperative or warlike, rational or delusional, fixed or flexible? These questions have philosophical bite and political stakes. Indeed, they always have. But recent work in a range of disciplines asks us to go deeper. What if “we humans” are more fiction than fact? If we can’t assume the stability of the human across time and place, what happens to debates about human nature? Humanistic approaches, including actor-network theory, posthuman criticism, and multispecies ethnographies, challenge the idea of an autonomous human nature, while scientific studies of organ development, neuroendocrinology, and the microbiome are revealing how much nature there is inside of us. We explore these questions through a braided history of the human and environmental sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 13:26:40 -0400 2020-11-09T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-09T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Science, Technology & Society Lecture / Discussion
Veterans Week: Stories from the front lines of a disaster; a military healthcare perspective (November 9, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78739 78739-20115261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 9, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

As COVID-19 continues to challenge our school, our nation, and our world, it is important to consider the strength and support that can come from our community members sharing their diverse personal and professional experiences. Join us as University of Michigan School of Nursing military alumni discuss ways in which we can continue to move forward and overcome the pandemic. Representatives from the Navy, Air Force, and Army bring forward a broad range of stories, from Clinical Nurse Specialists currently on the front lines, to tales from a Baghdad deployment faced with tremendous adversity. Now more than ever, we are in this together, and few understand this concept of unity better than the members of our Armed Forces.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:38:42 -0400 2020-11-09T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-09T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Biomedical engineer develops blood filtering treatment
What Happened Last Tuesday? (November 10, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75604 75604-19544896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The presidential election of 2020 will be the most critical and challenging in recent memory. Results will determine the composition of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and influence the future composition of the US Supreme Court It will undoubtedly change the face of both major political parties. Professor Emeritus Michael Traugott will talk about the November election outcomes, including the campaigns, primaries, and caucuses.

Prof. Traugott has studied mass media impact on American policies. He has a particular interest in the use of surveys and polls and how they are used to cover campaign and elections. Retired from the University of Michigan, he is now Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the College of Literature, Science and Arts as well as Research Professor Emeritus of Political Science in the Institute of Social Research.

This is the third of ten lectures to be presented once each month from September 2020 through June, 2021. The next lecture will be held December 8, 2020. The title is: Women in American Soccer and European Football: Different Roads to Shared Glory on the Field and in Society. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Pre-registration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the event.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 14 Aug 2020 10:07:39 -0400 2020-11-10T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T11:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Distinguished Lecture Series
Veterans Week: War Dogs (November 10, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78626 78626-20075981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The “War Dogs” panel will discuss the historic use of dogs in the military, the selection and training of current and future K-9’s for military and law enforcement work, and the invaluable service that K-9’s provide to veterans and people with visible and invisible disabilities. We will discuss the benefits of therapy dogs to raise awareness of unconditional love and comfort that these animals provide, for however short a time, to individuals in hospitals, nursing homes, and schools. Finally, we will discuss the history of the Michigan War Dog Memorial and the services it provides to honor these wonderful dogs in a special location in South Lyon.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 18:16:05 -0400 2020-11-10T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion War Dog Memorial - Michigan
Of Moms and Microbes: Pregnancy and the Microbiome (November 10, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79039 79039-20178452@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Kimberly McKee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the UM Medical School will present a seminar, with Q&A, on "Of Moms and Microbes: Pregnancy and the Microbiome".

ZOOM link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/97328685723

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:13:13 -0400 2020-11-10T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Environmental Research Seminar
Functional MRI 2020-21 Symposium Speaker (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78658 78658-20097568@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Functional MRI Lab

Abstract: Demanding cognitive functions like working memory (WM) depend on functional brain networks being able to communicate efficiently while also maintaining some degree of modularity. Evidence suggests that aging can disrupt this balance between integration and modularity. In this study, we examined how cognitive training affects the integration and modularity of functional networks in older and younger adults. 23 younger and 23 older adults participated in 10 days of verbal WM training, leading to performance gains in both age groups. Older adults exhibited lower modularity overall and a greater decrement when switching from rest to task, compared to younger adults. Interestingly, younger but not older adults showed increased task-related modularity with training. Furthermore, whereas training increased efficiency within, and decreased participation of, the default-mode network for younger adults, it enhanced efficiency within a task-specific salience/sensorimotor network for older adults. Finally, training increased segregation of the default-mode from fronto-parietal/salience and visual networks in younger adults, while it diffusely increased between-network connectivity in older adults. Thus, while younger adults increase network segregation with training, suggesting more automated processing, older adults persist in, and potentially amplify, a more integrated and costly global workspace, suggesting different age-related trajectories in functional network reorganization with WM training.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://umich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-CurzkoHdXHlCPN2gO3UetH2ba4M0wo

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:35:15 -0400 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Functional MRI Lab Lecture / Discussion Alex Iordan
Resilient Leadership for a Dynamic World featuring Tonya Allen, CEO of The Skillman Foundation (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79258 79258-20241312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Public Health

In our dynamic world, the pursuit of health equity is both valiant and never complete. Generations of public health leaders have devoted themselves to the ultimate goal of a healthier, more equitable world for all. Bringing contemporary leaders to share their insights, vision, and perseverance is the principle of Ahead of the Curve, a new speaker series from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The series launches in the fall of 2020 with a focus on personal storytelling from dynamic leaders during a pandemic and beyond.

All events are free and open to the public.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:42:14 -0500 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Public Health Lecture / Discussion image of Tonya Allen smiling in her office at the Skillman Foundation
WCED Roundtable. Constraining Presidents (November 10, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79110 79110-20209846@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

Panelists: Julia Azari, associate professor of political science, Marquette University; William Howell, Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics, University of Chicago; Kenneth Lowande, assistant professor of political science, U-M; Anne Meng, assistant professor of politics, University of Virginia; Ken Opalo, assistant professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University.
Moderator: Allen Hicken, professor of political science, U-M.

This expert roundtable will examine presidential power in both democracies and autocracies. Can presidents be effectively constrained, and if so how? Speakers will offer diverse perspectives on the American case as well as comparative cases.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/NxVWN.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. 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, 03 Nov 2020 15:03:37 -0500 2020-11-10T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies Lecture / Discussion Constraining Presidents
Bioethics Discussion: Democracy (November 10, 2020 5:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58831 58831-14563723@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion we will choose to have.

A few readings to consider on the matter:
––Bioethics and Democracy
––Bioethics and Populism: How Should Our Field Respond?
––Crowdsourcing in medical research: concepts and applications
––How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/050-democracy/.

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While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Together, we can read the blog (and probably do much more than that): https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:24:01 -0500 2020-11-10T17:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion Image 050. Democracy
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184337@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
FAST Lecture | "In That They Only Live by Cliques": Digging Below the Surface of Archaeological Photography at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (November 10, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79181 79181-20225561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Christiane Gruber, Chair of the Department of the History of Art at the University of Michigan, will be sharing some of her recent research about the excavation of the site of Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi in Syria.

Zoom meeting room opens at 5:45; lecture begins at 6:00.

Join Zoom meeting: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91330144897
Meeting ID: 913 3014 4897

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 13:36:50 -0500 2020-11-10T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Sandstorm in the desert.
Veterans Week: Michigan Medicine Veteran Panel (November 10, 2020 6:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78623 78623-20075979@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

The military can prepare many people for a career in medicine and in the healthcare field. Michigan Medicine employees over 400 veterans. Hear the experiences of these professionals as they discuss their experiences both in service and as veterans.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:54:20 -0400 2020-11-10T18:30:00-05:00 2020-11-10T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Doctor with a stethoscope
Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz (November 11, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78764 78764-20121155@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Institute for Data Science

Fireside Chat with Eric Horvitz, Microsoft, Chief Scientific Officer, November 11th, 11:00

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:23:02 -0400 2020-11-11T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Institute for Data Science Lecture / Discussion Eric Horvitz
HET Brown Bag Seminar | UV/IR Mixing and the Hierarchy Problem (November 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79274 79274-20262820@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics

The persistence of the hierarchy problem points to a violation of effective field theory expectations. A compelling possibility is that this results from a physical violation of EFT, which may arise from correlations between UV and IR physics—as is broadly demanded by gravity. I will discuss Noncommutative Field Theory as a toy model of UV/IR mixing, where an emergent infrared scale is generated from ultraviolet dynamics. I’ll explore a variety of such theories to develop a picture of how this feature appears, and to glean lessons to guide the realization of UV/IR mixing in more realistic theories.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:23:52 -0500 2020-11-11T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics Lecture / Discussion
Veterans Week: The Finest Hours: The Coast Guard's Most Daring Rescue & Leadership Lessons' Learned/ (November 11, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78628 78628-20077956@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

New York Times bestselling author Michael Tougias will give a lecture and slide presentation on his book The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Most Daring Sea Rescue. This book was made into a major motion film by the Disney Corporation that was released in 2016 and details the Coast Guard's response to two oil tankers that were split in half by a ferocious nor'easter off the coast of Cape Cod, MA in 1952. Of the 84 seaman aboard the tankers, 70 would be rescued and 14 would perish. Tougias will also share the leadership lessons from this event that can help all of us in our decision-making and job performance. He will provide time for Questions and Answers.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 19:01:08 -0400 2020-11-11T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Bernie, Richard and Andy - Coastguardsmen involved in the heroic rescue
An Evening of Bystander Intervention (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79177 79177-20225556@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC)

Join SAPAC BICE (Bystander Intervention and Community Engagement) Program for a brief lecture provided by Michigan Psychology professor Dr. Stephanie D. Preston about Bystander Intervention. Q&A session will follow.

More about Dr. Stephanie Preston:
https://lsa.umich.edu/psych/people/faculty/prestos.html

For Zoom details:
https://tinyurl.com/BICEspeaker

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:28:37 -0500 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC) Lecture / Discussion An Evening of Bystander Intervention with Dr. Stephanie D. Preston
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184336@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich (November 11, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79057 79057-20184339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Ross

Business Impact in a Changing World:
A Conversation with Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich
Date: November 10, 2020
Time: 6 - 6:45 p.m. ET

Join Dean Scott DeRue and Deloitte Consulting CEO Dan Helfrich on Tuesday, November 10 at 6 p.m. ET, for a thought-provoking and interactive conversation. DeRue and Helfrich will discuss the state of the industry, preparing for a thriving career, diversity and inclusion in business, leading a virtual workforce, and building meaningful client relationships. You won’t want to miss this event, guided by real-time polling and moderated by Jazmyn Becker, MBA ‘21.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 30 Oct 2020 09:22:57 -0400 2020-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-11T18:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Ross Lecture / Discussion Business Impact in a Changing World: A Conversation with Deloitte Consulting CEO, Dan Helfrich
Military-Connected Family Student Panel (November 12, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78643 78643-20077964@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

While there is general support for those serving in the military and military veterans the 2.8 million family members who support them are often overlooked.

We have over 600 students studying at U-M Ann Arbor whose parents or spouses are serving or have served in the US military. Learn how they overcame obstacles, supported their family members, and their experiences of frequent moves, living on a military bases and traveling across the US and the globe.

They are a resilient and determined addition to our military-connected student family and they bring a lot to our campus! Come and hear their stories!

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:34:52 -0400 2020-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Army Family
"Weight of Honor" Film Discussion and Panel (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78642 78642-20077958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

“The Weight of Honor” is the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the lives of families caring for their
catastrophically wounded returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Over the course of five years, the film follows the arc of what
happens when some of America's best and strongest volunteer to protect our nation, but return home physically and emotionally
broken and disillusioned. What happens when they return is not only a personal journey but also that of their family caregivers who
have no training other than the love for their wounded. Our military does not prepare families for the return of a wounded warrior.
“The Weight of Honor” tells their stories of strength, exhaustion, conflict, and even humor as they chart a course through the
unknown

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 08 Nov 2020 17:27:11 -0500 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Weight of Honor Movie Poster
A New Perspective on Amelogenesis and Dental Diagnoses (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79191 79191-20225570@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

James P. Simmer, DDS, PhD Professor of Dentistry
Biologic and Materials Sciences & Prosthodontics
University of Michigan School of Dentistry

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:24:08 -0500 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Simmer
Reflections on Learning to Improve: Foundational Ideas, Observations from Practice, and Building a Field (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78908 78908-20152763@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Learning Health Sciences

While the LHS Collaboratory is typically focused on learning health, learning systems actually have very broad applicability. Moreover, there has been a strong interest in the Collaboratory from the education community which is also focused on learning systems.

A thought leader in this area, Anthony S. Bryk, President of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will be speaking about a set of critical observations acquired in the course of his own efforts to improve how large complex educational systems work.

Discussants:

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Dean,
George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education,
and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor School of Education
Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research; Latino/a
Studies; and the Joint Program in English & Education
University of Michigan

Caren M. Stalburg, MD, MA
Collaborative Lead for Education
Associate Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Director of HILS Online Masters
University of Michigan

Moderator:

Donald J. Peurach, PhD
Professor
University of Michigan School of Education
Senior Fellow, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:41:04 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Learning Health Sciences Lecture / Discussion Collaboratory logo
Rethinking Roth Strategies in 2020 and Beyond (November 12, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78644 78644-20077960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Megan Flynn and Evan LeRoy will discuss Roth IRA's and other retirement strategies at the UMRA Learn & Grow meeting

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:25:46 -0400 2020-11-12T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
COVID-19 Understanding Our Present Situation and Preparing for and Coping with the Future (November 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75708 75708-19568685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA)

Dr. Kobayashi is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health at UM. She, along with Dr. Jessica Findlay, is conducting a research project to understand how the pandemic and associated control practices are affecting older adults in the US. She will provide strategies to help older adults cope with current concerns and influence planning for the future.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:24:26 -0400 2020-11-12T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T15:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Retirees Association (UMRA) Lecture / Discussion
Detroit Center 15th Year Retrospective (November 12, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79245 79245-20239302@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: University of Michigan Detroit Center

Join us for conversations with past Detroit community center users discussing their experiences at the Detroit Center and the benefit the Detroit Center had on their work.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:56:17 -0500 2020-11-12T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T14:45:00-05:00 Off Campus Location University of Michigan Detroit Center Lecture / Discussion UMDC 15th Year Retrospective
The Persistence of Contagious Diseases: The Davenport Lecture in Medical Humanities (November 12, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79267 79267-20262816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Medicine

Epidemic diseases, and efforts to contain them, have been and continue to be an inescapable part of human existence. Dr. Powel Kazanjian, chief of infectious diseases at Michigan Medicine and a professor of history and public health, will trace these efforts, including similarities between efforts to contain syphilis in the early 20th Century and HIV/AIDS in the latter part of the century, as well as COVID-19 in 2020.

He'll also explore why scientific public health campaigns must also address how to rectify the socioeconomic conditions and human behaviors that vex elimination efforts and lead to emerging epidemics.

The lecture is the 19th annual Horace W. Davenport Lecture in the Medical Humanities, presented by the U-M Medical School's Center for the History of Medicine.

Full details and a Zoom link to watch the lecture are at https://chm.med.umich.edu/chms-19th-annual-davenport-lecture-nov-12-2020/

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Nov 2020 10:54:33 -0500 2020-11-12T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Medicine Lecture / Discussion Persistence of Contagious Diseases
Communication and Media Speaker Series (November 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76953 76953-19780542@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Communication and Media

Panel Lecture:

Unprecedented: Five Provocations for Post-Pandemic Media Studies
Professor Megan Ankerson, Associate Professor Communication and Media


Professor Scott Campbell, Constance F. and Arnold C. Pohs Professor of Telecommunications

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 07:46:41 -0400 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Communication and Media Lecture / Discussion
Lecture: Translating the Chaos: The Ancient History of Hate Symbols (November 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75584 75584-19542896@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies

This lecture addresses the ancient origins of various symbols––the cross, the swastika, torches, and the Roman fasces––used today in order to communicate messages of marginalization, hate, legitimacy. The use and abuse of these hate symbols by white supremacist groups has been catalogued by groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, but can better understanding the history behind these symbols help us to render them impotent?

Lecture followed by questions moderated by Professor Rachel Rafael Neis (University of Michigan). 

This event is eligible for RCRS credit for History PhD students.

Sarah E. Bond is associate professor of history at the University of Iowa. She is an ancient historian who has written for the New York Times, Forbes, and online arts journal Hyperallergic. She is the author of numerous articles on Roman law and the economy, in addition to her work as a blogger and public historian. Her book, Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2016.

Free and open to the public. This is a remote event and will take place online via Zoom. Please register in advance here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ihjdPGHTnKqiLojb6lvTg

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 Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:27:59 -0500 2020-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture / Discussion Sarah Bond
Professor Adam Matzger, Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professorship in Chemistry, Inaugural Lecture (November 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75455 75455-19495325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Crystalline materials play a pivotal role in a broad range of technologies that are central to a modern society. Crystalline silicon enabled the computer revolution, for example, and studies of protein crystals have advanced our current understanding of human disease. I will discuss our work with the crystallization of small organic molecules with particular emphasis on how controlling crystallization can create better therapeutics and more powerful energetic materials. Much of the work hinges on the approach of manipulating multicomponent crystallization and several of the unique properties of crystallization relative to other synthetic techniques.

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 12, 2020 04:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Professor Adam Matzger, the Charles G. Overberger Collegiate Professorship Chemistry, Inaugural Lecture, November 12, 2020

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/92786414978
Or iPhone one-tap :
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Or Telephone:
Dial(for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location):
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Webinar ID: 927 8641 4978
International numbers available: https://umich.zoom.us/u/adBOg6UVA0

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 13:34:21 -0400 2020-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion image
Veterans Week - the Diversity of the Military (November 12, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68377 68377-20075967@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

What does it mean to serve along people of every race, gender, creed, religion, place of origin? How does military service take people from different backgrounds and create an effective unit? Unknown to many, the United States Military is the most diverse employer in the US. It has constantly lead the way in expanding its meaning of servicemember and pushed racial, gender and sexual orientation boundaries decades before the civilian workplace. Come and hear from our panel about life in the military, what it can teach us about a diverse civilian culture and how veterans/military increase our own DIE initiatives.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:52:29 -0400 2020-11-12T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion Diversity of the Miltiary
City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans and the World of Work (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71756 71756-20178449@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Social Solutions

Join us as Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. explores the themes of his research captured in his latest book, From the Edge of the Ghetto: African Americans and the World of Work. His extensive interviews with the low-income African American community in Ypsilanti bring new insights about perceptions of and preparation for the future of work outside of the major cities and middle to upper-class society.

This event will include a brief interview with Dr. Young conducted by Dr. Earl Lewis (University of Michigan), and a panel discussion with Dr. H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan) and Derrick Jackson (Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County), moderated by Dr. Carla O'Connor (University of Michigan).

Dr. Young is the Edgar G. Epps Collegiate Professor of Sociology, Afroamerican and African Studies, and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy [by courtesy] at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy & Director of the Center for Social Solutions, University of Michigan.

Dr. Shaefer is the the Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy, Associate Dean for Research and Policy Engagement at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, and Director of Poverty Solutions, University of Michigan.

Derrick Jackson, MSW, is the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Director of Community Engagement.

Dr. O'Connor is the Arthur F Thurnau Professor of Education, University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor, and Director, Wolverine Pathways.

We encourage you to purchase a copy of the book if interested through Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Social Solutions, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, the National Center for Institutional Diversity, and the Ann Arbor YMCA.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:07:53 -0500 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Social Solutions Lecture / Discussion City on the Edge: Ypsilanti, African Americans, and the World of Work. Featuring Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr.
Quantitative Methods in my Work (and at U-M!) Speaker Series (November 12, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78761 78761-20121152@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS)

*Facilitated by David Woodruff and Madeline Paxson*

Join us by Zoom as LSA/QMSS Undergrads interview and chat with UM faculty/researchers about their work and visions for Quantitative Research in our changing and data-driven world.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/3q92V

A Zoom will be provided to those who register!

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Oct 2020 09:12:29 -0400 2020-11-12T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences (QMSS) Lecture / Discussion Nov 12 flyer
Anti-Fascism at U-M: Defending Democracy During the Spanish Civil War (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78688 78688-20105423@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Bentley Historical Library

Join the Bentley Historical Library for this Making Michigan conversation with U-M Professor Juli Highfill, who will discuss the context and impact of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism on the U-M student body. You will gain an understanding of the large mobilization of students and faculty during this time (with examples of events organized by the Progressive Club and efforts by the Medical Aid Committee to send supplies to Spain). And you’ll learn about four students who volunteered and fought in Spain with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the controversy on campus after the capture and presumed execution of Ralph Neafus, one of the volunteers. The session will be moderated by Gary Krenz of the Bentley Historical Library.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 20 Oct 2020 11:21:41 -0400 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Bentley Historical Library Lecture / Discussion Poster for event with picture of Professor Juli Highfill
Bridging the Gap Series: Women in Political Campaigns Panel (November 12, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79322 79322-20272780@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 12, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Leading Women of Tomorrow

We are hosting the second event in our Bridging the Gap Series this Thursday, November 12th from 7-8:30pm!

The second event will be a Women in Political Campaigns Panel featuring Laura Marsh, Michigan Fundraiser for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Kellie Lounds, Political Director for Debbie Dingell; and Carina Teoh, Multimedia Content Producer for Representative Elissa Slotkin and former Senior Videographer/Photographer on Mayor Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign.

Each panelist will introduce themselves and answer a few prepared questions, followed by an open Q&A.

Please follow the Zoom link to participate. We hope to see you there!

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:22:46 -0500 2020-11-12T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-12T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Leading Women of Tomorrow Lecture / Discussion LWT - Women in Political Campaigns Panel
The Old Globalization and the New Globalization (November 13, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79042 79042-20178457@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: William Davidson Institute

Globalization isn’t dead, but it increasingly has to do more with trading ideas and services than with moving metal containers stuffed with manufactured goods. This talk will discuss how globalization is changing and why.
Marc Levinson is an independent historian, economist, and journalist whose career has centered on making complex economic issues understandable to the general public. Marc spent many years as an economic journalist, including a turn as finance and economics editor of The Economist in London. Returning to New York, he worked as an economist for J.P. Morgan Chase, developing a unique industry economics function and then initiating the bank’s environmental research for stock and bond investors. He later served as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His books include the business classic The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger; The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, which won wide praise from across the political spectrum for exploring the tension between capitalism and competition in the U.S. economy; and An Extraordinary Time, showing how the sudden end of the postwar boom in the early 1970s led voters in many countries to turn away from activist government in favor of free-market ideas. He will be speaking about his latest book, Outside the Box, a lively history of globalization and its consequences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:25:29 -0400 2020-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location William Davidson Institute Lecture / Discussion Marc Levinson talk
Critical Conversations: Precarity (November 13, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76586 76586-19729065@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of English Language and Literature

"Critical Conversations" is a monthly lunch series organized by the English Department for 2020-21. 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.

This semester's series will be entirely online -- please RSVP to receive the Zoom link (see "Related Links" for RSVP form).

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:28:28 -0400 2020-11-13T12:30:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of English Language and Literature Lecture / Discussion
Smith Lecture: Global Quieting of Anthropogenic, High-Frequency Seismic Noise Due to COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Measures (November 13, 2020 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75009 75009-19136111@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 99893078888
Human activities causes high-frequency vibrations that propagate into the ground as seismic waves. "Lockdown" measures were enforced all around the world to mitigate the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The widespread changes in human activities had a direct impact on the environment, for example with the reduction of air pollution or audible noise. It also led to a months-long reduction in seismic noise. The 2020 seismic noise quiet period is the longest and most prominent global anthropogenic seismic noise reduction on record. The reduction is strongest at surface seismometers in highly populated areas, but this seismic quiescence extends for many kilometers radially and hundreds of meters in depth. This period provides an opportunity to detect subtle signals from subsurface seismic sources that would have been concealed in noisier times and to benchmark sources of anthropogenic noise. A strong correlation between seismic noise and independent measurements of human mobility suggests that seismology provides an absolute, real-time estimate of human activities. The initial lockdown rules were usually immediate and strictest in the beginning. Then, the lifting of the rules was more progressive. This could allow for studying and separating different noise sources. In this communication, we will also shortly present the community behind this study, the tools and ways we used to coordinate the analyses and to write the article.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Nov 2020 09:13:55 -0500 2020-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 2020-11-13T14:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Rackham Resolution Office: Virtual Office Hours (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78006 78006-19953564@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Rackham Graduate School

If you have a quick question or have a time sensitive matter, attend the Rackham’s Resolution Office’s open office hours weekly on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. via Zoom. In the interest of providing students as much privacy as possible, you may spend a brief time in a waiting room if the resolution officer is engaged with another student. They will be with you as quickly as possible.
Zoom Meeting ID: 981 5994 7930
For more information on what the Resolution Officer has to offer visit https://myumi.ch/PlPB4.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 00:16:15 -0400 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Rackham Graduate School Lecture / Discussion
Veterans Week: Sexual Harassment in the Military #I AM VANESSA (November 13, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79012 79012-20170608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 13, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Veteran and Military Services

Please view the 20/20 episode I am Vanessa at (https://abc.com/shows/2020/episode-guide/2020-09/11-i-am-vanessa) (TW: violence and sexual violence) about sexual misconduct in the military and then join us for a discussion of the military's response to sexual harassment and assault.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 16:22:50 -0400 2020-11-13T14:00:00-05:00 2020-11-13T15:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Veteran and Military Services Lecture / Discussion I Am Vanessa!
The Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum (November 16, 2020 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/78986 78986-20164583@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP)

Free and open to the public – this is a virtual webinar on Zoom
Please register at https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VFRI4TtESPGTnsQ-jnBUvQ

The Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum
There is much talk, especially in recent years, about the urban-rural divide: the idea that people from urban and rural places think fundamentally differently about a whole range of policy issues, and about governance itself. This semester, Ford School students have been analyzing data from previous iterations of the Michigan Public Policy Survey (MPPS), a survey of Michigan local government officials conducted annually since 2008 by the Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP), to identify where there are and—importantly—are not differences along the urban-rural continuum.

In this virtual event, these student researchers will share their research on the similarities and differences across the continuum with respect to:
• The state of civic discourse (Kyron Smith)
• Public participation in decision-making (Karley Thurston)
• Citizen engagement (Christian Hunter)
• Internet connectivity and access to information (Julie Rubin)
• Privatization of local government services (Kristina Curtiss)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 14:00:39 -0500 2020-11-16T11:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) Lecture / Discussion Functioning of Democracy across the Urban-Rural Spectrum
Future of Art: Who Is Art For? (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79034 79034-20176492@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Arts Initiative

Even as arts organizations, artists, and performers proclaim their dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion, exhibitions and performances at most large institutions still primarily draw older, highly educated, white audiences. Donna Walker-Kuhne, an expert in audience development and founder of Walker Communications Group, has dedicated her career to increasing access to the arts. She will share projects that successfully work with arts organizations to forge meaningful relationships to build diverse audiences. She is joined by audience development specialists at the University of Michigan: Cayenne Harris, Vice President of Education and Community Engagement for University Musical Society; Sara Billmann, Vice President, Marketing & Communications for the University Musical Society; and Jim Leija, Deputy Director for Public Experience and Learning, University of Michigan Museum of Art. They will discuss “Who is art for, and what does a future of true inclusivity in the arts look like?”

Introduction by Aaron Dworkin, Professor of Arts Leadership & Entrepreneurship, School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Monday, November 16, 4:00-5:10 pm

Register here to receive the join info: https://umich.formstack.com/forms/nov16_futureofart

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:12:18 -0500 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:10:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Arts Initiative Lecture / Discussion Donna Walker-Kuhne, Cayenne Harris, Sara Billmann, Jim Leija
RNA Seminar featuring: Michelle Hastings, Professor, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75868 75868-19615934@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for RNA Biomedicine

https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VWX5SY6lSiaNyh5Weh8cHw

Michelle L. Hastings, PhD
Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy
Director, Center for Genetic Diseases
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science

ABSTRACT: Antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) have proven to be an effective therapeutic platform for the treatment of disease. These short, single-stranded, modified nucleotides function by base-pairing with the complementary sequence of an RNA and modulating gene expression in a manner that is dependent on the ASO design and targeting site. We have used ASOs to normalize aberrant gene expression associated with a number of diseases of the nervous system including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and Usher syndrome. One of our approaches is under development for the treatment of CLN3 Batten disease, a fatal, pediatric lysosomal storage disease caused by mutations in a gene encoding the lysosomal membrane protein CLN3. The most common mutation associated with CLN3 Batten is a deletion of exons 7 and 8 (CLN3Δex78), which disrupts the mRNA open reading frame by creating a premature termination codon that results in the production of a truncated protein. We devised a therapeutic strategy for treating CLN3 Batten Disease using an ASO that basepairs to CLN3 pre-mRNA and alters splicing to correct the open reading frame of the mutated transcript. Treatment of CLN3Δex78 neonatal mice by intracerebroventricular injection of the ASO resulted in the desired splicing effect throughout the central nervous system, improved motor deficits associated with the disease in mice, reduced histopathological features of the disease in the brain and extended life in a severe mouse model of the disease. Our results demonstrate that ASO-mediated reading frame correction is a promising therapeutic approach for CLN3 Batten disease.

KEYWORDS: pre-mRNA splicing, Antisense oligonucleotides, Usher syndrome, Batten Disease, lysosomal storage diseases

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:31:00 -0400 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for RNA Biomedicine Lecture / Discussion photo
The Evolving Role of the U.S. in the Gulf Region (November 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78884 78884-20133219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Diplomacy Center

This event is open to the public.

Join us for a virtual conversation co-hosted by the Gulf International Forum featuring Dr. Dania Thafer, Executive Director of the Gulf International Forum (GIF), Abbas Khadim, Director of Iraq Initiative at the Atlantic Council and General Anthony C. Zinni, former United States Marine Corps general in conversation with Ambassador Patrick Theros.

About the speakers:
Dr. Abbas Kadhim leads the Atlantic Council Iraq Initiative. He is an Iraq expert and author of Reclaiming Iraq: The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State. Most recently, he was a senior foreign policy fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He was formerly an assistant professor of national security affairs and Middle East studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a visiting assistant professor at Stanford University. He also previously held a senior government affairs position at the Iraqi Embassy in Washington, DC. His books include Governance in the Middle East and North Africa and The Hawza Under Siege: Studies in the Ba’th Party Archive. He earned a PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Dania Thafer is a political scientist with a focus on political economy and international relations. Her current research explores the effect of state-business relations on economic development for the existing youth-bulges in rentier economies with an emphasis on the Arab Gulf states. She has been widely published on matters concerning the Arab Gulf region including several articles, a monograph, and a co-edited book entitled The Arms Trade, Military Services and the Security Market in the Gulf States: Trends and Implications. Dania is the founding Executive Director of Gulf International Forum, an institute focused on the Gulf region. Previously, she worked at the National Defense University’s Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Ms. Thafer has a master’s degree in Political Economy from New York University. She will be graduating this semester with a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from American University in Washington, DC. Her dissertation is titled “Obstacles for Innovation in Rentier Economies: States, Elites, and the Squandering of the Demographic Dividend.” Dania is a visiting researcher at CCAS for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Ambassador Patrick Nickolas Theros has served as president and executive director of the U.S.-Qatar Business Council for nearly 20 years. Throughout his 35-year Foreign Service career, Ambassador Theros held many honorable positions, including ambassador to the State of Qatar, advisor to the commander in chief, central command; deputy chief of mission and political officer in Amman; charge d’affaires and deputy chief of mission in Abu Dhabi; economic and commercial counselor in Damascus; and deputy coordinator for Counter-Terrorism. In 1990, he was accorded the personal rank of minister counselor. He retired from the Foreign Service in 1998. Ambassador Theros was awarded the President’s Meritorious Service Award for career officials and the Secretary of Defense Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service. He earned four Superior Honor Awards. The Emir of Qatar awarded him the Qatar Order of Merit in 1998. In 1999, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem inducted Ambassador Theros into the Order of the Holy Sepulcher. He serves on the board of several businesses and charitable and educational institutions, including Qatar Foundation International.

General Anthony C. Zinni is a retired, highly decorated United States Marine Corps general. Throughout his career, General Zinni has served as the U.S. special envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in addition to posts in Somalia, Pakistan, Eritrea and Ethiopia. General Zinni retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after a 39-year career that included travel to 70 countries. He ended his career as commander-in-chief of the U.S. Central Command.

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Lecture / Discussion Sun, 15 Nov 2020 15:51:05 -0500 2020-11-16T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Diplomacy Center Lecture / Discussion Gulf International Forum panel
Optimal Influenza Vaccine Distribution With Equity (November 16, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79331 79331-20272794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS)

Influenza is a serious public health concern. Each year 5-15% of the world’s population is infected with influenza resulting in 3-5 million severe cases and 250,000-500,000 deaths. This presentation is concerned with the optimal influenza vaccine distribution in a heterogeneous population consisting of multiple subgroups. In our experiments, each subgroup corresponds to a set of people within an age group living in a certain geographic area, however the definition of subgroup is flexible. For example, healthcare workers or nursing home residents can be considered as subgroups in real life policy decisions. To characterize the spread of influenza through interacting subgroups, we employ an epidemic model that incorporates transmission dynamics and social distancing. The epidemic model is then coupled with a nonlinear mathematical program to find the critical vaccine allocation that minimizes vaccine usage. We also include an equity constraint to help public health authorities find a balanced vaccine allocation policy with respect to equity and effectiveness. Several detailed epidemic simulation models are developed in the literature to evaluate vaccination policies before their implementation so as to efficiently allocate resources. This study goes beyond evaluating a given vaccine allocation policy. The proposed approach can be utilized as a decision support tool to prescribe an equitable vaccine allocation policy to extinguish an emerging outbreak in its early stages. Furthermore, the optimal objective function value of our model can inform public health authorities about the amount of vaccine stockpiles needed to stop future outbreaks. Our results indicate that consideration of group-specific transmission dynamics is paramount to the optimal distribution of influenza vaccines.

Shakiba Enayati is an Assistant Professor in Supply Chain and Analytics Department in the College of Business Administration at the University of Missouri- Saint Louis. She earned her Ph.D. in Operations Research Program from North Carolina State University in May 2017. She also holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor in Industrial Engineering from Tarbiat Modares University and Iran University of Science and Technology in Tehran, Iran. She was previously employed as Assistant Professor of Analytics in Management, Information Systems, and Analytics Department at State University of New York, Plattsburgh. Shakiba’s primary research interests are in analytical modeling and optimization of stochastic/dynamic complex systems as applied to healthcare and service systems. Her goal is to address computational and operational aspects of problems arising in public health policy making, health systems management, and medical decision making via incorporating individual patient data. She is also interested in predictive analytics to evaluate, anticipate, and recommend actions for health outcomes at both individual and system levels. Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on service quality improvement and optimally allocating resources in the dynamic and stochastic environment of Emergency Medical Service systems under realistic operational restrictions.

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 the Zoom link and password and to be added to the weekly e-mail for the series, please RSVP. For additional questions, contact CHEPSseminar@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 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:00:42 -0500 2020-11-16T16:30:00-05:00 2020-11-16T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety (CHEPS) Lecture / Discussion Shakiba Enayati, Ph.D.
Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times (November 16, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78968 78968-20162602@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 16, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Save the date for the Fall 2020 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture featuring Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times. Kimmelman's remarks, in conversation with Dean Jonathan Massey, will be followed by a public interview with Taubman College's Agora and Dimensions publications, exploring the role of journalists in issues of racial justice, social equity, health, and climate change in the context of the built environment.

Since he returned to New York from Europe in the fall of 2011, Michael Kimmelman has been the architecture critic of The New York Times. He has reported from more than 40 countries and twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His work focuses on urban affairs, public space, housing for the poor, infrastructure, social equality and the environment, as well as on design. A best-selling author, he has won numerous awards over the years. The magazine New York titled an article about him “The People’s Critic.” In March 2014, Mr. Kimmelman was given the Brendan Gill Prize for “insightful candor and continuous scrutiny of New York’s architectural environment,” “that is journalism at its finest."

From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Kimmelman was based in Berlin, covering Europe and the Middle East, having devised the “Abroad” column. While there, he reported on life under Hamas in Gaza, the crackdown on culture in Putin’s Russia, negritude in France and bullfighting in Spain, among other subjects. He was previously The Times’s longtime chief art critic — “the most acute American art critic of his generation,” according to the late Australian writer Robert Hughes.

A graduate of Yale and Harvard, adjunct professor at Columbia University and former Franke fellow at the Whitney Center for the Humanities at Yale, he has contributed regularly to The New York Review of Books.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 12:09:48 -0400 2020-11-16T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-16T20:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times
LSA Honors DeRoy Open Lecture "In the Time of Pandemics: 2020 and Beyond" (November 17, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78827 78827-20131187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Honors Program

In this talk, Dr. El-Sayed will discuss the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of America’s other epidemics: the pandemic of systemic racism and the epidemic of insecurity. He will dig into America’s broken healthcare system as a lynchpin in the etiology of each of these three pandemics—and how we need to take them on.

The LSA Honors DeRoy Open Lecture is a biannual event made possible by the Helen L. DeRoy Visiting Professorship endowment. This fall, Dr. El-Sayed has led "Wellbeing + Public Policy" (HONORS 493). He's the author of "Healing Politics: A Doctor's Journey into the Heart of our Political Epidemic" (Abrams Press) and forthcoming book "Medicare for All: A Citizen's Guide" (Oxford Press, 2021). For more on Dr. El-Sayed, please visit abdulelsayed.com.

See "Related Links" on the right for links to U-M Participant Registration and the Guest Livestream.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 28 Oct 2020 09:52:03 -0400 2020-11-17T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location LSA Honors Program Lecture / Discussion Headshot Abdul El-Sayed
"Role of Hypoxia in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis" (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79321 79321-20272779@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design

The Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design is pleased to present Kyoung Eun Lee, PhD, as part of the 2020 Virtual Seminar Series!

Dr. Lee is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Michigan.

The talk is entitled, “Role of Hypoxia in Pancreatic Tumorigenesis”.

Faculty Host: Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD, Professor, General Surgery

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:19:47 -0500 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Cell Plasticity and Organ Design Lecture / Discussion Flyer for the Event
MEMS Faculty Showcase: East Asia Series 3 (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77841 77841-19933639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Chinese Renaissance: Problems of Form and Style in Writing a Trade Book about Eleventh-Century China

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:15:45 -0400 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:15:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Lecture / Discussion 11th c painting of 4th c scholars collating texts
Professor Bing Zhou, Donald A. Glaser Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture (November 17, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77615 77615-19887833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 17, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

Advances in physics research rely heavily on innovations of new technology and detector development. Invention of the bubble chamber by Donald A. Glaser, a Michigan faculty who won the 1960 Nobel Prize in physics, enabled discoveries of many new particles (resonances), which set the experimental foundation of building the quark model. Over the past five decades from bubble chamber to wire chamber, the particle detector size grew from a table-top box to a football field, such as the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In modern particle experiments, thousands of physicists and engineers worldwide work together to build the most powerful microscopes to study particle physics at the most fundamental level to unlock the mysteries in nature. With an outstanding Michigan team, we designed, built, and operated the largest precision muon detector for the ATLAS experiment at the LHC over the past twenty years. This detector is crucial for the Higgs boson discovery in 2012, which was regarded as a scientific breakthrough in particle physics. The discovery opened a new window for research into the properties of the Higgs boson and the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism, which has unique significance for the dynamics of the Standard Model of particle physics and stretches the horizons of even the most ambitious future-collider proposal.

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 17, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Professor Bing Zhou, the Donald A. Glaser Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Inaugural Lecture, November 17, 2020

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:33:51 -0500 2020-11-17T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-17T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion image
CREES Noon Lecture. Someone Else’s Problems: The Dissident Author Post-Dissidence (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76038 76038-19655369@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Postwar literature in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly as it has been framed in Western Europe and North America, has been shaped by strong personalities whose exile from their respective homelands helped enshroud their critiques of authoritarianism in so-called “moral authority.” But in quitting the Soviet Union, Poland, or Czechoslovakia for new lives in countries like the United States and France, these writers often found themselves in the midst of sociopolitical upheavals whose terms they scarcely understood and to whose contexts their own struggles offered no clear analogy. This talk reevaluates the Western careers of four of the most prominent authors to whom such “moral authority” has been generally ascribed—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Czesław Miłosz, and Milan Kundera—against the backdrop of the struggle for civil rights and racial justice in their adopted countries.

Benjamin Paloff is the author of *Lost in the Shadow of the Word (Space, Time, and Freedom in Interwar Eastern Europe)*—named the 2018 Best Book in Literary Studies by AATSEEL—and of the poetry collections *And His Orchestra* (2015) and *The Politics* (2011). He has translated nearly a dozen books, most recently Dorota Masłowska’s *Honey, I Killed the Cats*, and has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and in translation), the US Fulbright Programs, the Stanford Humanities Center, and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, among others. He is associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures and of comparative literature at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as acting director of the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies.

Registration is required for this Zoom webinar at http://myumi.ch/DE70Z.

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

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:16:16 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Paloff and the Critics
Managing presidential campaigns: Lessons learned in 2020 (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78547 78547-20060207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

For more information and viewing details, visit the event page: https://fordschool.umich.edu/event/2020/managing-presidential-campaigns-lessons-learned-2020

Join us for a discussion on election campaigns, both in 2020 and beyond. The discussion will include Katie Packer Beeson, former deputy campaign manager for the Romney/Ryan campaign in 2012 and founding partner of Burning Glass Consulting, and Greg Schultz, general election strategist and senior advisor for the 2020 Biden campaign. Broderick Johnson, current Towsley Policymaker in Residence and former assistant to the President and cabinet secretary during the Obama Administration, will moderate the discussion.

Katie Packer Beeson is founding partner of Burning Glass Consulting, a political consulting and issue management firm based in Washington, D.C. She has managed campaigns at every level from state legislative to presidential and was deputy campaign manager of the Romney/Ryan 2012 campaign. Katie is an adjunct professor at George Washington University, a 2016 Fellow at Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and is an MSNBC Contributor.

Greg Schultz is the General Election Strategist and Senior Advisor for the Biden campaign and served as the Campaign Manager during the 2020 Democratic Primary. In his current role he oversees the campaign’s engagement with the DNC and national coordinated campaign efforts. Before working on Biden's presidential campaign, he served as executive director of Biden's American Possibilities PAC. Schultz is a veteran of the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns in Ohio, serving as State Director on the re-elect. Schultz worked as the senior advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and a special assistant to President Obama in the White House during the second term.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:57:44 -0400 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion
STEM in Color Inclusive Leadership Virtual Symposium (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79379 79379-20288504@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

During this virtual fireside chat, Morgan DeBaun will share her entrepreneurial journey to becoming the founder of Blavity, the roadblocks she’s faced along the way, and some insights she’s gained on how to work smarter for your business while empowering yourself, your colleagues, and your employees to speak up, stand out and implement meaningful change. The audience will also have the opportunity to join in on the conversation and ask questions before and throughout the event. Registration is required.

About the Speaker:
Since launching Blavity Inc. in 2014, Morgan has led the company to successfully acquire Travel Noire, a travel platform for Black millennials and Shadow And Act, a Black entertainment news site. Under her leadership, Blavity has launched several leading consumer summits including Summit 21 for Black women creators and Bay Area’s AfroTech, the largest tech conference for Black innovators and founders. While scaling the company, Morgan has raised $11 million from top Silicon Valley venture firms such as GV and Comcast. Morgan is a passionate small business advocate and advises early stage entrepreneurs on how to scale their business in her Signature WorkSmart Advising program.

Register at: https://www.lsi.umich.edu/events/2020-11/stem-color-inclusive-leadership-virtual-symposium

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Nov 2020 16:03:54 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Lecture / Discussion STEM In Color Inclusive Leadership Symposium
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (November 18, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
Dignifying the Disinherited: The Case for Pro-Black Engineering Education Research (November 18, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79149 79149-20217705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Engineering Education Research

Research is essential to the infrastructure of education and plays a prominent role in driving curriculum, policy, and professional practice. Therefore, engineering education research (EER) is critical to driving the impetus and approach to racial equity within engineering education and practice. This presentation will spotlight how anti-Blackness is embedded in EER practices and delineate its roots in America’s systemic racism. Centering the experience of Black people within the engineering education community helps reframe the problem of racial/ethnic exclusion, while generating a new way forward through pro-Black EER (PEER). PEER uses critical methodologies, frameworks, and intentional citation practices to assert the genius of Black people.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Nov 2020 12:47:59 -0500 2020-11-18T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-18T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Engineering Education Research Lecture / Discussion Dr. James Holly, Jr.
The History and Future of Black Studies and BLM: DAAS at 50 (November 18, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79360 79360-20282623@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

Join local and university community panelists PG Watkins, Omolade Adunbi, Eshe Shirley and Stephen Ward in a discussion about Black Studies and its connection to BLM as the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies commemorates its 50th anniversary and looks to what lies ahead.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:37:04 -0500 2020-11-18T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Department of Afroamerican and African Studies Lecture / Discussion Flyer
Chemosensory pathways involved in periodontitis and odontogenic pain (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79190 79190-20225569@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Office of Research School of Dentistry

Marco Tizzano, PhD
Assistant Member, Monell Chemical Senses Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Basic & Translational Sciences - Penn Dental Medicine

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Nov 2020 15:19:42 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Office of Research School of Dentistry Lecture / Discussion Tizzano
Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics & Movement Towards Racial Empowerment (November 19, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79333 79333-20272796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

A virtual panel discussion sponsored by the University of Michigan Health Sciences units, hosted by the School of Kinesiology, and featuring:

Vanessa Barrow, DPM
Podiatrist & Owner, Sole Aesthetic, LLC
Specialization: Aesthetic and regenerative medicine of the foot and ankle

Neha Gothe, PhD
Assistant Professor of Kinesiology & Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research: Bio-psycho-social health benefits of physical activity across the lifespan; yoga as a means to improve health and quality of life

Samuel R. Hodge, PhD
Professor of Kinesiology, Ohio State University
Research: Intersection of diversity, disability, and social justice in education and sport

NiCole R. Keith, PhD, FACSM
Professor of Kinesiology & Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Health & Human Sciences
President, American College of Sports Medicine
Research: Community-based participatory research, physical activity, and health equity

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:05:27 -0500 2020-11-19T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion University of Michigan Health Sciences present Where Do We Go From Here: Body Politics and Movement Towards Racial Empowerment
IISS Lecture Series. Russian Islam: Societal and Political Transformations of a Muslim Culture (November 19, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79367 79367-20286538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: Global Islamic Studies Center

Free event; please register at http://myumi.ch/zx790

Russian Islam is one of the least known Muslim cultures. As in the rest of Europe, the share of Muslims in Russia’s population is growing. Of the country’s over 146 million inhabitants (including two million in annexed Crimea), it counts about 15 million people who are nominally Muslims, in the sense that they belong to an ethnic group whose cultural background refers mostly to Islam. To these nominally Muslim citizens should be added about 5 million labor migrants from the formerly Soviet and culturally Muslim countries (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Azerbaijan). Islam is therefore going to become a growing identity marker for many Russian citizens. Russia already has the largest Muslim minority in Europe, and Moscow, with at least 2 million Muslim inhabitants, now hosts the largest Muslim population of any European city. Deep socio-economic and demographic transformations, the rise of Islamophobic attitudes among Russian public opinion, and the development of Salafi ideologies among some segments on the younger Muslim generations make Russian Islam a key, yet understudied, part of the Ummah.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Nov 2020 09:59:33 -0500 2020-11-19T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T14:30:00-05:00 Global Islamic Studies Center Lecture / Discussion event_image
Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professorship in History and Judaic Studies, Inaugural Lecture (November 19, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75456 75456-19495326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

As the tsarist empire collapsed in 1917, liberal intellectuals and political leaders in the newly-independent states of Poland and Ukraine offered new models for integrating ethnic and religious minorities into the nation-state. But they were confronted instead with another brutal reality, as some one hundred thousand Jews were murdered in a wave of violence and pogroms, followed twenty years later by the Holocaust and the murder of millions more. Yet, these ideas of interethnic existence were revived decades later by immigrants from that region, who sought to build new multicultural societies on American shores. This talk asks what these violent origins of multiculturalism can offer us today.

Hi there,

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Nov 19, 2020 04:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Topic: Professor Jeffrey Veidlinger, the Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professorship in History and Judaic Studies, Inaugural Lecture, November 19, 2020

Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Nov 2020 18:00:19 -0500 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts Lecture / Discussion Image
The Next Administration: Post-Election Recap (November 19, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76239 76239-19679537@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy

Associate Dean Luke Shaefer will moderate a conversation with Ford School faculty members Justin Wolfers, Shobita Parthasarathy, and John Ciorciari about the 2020 Presidential election and policy priorities of the next presidential term. This event is sponsored in conjunction with the University of Michigan Club of Washington, D.C. It is also part of the Alumni Association's Going Global Virtual Event Series.

For more information, visit http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2020/next-administration-post-election-recap

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Nov 2020 15:23:07 -0500 2020-11-19T18:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Lecture / Discussion Capitol building
MAS Lecture | Pioneer Farmers of Pleasant Valley (November 19, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79496 79496-20343465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

The Warners arrived in Michigan in 1837 as pioneers from Livingston County, New York. The site dates to 1841 with the purchase of an 80-acre parcel by Timothy Warner. Members of the family were involved in a variety of capacities within the community such as assisting in naming and organizing the township, holding government positions, operating a gristmill, and serving in school and church activities. The farm expanded to nearly 500 acres by the 1870s and parts remain in the family to this day.

Sixth generation descendant Tim Bennett will discuss the results of thirteen seasons of archaeological excavation along with supporting genealogical and historical research. The nearly 180-year-old sesquicentennial farm is a Michigan State Historic Site and the extant 1855 Greek Revival home is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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

Zoom link:
https://umich.zoom.us/j/96831330054

Call-in number if link not working
+1-301-715-8592 w/ passcode 96831330054#

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:04:58 -0500 2020-11-19T19:30:00-05:00 2020-11-19T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Lecture / Discussion Warner House
Marie Hartwig Research Presentation (November 20, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79391 79391-20294469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Kinesiology

Join us for the 2020 Marie Hartwig Research Presentation:

EXERCISE AND CANCER—IS THERE A TELOMERE CONNECTION?

Presented by:
Andrew Ludlow, PhD
Assistant Professor, Movement Science
Director, Integrative Molecular Genetics Laboratory
University of Michigan School of Kinesiology

Friday, November 20
Noon–1:00PM
via Zoom at umich.zoom.us/j/99592033267 (No RSVP needed)

Abstract: In this presentation, I will focus on how exercise impacts two cellular biomarkers of aging, telomere length and telomerase enzyme activity. Telomere length and telomerase enzyme activity also have critical roles in cancer. We will explore data showing that exercise can activate telomerase in both rodents and humans, resulting in telomere length maintenance, and therefore potentially providing a mechanism of how exercise slows the aging process and reduces the risk of certain cancers. How telomerase is regulated in human stem cells, dysregulated in human lung cancers, and our future research directions will also be discussed.

Event flyer: myumi.ch/gjVB8

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 13 Nov 2020 09:41:06 -0500 2020-11-20T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Kinesiology Lecture / Discussion Hartwig Presentation 11/20/20
CSG COVID-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting (November 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79468 79468-20335618@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Students of Michigan (CSG)

Central Student Government created this task force to have a group dedicated to responding to and mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on campus. Come to our meetings and tell us how you have been impacted by COVID-19, how we can help, or how the University hasn't. We welcome everyone and anyone. If you require any accommodations to participate or have any questions, please contact Task Force Chair Sam Burnstein (samburn@umich.edu) or Task Force Vice Char Annie Mintun (amintun@umich.edu)

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Nov 2020 13:05:48 -0500 2020-11-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-11-20T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Students of Michigan (CSG) Lecture / Discussion CSG Covid-19 Task Force Weekly Meeting- Open to All Students - An Opportunity to Actually be Heard and Solve Student Problems - Every Friday at 1PM
Smith Lecture: Extreme Rain-Snow Elevation Changes during California Storms, and My STEM Journey (November 20, 2020 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75010 75010-19136112@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 20, 2020 3:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Earth and Environmental Sciences

Zoom Meeting ID: 92726597934
In regions of complex topography such as California’s Sierra Nevada, rapid and significant intrastorm changes in precipitation amount, type, and intensity can be beneficial, but can also contribute to flooding, ice, or snow events that impact hydrology and communities. The rain-snow transition elevation, or the elevation where snow melts into rain, is a key variable when studying mountain meteorology, hydrology, and storm impacts. Sudden, extreme vertical changes in rain-snow elevations, or atmospheric snow levels, can influence impacts, but have not been previously catalogued.

In this study, we design a detection algorithm for extreme snow level changes which are first defined as one-hour vertical changes of a magnitude equal to or greater than 400 meters. We consider snow levels obtained from ten vertically-pointing ground radars across California. The past six cool seasons are included. In addition to defining and detecting extreme changes in rain-snow level, extremes are described in terms of seasonality and variations by water year and radar. We also investigate relationships between extreme rain-snow elevation changes and atmospheric rivers - low-tropospheric corridors of enhanced moisture which form over near-tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean and can travel to reach land, contributing up to half of California’s annual water supply.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:52:23 -0400 2020-11-20T15:30:00-05:00 2020-11-20T16:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Earth and Environmental Sciences Lecture / Discussion
Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers: Work Experiences & Concerns of food retail, food services, and hospitality workers (November 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79384 79384-20288598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center

Marie-Anne Rosemberg is an assistant professor in UM's School of Nursing.
ABSTRACT
Objectives: COVID-19 presents a unique burden specifically for workers in service industries not only because they are disproportionately at risk for contracting the virus but also because of their work-related burdens. We aimed to understand the impact of COVID-19 on these workers.
Methods: This was a mixed-method study with a congruent triangulation design. Participants were recruited through social media. Each interview lasted up to 20 minutes. The survey data included demographic questions along with items from the CAGE and PC-PTSD questionnaires.
Results: Twenty-seven individuals completed audio-recorded phone interviews and 28 completed the survey. Participants were mostly women with an age range between 19 and 65. Participants worked in food retail (n=23), restaurant (n=25), and hospitality (n=7) industries. Length of time on the job ranged from two months to 25 years and 60% of the participants worked full time. Participants reported experiencing symptoms of depression and maladaptive coping. Job insecurity, change of job tasks, and work hours were the most common ways that COVID-19 affected the workers. Themes that emerged about participant’s concerns included being infected and/or unknowingly infecting others, the unknown, isolation, and work and customer demands. Constant changes relating to communication and protection measures were a major source of stress. There was discordance in the perceived level of threat of COVID-19. Most participants reported that their workplace complied with their state’s mandates for protection measures. While others reported lacking basic supplies such as soap, hand sanitizer, and masks.
Conclusions: In addition to their work experiences, COVID-19 has affected service workers at the financial, physical and mental levels. This study has implications of employers, occupational health and safety professionals and policy stakeholders.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Nov 2020 16:33:42 -0500 2020-11-24T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T12:50:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Michigan Lifestage Environmental Exposures and Disease Center Lecture / Discussion Impact of COVID-19 on Service Workers
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-20382972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration
Bioethics Discussion: The Coming Administration (November 24, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58832 58832-14563724@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Lurie Biomedical Engineering
Organized By: The Bioethics Discussion Group

A discussion on our (new?) government.

A few readings to consider:
––Three Ways to Politicize Bioethics
––Affording Obamacare
––Confronting Deep Moral Disagreement: The President’s Council on Bioethics, Moral Status, and Human Embryos
––The role of party politics in medical malpractice tort reforms

For more information and/or to receive a copy of the readings visit http://belmont.bme.umich.edu/bioethics-discussion-group/discussions/051-the-coming-administration/.

Please also swing by the blog: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/incidental-art/

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[OUR FIRST PLANNED REMOTE DISCUSSION]
While people are still allowed on campus, discussions will be held on the front lawn of Lurie Biomedical Engineering building. Participants will be asked to enter the area via a “welcome desk” where there will be hand sanitizer, wipes, etc. Participants will be masked, at least 12 feet from one another, and speaking through megaphones with one another. In accordance with public health mandates and guidance, participation will be limited to 20 individuals who sign up to participate ahead of time.

Sign up here: https://belmont.bme.umich.edu/ask-your-questions-to-ponder/

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 25 Aug 2020 11:13:08 -0400 2020-11-24T19:00:00-05:00 2020-11-24T20:30:00-05:00 Lurie Biomedical Engineering The Bioethics Discussion Group Lecture / Discussion The Coming Administration